This guide is utterly amazing to help work out your average damage per second with your speed level and weapon.

It made me realise that being speed capped is essential...although this is expensive. As of today you can now get +12 to melee speed from the Village Quests....which means you will still need +8 to hit the cap.

You can also get +5 speed from having Master Brawler, which also gives the added attractions of Intimidate2 and Lunge2.

Being speed capped can triple or quadruple your damage output.