Staff or sword/dagger + offhand?
I have never understood how this could ever have been a serious question to anybody. Nowadays, if you ask this, you’re going to get flooded with “LOOK IT OVER” and crap from fans of Kralnor. The answer to this question is simple: use whatever you have access to that provides the best stats. You lose very little from swapping from one to the other… it’s not like you have to respec in order to wear a staff. As far as it goes in a general sense, the best combination to use depends on which stats you favor most. Generally, you get more +sta and +int from staves, but more +dmg from sword/dagger + offhand. If you carry a lot of offhands with different uses and resistances and stuff, 1h+offhand is actually more versatile since you can switch your offhand as you need to. It also lets you use Spellstones, which are pretty good at small scale pvp if you want to bother with them.