Guild Wars 2

Should 1 handed sword 3 still be a projectile? It gets interesting sometimes when playing bow/sword.focus, the enemy pops reflections, and i switch to sword to melee them, but cant really because its also a projectile. So, in that, should it remain the way it is or should it not be a projectile anymore?

No it shouldn’t be a projectile and it never should have been one.

Because its a projectile it can be reflected
But because it has such a narrow cone & is a projectile it will rather often miss, especially if you or your target is on any sort of incline.

But its just one of the many many many things on guardian that need fixed.
Things like
1: 50%+ of the traits being crap nobody in their right mind wants to use for anything.

2: Multiple Major flaws with multiple weapon skills (only one that doesn’t really have a major flaw is the greatsword & even that can be argued on)

3: More then half the utilities being in a state where nobody really wants to use them & almost 80% of them sucking for PvP.
&
4: Numerous mechanics being severely outdated or just plain bad since launch, ranging from static symbols, virtues being sub par signets & AEGIS blocking only a single attack (If they would simply make it block all attacks for a 1/2 to 1 second after being triggered it would be amazing)

Don’t expect Anet to change any of this though, according to them the guardian is “In a good spot”.
To which we should all respond bullkitten if the guardian was in a good spot just about every other class would get the crap nerfed out of it to give it company.

There’s no reason this skill should be a projectile.

If we had Roy Cronacher then maybe we could get a decent Sword like Revenant.

What’s nice about sword auto attack is that the 3rd chain attack has a high melee range… I think, if AN wants one swing to be a projectile, go ahead and make all 3 chain attacks a projectile. Let them all have a range of 300 too

mrauls.6519:

What’s nice about sword auto attack is that the 3rd chain attack has a high melee range… I think, if AN wants one swing to be a projectile, go ahead and make all 3 chain attacks a projectile. Let them all have a range of 300 too

Then all 3 of them would have a narrow cone causing them to miss if the target was moving.

They would like the 3rd also often miss if you or the target are on any sort of incline.

The much better solution is to make them all melee & to change the 3rd attack on the sword so that the projectiles are much faster or so that it does something else entirely.

I’m still pretty salty about the fact that Rev sword auto attack 3 was a projectile and got fixed nearly immediately whereas they completely ignored and didn’t even address our problem (which is literally the exact same problem). This is one of those few cases where it struck me as intentional balancing/fixing with the intention of selling more xpacs.

Yeah, Sword Wave should never have been a projectile. There are non-projectile wave attacks in the game – Sword Wave really should use their mechanics. Or use the mechanics of projectile-hate-immune-projectiles.