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Swords in offhands should be able to be used as regular swords.

The premise behind this idea is simple. Legitimate dual wielding. It's a thing that has been done in the past by actual warriors, and it would enhance Minecraft's combat a lot. We could have people dual wielding sword, axes, any melee weapon you can think of. The way this would be used is by right click with a weapon in your offhand, it would start to *use* that weapon. Each weapon would be unaffected by the other's cooldown. Let me know what you think, and if any Mojang Employee saw this, please tell Jens. I know he's working on the combat update 2.0 and I think this could help it a lot. I really want this idea to be added and it would make perfect sense, enhancing Minecraft's combat, while not taking away strategy.

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    Historic dual wielding is rare at best. Most common dual wielding practice was a larger sword and a smaller parrying dagger to block and a lot less use on the offense. Good example is game theory's video on a shield is your best weapon This is a video game after all so even if we were to add it it would become a balancing issue as now your attack damage is doubled and this would throw a whole wrench into the system. As it stands shields are perfect offhand tools for combat dual wielding would have to be powerful enough to have a good reason to be used instead of a shield and not too powerful where pvp fights last seconds. In addition this would have great conflict with the java cool down mechanic.  

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    Doubling damage potential without drawbacks sounds unbalanced.

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    Shields should also be able to be wielded at once

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    I think adding Daggers that you can throw without them shown being powered up would be cool. Also, if they were in your offhand and you stab with them at the same time your opponent attacks, then it could block the attack.

    Another cool idea would be Stances that the player could choose to alternate between and would offer different pros and cons. (Those Stances then could be added to the poses that an Armor Rack can make.)

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    I think it would be too overpowered

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    This would also not completely break combat and offer a new fun alternative to off handing a shield or totem.