My experience...
For two-handed weapons, if you use a polearm like RCT, you probably will not notice the loss in DV too much compared to spear + shield. It's a bit down, but there isn't a huge difference between 60 DV and 80 DV as long as your PV is pretty good.
If you're using the minotaur axe, it really doesn't matter as long as you have paralysis resist. Pretty much everything dies in 1 hit regardless. 10 DV/50 PV is totally fine.
If you happen to find a really good staff, you should be able to get about equal, maybe even slightly better DV than spear + shield unless you have a really good shield with high skill.
Dual-wielding is almost never worthwhile. With the possible, possible exception of Needle + Sting, you should never do this. Maybe in a speedrun it would save some turns, I guess, so there's that. [edit]Although in some other thread I think we figured out that Trusted One + good weapon dual wield is actually not so bad. Using a powerful weapon like Executor with a mediocre weapon like Dagger of Death is a very bad way to dual wield, IMHO, since Executor is slaying and the other isn't. Dual wield bloody daggers is probably decent, I guess. Does +Crit stack, I wonder?
Last edited by JellySlayer; 12-04-2015 at 05:17 AM.
Hoping to win with every class, doomed. Archer, Barbarian, Bard, Beastfighter, Druid, Elementalist, Farmer, Fighter, Monk, and ULE Priest down.