I was told long ago that quickness would lower your damage per swing, but that it would increase your dps.

Is this true?
How exactly does it work?

Your basedamage is equal with high and low qui.

Styledamage is affected by your effective Speed - the faster you swing the lower is the damage.

With lower Qui you will have more Styledamage but over time you will deal more damage (Basedamage+Styledamage) with high Qui.

It's true, and it pretty much works the way you described it. The formula for style damage (if I remeber it correctly) is:

Style Bonus = ((Growth Rate x Weapon Spec) x Speed)

So the slower your speed (higher number) the bigger your style bonus is, but you also swing slower. At the end with high QUI you get more because the faster swings outweigh the damage penalty.


As a general rule pretty much everyone should max out quickness, except maybe for some crazy frontload builds, like a Troll Skald with + STR on creation or something like that.