How does dual wield work?

[St0nemender]

After reading an interesting post on the DW-Arcane Blade i wanted to try myseld. But then i could get my char to take another 1h melee weapon into the off-hand slot. So: How does dual wield work? Which type of weapon goes where?

[Theyleon]

You can only equip 'light' weapons into the off hand - daggers and mindstars pretty much. Unless you're a reaver, who get a special skill that lets them wield 2 full size weapons.

Dual wield AB will usually go dual dagger by the way (that way you only have 1 weapon skill to increase)

[Xandor Tik'Roth]

I was wondering why people chose to go dual daggers instead of a dagger with a more damaging main-hand weapon...

[Faeryan]

I was wondering why people chose to go dual daggers instead of a dagger with a more damaging main-hand weapon...

Yeah, sometimes a bigger whacker is more beneficial even without corresponding skill, than a smaller one with the skill. Requires a bit of mathematics or training room to choose the more beneficial one though.

[tylor]

I was wondering why people chose to go dual daggers instead of a dagger with a more damaging main-hand weapon...

"more damaging main-hand" 1. likely scales off strength, instead of dex/cun and 2. needs 5 points in weapon mastery

[HousePet]

But Morrigor in main hand!

[Robsoie]

If you can afford to spend 10 skill points to have both weapon and dagger mastery maxed to 5 , it's good to get a 1 hander along a dagger.

If you can't afford 10 skills points, it's better to focus only on dual daggers so it only cost 5 skill points to max Dagger mastery.
Dual dagger on a marauder can still get you in more than 4000 damage on a Flurry hit in the endgame, so i imagine with the Arcane Blade spells delivered by Arcane Combat a Flurry can get higher.

Or just play with a Reaver, with that specific class you can then dual wield 1 handers with their Corrupted Strength passive and only need then to max Weapon mastery with 5 points.

[malboro_urchin]

But Morrigor in main hand!

Morrigor is amazing. My dual wield arcane blade swapped a good amount of stat equipment to be able to wield it, and ohh, was it worth it. First (and so far only) ability I got on there was Shadowstep.