Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-31507215-20170829180734/@comment-26553378-20170829225454

ElenionoftheFirmament wrote: Minecraftmage113 wrote: A few things:

1. Your non-dominant hand is called that for a reason. You don't have (typically) the muscle memory or strength that your dominant arm has.

2. Your mind can only concentrate on 1 thing at a time unless it has been practiced such as pat head and rub tummy. or doing the s and 6 or whatever it was with foot and hand. The point is the act needs to either be natural or well practiced. With how many situations there are in a battle, it would be impossible to train into muscle memory all the different combinations of reactions to stimuli, and a complex 2 hand fighting style is not natural. Basically, a weapon in each hand doesn't work.

lets see, first off the dual daggers, aside from way too many items each with 2 sets of stats, and a mess of crafting to figure out which hand which dagger goes in I can cite point 2 to just strait up say that a method of fighting in which you are attacking with both hands is highly unrealistic. If you are legitimately stabbing with both there are so many openings that it wouldn't matter how fast you could punch with the knives, someone can cut you down. also just citing point 1, this would require ridiculous amounts of training for any skill at using both at once. now what it could be helpful for is being able to react to an opening/attack more quickly by virtue of having a less akward/shorter path of movement between state of ready and state of attacking/blocking. This doesn't really play into minecraft, and being able to use both at once in any manner is rather unrealistic unless you plan to use one of the weapons in a very simplistic fashion.

Dual weilding a sword and shield... Nope, no arguments, this is a very sound idea. A shield is a simple tool to use once trained. Raise flat towards arrows to prevent getting punctured in a dozen places by a volley, and use the edge to parry sword attacks or wallop your opponent. shield bashing really doesn't seem the best idea to me though because they could catch your shield either with their hand, a weapon, or just with the shaping of their armor which locks you into close quarters... without a shield.

sword and dagger... You can parry using the sword and use basic thrusts with the dagger, honestly you don't gain much out of dual weilding weapons, look it up sometime, there are really good videos on why dual wielding doesn't work as well as you would want (and why it isn't in history. Or you could simply look at history and notice, "oh, hey! knights have shields!", and various other things where they might have a simple tool for combat wielded in non-dominant hand.)

anyway, so I hope this helps, as for the idea of throwing weapons as a dual wield, it would be far more practical to simply pass your melee weapon to your non-dominant hand for quick keeping and return, then throw said weapon, switch melee weapon back to dominant hand, and go back to hammering the enemy. This is easily replicated by scrolling off the weapon onto a throwing axe or some such implement. Technically you would temporarily dual wield a melee weapon in your non-dominant hand, but chances are that even if you do get into a fight with it one of your first moves would be to switch it back. Honestly, fine, it could make sense, but only as something severely temporary. You wouldn't prowl around with a throwing knife and your main weapon in your non-dominant hand.

well, there we are, way too much text, but it should influence this (I hope). Elves are ambidextrious, so... dual wield daggers and swords w/ positive elven alignment! It is almost impossible to be completely ambidextrious, you would need to train with each hand the exact same way the exact same amount of time as well as having a perfectly ambidextrious brain set-up. You can have partial, but it is highly unlikely to possibly impossible to have full. I was born either ambidextrious or left-handed and morphed to the right hand, and most activities now are easier with my right hand due to my having better control over those muscles and having more commands imprinted into muscle memory, however there are some tasks I learned after figuring out I was born left handed, and since I never really focused on them before I swiftly became better with my left than right, such as throwing a frisbee, or for some reason throwing side-arm is about the same despite feeling a little odd even though I've trained that with my right arm my whole life...

anyway this really isn't too connected now that I think about it. The point is still that the brain can't focus on 2 complex processes at once. If you want to run in stabbing like a maniac, sure, go ahead, otherwise you can't really hold a defence and make elaborate attacks with the other hand.