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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 9377809" data-attributes="member: 7030563">That is because they are finesse weapons, not because they are two weapon fighting.  Optimizing for dexterity means you are better out of combat due to the skills attached to dexterity and can be very good with both ranged and meleeThere is and should be a price to pay for this and this price and numerical inferiority in melee disappears when you use strength with two weapon fighting.Further you could easily create your Two-Weapon Fighter character with a high strength.  There is nothing against that or stopping you from doing that and if you do, you can do more damage than your reach fighters or your archersBut Two weapon fighting with strength weapons beats any other melee fighting style, when optimized it is the highest damage of all of them.I get that this doesn't apply for finesse, but then you don't get to do finesse two handed weapons.Two Weapon Fighting is not weak.  It  is only weak when you don't optimize for it o r when you insist on using finesse.And is better at ranged attacks and is better at doing things other than attacking and is better in other pillars all else being equal.That is the price you pay and frankly it is not high enough if you really want to balance things.</blockquote>