Why is Dual-Wielding still part of this game?

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DÉSPAIR wrote:

I love to finally see another person other than myself bring up dual wielding, but

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As soon as they added Spell Suppression, Mana Efficiency & removed Dodge--I feel like dual-wield died on the battlefield.

How can you be so confidently wrong? None of those things have anything to do with dual wielding being unplayable, dual wield died all the way back in 3.11 when they removed inherent bonus and buffed damage values of 2 handed weapons.

Real question is, how does a developer of supposedly the ARPG neglect a whole melee archetype for over 2 years? It's insane to me that they even nerfed dual wield to begin with, not only is it so much weaker than 2 handed weapons, but I am also required to craft 2 weapons instead of once, and with current state of crafting being the literal worst for phys weapons, that's just not viable. I already have to waste so much resources and time to make a single good 2h weapon, and I'm now supposed to instead craft 2 1 handed weapons, to have a fraction of a power I would have with an average 2h weapon?

Not just that, check the passive tree, there's barely any 1 handed & dual wield passives while 2 handed passives are all over the tree, and the dual wield mastery is so incredibly useless, while the 2h mastery has multiple strong passives.

They first reworked dual wield mechanics and removed stat sticks, okay that sucks but at least I can now dual wield 2 phys weapons and still play, then they for no reason nuke DW out of the game, and it's been unplayable since 3.11, check the wiki when 3.11 was, it's absolutely disgraceful for a developer to completely neglect a whole archetype for this long, hell I don't think ggg even remembers dual wield exists.