Dual Wielding

Attack speed is increased when wielding a main-hand weapon in your offhand. Heal when you critically strike a foe while wielding a main-hand weapon in your off hand. This heal is increased when critically striking a bleeding foe. — In-game description

Dual Wielding

Specialization

Arms (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

8 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Dual Wielding

Attack speed is increased when wielding a main-hand weapon in your offhand. Heal when you critically strike a foe while wielding a main-hand weapon in your off hand. This heal is increased when critically striking a bleeding foe.

 Increased Attack Speed: 20%

 Healing: 133 (0.01)^?

 Healing: 69 (0.01)^?

 Healing vs. Bleeding Target: 160 (0.012)^?

 Healing vs. Bleeding Target: 83 (0.012)^?

— In-game description

Mechanics

• Unlike its predecessor, Dual Wield Agility, Dual Wielding affects both the activation time and the aftercast, resulting in an overall 20% increase to attack speed.
• The increase in attack speed affects the cast time of all weapon skills, utility skills, and gathering.

Bug:

Attack speed is increased by 25% rather than 20% like claimed by the tooltip.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 11, 2025	The attack-speed bonus from this trait now stacks with other attack-speed bonuses. While wielding a main-hand weapon in your off hand, this trait will now also heal the user when they critically strike. This heal is improved if the struck enemy is bleeding.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Increased attack speed bonus from 15% to 20%. Updated description for clarity. This trait gives an attack speed bonus when a main-hand weapon is wielded in the off-hand slot.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic. This trait has been moved to the Grandmaster tier. Removed damage bonus. Added: Increases attack speed by 15% while wielding a sword, axe, or mace in your off-hand weapon.
June 25, 2013	This trait has been moved to the Adept tier.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Dual Wielding has been added to the game.