So, from the logic you are explaining.... at level 45, you're saying you get those diminishing returns after having 332 speed? If that is so...

When I strip off ALL of my gear, I have 274 speed (from uni, skill tower, jungle trinket + brotherhood).. only -58 from 332... So any speed you have over 332 is not really worth having, due to the diminishing returns?... So you basically just need to equip boots, then you're way into the diminishing returns, and you don't need the speed stat as a secondary, or on any other gear... because from looking at your curve, it's impossible to get even to 3x speed? - so 2x speed is plenty... and even the boots primary speed alone give more speed than is worthwhile?

This also means that every brotherhood point spend in speed boost is wasted, because it's simply just not needed, and makes such a small difference that it's irrelevant?

Am I understanding something wrong here?

EDIT/UPDATE:

I just took off all my gear, except from one item with speed on it, taking me up to (or rather, down to) 334 speed - and my "speed bonus" percentage is showing at 100.50%, which I understand is 2x speed...

I went to test in arena: In a VERY long battle, that lasted about 15-20 turns (I tried to count them, but it took so long I lost count), my opponent was only able to attack twice in a row, once. So basically, that confirms what I was questioning above...

Speed as a stat is now so ineffective, that as a wizard, having +1 strength on an item would be better than having +100 speed once you're over 100% speed bonus.

^^ and I'm not exaggerating... This arena test battle went on far far longer than a battle ever normally does, because I was naked and doing tiny damage - my random opponent was level 38 - so the level effectiveness made him hit me for hardly anything as well. (and yeah, on a different subject, the level effectiveness seems a bit over the top too! - why am I able to win against someone only 7 levels below me, when I'm completely naked!?)

Speed is now completely useless.

I don't know where the term "god stat" started - I'd never heard it called that before you mentioned it recently. Sure speed probably used to be the most desirable stat... but that was quite cool... I don't think it was stupidly overpowered...

I invested EVERYTHING I could into speed, and by doing that, I was able to hit enemies twice for when they hit me once... that didn't seem imbalanced... it seemed quite normal.... just like if I invested everything I could into HP, I'd expect to be able to survive twice as many hits... I don't see how speed was ever a "god stat"?

I'm not aware of ever attacking anything like 6 times before an enemy... and nobody had 1000 speed.... as far as I know, Twinky was the highest speed player in the game with about 850...

When playing T3 or T4 missions with my 759 speed (before the jungle), it was typically a 1 turn each kind of battle, where after maybe 2-3 turns you'd attack twice... which is what I'd expect for having rolled all perfect and near-perfect speed stats on my items... it was a perfect balance... I dunno where you're getting 6.6 attacks from, but with the way speed was nerfed, you're obviously missing something major from your calculations.

And to follow up on Annie's edit... I would sometimes run T1 missions when escorting fresh level 30 players... even in T1 missions I don't recall ever attacking more than 3 times in a row (actually, maybe with the exception of the forest MP - but that's because it's a level 15 dungeon!!!)... Also, when running a T1, compared to my usual T3 or T4, I'd expect to be overpowering them!

^^ sorry, some factual edits and example edited in my previous post. - just bumping here to make you aware of them :)

Ehh yeah actually everyone did pretty much get 2 turns between enemy turns at lvl 30. Very few people managed to SOMETIMES get 3. That really wasn't that bad. Should probably rethink the degree to which speed was tampered with. Or, significantly reduce enemy speeds across the board, especially if the soft cap is absolute.

Spiders on Journey to the river on T3
Spiders ALWAYS get to hit first...I do not have enough health at skill 15 to kill the last wave, and this assumes that the critical hits are low.
Health at start 215k
So first round 3 hits...companions out...16k life down +6.5k health (205.5 life)
second round 3 hits...48k life down +6.5k health. (164k)
third round 4 hits...67k life down, +6.5k health (103.5k)
fourth round 5 hits...90k life down, +6.5k health (20k)
fifth round 2 hits...32 life down....DEAD
This assumes that there are zero critical...have never had a round without at least 4
I tried this about 10 times, was never able to get a hit on the end round

After playing several missions and talking to other folks, it seems most people are pleased with the adjustment overall. I am too, there's just some more things that still need to be addressed. Here's my own experience so far:
Capable of doing T4s in forest/desert again, with some building and in certain missions, respeccing. I get 2 turns between enemy rounds.
Not capable of doing T5s, but that's fine. Things did need to be more difficult in general.
Jungle missions are still far more difficult than forest/desert of same tier. Can do T2 jungle missions as opposed to T4 forest/desert, in general.

So, good changes so far I think.

Cheers

Ok, and then how do level effectiveness and/or the percentage increase on enemy "difficulty" on higher tiers come into play there?

Regarding low lvl missions, I have not done any since jungle, but prior to jungle with about 850 speed (pretty much as good as you could get then) I would have low lvl enemies hit me. The goblins on floor 16 of HoT for example, I got 4 turns before theirs. That's reasonable to me given they were significantly lower lvl. And still, the most anyone got was 2 turns on heroics, which is what we're really concerned with.

And yes, there is the very large discrepancy between multiwave and single-part battles, bosses, etc. Good to know you're looking at that.