some guy said no but i cant believe it, have to test when servers are back online. would be pretty lame if attackspeed does not scale with skills like that. but i wouldn't be surprised if it does not work because the devs obviously don't know what they're doing. or maybe it's just bugged like many other passives and skill calculations. the game is a mess.

Developers can give an answer here?

probable not, theyre too busy to fix their shit and are only 10 people :D

I'd like to know because I'm building my bladestorm around attack speed.... thank you

I've tested Bladestorm quite a bit till now, as far as i can tell, atm Bladestorm doesnt scale with attackspeed, the tickrate doesnt increase no matter how much more apsd u have. I don't know if it is supposed to be like this or if it just isnt scaling because of a bug, but i changed my Bladestorm build to just pure damage multiplier compared to my initial aspd Bladestorm

whenever i pick up a alter buff that gives 50% attack speed score and 50% spell cast speed score (i think it was?) my bladestorm damage tick rate increases alot so im trying to get some of each to test it

I can confirm that Attack speed does nothing for bladestorm.
BUT, the alter buff of +50% attack speed and spell casting speed pretty much doubles the tick rate...
so to summarise, i'd say bladestorm (wile still a great skill) is very broken, as there are a LOT of things that SHOULD effect it, but don't.

Ok, so i did some testing in offline mode
currently neither attack speed or cast speed effect bladestorm in any way.
it appears to be broken.

i can confirm that Attack speed does speed up the animations of other attack skills though (as it should).
BUT, in some cases attack speed only acts as like.. the cast speed but for "attack" skills.
As an example, the skill "Bleeding Edge" - Attack speed will increase the cast time, but it will not increase the tick rate or speed at which the axes spin around (which is a bit silly... but oh well).

Yeah... neither attack/spell cast speed afects it, but somehow the buff that gives those bonuses to you makes the tickrate go amazingly faster and nicer.

Also... I don't know if it's just me but "Bladestorm - Cascading Rhytms" (the one that increases tick rate after a critical hit) does not appear to do what it should be doing.... I see no difference.