Guild Wars 2

Hello, junior Rev here. I read, and now tested for my self that Staff skill 5 it’s very effective with defiance bars. Using the DPS/Support metabuild I carry staff almost only for this.
But Because of the CD of switching weapons:

• I lose DPS (because the staff low DPS, and cannot switch back to main weapons)
• most of times the defiance bar takes around 10s to refresh, it’s just about the same as the switch weapons CD. If my role is to break the bars I must stay 90% of time on staff.

It’s ok / expected from the Herald to do this things? Which is more important DPS or defiance bar. I suspect defiance bar because the entire party/squad benefits from it. What are the use cases. In harder content (ex raids) are specific roles or it’s expected all the time to switch to staff a defiance bar appear?

Thanks.

Yeah, it’s a conundrum… If you’re worried about losing dps by being stuck in staff, you can always just use Glint’s Elite followed by Sword2/Sword 5/Axe 5. Or Shiro’s Elite. Some combination of those is usually enough to break most bars.

To answer your original question though: Yes… Break the bar above all else. In raids your job is basically to break bars and keep up Natural Resonance for the mesmer. Any dps you do is just bonus.