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A shield can potentially have WA scrolled onto it and chaos-ed, while a Rosary will only have specific stats. At the upper funding limit, that's about 20WA difference, but then again 2H weapons have a slight WA advantage, so that goes down to about 10WA difference (to the advantage of a 1H+shield).

The 2H multiplier is 10% greater than a 1H. With an equal amount of WA, you will ALWAYS do 10% more damage with a 2H than 1H per attack.

With a few notable exceptions such as Stonetooth Sword (which has a base WA of 101 only, whereas a Loveless has a base of 147), most 2H swords are Normal(6), and most 1H swords are Fast(5). With booster they go down to speed stages 4 and 3 respectively. The moment you have DSI or +1IAS from Azwan inner ability, you will hit the speed cap unless you use the Green potion from MPE, so I will still consider those factors.

A Paladin's 3 main attacking skills are: Blast, [F/I/L/H] Charge, and Heaven's Hammer. Their skill delays are 840ms, 810ms and 2760ms respectively. The attack speed formula is as follows:

Actual Delay = Roundtonearest30ms{(10 + speedstage)/16 * basedelay}

So the following table will show you the increase in number of hits per unit time if you upgrade from a 2H sword to a 1H sword, at the various starting speed stages. Stage 4 is with booster only, then -1 for DSI, -1 for IAS inner ability, -1 for MPE Green potion (cap break).

2H speed stage	1H speed stage	Blast	Charges	HH
4	3	8.70%	9.09%	8.00%
3	2	9.52%	10.00%	8.70%
2	1	10.53%	5.26%	9.52%
1	0	5.56%	11.76%	8.62%

In bold are the DPS increases that are close to 10%, in that you need to have 1% more WA (fully buffed and all) or more for a 1H weapon to be equivalent or superior to a 2H. Those in italics require 2% more WA or more, and those in normal text require 4-4.5% more WA.

Here's an example: you have a total of 500WA fully buffed when using a 2H weapon and you don't have any other boosters (no DSI blah blah, no green pot). Your speed stage is 4 with booster only. If you were to switch over to a 1H weapon, you will need (using exact numbers here from calculations) 1.19% more WA for the 1H Blast to match a 2H Blast in DPS i.e. you need 506WA in total. Similarly, you need 0.83% more WA for your Charges (505WA), and 1.82% for Heaven's Hammer (510WA).

I hope you find this helpful, as do everyone else who has the same problem.

Hadriel

So basically as long as you have ~5% more attack 1h than 2h your DPS will still be higher with blast? Seems somewhat reasonable but then again that leaves me needing about a 30watk shield if I were to get an equal watk 2h sword =/