uts187 wrote:MuddledMind wrote:Question, I was looking into rolling a dual wield barbarian, but I noticed the entire dual tree doesn't actually use both weapons. Am I missing something or is dual wielding fairly worthless in this mod? Old posts seem to indicate it used to be a fairly common playstyle but with every skill only using one of your weapons I can't seem to see a reason to not just use a one hander with a shield.
There is no more "dual wield" tree, it's effectively now sword (champion) tree and axe (berserker) tree. Things were rearranged between trees a bit. That said, I'm playing a dual-wielding axe barb currently finishing up Hatred. Is there damage any advantage to dual wield anymore aside from just the additional weapon affixes? Having no problem tearing through Hatred, but maybe shield will be more appealing as I get into the higher difficulties.
Advantage of dual wielding is that you can use a sword and axe and gain access to both skill trees.