Dual wielding is strange, cumbersome, uncomfortable, and amazing since all of its starting flaws decrease as you build proficiency over time.
Dual wielding requires coordination and ambidexterity but you build both of them as you practice regularly. I do practice swings with both arms every day independently and then together. When you dual wield you need to be a proficient fighter with each arm independently and with both arms together. When you fight you need to be able to (attack-left defend-right), (attack-right defend-left), (attack-left attack-right), and (defend-left defend-right) with each mode all being the same mode and switched in between seemlessly. This is harder and easier than it sounds. It also has major psychological benefits when fighting someone since any sort of “mode” that gets adjusted to can throw them off significantly when you switch to another.
Idealy every movement involves both arms simultaneously. However,i’m not quite there yet so there’s a lot of switching between which arm is my attacking arm (with the other defending) back and forth. (With both arms attacking occasionally or when there’s an opening, of course.)
Dual wielding has a reduction in reach compared to a twohanded weapon but it also provides you a constant extra source of defending yourself and harming an opponent which most competent fighters will approriately be very careful against.
The actual experience of fighting with two weapons at once is likely beyond my abilities to describe. It’s quite different from everything I’ve put in my posts and may be very different for me than it would be for you.
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Dual wielding is strange, cumbersome, uncomfortable, and amazing since all of its starting flaws decrease as you build proficiency over time.
Dual wielding requires coordination and ambidexterity but you build both of them as you practice regularly. I do practice swings with both arms every day independently and then together. When you dual wield you need to be a proficient fighter with each arm independently and with both arms together. When you fight you need to be able to (attack-left defend-right), (attack-right defend-left), (attack-left attack-right), and (defend-left defend-right) with each mode all being the same mode and switched in between seemlessly. This is harder and easier than it sounds. It also has major psychological benefits when fighting someone since any sort of “mode” that gets adjusted to can throw them off significantly when you switch to another.
Idealy every movement involves both arms simultaneously. However,i’m not quite there yet so there’s a lot of switching between which arm is my attacking arm (with the other defending) back and forth. (With both arms attacking occasionally or when there’s an opening, of course.)
Dual wielding has a reduction in reach compared to a twohanded weapon but it also provides you a constant extra source of defending yourself and harming an opponent which most competent fighters will approriately be very careful against.
The actual experience of fighting with two weapons at once is likely beyond my abilities to describe. It’s quite different from everything I’ve put in my posts and may be very different for me than it would be for you.