Everyday warriors become more and more useless

Charm pets (and most NPC's in general) should not be able to do dual wield attacks. It's so dumb.

Wot.

It was common practice to put a 2h to remove dual wielding from NPC's in classic.

NPC's dual wielding, and doing so when charmed was always a thing.

Forcing dual wield was always a thing.

I recall doing this with a static friends group in mid 2000. Defo a thing then.

Also far more two handers were secondary slot equippable (for pets and npcs only, obv!) so your pet could offhand something like a bbc! Nice!

You're not getting it. That SHOULDN'T be in the game. It's highly imbalanced and makes no sense whatsoever from an RPG perspective. You don't learn to suddenly dual wield just because someone puts the weapons in your hand, and nobody is ever going to change the weapons they are wielding because of some random opponent walking up to them and trying to hand them a shittier one.

There aren't many charmable MOBs that actually do 4 attacks per round on their own, but even among the ones available it should be turned off for balance purposes.

Also there IS something unclassic here on p99 about the mechanic - giving a MOB an offhand-only item, like a torch, should not cause it to dual-wield.

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