The impact of riposte on incoming damage is pretty overblown, especially when comparing two different 2h weapons. If we're talking dual-wielding two weapons with ~20 delay vs a 49dly 2h, the difference might be noticeable. Two 2hs with 35 vs 49 delay, though? You'd have to parse dozens of hours of combat in order to arrive at a measurable difference.
When you're tanking blue mobs for XP that miss like 50% of their attacks anyway and hit for maybe 120ish max, riposte is just not worth caring about. Any improvement at all in ratio will result in at least the same amount of reduced damage taken just from killing the mob a bit faster. Riposte is something that's worth thinking about if you're tanking Avatar of War or something. It's basically irrelevant for XP mobs, and doubly so when we're talking about two different 2hs, not dual wield vs 2h.
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