Hey hey, so I've been reading around that if you equip a broken off-hand that it makes the other weapon hit faster.

I've also read that there's a glitch that's been present since the strength bug was fixed where you can't equip different dual wielded weapons if the stats to do so are provided from your charms. You visually can, but it causes problems damage wise. Supposedly the devs have been aware of this for around a month, but this is just different reddit posts claiming one thing and no sources for me to find out for sure. It is however preventing me from noticing any kind of a difference while using a oath balrog blade and a broken gul dagger.

I haven't been able to test any of this myself because I don't have any respecs on my barb and am using a torch and oath in an eth balrog blade.

Does the broken off hand just cause the main hand to hit twice? Or is it causing it to do more damage than that?

And now that we know ias caps are removed, do we know if the fanat aura from beast is causing WW to do even more damage?

Is it at all possible to compare these two things if the broken off hand makes it do more damage than normal dual wielding, and if beast's fanat is increasing ww's ias past what used to be possible? ie does anyone have data?

edit: again I do not have tests I've done myself and these are things I've read online. Please please please take it with a grain of salt, as I'm not confident myself in the info having not seen it first hand..

This post was edited by Arkontas on Nov 6 2021 02:36pm

this would be fun to see. 2poor 2get beast just for a thought experiemnt or I would jump on this.

could u imagine starting like a donation drive to get someone a beast to test and the dude just peaces with it instead

I do this with a grief phase and it seems better than 2 grief and insanely better than single wield grief. Beast is good too but I only have one point in axe mastery but dual wielding grief phase and beast axe is crazy too not sure how to test aps though

How to test this? It's hard to say but I feel as if I do more dmg now with griefz and beast than with 2 grief pbs so I was wondering if fanat is allowing a higher BP to be reached as well.

OK so I did some testing vs. P1 Diablo tracking average kill time with no merc on BNET. Here's the results:

Grief PB + Grief PB: 8s
Grief + Broken offhand: 8s
Grief PB x1: 17s
Grief + Shield: 16s

Shield was spirit monarch. So what did this tell me:
- Grief + broken offhand WW tricks the game into thinking you're wearing two of your mainhand Grief & applies all the bonuses / hits / damage for the price of just one.

hf with this!

Wow

can the offhand weapon be anything?

Yes. I tested with an eth Dirk from norm while using grief PB in mainhand.

Well that's hilarious. What kind of code trickery is even at play here? Why would it work like that? lmao.