Guild Wars 2

Does anyone have a build focused around maximising the sword damage? The animations are just beautiful on the auto-attack, I don’t care about the root, I just want to use the sword!!

I only found 1 trait which affected the sword, and it was something like “reduces cooldowns by 20%” which is pretty useless considering you don’t use sword 2 ability much.

I’ll bite.

The sword is a weapon designed to supplement fighting up with your pet. You’ll notice it has a cripple while also granting might to your pet.

Use a Bird or a Feline with the 1h sword, as long with the Skirmishing trait that increases your pet’s critical damage by 30%, and watch as they shred your opponent. Toss in a Warhorn as your offhand, and give your pet more might, swiftness, and Fury (20% more critical chance!).

Trait-wise, you’ll want some in Skirmishing, lots in Beastmaster, with your leftover going into a mix of trees.

That’s an interesting way of looking at it, I like your thinking. This is mainly for casual PvE where pets shine so I will definitely be trying that

Thanks for your time

Another way to get ridiculous stacks of might is to go 15 into Nature Magic, where your boons are applied to your pet as well.

Then get a Sigil of Strength, which has a 30% chance on crit to give you might (and thus your pet) for 10s with NO cooldown. Also use the trait in Beastmastery where pets get 3 stacks of might on swap.

With quickness on pet swap on sword MH the stacks get up pretty quickly

25 stacks of might Raven/Owl F2 is an easy 8k-10k burst.