My hero is left-hand or right-hand?

Question

In WoW and others games you could see some difference in using an speed weapon in your left weapon slot and your right hand slot.

Is there any difference in diablo3? Should I use the X weapon in slot Y?

Answer 1

No, there is no difference in Diablo III.

http://www.osirisguide.com/diablo-3-dual-wield-guide/ gives you an explanation of how dual wielding works with weapons of differing speeds.

However... there is a bug/odd behaviour affecting the character info display (and potentially actual DPS, though that is unconfirmed) in D3 currently. http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/4015201923 provides information on this, but one (non-Blizzard) source explains it as:

however when dual wielding take note that MH and OH are not as simple like they are in WoW, the primary vs secondary weapon IIRC is based on equip order.

when dual weidling different APS weapons, you will get different final APS depending on which one you equipped last. afaik the last one you equip becomes secondary no matter if you put it in the char screen slot right OR left.

(this was to some degree exploitable by dual claw assassins in D2 LoD)