Spine of the First Claimant Iron Sceptre Can't dual wield?

I am working on a build I found on Path of Exile Builds and it suggested using two Spine of the First Claimant Iron Scepter for leveling, I purchased one of these and when I equip it I can't put another weapon in my off hand and I can't move this to my off hand and something else in my main hand. Is there a reason I am not noticing as to why this weapon can't be used in dual wield? It says one hand, and I don't see anything that would stop me from doing it and the build actually suggested it.



I figure I am missing something simple, maybe I need more coffee.

*edit*
Figured it out I think, seems I was trying to use a Wand in one hand and sceptre in the other and I guess that combination doesn't work, when I tried with another sceptre it worked. As I said, need more coffee.

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Abdiel_Kavash wrote:

Yup, you can't dual-wield a ranged weapon (wand) in one hand and a melee weapon (sceptre) in the other.

It's funny how builds go for people, I have tried a BUNCH of builds over the years I have played (started in 2013)and never ran into this trying to equip weapons before. Guess I don't normally use wands and never really thought of them as ranged since I rarely use a normal attack with them. Thank you for the information.

Dual skill possibilities would be awesome if ye could, tho. Imagine something like a Spectral Throw build with Wand-Barrage for single-target damage, instead of having to play dumbass swapsies games with GMP > Slower Proj. Or do weirdboy stuff like a Molten Strike proj-focused single-target burn with some Kinetic Blast in the offhand.

Would it be Gud? Prolly not, mixybuilds never are. Would it be Fun? Hellz yah.

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1453R wrote:

Dual skill possibilities would be awesome if ye could, tho. Imagine something like a Spectral Throw build with Wand-Barrage for single-target damage, instead of having to play dumbass swapsies games with GMP > Slower Proj. Or do weirdboy stuff like a Molten Strike proj-focused single-target burn with some Kinetic Blast in the offhand.

Would it be Gud? Prolly not, mixybuilds never are. Would it be Fun? Hellz yah.

See and this is me, I'm all for fun, I play through the acts and rarely mess with maps (I just can't get into them as much as I try) and often I end up liking the "leveling" part of the build so much that I don't end up moving to the "end game" part and use the leveling skills simply because I have fun with them.

All that said, your build options are lost on me without me seeing the game play (which we can't see because you can't make them based on limitations we said the game has with dual wield lol) and I haven't tried half the skills you mentioned so Kinetic Blast here I come next build simply because if it works for Gambit might as well work for me!