So if you plat infuse a 2H you usually get 1050 extra potency out of that (1050 being the max from pat infusing). That is not always the case but for this purpose let's go with that 1050. Now if you plat infuse a 1H you also get that 1050 pot and if you also then plat infuse your secondary item you get another 1050 pot for a total of 2100 extra pot. (On top of that you can get another 225 to 300 pot from the physical level over the 2H). Yes, you have spent twice the plat roughly but it seems odd that you can only get a max 1050 out of a 2H item while getting a total of 2100 from using a 1H and secondary. 1050 is a lot of pot to be giving up to use a 2H. Why not give a 2H a max somehow of 2100 and allow us to throw double the plat into it? And yes I know it takes 1/2 the weapon essences to max imbue a 2H vs a 1H. But just because that isn't fair and should be changed does not mean the infusing thing shouldn't be changed as well. Am I wrong?
you're not wrong. the reason the way things are with 2h vs 1h like this is because to do it right way would require a lot of extra painstaking effort of tooling different set of infusing rules for 2h or special-casing stat-weights into their item generation algorithm for 2h to produce higher stats at same tier, for either of which they just dont have the dev time. the balance of needing half the weapon essences for the 2h, as you alluded, and 2h providing higher auto-attack on melee fights accidentally makes the current state a precarious but an ok-ish compromise imo. it's not great and just speaks to the bad state of weapon-essences this xpac (most likely due to unfinished crafting to-do list), but the accidental trade-off is reasonably ok because at least unlike everything else gear-wise, this is actually a fairly hard choice with the right answer to question of whats better being "it depends". hard choices, which are nearly non-existent these days, are a good thing
