Never use sharpened on daul wield if you can help it. Always nirn main hand poison enchant, infused off hand weapon damage enchant. This combo is so much better then the rest, it is almost broken.
Also "enough pen" is based on your group more then anything, if you have a decent group, you don't need any pen from cp.
Edited by Lightspeedflashb14_ESO on March 1, 2018 6:03AM
Unless you are in a 12 man optimized trial group you will ALWAYS need your own source of penetration.
The problem with answering questions here is that many of the people knowledgeable about the game only answer from the perspective of a member of a trial team. It seems that that’s the only thing they do now. They also tend to repeat what they have read without testing.
For Vet Dungeons, Vet Maelstrom, Vet DSA, or any other solo content, you want to bring your own penetration.
Duel wielding sharpened weapons (actually main hand Nirn and off hand sharpened) is far superior to the raid setup for duel wield above when alone or in an unoptimized small group.
If you are in an optimized raid with group pen all accounted for, and you are going 'full dumb-dumb', then this setup, minus the sharpened and with velidreth is close enough to BIS, yes. Personally, I like to go VO + Briarheart on weapons, because the sustain is really nice.