Smoldering Cudgel  

 

No, actually the "first re:no i'm not a monk" guy is correct, and you are mistaken. Many people have gone to great lengths to prove that secondary hand delay is independent of primary delay. If you have a 19 delay in primary, and a 34 delay weapon is seconday, the primary will swing every 1.9 seconds. Every 3.4 seconds, the dual wield check will be made, and if it succeeds, the other weapon will swing.

Now, as if this were not enough, the other reason you want your fastest weapon in primary is that your primary weapon benefits from both the level based damage bonus, and the strength bonus. The offhand hits for the weapon damage only. As an example, my level 17 warrior has an 11dmg/29 dly weapon in primary, and a 10 damage/29 delay in secondary (Icetooth claws, Blackened alloy LS). The primary weapon hits for max hit of about 26 or 27, as I have 148 strength unbuffed, and usually have a strength buff. Even with my buffed strength (182 was highest to date, with storm strength) I still hit for 20 (or 22, don't recall) max on offhand. When he gets higher level, and the level based damage bonus starts, the difference becomes larger. So what you want is the fast weapon in primary, to get the damage bonuses as many hits as possible, and the high damage, slow weapon in secondary. You'll get more damage output this way.

Last point, Unless you have an Incredibly fast weapon, you won't have to worry much about hitting the minimum delay cap.

Hope this helps!