5 Foot Step wrote on Apr 14
th, 2017 at 7:29pm:
They can swing them one handed. Even get dex to hit and damage on that or any other centered weapon. TWF them will still do less than star chucking level 3+
At level three with SE and ANT, they will have if they're lucky as a new player, around 24 Dex (18-20 to start, +2 tome, +1 racial, +2 enchant).
So they will be throwing 1.5 shuriken per animation. They will have at best 1 SA die proc. How on earth is this better than swinging to 2 shortsword with TWF? With TWF at lvl 3 a Monk would make 1.4 attacks per animation. However, SS have a higher [W] than shuriken, easily making up the difference in attack rates. And since you would be making 1 attack the majority of the time in either case, the shortsword is actually better. The crit range on SS is also better.
Now, as Dex increases shurikens pull ahead, until you get more TWF feats. But of course, you also pick up things like 10k and IPS eventually totally changing the math.
BUT, at level 3, or even up to level 6 pre-10k, Shuri's are not ahead. Moreover, even with 10k, once you pick up iTWF, you're back to Shuri's probably being worse when 10k is on cooldown.