General Discussion - PoE2 are they still implementing dual wield? - Forum - Path of Exile (2024)

I really love games with dual wield with it
that's it :3
i just want to ask it and i hope some of people here lemme know

edit: i also want to know if there's also a mechanic about single one handed weapon gameplay (off-hand free build)
because i was playing this turn based game called Stoneshard and it has very cool skill system.
are they gonna add new type of weapons like knuckles on monk class ?
i want to see the monk to do some martial art moves( this is so much too ask :D

Yes, dual wielding is a thing in PoE2 as well. But it's only possible to dual wield weapons of the same type (e.g. two axes), also you can't dual wield flails or spears. I didn't hear about knuckles, but in PoE1 they are kinda covered by claws?

Another difference is that you can't use claw + shield in PoE2, you either dual wield them or leave off-hand free.

The Monk showed some use of "martial arts" moves while wielding a weapon - the Killing Palm ability took a hand off the staff to lunge forward and palm-strike an enemy, likely using the staff's stats because that makes sense in the code backend. The 'Whirling Advance' skill also combines staff strikes and capoeira-style kicking in a visual blah of "assume these spinnies are hitting enemies". Which is technically a "martial arts" ability even if it's kinda squishy to watch. It's quite possible other Monk-oriented skills in the Quarterstaff pool will work similarly, and the Claw weapon type in PoE1 is a rough analog to unarmed abilities.

I don't have definitive answers on dual-wielding, but I do know that in a recent interview with a Diablo podcaster Jonathan stated that they had to solve pinning a weapon in one hand between weapon sets, i.e. using the same shield while changing the main-hand weapon. They needed to do this primarily for Witches/Minion builds that will want a juicy scepter for the extra Spirit the scepter offers, and would need to roll two scepters with similar Spirit numbers to utilize weapon swapping without being able to pin a weapon.

Jonathan said this pinning feature wasn't implemented yet, but it needed to be and was on the immediate radar for the dev team. I can't imagine, if they're putting that much work into the system, that they won't allow for dual-wielding offensive weapons as well.

I do know the PoE Wiki article on PoE2 says dual-wielding is "more restrictive" and most skills won't work with dissimilar weapons, but I don't have a source on that. I suspect it was a Reddit answer somewhere that didn't see wide publication. I can imagine dual-wielding is more resource-intensive in the second game due to the animations for different skills all being way more involved, and usually being custom tailored for that specific skill rather than just using a generic animation a'la PoE1. They'd have to do a single-wield and dual-wield version of the animation for every skill, in addition to the one and two-handed versions. Hpefully the new animation rigs and pipeline make that much easier, but we'll have to see.

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MonaHuna wrote:

Yes, dual wielding is a thing in PoE2 as well. But it's only possible to dual wield weapons of the same type (e.g. two axes), also you can't dual wield flails or spears. I didn't hear about knuckles, but in PoE1 they are kinda covered by claws?

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Another difference is that you can't use claw + shield in PoE2, you either dual wield them or leave off-hand free.

oh i forgot about claws =_= i played shadow and my weapon were claws because it have lifesteal.
and thanks for the info, and its okay. it's that you can only dual wield a weapon of the same type. I'm just curious if they still have that option but i didn't think of being able to dual wield different weapon type, I only experience that on diablo2 and the one the i am playing Stoneshard.
claw+shield is somewhat stupid for me :D
they introduced the 2set skill system on poe2 so dual wield different type of weapon is somewhat not that necessary.
I watched a recent interview that they've got a unique shield for spellcaster?|
is? wand still a thing on poe2 ? or magic maybe a magice sword ?

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1453R wrote:

The Monk showed some use of "martial arts" moves while wielding a weapon - the Killing Palm ability took a hand off the staff to lunge forward and palm-strike an enemy, likely using the staff's stats because that makes sense in the code backend. The 'Whirling Advance' skill also combines staff strikes and capoeira-style kicking in a visual blah of "assume these spinnies are hitting enemies". Which is technically a "martial arts" ability even if it's kinda squishy to watch. It's quite possible other Monk-oriented skills in the Quarterstaff pool will work similarly, and the Claw weapon type in PoE1 is a rough analog to unarmed abilities.

I don't have definitive answers on dual-wielding, but I do know that in a recent interview with a Diablo podcaster Jonathan stated that they had to solve pinning a weapon in one hand between weapon sets, i.e. using the same shield while changing the main-hand weapon. They needed to do this primarily for Witches/Minion builds that will want a juicy scepter for the extra Spirit the scepter offers, and would need to roll two scepters with similar Spirit numbers to utilize weapon swapping without being able to pin a weapon.

Jonathan said this pinning feature wasn't implemented yet, but it needed to be and was on the immediate radar for the dev team. I can't imagine, if they're putting that much work into the system, that they won't allow for dual-wielding offensive weapons as well.

I do know the PoE Wiki article on PoE2 says dual-wielding is "more restrictive" and most skills won't work with dissimilar weapons, but I don't have a source on that. I suspect it was a Reddit answer somewhere that didn't see wide publication. I can imagine dual-wielding is more resource-intensive in the second game due to the animations for different skills all being way more involved, and usually being custom tailored for that specific skill rather than just using a generic animation a'la PoE1. They'd have to do a single-wield and dual-wield version of the animation for every skill, in addition to the one and two-handed versions. Hpefully the new animation rigs and pipeline make that much easier, but we'll have to see.

yeah, i watch some of monk gameplay and he's actually using some martial arts moves.
and the pinning system is somewhat difficult to implement and somewhat a hazzle but it's a very cool feature if they implemented it
about the dual wield
and i think that they won't allow it for now because there's a new type weapon spear
i imagine if you can dual wield a spear :D and its something stupid to see but also funny.
maybe only for daggers, swords, axe and mace dual wield a weapon with the same type
i don't know about the animation tho, it's seems so very difficult of time consuming to do for them but hey it's cool