Why can Brewmaster and Mistweaver no longer Dual-Wield?

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I know that Legion made everyone stick to their artifacts and BM/MW got a staff, but… why have they lost the ability to Dual Wield in levelling content and now in BFA?

There does not seem to be much of a reason for it that I can find. Something about weapon attack speed? But neither is a DPS spec so… why should that matter? It’s just stat sticks anyway, they don’t even use their weapons in the animations save for Blackout Strike for BM

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cLaSs FaNtAsY

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For the same reason, WW has to use 1h weapons to use Fists of Fury, even tho he is sheat them. or the short version “Blozzord”

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Unless I miss my guess, offhand items have less stats than a 1h weapon, and mistweaver would gain an advantage over other casters by having twinsies :slight_smile:

For brewmaster, if you wanted a good answer, because you can block far more solidly with a staff held in both hands than you can with a pair of swords. Dual weapons are an offensive setup whereby you’re throwing enough problems at your opponent that you hope they can’t find time to get a shot back at you.

The real answer is likely that it adds some visual differences between the specs.

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I really dislike having to obtain different weapon types for WW and BM when they both apparently just use their hands for everything.
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It is a side effect of the now irrelevant artifact weapons I bet

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I do miss using a staff for WW. I thought it really worked with the class fantasy to whack things with a bamboo stick, but Blizz disagreed :frowning:

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