Dual Weilding: What are the best "off-hand" weapons?

[Thrain]

it does scale down on the first level, and you lose the sword on one of the statues if your level is too low (can't for the life of me remember the sword, but it is a good one)

[Ekental]

That would either be "Foebane" (The main sword my Kensei uses event. Minor drain!) or "Usuno's Blade", I always managed to get both by ch 6
Improved Alarcity makes the place easier too!

[Dueller]

Originally Posted by Ekental

watcher's keep isn't that bad if your party can cast lvl 9 spells, very likely if you do all the quests by lvl 6. (Wish, timestop) makes watcher's keep much easier.
I've always done it in Ch 6, dunno if it scales down difficulty depending on party level

Both party level and size usually determine the difficulty. I once tested level one of Watcher's Keep with a solo sorceror, and there were hardly any statues that came to life, with far fewer shadows and mists lurking about.

[Ekental]

I see... For me ALL the statues came to life, and annoyingly they all cast insect swarm, gah what a pain
So thats only lvl 1 yes?

[JackOfClubs]

Yeah, I usually do Watcher's Keep right after getting Imoen back. Except that I save the last level for ToB because I want Sarevok to be able to buy Firetooth and I don't like to have to lug it around in SoA. But I usually kill the big D with traps so perhaps that isn't a fair test of difficulty.

But I have never had the case where some of the statues didn't attack on level 1.