In D3, there is no "Main Hand" or "Off Hand", the game alternate which hand you attack with, and therefore which hand deal the damage. Som half of your attacks are gonna suck basically. I'm not sure if it means every other time you spawn/cast a whirldwind, or if it means every other tick though.
Would a weap with solid stats but only 200 dps be too low despite being the off hand
It depends on how much you use WW and bash as pure damage dealers. If you use these a lot (which alternatve between mainhand and offhand damage) a 200 dps stat stick will hurt your damage. But as has already been pointed out, if you play this build correctly the biggest part of your damage will come from sprint tornadoes, probably around 75% of your total dmg output. So from a pure sprint point of view the dmg on your offhand can be 0.
What actually does matter is the attack speed of your offhand, you want as high as possible since this has an effect on your tornado dmg. The number of ticks per second (and thus damage per second) is based on the attack speed of the weapon that you swung most recently (you can see this in the stats section). So all other things being equal, you want a fast offhand rather than a slow one. This also has a small extra benefit when using bash from the fact that your low-dps offhand will hit faster, reducing the time interval until your next heavy hit from your mainhand. The ideal offhander is thus a dagger with increased attack speed, second best would be a sword.
My offhand is a 420 dps sword (1.4 APS) with 105 vit, 710 LOH, 96% crit dmg, socket. Despite the seemingly low dps I kill siegebreaker in around 5 seconds. If my offhand had 1000 dps instead I would kill him faster, but the difference would be quite minimal. The main difference is that such a weapon would cost at least 100 times what I paid for my current one
Perfectly answered my question, thanks!
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My question is this: Is the DPS of your offhand relevant in the Double WW build?
I ask because I found a great weapon with 800 LoH, 122 STR, and 65% Crit DMG but the DPS is only 247.
Any help is appreciated!
Thanks!
but it should mainly be a stat stick