Can someone clear this up for me? I like Frost so when I made an allied race DK I specd to Frost before talking to the Lich King. My weapon reward was a single 1 hander. Is that meant to happen? Do I now need to procure another weapon to play it?
Feel like an oversight if that’s the case lol
I take it as a sign we will be getting 2H soon 
But in all seriousness, you can just buy another one from the DK vendor in your class hall.
But guess what? When you get to 120 and cap conquest for your weapon, you only get 1. Sucks to be confined to 1H’s without a PvP vendor
Use Death Gate, go to Acherus. Go down to lower level, to the Abomination vendor NPC. He sells starter 1H weapons for less than 2s.
For whatever reason, they still haven’t found a good way to award items in sets whenever choice is involved. They must have made some weird restriction way back in quest coding that confines reward choice singularly, so they have no way to filter in one of the choices getting two pieces. It’s about the only thing I can think of.
Don’t we get a weapon set in the Acherus questline? The two sabers?
I don’t recall that off the top of my head, to be honest. But I do know that there are cases where multiple rewards can be given, it’s just those those rewards are pre-set (or some are pre-set, and there is a secondary section of choices), and no choice is involved. The later part is where I believe the hiccup is.
It’s a weird issue where quest rewards with choices can only give 1 item. This could be solved if the 1h choice was replaced with a box that contained 2 1h weapons.
Its not an oversight, 1 reward for a quest. You can get another weapon for less than 2 silver for the abom in Ebon Hold.
That would certainly work. I was just thinking about how the quest could also then just allow us to “pick up” our weapons, and then we just interact with model boxes for what we want, and the dual-wield one has two weapons in it. This would work for niche/key cases like this being the start of an entire class leveling, but it’s still a core issue in the code I wish they could just fix.
Such is the woes of dealing with old code, though. Never know what might happen. We could get Zul’Gurub coins dropping all over the world again.
thanks everyone, I hadn’t though of the home base vendor will do that.
I was able to play as Frost for a bit until I got a second weapon. It was actually nice to see a single weapon again.
I’m hoping they will give us 2 handed back. I swear I recall Frost requiring 2 weapons before though.
Yes, but AR DKs don’t do that questline. Apparently, they only get a single 1H weapon.
Don’t forget about Heirloom 1 hand weapons… I use one of those and the saber you get at the start and am enjoying the spec immensely.
i was just going to say, how come you arent immediately replacing your gear with heirlooms
im kidding, but thats what i do
This is the bane of dual wield. Literally the most difficult thing about playing dual wield is finding weapon upgrades. Most quests of course only offer one weapon, and even when you do upgrade a weapon, often your next one is not forthcoming. Added to the fact that weapons are not common in the current xpac (Shadowlands) I have had to switch to non dual wield frost or one of the other two specs. I hate it.