Well they are not… they are WAY slower… I use ONLY fists with my chars, since I used to do everything with them, from T1 to T3 planets, I use 2 Iron Fists at the same time, and trust me, They are NOT Usable anymore… they feel sluggish and now you have to wait until the animation stops to use them again.
That’s what the patch notes say, not that they slowed them down. I exclusively hunt with fists I know with my skills the cooldown animation is much faster. I can’t speak for someone without skills though.
I use gold fists though, so until I can test iron ones I can’t say for certain there isn’t a bug.
They are not working faster they are way slower. the patch notes said specifically the cooldown reworks broke fist speed. Hopefully they are going to fix it…
The patch notes said fist balance was broken, this could also mean now with skills they are too fast. This was also from the test server notes and not the recent release notes, so maybe they addressed whatever issue they felt was unbalanced (or it could be an oversight with the new patch notes)
I will test iron fists when I get home, but I know for a fact that my gold fist is much faster than before the patch.
Recent patch rebalanced how different tools and weapons react with actipn speed Yes, this made fists slower with low/no action speed. On the other hand, this patch allowed Fists to attack faster with higher Dexterity (before they could not change and attacked at the same speed no matter what your action speed was) and the damage bonus from Grapple Mastery for Fists now works as well (it was not working before).