Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Dual Wielding and Bonus Actions

With the inclusion of Berserker I was thinking about dual wielding again and how useless it is.

There's no reason to ever make a dual wielding Berserker build because they can already make a two handed attack with BA. For other classes all the new LBA's (Larian Bonus Action) now also compete with the off-hand attack and make dual wielding even worse than it is in 5e. Namely Shove. Why would you make an off-hand attack when you can Shove someone over the ledge or into lava, without any investment in a Feat or Fighting Style? Or drink a potion. Or use a Weapon Skill.

For a low Strength Dex Rogue, the off-hand attack can be better than Shoving. But that's about it.

I think it would be cool if dual wielding Long Swords could be at all viable. Or if a Berserker could go to town with a Battle Axe and a Morning Star.

Could they make it viable in BG3 somehow since we are now heavily homebrewing? Fix something that IS broken for a change. It should get it's own Weapon Skill at least. Twin Strike.

Reverting Shove into an action would help this issue as well of course...