Why no Dual Wield Barb skills?

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Barb has two 1h/2h trees but no Dual tree?

I've always wondered why. You could put blood hatred and wind form into it, make wind form multi hit more to make it a viable damage ability, and add the previously removed Cautious Strike to make dual wield a very cool spec. Add a passive that gives defense or avoid and a proc on hit or something like that.

Barbs have the ability to dw but currently there's absolutely no reason to do so. 1h/shield is more survivable and 2h does more damage. Almost seems like wasted potential.
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Yeah I got my hopes up about true dual wield returning in Sigma, but no...
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coding issue, although probably the team can start working on it now.
basically dual attack (dual throw, dual katar / finisher) is kinda hard to make last time with soft mod
so they work around using passive bonus on top of the attack instead.

dual wield in median however, allow you to use axe / throwing axe and sword combo
which effectively allow you to use 2 different tree at same time.
im not sure how accurate now, but last time dual wield have the fastest casting speed, effectively best for summoner / spell barb.
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You mean they dont want OP build?
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iwansquall wrote:coding issue, although probably the team can start working on it now.
basically dual attack (dual throw, dual katar / finisher) is kinda hard to make last time with soft mod
so they work around using passive bonus on top of the attack instead.

dual wield in median however, allow you to use axe / throwing axe and sword combo
which effectively allow you to use 2 different tree at same time.
im not sure how accurate now, but last time dual wield have the fastest casting speed, effectively best for summoner / spell barb.


Yeah seems like being able to throw and melee isn't much of an advantage over picking one or the other.

I really hope it's possible coding wise because I've always played dual wield barbs in LOD and it was my favorite spec.
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Sigma opens up a lot of options for them to do new things. Sigma is new and better, but it's still vanilla. They'll have more content. :bounce:
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Bagboy_Brown wrote:Sigma opens up a lot of options for them to do new things. Sigma is new and better, but it's still vanilla. They'll have more content. :bounce:

I sure hope so. I guess we'll have to wait and see!!

By the way I love your avatar :D
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Skeptic_Zero wrote:
Bagboy_Brown wrote:Sigma opens up a lot of options for them to do new things. Sigma is new and better, but it's still vanilla. They'll have more content. :bounce:

I sure hope so. I guess we'll have to wait and see!!

By the way I love your avatar :D

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use conquest Oskill and you are fine with dual
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Rusev wrote:use conquest Oskill and you are fine with dual


I considered that, but even at lvl 30 conquest (from the xis Barb weapon rw) it lasts 2.64 seconds with a CD of 10 seconds.

So it works great to buy you time to kill a pack of mobs but helps very little against bosses. And unfortunately that makes it nearly useless, since a dw Barb would need more survivability against bosses and not do much against packs of mobs.