I've discussed this with some friends and figured i'd share my two cents on the idea. Dual-wielding as in dual swords and dual pistols. Dodging as in the opposite to blocking.

How it would basically work is, you can replace your shield with another weapon of the same type of weapon in your main hand. Specifically sword with sword and pistol with pistol, but with restrictions so you cannot wield two spreader/machinegun type pistols or large/slow swords. In doing so, you remove your shield, and fundamentally you cannot block anymore. The solution to that, is you can do a dodge-roll or side-step dodge in the direction of your cursor.

I imagine there would need to be a lot of tweaking and evaluation on how the weapon stats would work. Like attack speed ratio's between weapon types and the like, not to mention animation-style if you have two swords that animate in a different way; such as the Cutter and the Calibur.

Thoughts?