I feel it would be beneficial if we were able to hold torches in our primary hand as well.
As a bow user, once you get decent enough focus sustain via recovery or potions etc, you can largely do without using your main hand weapon. It would be nice to have the torch for the extra light, and to use for our utility/buff/recovery runes.
And slightly off-topic with regard to holding torches in main-hand… a cool combat style that came to mind was shield combat. Like shield rush, bash, slam damage reflection rune (timed like a parry) etc. Likely not happening lol, but just an idea!
Loving the game so far, and very hopeful for all that is to come 
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