If I use a Longsword in my main and a shortsword in my offhand will that affect me in a bad way? Im a elf ranger. Dex Based.
If I use a Longsword in my main and a shortsword in my offhand will that affect me in a bad way? Im a elf ranger. Dex Based.
If by dex based you mean high dex low strength then yes. The longsword is not finessable so it will use your strength bonus for to-hit rather than dex.
Shortsword as an off-hand weapon is fine though.
well my base strength with no Rams might or any other items is 14 and my base dex is 19
Yeah i plan on getting that at lvl6 I hope. Isn't that when I get the chance to pick it again?
A few things wrong with that, nothing too major necessarily:
1. Longsword doesn't work with dex. If your dex is a lot higher than strength, you should be using rapiers or shortswords and get the Finesse feat.
2. Longswords are inferior to rapiers. Even if your strength is higher, a rapier does better damage.
3. Longswords are slash and shortswords are pierce, which means the feats that would boost one don't boost both. Primarily that means Imp Crit, which you'll want after 8th level.
In short: use rapiers instead of longswords!