Guild Wars 2

with one of the trait lines being all about symbol, it’s only fair that sword get a symbol of its own too, like sword-2, just like other weapons.

At this point, I think it would be really hard to justify this without hitting sword with a nerf stick in some other area. I doubt ‘fair’ is one of the criteria that Anet uses to implement weapon concepts. If that was the case, we would have seen changes to less-used weapons by now.

I do wish that every weapon set was guaranteed access to a Symbol in the same way that all Mesmer weapon sets always have a clone and a phantasm. I mean, yah, Symbols aren’t exactly the Guardian’s profession mechanic like clones are so arguably its not quite as critical, but at the same time there are a number of traits dedicated to them, even in the new system. I think there’s something like 2 majors in two separate traitlines and all 3 of the Zeal minors that are exclusively for buffing symbols, if memory serves? That’s an awful lot of stuff dedicated to a skill type that two of the 1H weapons are missing. It’d be different if there were Utility based symbols, but since they’re exclusively on weapons only, it does create situations where certain weapons clash with some traits.

I mean, yah, it would most likely require a major rework on Sword, but I think it would be worth it for the sake of equalizing Guardian’s access to symbols if they’re going to continue to focus a number of traits on them.