Off-hand weapons

Why are some outlaw rogues using daggers in their off-hand? Are they better now than a 2.6 weapon in regards to pve?

O/H weapons don’t matter. You only need a slow weapon in your main hand. I can’t remember the term used but faster weapons in your offhand have been scaled with slower weapons damage wise. I’m no mathemagician regarding how that works, but everything I say is true and therefore you must believe me without researching it for yourself.

My guess would be better energy regen due to this:

No, as the person above said, it is normalized to the same value no matter the speed.

Best guess why people are using an offhand dagger. They have a higher ilvl dagger for OH than slow weapon.

They normalized weapon damage but not weapon speed. You’d get a higher frequency of off-hand strikes with a dagger than you would with a sword… so even though you’d get that same normalized weapon damage, theoretically you should get better energy regeneration due to more frequent off-hand strikes.

Unless there’s something in the background not mentioned in the tooltip that you’re limited to a given number of procs per minute…