Dual wield mechanics

Originally posted by Akhevan

Actually, it has nothing.

Ironically, it has nothing because there are no dual wield mechanics in this game. Or weapon mechanics in general.

• Do you always alternate between the weapons when attacking, or not?
  

This game doesn't have auto attack and your weapons are just stat sticks, same as your helmet, or idols, or that passive in your tree. They just happen to always have flat melee attack stats (or spell damage, or both).

• What is your real attack speed when dual wielding?
  

Average between the two weapons' implicits * your attack speed modifiers.

• Just flat out equipping a white weapon improves your DPS, so what actual stat(s) are you gaining from dual wielding?
  

All the stats of both of your weapons combined. There are no odd hidden penalties like you only get 25% of weapon dps, 31% of attack power, and 63% of attack speed from your offhand like you do in some other games.

• % more melee crit seems to be a great stat since it benefits both weapons (no split stats in the character screen). Is that also the case for % increased damage affixes?
  

Flat crit is far more valuable than increased damage (or increased crit for that matter) but yes that's the gist.