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Ideally, your MH and OH will be identical. Consider the other dual-wielding melee classes: in both cases, their offhand attacks have a specific purpose. For Rogues, their offhand attacks proc Combat Potency. Additionally, their dual-wield talent boosts the damage of their offhand white attacks by 50%. For Fury Warriors, their offhands do 25% more damage and contribute Rage. For Enhancement Shamans, the sole purpose of the offhand aside from white damage is to proc Windfury.
Now, 2.1 introduced two problems to Enhance Shamans. The first, Windfury is on an overall 3 second cooldown. This means that it is important that Windfury's damage is as high as possible, thus necessitating slow weapons. This gives rise to the second problem, which is a faster/lower DPS offhand "stealing" Windfury procs from the mainhand. You cannot get around the first problem, but you CAN get around the second. Try and make sure that your two weapons are as close in speed and DPS as you can possibly make them. If you have to make a choice, choose speed similarity over DPS similarity. You need to get away from the conventional melee DPS mindset of MH > OH. They are equally important in every way except for white damage, where obviously a higher DPS mainhand will pay more dividends than a higher DPS offhand.
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