Main place you'll notice a dramatic difference is when jousting, which heavily favors high-damage (hence usually slow 2H) weapons. Kiting modestly favors slower 2H, mostly for convenience due to P99's funky hitboxes. Face-tanking slightly favors 1H for shield AC (and bash if small race) when ratios are similar. In either of those cases the difference is not huge enough to be a serious cause for concern. Mostly you'll favor whatever weapon does the most damage over time, which more often than not will be a 2H. Solo heavily favors offense. Treat the shield like a tie-breaker when damage dealt is about the same. You would use a 1H when you deal about the same damage per minute with it as your 2H. You would not want to drop your damage by a third for the shield, however. Depending on budget, there are "cost tiers" where 1H are sometimes the more sensible options, but overall I agree with Crede that 2H is broadly preferred when all else is equal.
Danth
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