Item Levels

[Babekeke]

As I understand it, you could actually Dual-Wield 2 of these weapons (say a BLU could wield sword and club) and end up with +376 skill for the main hand, but nothing for the off-hand. Great, capped acc and att on main hand but off-hand still can't hit shit.

Any nice new shields out there? ;p

Also 188 skill over 20 levels equates to 9.4 skill per level, which is much higher than we ever got during levelling! My guess is that they did it so that they can make H2H work on half the skill is applied to each hand without screwing them over.

As it is now, the only way to cap haste on a single-hand job will be to single-wield and sub DRK for Last resort. No point what-so-ever in dual-wielding if you won't be able to hit with your off-hand, or you have to gimp your gear by equipping more acc even when main hand is capped, just so your off-hand can hit.

[SpankWustler]

As I understand it, you could actually Dual-Wield 2 of these weapons (say a BLU could wield sword and club) and end up with +376 skill for the main hand, but nothing for the off-hand. Great, capped acc and att on main hand but off-hand still can't hit shit.

As far as I can cobble together from multiple (poor) explanations, +skill on a weapon will only affect that weapon rather than everything going towards the main hand.

Example: Wielding two swords with + Sword Skill on Blue Mage would function similar to wielding a sword with + Sword skill and a club with + Club skill, since the skill bonus on neither sword will affect the other.

If that's the correct interpretation, things will still be rough for one-handed jobs but not nearly as bad as if everything only affected the main hand. Sadly, however, +skill going this route would also crush the hopes and dreams of many an overachieving onanist; the dream of using two weapons in the creation of an ultimate fapping arm.

Keeping with the usual "these jobs that kind of suck at hurting difficult monsters are stronger defensively" theme, there's an outside chance that one-handed jobs can at least combine + Parrying skill from two weapons. They might even be able to get above that 5% parrying floor on something higher than Even Match!