Board Thread:Dark Souls/@comment-3492791-20140507063456

I've been kind of averse to to duel-wielding builds before, mostly considering the loss of a shield not worth it when you aren't really increasing your attack speed. This comes from the very early on time I experimented with duel-wield on my first character, duel Rapiers. I realised that using two of the same weapon is pretty pointless. Having recently made a bit of an adventurous build that is completely unrelated I got interested again in the idea of a two weapon build.

The obvious problem with my take on duel-wield builds before was that two weapons didn't really do anything I couldn't do with one weapon. The obvious solution this problem was to find two radically different weapons. My dilemma comes from choosing which two weapons provide the greatest diversity.

My thoughts are to try using curved sword in the left hand and a thrusting sword in the right. The curved sword having a long parry to compensate for the inability to block, and the thrusting sword taking advantage of parried enemies with the riposte multiplier. I was thinking of using the Painting Guardian Sword as my curved sword and either Velka's Rapier or Ricard's Rapier as my thrusting sword. I mostly like Velka's Rapier for the move set, but it also allows me to inflict slash, bleed, thrust, and magic damage all at the same time, making me quite adaptable. On the other hand Using Ricard's Rapier allows me to simply ignore Intelligence and focus just on Dexterity to take advantage of the higher scaling.

I was just interested in some feedback on this. Not necessarily just on what rapier to use, but the whole thing in general. Might it be better to use different weapons entirely, or two curved swords instead of including a thrusting sword, or even replacing them with a dagger or something. I'm just looking for opinions to help refine my idea. 