If all you trained was edged you'd only get parry DS from it and nothing from your offhand. To get DS from having an empty offhand you could gain 1 rank of brawling and train in TWC. You'd want at least .5x in TWC if not more depending on your profession.

I am currently hunting with a bow. I wanted to keep that training as is and pick up Edge Weapons, and bring it up to speed with my range. It's just for RPing reasons and to just have something else I can do on the side. Depending on situations. It's Why I was curious to what kind of DS I would get. Thanks for the responses btw :)

The OP was asking because they were thinking of adding edged weapon training to their arsenal.

>>(This from a 2x ranged/ohe, 1x brawl ranger).<<

I'm assuming your post cap. That's a lot of TP's.

I'm a couple of months late on this, but this is how I roll. OHE in the right hand, open left hand. I'm a rogue, so I spend a lot of time hiding, and I started fighting this way around 65-70 I think? Doubled in dodge, I didn't run into any specific DS issues until OTF, where the crystal weapons really make you need that offensive DS.

Where it really matters, in offensive, you can do just fine, but you need a lot of dodge to survive OTF (I've got about 320 ranks enhanced now) and you'll want to augment that with spells. Places without flares your DS is effectively boosted by the amount that it takes to get a rank 1 on you as opposed to just hit you, so armor and redux help out a lot there.

There's a few pros to this:

1) easy to grab things, either from the ground or herbs/crystals/other magic items
2) can't lose your shield to curse/whatever if you don't have one
3) no shield penalty to your dodge based DS (dodge, agility, mass blur, etc)
4) lookin' really cool

I will also point out for the more observant among you that those two recent deaths were from maneuvers :D