Guild Wars 2

I don’t know if its actually a bug or if Anet is encouriging us not to use off hand weapons/shields ….
cause if you use anything on your off hand the attack power goes down even if the shield your wearing has +power…

even if you swap to two handed weapon attack power is affected…

if this is not a bug… then why would Anet encourage us to use a one hand weapon and no off hand weapon/shield….

btw… (off topic) i dont consider shields as weapons cause “they are shields and not weapons”….

This is not a bug. The weapons all have their own attack stats. When you have two weapons on it uses the average. I guess if you didn’t want the skills of the second weapon you could run around with a single one hand weapon. If you have two one hand weapons of the same type you can use, your power shouldn’t change as you equip one or two of them.