Higher item level weapon in offhand?

I’m sure this is a question that has been beaten like a dead horse, but I’ve googled it three times and found no consistent information.

Should an assassination rogue be offhanding his higher item level weapon?

How about outlaw?

You always want your main-hand to be the highest ilvl. Your abilities scale a lot more off the DPS of your main-hand weapon.

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The only time I’ve used a higher ilevel weapon in my offhand was when I was playing Outlaw and only had a 345 1h and a 360 dagger.

If you run a sim and look at stat weights you’ll see that main hand weapon dps is worth 2x, 3x, sometimes 4x time your primary stat is while offhand weapon dps is toward the bottom of your secondary stats. Higher ilevel weapons typically have higher weapon dps than lower.

Long story short, if you can, put the higher level weapon in your main hand.

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All the answers above a correct, but i also encourage you to run a sim.

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Thanks for the wonderful replies, everyone.