Just give us the option to choose the main hand for our character and then let them hold the main hand weapons in that specific hand. So a left handed character would hold the sword in the left hand and the shield in the right hand. That's it. That's the whole suggestion. 
#Add the option to make our characters be left handed
wet mesa
pliant dragon
Would get denied because pvp lol.
On a more serious note, what about 2h weapons? What about all the animations.
I feel like this would be better served by just using a client side plugin to mirror player rendering.
timber scaffold
Using a bow fixes this.
You hold the bow in the wrong hand
spring oriole
I do wonder whether there is any actual issue in PvP. Is the fact the weapon is in the other hand a big deal?
As far as I know, the items that can be wielded with both hands are related to non-combat skills, so you wouldn't expect anyone to use them in PvP.
hushed fractal
i mean, we have "body type a and b" , i dont see why we cant be inclusive of us left handed peoples
pliant dragon
I do wonder whether there is any actual issue in PvP. Is the fact the weapon is ...
I imagine it's more about expectations about where things should be. If the hands were swapped, you probably couldn't read your opponent as easily.
Kind of weak, and learnable but people would complain.
I think the real thing that would kill this is that they would need to reanimate everything for animations to work. That alone dramatically places this out of "quality of life" imo and closer to an overhaul.
wet mesa
I imagine it's more about expectations about where things should be. If the han...
You could add an option in the settings or a plugin that keeps everything right handed, if that would be such an issue, I guess
modest yacht
as a lefty, if this takes even one hour of dev time its not worth it. and it would take a lot more
true sluice
The dev time it would take to do this is wildly disproportional to the benefit it would provide. Need a left handed "👎" for this one.