Well, the other factor is weapon class. For example, an SMG has much quicker handling time than an AR. The respective handling speeds are pretty much in line with the strafe speeds allowed by each class. Pistols are the fastest, LMGs and snipers the slowest.
I'm not denying that you might have seen an explanation of an animation cancel that allows for faster than normal weapon swaps. It's entirely possible. For example, there is a technique one can use with Wraith that allows her to pull out her weapon much faster than normal when coming out of phase. I'm just thinking about some other, simpler factors to look at. Good luck!
^ This.
Yep, lately a lot of the animation cancel stuff been removed. Its ment to be there to give the different weapons their apropriate pros and *, not sure if any of the weapon swap glitches still in game.
Something to really understand. The stocks help for two different things:
1) Wield time
2) Sheet time
Always prioritize the best stock on the slowest weapon because the stocks give speed bonus based on percentage. So for an smg the equip time is extremely fast in the first place so putting a purple stock on it would perhaps change the equip time with 0.3 seconds while an LMG for instance takes long time to equip so the equiptime is lowered by more then a second, this goes for both equip time and unequip time.
When you put this into play, changing from an R99 to a spitfire for instance, having only one purple stock it matters what weapon has it. when equipping the R99 and you do a weaponswap the unequip for R99 -0.2 seconds and full wield time of the spitfire so its more or less no change at all, but putting it on the spitfire you get more then a second bonus on the swap, it goes both ways since it matters both on the equip and the unequip time so utlizing this knowledge you can have fairly quick weponswap times, for instance wingman to R9 and back is blizzing fast because of the nature of the weapons while rampage to spitfire even with full purple stocks will never be fast.
I hope you can put this to good use :D
Enjoy!
