Quote Originally Posted by Lucy_Pyre View Post
Yes, and therein lies the exact reason that you are wrong, as I quite clearly pointed out in my above post. Skill speed affects the recast timers on weaponskills, of which all but Unleash and Stalwart Soul for Dark Knight are. This means that SkS directly translates to your GCD timer and, that if you have little to none of the stat, that your GCD will be too long to be able to fit in the 5th GCD under both Blood Weapon and Delirium. This amounts to, as I once again pointed out in my above post, an extremely large amount of lost potency and DPS over the course of a fight. Thus making SkS a stat that DRK requires in moderate amounts in order to properly function (Around the 1,550-ish mark).

So, due to this, SkS very much does affect your "actual" damage output.
Except you could achieve the exact same result by ignoring Skill Speed in the first place until we get to a certain point in ilvl where skill speed become desirable, but that won't be until ilvl 500 or later which at that point you're already waiting for info on when the next expansion is going to drop...