You are correct in thinking that there should be no delay cap. In classic through part of Kunark there was none. There is a reason nearly every weapon below 16 delay was nerfed. The fact that there was no delay cap was half, the other was the primary hand damage bonus.
However sometime shortly after the fast delay weapon nerfs in early to mid kunark, a Delay cap of 8 was hardcoded by Verant, primarily to keep any new weapons from being too powerful.
I beleive this delay cap is hardcoded client-side on P99 and most likely cannot be changed. Even if it could be changed, However, It would need to be changed back to the 8 delay cap very soon, like in less than a month. So basically all this is mute.
The twig and other weapons like it were godly on live. They are pretty much crap here on p99.
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