Originally Posted by
Zephyrion
As I've said in my post, the difference between weapons is very thin, thinner than what people say. Charts were made without taking DB S5 into consideration, and I can say from experience that S5 alone is an insane boost for DB's overall DPS. so I'm pretty sure Wand doesn't do double the rotation of a proper DB, even though when talking equally affixed wand and DB, Wand should still come on top as far as static DPS go
And while I agree Wand CAN boss, its limitations in that regard still show in more hectic fights, where you can't keep your optimal rotations, might get knocked out due to lack of armor and lack of purely reactive defensive cancel options and so on. It's ultimately why I'm very happy with it on slower bosses or stun phases, but much less so on more active bosses, since you can't even keep on your optimal rotations as focus stripe and focus flare are just bad vs anything that doesn't want to stand there and get hurt. non-focus flare somewhat helps with that, but then boss also needs to leave you alone to let the beam animation complete itself , and it's not how things pans out for me. So I'd rather just use the other weapons that naturally deal with it better. When all is said and done though, Wand alone can still deal with most bosses since the kind of boss that really is hard to deal with wand is pretty rare overall still
DB doesn't do much less than the other two and it makes up for that with sheer reliability. Sure the rotations do less but DB hits things consistently, and also does not give a single fuck about what's happening around you due to how strong parry is.
With that being said I still stand by my list, not so much in terms of which weapon is better at one thing, but in terms of which weapons does the most overall, and Wand still has essential mobbing pieces and the highest static DPS, which is why it's overall used more. DS vs DB is pure opinion imo, for using both, I literally prefer one to other depending on the boss I'm facing, and I just gave it to DS because I personally find it better on a few more bosses, but pretty sure that would differ from person to person depending to gear/weapon proficiency/preference
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