I just got 6 piece last night, and I'm thinking I might be able to put together a 1h/oh combo to outdo my 3383 dps 16% fire socketed Maximus, but one of my friends keeps saying that weapon speed makes a huge difference for blizzard/hydra build, and I can't find any posts regarding weapon speed. Does anyone have any input on this?
Your average weapon damage (think per hit) with 1H/OH will be far less than with a 2H, and this is used to calculate the threshold for how high your Firebird DoT can/will stack. On the one hand that means you have to do less total damage to go infinite DoT, but may well take just as long to stack up to because of what Blayreau said - Blizzard and Hydra don't benefit from fast attack speed. It also means everything with any significant amount of HP will take longer to kill (especially elites and Rift Guardian) because the capped Firebird DoT generally constitutes most of your damage.
Weapon Speed for FB spec?