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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

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WW hits with booth weapons
but most of your dmg comes from sprint tornados, and sprint tornados only use your mainhand (as far as i know)

Yep, this is pretty much it. DPS matters, but not as much as pure stats.

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I've had a thought rolling around on this topic I want to get out. There are only 2 times that Ball lightning and Nether Tentacles are equal

1) If both ticks do not crit, then that shot is equal to a non crit Nether tent
2) If both ticks crit, then it is equal to a crit NT

Consider the following third case: what if one of the ticks crit? Suppose that the first tick of BL was the crit, then the comparison between it and NT would show that NT would do more damage (that tick would have been the full 155%*crit dmg). If it was the second tick that crit, then we have had a dps gain (78.5%+78.5%*crit dmg), compared to a noncrit NT (it wouldn't have crit since it only gets one chance to. But, the probability of getting a BL to be equal to NT crit would require 2 rolls, which would lower its probability dramatically. This I believe is what would put BL behind both NT, and multishot in straight damage.

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i joined the "tank" DH side... still some items which are dex only and need to be changed, but i am now at 31k hp with 300 allres and some decent armor.
can take 1 hit from some mobs in inferno and it feels fantastic

i could also hold my dps very high. 70k without ss and 130k with ss.
next items to change pants, helmet, rings, wrist, boots
so i guess i could end up with 50k hp and 600 allres

<3 tanky DH