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The faster wep in the primary was better for my situation, but I won't claim a singular rule for all scenarios. In my case the rapier is much faster than the harpoon so it makes sense that it did considerably more damage as the primary — primary is a guaranteed swing per each delay, offhand is conditional pending a dual-wield check per delay. Devs, please step in and correct me if I'm wrong here.

At this point I'm not buying into the "rules" about ratio. Not yet, anyway. If you've got two hella-fast weapons there are probably cases where speed trumps ratio. Based on what I've seen in parsing tonight I'd rather have an offhand of 8/26 than a 12/36 for example. The latter is the better ratio but it results in far fewer DW checks (and consequently, swings).

Even setting the parsing aside, when I swapped the weps and had the harpoon as primary, everything simply felt more sluggish. Sure enough, the numbers backed it up.