Dual Wield Traits

zacvanm

I run a Nirnhoned Dagger in main hand and Precise Axe off hand like everyone else. My question is why not run Precise main hand and Nirnhoned off hand to take advantage of the DW Expert passive and get 6% more Weapon Damage?

Ghnami

Why not just try it yourself and see how much damage you lose. Nothing like an internet forum will ever compare to the raw experience. Find a chonky overland mob or go find a parse dummy and see what happens to your numbers.

zacvanm

Ghnami wrote: »

Why not just try it yourself and see how much damage you lose. Nothing like an internet forum will ever compare to the raw experience. Find a chonky overland mob or go find a parse dummy and see what happens to your numbers.

I’m not currently at home to try it, and was hoping someone had already tested

ShawnLaRock

I have been in the same situation - trying to find the right dual-wield combo - so I just made ‘em all. ATM - I am kind of loving mace / axe.

S.

Ghnami

From my answer you could deduce it is less damage, but since you didn't I'll just say it's less damage. You're essentially making your nirnhoned weapon less effective and putting a lower wep damage in the main hand, instead of your high damage item in your main hand with a small buff from the lower damage item.

Here's math: Nirn gives 15% damage. Passive gives 6% damage. Main hand nirn gives 15% + whatever off hand's calculation if. If you swap, off hand nirn gives 6.9% wep damage instead of 6, and your main hand gives 0% bonus. So it's a total of a 21% bonus vs a 6.9% bonus.

madman65

I have the Axe w/Nirnhoned and Sword w/Critical and the monster is Sellistrix. I have a couple of bleed skills and physical skills to really give alot of damage. Right now i`m looking at alittle over 11,000 effective damage so playing around with your setup might be a good idea. Oh Sellistrix is getting buffed in the next update.

zacvanm

Ghnami wrote: »

From my answer you could deduce it is less damage, but since you didn't I'll just say it's less damage. You're essentially making your nirnhoned weapon less effective and putting a lower wep damage in the main hand, instead of your high damage item in your main hand with a small buff from the lower damage item.

Here's math: Nirn gives 15% damage. Passive gives 6% damage. Main hand nirn gives 15% + whatever off hand's calculation if. If you swap, off hand nirn gives 6.9% wep damage instead of 6, and your main hand gives 0% bonus. So it's a total of a 21% bonus vs a 6.9% bonus.

My ability to read between the lines is pretty good, I did notice you said it would be lower, then I wondered what the testing would be, basically the math that you provided above. Thank you for the assistance

Ghnami

Happy to help. It confused me for a while too.