Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-111.68.32.71-20131007122233/@comment-209421-20140501090147

Personally, I agree in those assessment. The key issues with dual-wielding two weapons of such vastly different designs is indeed the concentration required. I remember Hilde's fighting style from when I used to play Soul Caliber IV, and it's just not practical. On top of that, it simply isn't required - the weapons in RWBY either transform from state to state or combine aspects of both. A metal-shafted lance could shorten by transferring metal further up it's body, similar to how Pyrrha's spear converts into a rifle. Now, don't get me wrong, dual-wielding is cool and awesome, and I'll provide a few examples from my fanfic (RWBY: The Rose General on FF.net, just a mild plug)

My main FC (not the guy with the scythe-sword) uses twin falchion, or splayed-tipped swords, that combine with a set of bracers on his arms to give him extended range on the blades themselves. (They extend along the backs of his arms to reach his shoulders, although they also 'bite' into his arms for stability, injuring him and working with his pain-based semblance). I also had, incorporated into the bracers, a form of ranged weaponry - pistol-caliber barrels capable of firing a Dust burst, with the aperture widening when the two weapons are combined. This is still dual-wielding, it's just that it shrinks into hand-to-hand combat.

Since we know nothing about the weapons of Team CRDL bar Cardin's mace, I was forced to come up with weapons for them to go into a death sequence in Ruby's dreams. As such, both Russel and Dove ended up dual-wielding. Russel worked with rocket-knives, so he could throw these explosive ballistics knives, or fight with them in a traditional dual-wielded backhanded grip. Dove simply had dual pistols. Neither of these ideas are all that advanced, and I haven't really felt the need to flesh them out, since Volume 2 should bring with it their TRUE weapon designs, in time for me to move into them fighting in person, rather than a dream sequence where I can get away with making things up.

Really, though, the only forms of dual wielding I ever use is either combination-spec (two one-handed weapons that combine into a two-handed one and vice versa), or two one-handed weapons. As such, the plasma gunblade idea could work in that respect, one in each hand. The minigun drill... sounds like a battlefield weapon, or the sort of thing that would be mounted onto giant combat suits for anti-armor purposes. Drills are not typically effective weapons against infantry, but against something slow and thick like armor....