Ranger

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Originally Posted by Aborath [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Why near 50 for dual wield to become more viable than 2h? Is it the skill cap?

It's when the damage bonus on your main hand overcomes the fantastic ratios of rng only 2h weapons.

For reference to these weapons:
http://wiki.project1999.com/Woodsman%27s_Staff has a .89 ratio for 8k and is the best 2h weap money can buy for a ranger.
http://wiki.project1999.com/Springwood_Stave has a .74 ratio for like 200p
http://wiki.project1999.com/Arbitor%...ine_Greatsword has a .7 ratio for 500p

Damage bonus is a static +X damage per hit from your main hand. This bonus is applied every time a hit lands

Damage bonus is (Level - 25) / 3 rounded down. So at level 50 you have a damage bonus of 8.

In 350 delay the woodsman staff swings 10 times and will do 80 points of pure bonus damage (if all attacks hit).

In 350 delay a Jade Mace will swing 19 times and will do 152 points of pure bonus damage.

Max damage for a weapon is Damage*2.
The Woodsman staff can potentially do another 10*(31*2) = 10*72 = 720 damage for a total of 800 damage.
The Jade Mace can potentially do another 19*(9*2) = 19*18 = 342 damage for a total of 494

We'll say the off-hand weapon is also a jade mace. I'm not sure what the dual wield attack rate is like at level 50 is but if it swings 17 times (I don't think this is terribly likely) then dual wielding jade maces at level 50 would be roughly equal DPS to a woodsman staff. You don't get better weapons than jade maces on a ranger without spending 30-60k on each of those weapons.

Because I've gone this far and now I'm curious, at level 60 the damage bonus is 11.

This would be:
830 damage done by the woodsman staff due to higher bonus
703 damage done by the jade mace due to the higher bonus

That means dual wielding jade maces you'd need to dual wield successfully 7 times to do the same damage as a woodsman staff. This seem incredibly likely.

TL;DR - As damage bonus increases, dual wield becomes better than 2h. For a ranger, this doesn't happen until 50+ and not until 55+ unless you have really good/expensive weapons.