Base Attack

Base Attack is a secondary stat that determines how much damage you deal with your melee swings.

It consists of:

• your weapon attack (from your glove), which is the only constant factor.
• any attack modifiers you got from your equipment, and any Strength you have, which increase your DPS and not your base attack, meaning a base attack increase of 10 will increase your DPS by 10 as well.

As such, a faster attack speed benefits your weapon attack, but not your attack modifiers.