Does Unarmed and Dual Wield (using no weapons naturally) stack their effects? I want to make a Bruce Lee character with kung fu like skills and was wondering if the Unarmed/Dual Wield would even work. For those wondering, so far my build will be Unarmed, Dual Wield, Artful Dodger, Psionics, Leywalker and probably Burgler - if Dualwield/Unarmed doesnt work Ill probably look into... well honestly I dont know yet but Im sure I can find something interesting in the mods section
Dual Wielding's primary function is to remove the "bad dual wield penalty" you normally get when you equip two weapons. So if you aren't equipping two weapons, then there's no penalty to remove. The rest of the Dual Wield skills give you procs on attack, or some stat boosts. Those should work fine when unarmed.
This suggests that it won't work. While they don't seem to use these forums to keep up with patch details and it can take them a while to catch up when new content comes out the info they do have is usually pretty solid, so I don't think it would work. Never tried it myself, though. If what you really want is counter chance, you might consider taking blacksmithing for Runed Iron Skjoldrs, probably one of the best shields in the game. Also, Essential DoD skills III has a skill that, I kid you not, is called Kung Fu. You can get it in the Mods section. It's crazy awesome.
Bummer - oh well I guess. Thanks for the answers and I will definatly check out Essential DoD skills out after the update
