Lustrous strenght or savage

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE FOLLOWING THREAD IS ADDRESSED TO ENDGAME PLAYERS

For a while I played with my mage using Lustrous strength set, so knowing that this set is tank I used nightmare all this time. I was good against archers, mages, but others I encountered difficulties with bears. So I had to change my build and I'm using right now weakness. To be honest I never felt so strong. I admit that I encounter some difficulties with good archers even if I ended up winning in the end, but I noticed the strong point of this build against bears and mages. All that to say that I'm good with weakness.
But I asked myself some questions lately. I heard that savage has more damage and hit, but less armor than Lustrous. Knowing that i'm using weakness and 2pc ring now, why not switch to savage? With weakness I wont get more hard blow, and then savage nukes quickly.
What about you guys ?

As a bird in endgame I find it more difficult to kill a lustrous mage than a savage mage. Out tanking your opponent is, imo, better than doing more damage.

I'd stick with Lust.

As large said, it is harder for a bird to kill a lust str mage, in my opinion.

I do not know how to tell you this but I think that birds are a bit special you see it's you and your luck. You can easily kill a bird but you can also lose it depends on their dodge and your hit. Of course i'm talking as a pally.
But honestly I could handle it against birds. I aim especially bears and other pally. No pally has arrived to kill me and I did not manage to kill them either so it makes us all the time equal. For bears it also depends if the bear has a ring 3pc there it is not impossible to kill but it's still hard as well. I find no difficulty against the 2pc bears.
I come back to the birds. My old build was 9 frostbite and 9 heal so I could easily kill any bird.
But then I reduced my heal to 7 points and my frostbite 2 points.
The hard part is that I have 2 debuffs and I do not know when to use the two skills. When I try to use them both at the same time I'm already dead. But when I try to nightmare for example it can easily dodge and the bird kills me before I do.
And it is the same for Weakness if I miss it or dodge it's dead.
I just want some advise when to use each debuff against enemies. :eagerness:

U simply two hit kill, yu need to debuff birds and no if no but whateva dodged or not, u should reck any bird oh ofc not da opest, he's too op for des kinda things.

I find it hard to understand :angel:

K, I'll explain a bit. U simply kite/fire so that bird miss some skills/heal initially and make sure they can't escape after then u know how to literally smash em. U don't need to do this tactic against non-pro birds...

Well trust me , lustrous is way better for pallies. Savage pallies are too easy somehow. I dont struggle to kill savage pallies with my bird and bear. On the other hand , it takes a bit more time to kill lustrous pallies.

The lustrous mages I have a very tough time with, as opest said, make me waste some of my skills. They don't debuff until I use blind. Until they debuff they just ice and fire. Once debuff hits all hell rains down on me. Drain, light , fire, both ice. As I said tanking your opponents vital skills such as beckon, blind, drain, crushing blow, hell scream, roots will win you almost every fight.

Basically what largecommand said. Just kite more, and you'll be fine.

Go with lust, It have better stats and it is hard to win against