Guild Wars 2

No, really. This is like 10th topic. Everyone knows its unresponsive as hell. Please, do something about it. Players shouldn’t be punished just because they decide to autoattack.

Other skills on 1-hander are great, I love to use it with dagger on pvp as it gives me about 2 more seconds of evading everything. But when you get locked on the auttoattack chain you cant even use your dodge roll, not to mention other evasive skills. Why does the autoattack got priority over every other move?

Also, while 2nd skill is cool and original, the leap backwards -> leap forward is kinda hard to pull of properly. You can’t gapclose with it, cause you have to launch yourself away from the target. You can disangage, this is true, but it would be a whole lot more responsive if you leaped to the target first (so when you’re in melee range you just do a little hop to the enemy face) and then jumped backwards. Let’s be honest – there is lot less situations in which you want to quickly dodge out of a fight and then jump right back in than jump to or quickly to then away from enemy.

aNet, pls.

Having recently started a ranger, I’m a bit bemused by the one handed sword. Without a gap closer or any melee range AOE abilities, it doesn’t appear to have a benefit that makes up for the increased risk of being at melee range.

Using a warhorn offhand does have benefits in that the 5 skill adding swiftness (and fury) is great – almost essential for WvW I would have thought. Warhorn 4 is good as well, though again not an AOE. I reckon its going to be more effective to just fire off 4&5 on the warhorn and then switch to a bow, than try to use the sword from melee range. For that reason axe/warhorn would seem to be a better bet – at least 1&2 on axe are multitarget skills (1 bounces between foes & 2 is a cone) & u don’t have to risk melee range control skills that can get you killed real fast, especially since rangers have far less capable abilities to remove these than a warrior has.

Greatsword is fun – but doesn’t haven’t any AOE either and you have to sacrifice the warhorn swiftness buff. So I can’t imagine I’d want to use that in PvP. Again you don’t seem to gain much in return for being rather squishy at melee range.

I’d really like to play a skirmishing style with ranger, switching between melee and ranged, but I’m not sure that it can really be made to work well compared to just sticking at range.

I use a sword/axe as my secondary, it works fine. stop complaining.

@ErikB: Try playing some hectic pvp with the sword. It’s mostly as bad as being stun locked.

Died a lot because of that 1h sword lock down because while you can’t retreat the enemy can and the skill chain launches you towards them, into the enemy.

I use sword/torch and axe/warhorn and I have no problem with sword auto-attack.

The auto-attack chain is hardly a stun lock. You can do several things to stop the attack chain.

[Edit: Before anybody asks, you can do a 180 and you will stop the auto-attack. You can use Hornet’s Sting to launch yourself outside the auto-attack range. You can switch to your secondary weapon set and it’ll stop the auto attack chain.

OR… You could, you know, turn off auto-attack on your chain if you hate it so much.]

I just turned off auto attack. I can do whatever i want now.

Yeah, I’ve thought about turning off auto attack but after playing games like TOR I’m tired of spamming buttons so I just deal with it lol.

Sword is excellent. It hones you in on your target and third strike is a gap closer. With fury and quickening zephyr, you become a shredder. Been using sword horn since bwe1 and it’s perfect.

Oh yeah turn auto attack off u nubs