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Dual-wielding Arms Warrior - "why not?"
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Post by
Eighjan
I've had a Warrior as a main since I started playing eight years ago & have some weird notion that Arms Warriors used to be able to dual-wield.
Now; I do remember dabbling with Fury for a while @ L70 (in TBC) and may be getting mixed up with that period of my Warriors' "career".
Given that Arms could reasonably be interpreted as 'Weapons Master', would it be massively 'off fantasy' for ALL DPS Warriors to be able to dual-wield, with Fury having the 'special' bonus of Titan's Grip? After all, Gladiator Stance is effectively a DPS/off-tank hybrid, so why not let Arms has a dual-wield option.
My 'need' to post this on a forum is exacerbated whenever I see my Warriors' Warglaives, in his bank & am reminded that 'technically' the only Warrior that can use them as intended is (currently) a Fury Warrior...
Just 'throwing it out there', as people say these days.
Post by
Maelchav
I believe that, back in the day, Arms warriors
could
dual-wield, but got no bonuses for it. I don't remember when it was, but at some point the ability to dual-wield was made Fury-only.
The best reasoning I saw for why Arms = one 2-hander and Fury = dual-wield was in someone's signature, and it went something like this:
An Arms warrior is a thinking, strategic master of his weapon;
a Fury warrior is your drunk uncle stumbling out of his trailer with a broken beer bottle in one hand and a crowbar in the other.
Post by
Rystrave
As an arms warrior, you could and still can dual wield 1hs but you won't get any benefit out of it.
Post by
754478
This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
Post by
Flacko
So if fury and arms get dual-wielding. Where is the standard Warrior then with one 2h? Just no wouldnt make any sense ...
Post by
Rystrave
As an arms warrior, you could and still can dual wield 1hs but you won't get any benefit out of it.
So if fury and arms get dual-wielding. Where is the standard Warrior then with one 2h? Just no wouldnt make any sense ...
I just tested what I posted a while ago and they have removed the equipping of 1hs in both hands as arms. I remember a while ago being able to but never tried it again. So there is no way to equip 2x1hs as arms, but you can equip a 1h and a shield.
Post by
brunosilva22
You can dual wiled as arms, its called fury warrior
Post by
Eighjan
Just revisiting this - Arms Warriors cannot equip BOTH Warglaives, only Fury can... that was my main point.
Arms Warriors are claimed to be "war-hardened masters of 2H weapons..." all well and good, just not
master
enough to wield TWO of them (TG Fury).
If Fury Warriors get no 'bat-sh*t crazy, meat-head berserker' penalty for Titan's Grip - all the strength but without the finesse - then I see no reason for Fury & Arms not to be equally proficient wielding two 1H weapons.
Titan's Grip is enough of a differentiator between the two specc.'s for me, to give them equal validity in-game, but Arms Warrior will always bring to mind a "Master of Armaments" Warrior; able to display proficiency in all aspects of armaments requiring two hands, be it two one-handers or one two-hander.
Post by
ciddy1
It would make sense for arms warriors to be capable of dual wielding since they have the whole "master of weapons" theme, but it would be hard to make that viable in terms of gameplay while still being fair to fury warriors.
I do remember back in the day when arms warriors had all the different "weapon specializations" they could choose in the arms tree. Those weapon spec benefits only applied to the mainhand weapon if you were dual wielding, but there was a brief period where some builds actually somewhat worked dual wielding as arms.
Post by
Forogorn
I hope you guys realize that you can actually
dual wield
as both
Arms
and
Prot
now lol I was the one who discovered the trick a while back. Yes it's legit and no it doesn't require to download a hack or anything. Lmao you guys can learn how to do it in this video here and see for yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av0v18ZT7iY
Post by
ilijamaslovar
i think playing arms with two one handed weapons would be cool too.
Post by
icritmypants
Arms was able to dual wield up until they introduced specializations. Until specializations were introduced every warrior had the ability to dual wield. Dual wielding was never as strong as a two hander for arms, though.
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