Noob alert, I just got around with the Revenant, after lot of Guardian PvE play. Overall I like it even if I don’t have either the damage or survivability of my guard (yet), but I don’t have the last 5 training Herald traits yet.
Anyway, I did some DPS test to choose my weapon and from a preliminary test the most damage was from SW auto attack, if I used Axe or SW in offhand skills overall I would lose DPS (but gain other conditions). (compared with Mace).
For solo PvE (most of single target encounters) I couldn’t find a better choice than SW/Shield with Staff. Shield-compensate the lack of heal in dragon stance. Mace from what I see are for multiple enemies, or mobile ones (so torment can do its thing). Staff – break bars, remove CC and mobility. Sword 3 when I need more might, otherwise auto-attack.
I have a few problems:
Basically, you just have to learn to live without stability unless you want to take Retribution or Jalis. It’s not really a big deal in PvE though, you have lots of blocks/evades and most things that knock you back or down come with big orange telegraphed hit boxes.
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