I am hoping they do because I am picking both attacker and defender traits and leaving him on free stance to use whichever of the two weaponskills he wants. I am not sure how he chooses but he uses each of the two I currently have fairly often. I would assume he has 10% bonus strength now.

I am really bummed that I can't be in the duty finder while using him, he gets a lot less xp because I want to run dungeons.