Dual wield when?

[Alistaire]

almost looks like Bruce Campbell

and yeah: gearing and balancing 2 weapon slots for 1 job just doesn't work. They've already changed PLD tome weapons to reflect this and I bet if they could do it all over they'd make those weapon+shields 1 item too. (Too late to do it at this point; ppl would complain about their favorite shield size not being available etc)