This is awesome! Now I’m definitely not going back to staff!! I’m just way more comfortable with D/x….dat mobility!!! Just curious, how does this compare with staff DPS?
Against Vale Guardian specifically the damage is almost certainly much better with D/W since most of the high dps staff skills require the target to remain stationary for the duration. The same applies obviously to any other mobile target in open world.
As far as the other raid bosses go:
Staff is substantially better than every other weapon against Gorseval. He gets hit with almost the entirety of meteor shower, and lava font to clear orbs from range and cleave the wall/spirits means that you maintain extremely high dps even while performing vital utility functions.
Against Sabetha I have no idea which one is better, though I can say with absolute certainty that staff is much easier to execute if you don’t have a lot of practice on the fight. My raid group has run D/W tempest for this fight (though we also ran 2 staff tempests at the same time), mainly because we were lacking protection and the swap to earth for 22 seconds of aoe protection is less of a dps loss as D/W. But even besides that, repeatedly granting static charge to allies on top of the fairly solid overload air dps is some pretty crazy damage. It’s definitely something I’m going to look into.
A few reasons I can see that it might compare unfavorably with staff here is that 1.) a lot times near the end of the sabetha fight it is difficult to stand near her for extended periods of time; 2.) Bolt to the Heart may only be active for half of the fight, but the last 25% of the fight is substantially harder than the rest, so it is really active all the time it actually matters; 3.) lava font is extremely quick and safe turret clearing utility.
I would definitely like to hear from others about D/W vs staff, maybe when I have some free time I’ll math it out and see how it looks.
