While dual wielding, when you use an attack skill you will use the skill with your main hand then use it on the off hand, alternating with each use. However, players cannot wield a wand in one hand and a melee weapon in the other. The resulting attack speed is the average of the two weapons' attack speed, so the total time for a pair of attacks is as if each weapon attacked once. The majority of attack skills in Path of Exile will alternate between equipped weapons for attacks, swinging first with the main hand and then with the off-hand weapon. There are no penalties of any kind to attacks with the player's off-hand weapon. Weapons do not have to be of the same type to receive dual wielding bonuses. These bonuses to dual wielding can be increased via passive skills.
The attack speed bonus is applied multiplicatively with other attack speed modifiers.
Whenever the player equips two one-handed weapons of any type, dual wielding grants the following stats:
