Dual Wield, useless, mostly.

Forget dual strike or reave, as a DWer, go cyclone its much more effective, you will clear maps in no time.

Just donc use multi strike with it (Dsync is huge with multistrike, plus the auto-targeting of multistrike can be a pain sometimes).
Think of the advantage of cyclone, the OP thing is also that you cannot get stunned, so basically you can have max survivability using a "cannot be frozen" gear in addition, with life on hit and like 2% life leech its so much, now i just cyclone brainlessly into the mob pack, knowing that i cannot be stunned nor frozen and that life on hit permits me to passe from 10% HP to full Hp in not even 1sec into a huge pack of mobs, with dual strike i was many time forces to use decoy totem just to try to split uge mobs packs u can find near dual shrine spots, with cyclone i just rush those packs.*

Using two well modded quiksilver flascks, i just perma cyclone + quicksilver alsmost any map and of course piety/dom runs (almost one good modded flask is enough for perma quicksilver in fact)

I didnt want to try cyclone because the tooltips shown me so low dps compared to dual strike that i didnt want to give a try, and this until lvl 79.......how much i regret to not tried this before...

And i'm using cyclone without Soul Taker axe (sparing money to buy one), instead of melee dmg on full life i'm using blood magic, unitl i get my soul taker :D

Also with cyclone, Rapiers are amazing, if you can find a good one (insane cyclone radius, equivalent to an other 1h + increase AOE support gem).

Forget reave or dual strike. Not to mention that i have 50% block chance (yes i'm using Bringer of Rain to reach this insane block with any shield). the best survivalility is block chance + "cannot be frozen nor stunned" + crazy life gain with "Life on Hit + cyclone + dual wield", i'm considering to not use grace anymore also and use haste.

It was a bit long, but you should realy give a try to cyclonen and also spare for a Bringer of Rain maybe rather than sparing for regrets in order to respec your char.

Forgot to mention that even without chest, without res on my helm and without res on my boots (i use the "crapy" Woe shoes for the "cannot be frozen" capacity (dont have the currencies available to buy a better "cannot be frozen" gear, saving for soul taker), my ele res are still capped at 77% (in town of course).

The better synergy bewtween DW and skill gem is not Reave or Dual strike, its cyclone, by far. But yes u need a Bringer of Rain or at least a Tabula Rasa for the 6L (cyclone + faster attack + life on hit + blood magic + melee physical dmg + blind).

Give a try to cyclone, test it on a 3 or 4 map runs, and see once u get used to it, how much you clear maps faster than with reave/dual strike.

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RagnarokX wrote:

So, im runing a 70 Duelist that is skilled Dualwield.
I have to come to realize that DualWielding appears to be (to me) totally useless.
There are 2 Skills that have Synergy with DW. Once is Dual Strike, the other is Cleave.
Both have no AoE unless you link something into it.

At lvl 70, my Dueist is using REAVE versus Mobs because ist just cheaper, better and more effective than Cleave/Splash or Dual/Splash due to the inherent Splash on Reave. And in Addition to the inherent splash, the AoE on Reave is grossly larger than any Splash Support Skill could ever be.


I wish i would have a full Reset and could go 1H Shield or 2H wpn. I really, REALLY feel that DualWield is vastly inferior to those 2 Options.

Opinions ?

You suck at video games. I wish you luck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkZ7V8LYFaM

For the one uptight motherfucker who doesnt look at that

HAHAHHAHAHAHA

You lose.

To come back to this, what would be a good offhand weapon if you use your offhand to get "unique" traits like crit-chance or something as opposed to a pure high DPS wpn in your mainhand ?

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Killerspintt wrote:

Forget dual strike or reave, as a DWer, go cyclone its much more effective, you will clear maps in no time.

I speced into a lot of duel wield damage/attack speed nodes and my goal was to use duel strike 17Q, Is funny that if I put on a 2 hander and use whirlwind 0Q I seem to do more damage and the tool tip is about the same. The weapons are equivalent... 1 Kaum primacy vs. 2x eye gougers both supported by 6L T robe.


Duel Wield is bad in this game, unless you mirror your weapons chances are you will do MORE damage and have MORE defense with a 1H + shield, is poor design.

http://www.poepro.net/shredder/

Have fun

I went dual wield dual strike, then switched to dagger/shield reave and never thought of looking back.. I have 7 attacks per second, 21k dps(5link, level 18 below gems no quality) 4.8k ES, 75% crit chance and 500% multiplier. Who needs squishy dual wield lol.