The Ups and Downs of Dual Wielding

[The Notorious J.A.V.]

so after playing through the whole game i can confidently say that dual wielding is less dps than just one handing a single weapon, having used a +10 bloodlust and +10 putrid child sword it will take 3 hits to kill an enemy that just 1 handing my bloodlust will kill in 2 hits.

However there are 2 upsides to dual wielding, the first is weapon buffs, from what ive noticed is the damage from weapon buffs is not reduced so they are effectively twice as powerful when dual wielding.

The second and more obvious is status building, with those 2 weapons + a poison weapon buff i can apply 4 statuses to a boss, bleed, burn, frostbite and poison, when combined with the pendant of burden once the statuses have applied to a boss you can absolutely chunk their health.

so my conclusion would be that for fighting weaker mobs who will die before any statuses apply just stick to 1 handing a single weapon for more dps and then go to dual wielding for bosses and beefier enemies that you will have the time to build up statuses on.

[D. Flame]

Dual wielding feels fine other than how bounce prone they are. Make them bounce less off of the environment.

[楊玄。杨玄。LangrisserWWE]

Originally posted by Rheetro:

just curious - why 1 handing a single weapon and not 2 handing it - doesn't it do more dmg in 2 hand mode? Is it because of attack speed? Just trying to learn as I'm fairly new to the game

I never do the math, I just play. So I could be wrong. Dual wield does more damage it seems. But this seems to apply more with lighter weapons, short swords, axes and hammer. Never tried daggers. If you dual wield grand weapons. It is suppose to do more damage, but it felt clumsy and slow. Most of the unique and faster weapons move sets are available if you single hand or double hand a weapon.

While most of the time, per hit, my experience that dual wield definitely do more damage. But the moment when it comes to Grand weapons. It becomes clumsy. Long swords on the other hand appears clumsy but they FEEL way better and smoother than Grand size weapons.

If you two hand a grand weapon, the weapon move sets feel a lot more "natural" and faster. My favorite is still grand swords or grand axes, not so much Short swords or grand hammers.

[Captain_Cole]

Originally posted by 楊玄。杨玄。LangrisserWWE:

Originally posted by Rheetro:

just curious - why 1 handing a single weapon and not 2 handing it - doesn't it do more dmg in 2 hand mode? Is it because of attack speed? Just trying to learn as I'm fairly new to the game

I never do the math, I just play. So I could be wrong. Dual wield does more damage it seems. But this seems to apply more with lighter weapons, short swords, axes and hammer. Never tried daggers. If you dual wield grand weapons. It is suppose to do more damage, but it felt clumsy and slow. Most of the unique and faster weapons move sets are available if you single hand or double hand a weapon.

While most of the time, per hit, my experience that dual wield definitely do more damage. But the moment when it comes to Grand weapons. It becomes clumsy. Long swords on the other hand appears clumsy but they FEEL way better and smoother than Grand size weapons.

If you two hand a grand weapon, the weapon move sets feel a lot more "natural" and faster. My favorite is still grand swords or grand axes, not so much Short swords or grand hammers.

I'm currently dual wielding the Ebonlight and Luminous Abiding Defender swords. They do some serious damage but can feel clumsy at times. (expected behaviour most of the time) I am looking for alternatives to test though.

[The Notorious J.A.V.]

Originally posted by Rheetro:

just curious - why 1 handing a single weapon and not 2 handing it - doesn't it do more dmg in 2 hand mode? Is it because of attack speed? Just trying to learn as I'm fairly new to the game

2 handing will be even stronger than 1 handing, im just pointing out that even 1 handing a single weapon is higher dps than dual wielding as it does more damage per button press while also having a faster attack speed than dual wielding