I do believe the devs have some ideas in introducing more weapons in the future but right now seems that offhand weapons are kinda lacking at the moment. We only have bows, shields and torch for offhand weapon.
Here are some of the suggestions that I would recommend:
Orbs, grimoire- For players that wanted to play as mage, sorcerer or wizard. Having additional spells slot is good for spellcasters. I think someone pointed it out, I just add his post here as well. Offhand items Need work- here's some ideas
Crossbow, pistol - We see some risen using crossbow as offhand, i’m sure this already in development. For pistol we can make it like bloodborne also. Since we already have bombs, so the technology of having pistols should be fine. We can make offhand weapon high damage but slow reload. I’m sure dev can think of something.
Hooks, whips - Hopefully to have weapons like mortal kombat scorpion. We have enemies that run away when we go closers to them. So having this weapon that can hook the enemy back would be good. It can also be like sekiro. Can also save us from falling off cliffs (haha) or reach higher place faster.
Parry daggers - Can make parry window bigger. Looks nice for fencer or samurai, offhand wakizashi.
This is purely my own opinions and suggestions. Please feel free to debate, constructive feedback.
Ya, parry daggers or parry bucklers like elden ring. Hopefully they introduce more offhand weapons. I feel is a wasted potential if didnt developed more offhand weapons. I wish i can wield 2 strength weapons like a berserker and smash things.
Thomas once said in Discord that fireguns are never going to be implemented.
I would add:
-Throwing daggers or shurikens
-Trick bag (throwing things to stun foes and/or inflictic poise damage)
-Scrolls (maybe some magic spells but consumables).
-Chains or kama, similar to hooks
-Magic off-hans item that could help to extend buildup of your elemental damage. I.e so you apply fire damage and then use your item to extend that buildup and so on.
-A different off-hand item to replace your damage dealt to gain focus, stamina or health. So using your item you could activate a state for the next 10sec, instead of dealing X damage, you would gain X health/stamina/focus (but your damage dealt will be 0).
-A weapon that could serve to add ANY kind of rune to it, and not only your weapon rune type (it should be only one handed weapons tho). You could add a rune from a wand or any other even if your one hand it’s a different weapon. You only could use 1 rune on that item tho, to balance it.
-Boomerang
love the orb grimoire idea, that way you can give the players focus and spells in a controlled way. because right now the devs treat everyone as equals when magic users should have more focus to use than everybody else. (vs more defense w/ shields or attack/utility w/ offhand bows)
I like your ideas as well. I can add some into yours as well:
Scrolls - They can implement some crazy explosive magic spells but one time use. Such as freeze the entire region when use, similar to cerim crucible echos where the enemies are freeze for 30 seconds when you step into the stage.
Trick bag - This is such as good idea, could be similar to what nith enemy is using where they throw a poison cloud on their feet to prevent us from stepping into it.
Magic off hands - Maybe dev can implement some oil or water rune. So that you can amplify your fire damage when use oil or easier to freeze the enemy when they are wet.
Hopefully dev will see this so that they can implement this. It will be nightmare for them to code this but it will enhance the experience.
This would be sick, interactions with elemental existent magic. Like how it works on Divinity Original Sin II. There could be some secondary or minor elements that by itself doesn’t add much, but great combined with a main element (fire-ice-plague-electricity).