Lv 24 Guard soloing weps - Duel Weild or 2 hander? Not enough AA for Buckler spec yet

[Rothgur]

<p>Hi Guys</p><p>I'm lv 24 and when I'm forced to solo am I better to use a 2 hander or duel weapons for dps?</p><p>I'm currently speced str 4-4-8, sta 4-1 (no more points yet) and my gear is average.</p><p>As you can see I dont have enough AA for buckler spec at the moment, so while I'm earning enough AA points, what should I use meantime, 2 hander or duel weild.  Once I get enough points I will use a buckler/1 hander.</p><p>I understand it depends upon what weapons you use, but lets just say for arguments sake that the two hander and duel weilding weapons are of a same/similar quality.</p><p>What do you think?</p><p>Valkos</p>

[Ferunnia]

With high crit rates you'll get better results from a 2-hander if they are close to equal in quality. But at level 24 the difference is negligible, so just use the best weapon(s) you can get your hands on.

[OrcMugger]

<cite>Valkos@Runnyeye wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Hi Guys</p><p>I'm lv 24 and when I'm forced to solo am I better to use a 2 hander or duel weapons for dps?</p><p>I'm currently speced str 4-4-8, sta 4-1 (no more points yet) and my gear is average.</p><p>As you can see I dont have enough AA for buckler spec at the moment, so while I'm earning enough AA points, what should I use meantime, 2 hander or duel weild.  Once I get enough points I will use a buckler/1 hander.</p><p>I understand it depends upon what weapons you use, but lets just say for arguments sake that the two hander and duel weilding weapons are of a same/similar quality.</p><p>What do you think?</p><p>Valkos</p></blockquote><p>For now, go with dual wielding.  These are my reasons:</p><p>In other parts of this forum experienced guardians recommend you keep up all your weapon skills: slashing, piercing and crushing.  If you dual wield, your off hand weapon will update slowly, but it will skill up.  I've been doing that with my guardian since I started him.  Now I'm 22 and my skills are all maxed and I do have 8 pts in buckler reversal as well.  I have a weaponsmith, so he made Shermann a steel falchion, flail and short spear.  I dual wield them and switch them out while soloing at the beginning of each level.  When tanking for a group, of course, I use one of them and my buckler.  Works well for me and should for you, too.</p><p> Shermann Iron'Pants, </p><p>Guardian of Unrest</p>

[Carouz]

<p>am level 44, and at my tier the very best two hand weapons available on the broker will do less damage than two relatively inexpensive one hand weapons with no penalty to stats</p>

[Rahatmattata]

When I leveled up I just did full mastercrafted everything, sword and tower shield. I also kept another mastercrafted 1h on the rare occasion I solo'd or felt like duel wielding. Also when leveling up most people seem to have moderate to crappy gear. It wasn't too often I grouped with a twink so, with some ad3s, mastercrafted gear, and a master here and there, keeping aggro and not dying was a breeze.Also, I did str/agi AA line while leveling because the +hate gain is useful and I rarely got any +hate in say, a RE pug with a warlock and fury in group. Reflexes simply owns for leveling up in pugs when you never know what kind of healer you might get and the aoe dps is very nice in old content.