I feel like this build would be ridiculously good. Good DA/OA, good health, would absolutely eviscerate anything the moment it crits…but it’s attack speed is absolutely pitiful. Any items I should be swapping to increase it?
https://www.grimtools.com/calc/a2Ej6z3V
It would be moderately good, but a bit slow and lacking aoe.
I drafted it with Crucible in mind, but not sure if I ever going to play Soldier based build. But on paper it does look like a real monster.
EDIT: Spent another 30 minutes in Grimtools to make it even sicker.
Funny how the first reply immediately drops the Avenger set 
It’s because it’s not very good I’m afraid. The concept is actually great, full lightning to physical conversion, 2-handed weapon, made for warder. This should work… but then they limited its usefulness so badly by the skill bonuses on it. It boosts weapon pool skills, almost exclusively. Which means that the only sane option, if you want to use those bonuses at least, is going savagery. Which is boring, already done better by many other builds, and the set gives no specific bonuses to it either. Yawn.
What would be a nice option would be to go for primal strike. We are using a 2-hander after all. But that makes 90% of skill bonuses on the set useless. Which is really silly.
The best thing I could think of for this set is to only use the weapon and combine it with the bloodrager set. It works, you can do standard blade arc or savagery with it, or even a rather fancy bleed primal strike. The rest of the set, well, the belt is fine I guess, but the other two parts conflict with every other set in the game, so meh.
Edit: couple more reasons not to use this set as a whole: upheaval bonuses, weak skill. And the four part set bonus is, no other way to put this, weak. Crit bonus for a WPS that will trigger 25% of the time, and then crits maybe 20% of those hits? Congrats, one in 20 hits will be huge :rolleyes:
I’d love it if Avenger set was remade into Physical Primal Strike. 
That’s actually what I’m playing right now, I agree with what you pointed out.
The weapon and belt are good but the other 2 pieces and the set bonuses have too many problems.
The Bleed bonuses in the set are wasted as well since it doesn’t give any significant damage boost and on a Bleed build you just won’t use this set since it doesn’t give enough to make it worthwhile.
It’d be better if those Bleed stats were changed into Physical/IT or at least something that boosts the rest of the set’s main points like the regen or the WPS.
Resists/armor on the shoulders/chest are also very lacking and the set in general could use a defensive tune-up considering it’s 2h melee which means you often don’t have good access to several layers of defense such as Fumble, Dodge, Mirror, etc.
Having some reliable defenses on the 4 set bonus or the armor pieces themselves would make the set more attractive.
+1 to this idea as well (even though this isn’t an Ideas thread).
Only use I’ve found for the Avenger’s set is the belt for the resists and the weapon for Lightning->Physical because Shaman actually becomes a good support mastery for Internal Trauma through Brute Force/Storm Surge.
I wish someone would test my build tho, as I don’t have a Warder myself.