[moloka]

One thing to think about. I had up until tonight used primarily Sword and board. The shield gives such a nice defense stat. Gives me over 500 more defense just for equipping it...However. There is exceptions to everything and one thing I learned this evening.

I had been using caretakers shortsword. It weighed in at 19dps. Recently this evening a guildmate sent me a 25 dps longsword. Now I have preached to not being a fan of the longsword but I couldn't pass up 6dps upgrade in weapons.

After seeing my nice criticals due to new weapon on decimate I then decided...im going to try something. I put the caretakers shortsword in my offhand and bagged the shield to experiment. Much to my surprise I didn't take a whole lot more dmg then the shield...it was noticeable but not life threatening. What I did notice was how fast I was killing the mobs. I think the SS I had in offhand was giving me 5% crit still and I was eating mobs alive.

What I had troubles soloing three days ago..which was equal level 1 level lower 3 dots became trivial. I was in fact taking more dmg but I was doing SO much more DPS that it didn't matter.

I haven't tested it over and over but I kind of like running around duel weilding. I wouldn't recommend it without two very nice weapons though. If your going to give up the defense you better be bringing in some heat. Just a thought for some of you to look at.