That is correct.
You want your lowest delay weapon in your primary hand.
You want your high ratio weapon in your offhand.
The reason you want fastest weapon in primary is two fold.
1. You swing your Primary every round. The secondary swing checks your dual wield skill. Which isn't a 100% check rate even at max skill (it's high, around 70-80% I think on a monk?)
2. Damage Bonus is applied to only your primary weapon. Starting at level 28 you gain 1 bonus damage to your primary hand, adding an additional 1 DMG every 3 levels:
28 - 1
31 - 2
34 - 3
37 - 4
40 - 5
43 - 6
46 - 7
49 - 8
52 - 9
55 - 10
58 - 11
This means if you have two weapons at level 60, a 9/18 (Jade Mace) and 14/28 (Knuckle Duster)
JM Primary - 20/18 - 1.11 Ratio
KD Secondary - 14/28 - 0.5 Ratio
KD Primary - 25/28 - 0.89 Ratio
JM Secondary - 9/18 - 0.5 Ratio
Clearly the top option is better. Because the faster weapon will have the primary hand damage bonus applied far more frequently.
As someone else mentioned, Haste is a big goal for a grouping DPS class. I'd save for that if I were a leveling rogue, warrior or monk.
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