For the secondary weapon: To pierce or not to pierce? That is the question. I usually buy both and parse it out but with the very expensive cost of raid gear for CoV, I'm carefully looking at how I spend. So far, I see a 5K increase in DPS with the slower/higher DMG weapon - No Buffs, Auto Attack only, Primary Hand Trophy.
Using Velium Enhanced Axe, Sword, Short Spear and Club. Was like 7 months ago, so I don't remember all the specifics of this parse but the following should be accurate - Each set of 4 is Offhand only, all the same buffs, all the same auras, all the same discs, all the same songs, all 40 minute or longer parses but no longer than 50. I believe I just used different discs between the 3 sets.
