The reason not to buy atackspeed in Smite!
Before we started playing "Smite", we played lots of "League of Legends", "Heroes of Newerth" and DoTa. What these games all have in common is that you simply target the enemy, and then you are 100% hitting with basic atacks.
What is different with "Smite" is that you have to aim with your basic atack, so its basically a skill shot like your abilities.
So if you focus on crit and dammage you only have to aim for a few hits. But if you buy alot of attackspeed it is essential that you hit the enemy with all hits.
This is just for ranged carries. with Melee we think attackspeed is awesome! :)
Everytime i see a ranged enemy building atackspeed, i just buy movementspeed and avoid his atacks :D
Soo.. like you said "Classic Xbalanque issue".