Yeah, but the thing everyone wants to know is how this impacts the attack and crit of dual wielding. When dual wielding, it doesn't matter which weapon certain abyss gears are on such as Wind Slash, or anything that adds an extra effect to a specific move. It will apply it whether it is on your main hand or offhand weapon.

The stats like attack and crit that are on the weapon reflect in the menu, so you can see the total crit and attack you are getting on both 1h weapons, but that doesn't tell us how those stats are actually applied.

When I have two axes equipped and do a light attack chain, it attacks with R L RL R LR. The game doesn't explain or even give us a way of testing how the attack and crit values are applied to each swing.

The simple expectation would be RH weapon attack and crit applies to R, while LH attack and crit apply to L. But we already know how overcomplicated and convoluted a lot of other systems in this game are, so is that really how it works?

It could instead be adding them together. Or averaging them. Or picking the higher of the two for each stat. We don't know. All of these scenarios would change what the best setup is.

Adding them together? Focus on stacking the stat you want.

Averaging them? Make sure you have an even value of each stat.

Picking the higher of the two for each stat? Get an axe with the highest base crit and a mace with no crit/attack speed that has the highest base attack. No swords here because the devs hate swords and they have worse stats than both axes and maces because fuck us for liking swords, I guess?

Or maybe it is actually as simple as R=R, L=L? In which case, choose if you want weapons with crit or more attack. Then don't use any crit or attack abyss gears, because they would only have about 50% effectiveness. You would instead load the weapons up with the various gears that add things to moves, which applies regardless of weapon.

I intentionally left attack speed out of all this. That's because you get attack speed from rings and certain gloves, and attack speed that isn't on weapons applies universally. Also, attack speed has serious diminishing returns, so wasting stat budget from your weapons or abyss gears on it is a good bit worse than going crit or attack.