I did some testing and thought I'd share the result.
Neither the Charm of Qol nor the Versatile Belt increase DPS on their own - it appears that the secondary attack takes place instead of the primary attack, so with the versatile belt, even 6th attack is the secondary instead of the primary, and for the Charm of Qol, this varies depending on Haste and other factors, but the primary attack is replaced by the secondary attack every 1.2 seconds at most (slightly more in practice, depending on haste).
I was hoping the secondary attack would be a freebie, activating independently, but this does not appear to be the case. Using Arcane bolts, fireball or Frostbolt as the secondary has no major impact on DPS against a single foe, though Fireball does add a little bit to multiple foes because of the AoE.
However, if Arc Lightning is the secondary, you are assured of a continuous +5% attack speed, and the enemies will take +5% damage, without having to switch attacks manually (with the added bonus of an additional slight multiple enemy effect when it jumps). This works for me, since I never remember to double press for the secondary attack (mobile user). It's a lazy way to add the effect of AL without having to remember to use it every once in awhile.
I detected no appreciable difference between the Charm of Qol and the Versatile Belt - with AL as the secondary, both increased DPS from 65% to 46% (depending on haste, more attacks per second decreased the effect on DPS). For low level characters with a slow attack speed, the increase would be impressive and for high level characters with a high attack speed the increase is still significant. This is expected because the faster the mage's attack speed, the more attacks per second are being converted to a lower direct damage secondary attack - the real effect doesn't come from direct damage but from any buff/debuff caused by the secondary attack.
Using both the Charm of Qol and the Versatile Belt together improved DPS over using neither of them, but the effect was less than using one or the other. This is expected because it is replacing more of the primary attacks (in my case, Frostbolt is my preferred) with a secondary attack that does less direct damage (in my primary case of FB/AL).
Just thought I'd share the testing results - I hope they help you out a little bit.
Neither the Charm of Qol nor the Versatile Belt increase DPS on their own - it appears that the secondary attack takes place instead of the primary attack, so with the versatile belt, even 6th attack is the secondary instead of the primary, and for the Charm of Qol, this varies depending on Haste and other factors, but the primary attack is replaced by the secondary attack every 1.2 seconds at most (slightly more in practice, depending on haste).
I was hoping the secondary attack would be a freebie, activating independently, but this does not appear to be the case. Using Arcane bolts, fireball or Frostbolt as the secondary has no major impact on DPS against a single foe, though Fireball does add a little bit to multiple foes because of the AoE.
However, if Arc Lightning is the secondary, you are assured of a continuous +5% attack speed, and the enemies will take +5% damage, without having to switch attacks manually (with the added bonus of an additional slight multiple enemy effect when it jumps). This works for me, since I never remember to double press for the secondary attack (mobile user). It's a lazy way to add the effect of AL without having to remember to use it every once in awhile.
I detected no appreciable difference between the Charm of Qol and the Versatile Belt - with AL as the secondary, both increased DPS from 65% to 46% (depending on haste, more attacks per second decreased the effect on DPS). For low level characters with a slow attack speed, the increase would be impressive and for high level characters with a high attack speed the increase is still significant. This is expected because the faster the mage's attack speed, the more attacks per second are being converted to a lower direct damage secondary attack - the real effect doesn't come from direct damage but from any buff/debuff caused by the secondary attack.
Using both the Charm of Qol and the Versatile Belt together improved DPS over using neither of them, but the effect was less than using one or the other. This is expected because it is replacing more of the primary attacks (in my case, Frostbolt is my preferred) with a secondary attack that does less direct damage (in my primary case of FB/AL).
Just thought I'd share the testing results - I hope they help you out a little bit.
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