Namely shove, you say?
Arguing about Shove or specific encounters is pointless. It's a cold fact that Larian have overpowered it and another cold fact is that many players are not happy with that. If you want to keep beating that horse you can do that in numerous other threads.
Um, okay. I didn't realize we were the ones beating the horse about shove.
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Back to the point then: dual wielding is useful. It's not just about the damage of the offhand weapon. It's also about the effect that weapon may produce.
Basically, offering other options doesn't lower the value of an option.
Think about it logically. You have five dollars. There are several things you can purchase with your five dollars. None of those things are suddenly worth less than five dollars simply because there's something else you can spend the same amount of money on.
In an ideal world, all of the "five dollar" options would be equal in value, overall. Some might be worth more to the individual purchaser in the individual moment, but all should be relatively equal in value, overall to the consumers and their particular needs at their particular moments.
What you're trying to argue is that "dual wielding" is worth a single dollar while some other bonus action is worth five dollars, thus making the other bonus action superior in all ways.
This is just not the case though. Again, the value of the offhand weapon is *more* than just the damage it deals. It's also the value of the effect the weapon offers in the moment of game play.
