[Tokum-6n0m3]

As far as offhand delay goes, I know on live (RIGHT NOW) Offhand delay + DW skill affects offhand weapons.

During Classic offhand delay was based off a ratio of main hand delay and DW skill (this is why items like Moss Covered Twig in main hand with a wurmslayer in offhand were so OP during kunark) What this means is that every time your MAIN HAND swings you have a chance based off your DW skill to swing with your offhand Back during this time I cared alot more and did the testing/research to confirm this.

If offhand was based SOLEY like you had been told off of DW skill the moss covered twig would be a crap item and wasted main hand dps pre-nerf......tho the wurm slayer would still be nice if based off nothing but DW.

All this said, I am unsure of how it works on p99 as I have not parsed it or heard it said by a staff member how it works.....But if it is like it was in classic my italic section "should" be the way it works here....tho there are plenty of opinions out there of how it worked back then and how it works on p99 now, and very few ppl that actually take/took the time to test it themselves, the only way to know for sure is to hear it from a staff member or do the testing yourself

To test just make sure to use the same offhand weapon, get a fast delayed main hand and go out and kill 50 (50 is just a example, the accuracy of testing improves the more mobs you kill, but I'd do no less then 50) mobs of the same type and lvl ,parse how many times your offhand SWUNG(this is ALOT easier to see if you use 2 different weapon types)

Then take a slow delayed main hand and do the same test on the exact same mobs, parse how many times your offhand swung.(note you count how many times your offhand swung not just how many times it connected and did dmg)

If it is based off nothing but DW or Offhand delay the numbers should come out "roughly" the same, if its based in any way off main hand delay they should differ, biggest thing is to make sure you separate the differential in delays on main hand weapons as much as possible to give the best chances of seeing the difference.

a 5/21 main hand and a 6/24 are not gonna give you wide enough separation, try a 5/21 and 10/34 both these dmg/delays can be found for main hand in game now and should give you enough delay range

If it comes out roughly the same, change up your offhand weapons running the same test but by changing your offhand not your main hand, they should both swing about the same if its based off DW, they should vary significantly if its based off offhand delay


MAKE SURE YOUR SKILLS ARE MAXD FOR YOUR LVL AND YOU DO NOT LVL IN MIDDLE OF TEST AS IT WILL AFFECT THE ACCURACY OF THE TEST~

Hope this all helps, edited it 100x to try to make sure I got it right o-O