I agree with this. DW heavy attacks are the fastest and they fit into your rotation on the front bar. The two weapon setups I would personally consider are Lightning / SnB, which is what I'm running, or DW / resto, like you. I suppose this also clarifies why one would not run 2H. The heavy attacks are much slower. Next patch of course Rally will give Major Sorcery, so there's that.And you have a weapon for stam restore which allows you to run immo potions instead of tri stat, or makes it eazier for stam sustain since dw heavy attacks are pretty fluid and you can Dodge/Block more without woring to much about stamina since you just can do a quick Heavy.
Apparently this is false or outdated information. See point 1 in this recent video. I trust a guy like Skinny Cheeks on this matter:I personally don't Like War Maiden, it doesn't get buffed by minor/major Sorcery sadly
Next update I'm looking at 2h and resto due to the changes to Momentum where it adds major sorcery. So on the 2h bar I would run Toppling, Sweeps, Living Dark, Radiant, Forward momentum, and Crescent.
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Special:EsoBuildData?id=417618
This is basicly my build for open world atm.
I only switched to 4 light/3 heavy because i'm tanky enough and the extra Penetration is pretty nice. Some Stats aren't 100% like in the Editor (Resistance/Resources, etc), since a while the Editor acts weird and its basicly every buff on that you can have as a solo Player.
I personally don't Like War Maiden, it doesn't get buffed by minor/major Sorcery sadly and doesn't impact healing.
If you run Mist Form or not is up to you. Race against time is also fine, both having their pros and cons.
Yeah, I front bar Living Dark, because it's only 6 seconds and you need to keep it up. Radiant is good, especially in groups. 1v1 getting a decent player into execute range and them not LoSing Radiant can be a problem, so I prefer just keeping the pressure up. The swap is basically Purifying Light versus Radiant for me. You could get rid of Degeneration, use a Spell Power (/ Detection / Magicka) potion and put either Toppling or Purifying on the back bar. Right now I'm going for potion flexibility.