Animus does only magic damage as everyone knows, so using Elwyen's runic rhapsody+ solaar's spirit grafting on her, combined with Gloria using whirlpool, his damage dwindles very fast...
Find it more appropriate to call the maces as staffs, as paladog does not perform melee attacks using them and the only spell-casting maces I heard of widely is a healing mace used by clerics and paladins. Another interesting fact that I found out was that the 1st boss on stage 3 (the ghost) took 5x the time to kill compared to the 2nd boss on stage 3.
Equipping >150% dark resistance makes killing bernard much easier in the saviors battle, by triggering bernard's dark element 100% lifesteal counter attack with a melee attack on him. Rate this up if this makes the world's saviors a breeze.