The best dual wielding swordsman?

Numbers are achieved by using 20% quality gems on all frenzy, cleave and faster attacks. As well as having picked all 3 additional frenzy nodes + all the big attack speed nodes I can get my hands on.

Also the weapons used are 2 rapiers with 2.02 base aps(my normal one) and 2.11 base aps(magic jeweled foil I am trying to craft). Also I am getting enough leech from carnage heart so my skills are not using leech gems and instead are supported by added melee and fire damage gems.

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drakar8888 wrote:

Numbers are achieved by using 20% quality gems on all frenzy, cleave and faster attacks. As well as having picked all 3 additional frenzy nodes + all the big attack speed nodes I can get my hands on.

Also the weapons used are 2 rapiers with 2.02 base aps(my normal one) and 2.11 base aps(magic jeweled foil I am trying to craft). Also I am getting enough leech from carnage heart so my skills are not using leech gems and instead are supported by added melee and fire damage gems.

In other words, very close to the bleeding edge of OP gear; 2+ aps weapons, 60 GCP, carnage heart. But what about, say, the median dual wield sword build, with medium-good, but not superb gear?

i've always felt that dw only works if you have two weapons of similar AS/DPS. the survivability increase by using a shield and hardly any drop in dps when using 1h+shield seems to make it much more viable imo

If u wanna build tanky decent dps dual wielder go with duelist i had like 3k hp more than 12k armor 100hp regen per sec and with 5L 10k dps, well now i respeced all my defensive nodes and went for only dps ones this is the result

Care to share your build? Would be interesting to see.

This kinda died down, so i thought i might pick it up some more following the new patches.

I'm now trying for a non-IR true hybrid Duelist in the hopes it actually works giving me a soloing, survivable decent DPS Duelist.

That means skipping IR and Unwavering Stance, and as some suggested here, i went more deeply into the left STR side of the tree to grab some life nodes, leech and generally a big buff of STR to complement it all.

I'll also try to grab all of the sanely-available evasion and armor nodes (two clusters in the middle of duelist, one near the start, one near the bottom, and one cluster up above and to the right towards Ranger territory) and see what my ratings come out as.

More input on swordsmen is quite welcome :)

I'm resurrecting this in the face of new changes, and new builds like Ceto's and Moosifer's.
What do you think if the best dual wield swordsman build, right now?