help me decide staff or d/d for pve
For open world solo, lightning hammer. Seriously. The basic attack has a large area of effect, it does very high damage, and it causes blindness long enough and quickly enough that it never wears out. Sure, other weapons are more fun to use, but the lightning hammer gets it done quickly and you never take damage.
For group open world, staff. You will be fighting large mobs, for that, you are going to want all the aoes and ccs the staff has.
For dungeons, either staff or d/d, it depends. You have easy dungeons like AC, or ones that melee works better most of the time like CoE, or you have dungeons like Arah where you need to keep your distance. Many dungeons require varied strats, There is no one choice here.
As an asura, I do this all the time.”
All of them to be honest
But run around and kill while you level then d/d is best and quickest