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Optimal vs realistic zerker weapon sets

Ive started to wonder what everyone ends up playing with for main weapon sets for the zerker revenant.

I know that Sword/Axe and Staff is considered the optimal set. But I find myself missing a hammer dearly quite frequently, especially in maguuma where there is soo much melee hate. Like the frequently knockbacking tentacles and the loads of dinos with charge. I feel you give up too much from forsaking a ranged option.

And the staff. Staff 5 is simply uncontested in sheer usefulness for breakbars, and staff 4 shores up one of our biggest weaknesses, conditions.

So Ive ended using the staff as my main weapon, and it feels to do quite comparable damage to the sword/axe combo now that sword have had all the nerfs. The utility support from staff more than making up for the slightly lower dps. Plus its much easier to keep track of the cd on staff 5 when using it as a main weapon. And I find staff 2 hits nicely hard when debilitating slam activates.

Furthermore staff have the advantage that it hits 3 targets with its attacks, unlike single target sword.