I like using 1h+ shield and bow combo, at least on physical-heavy builds. Bows have amazing kiting ability in PvE (2-star unCCable bosses go down with no chance to touch you), and very nice long-range sneak attack combos for PvP.

Or you can go 1h+shield with resto staff, because it gives you awesome resource management, healing bonuses and quick siphon morph will allow you to debuff enemies, switch up and just whack them in melee to get tons of health.

Dual-wield is decent, but I don't beleive that you'd be using it to its fullest potential, unless you're a medium armour Stam build.

2h is not bad - it has very good burst (2h sneak attacks are hilarious), but the skills are pretty expensive and it lacks the sustained damage of dual weapons.

Gojak wrote: »

I'm considering destruction staff, but then all my skills would use magic so I doubt that's ideal.

Heavy attacks are a major source of resource regen. Staves regenerate magicka. Other weapons regenerate stamina.

Having a staff equipped means that potentially you'll have fewer stamina using abilities on your hotbar but you'll also be able to regenerate magicka more easily.

Stamina is also used to block, dodge, break cc, and for Fighter's Guild abilities which can be equipped with any weapon. So even if you equipped 2 staves you could still put your stamina to use.