Ranger offhand weapons

[darkreap]

So I feel like I should know the mechanics by now after playing this long, however, I was wondering which weapon I should use in my offhand as a ranger. My baby ranger is lvl 8 but once he hits 17 I was wondering what the better combination of weapons would be. Currently I have a Sword of Skyfire for my main hand weapon (10/22) and I picked up a Silken Whip of Ensnaring thinking I would use that as my offhand (14/28). I was wondering if I got a Crystalline Claw Dagger (10/22) would my offhand attack go off more often as the delay is the same as my main hand weapon or should I stick with the better ratio of the Silken Whip and higher damage as the weapon bonus does not apply to offhand?