Guild Wars 2

Its time. I think it can almost universally be agreed that the design of this weapon is terrible for rangers/druids. This weapon takes the control of your character away way too much….just the auto attack alone. The animation frames from the auto attack prevent dodging and anything else relevant. Sword #2 and #3 aren’t completely terrible, but the evade frames are so insignificant as to be useless…not to mention they decrease up time on dealing damage unnecessarily, with almost non existent benefit. Its clear that range of this weapon is meant for melee combat, but only the auto hits more than one target…while locking you into constant animation frames. This is the only main hand melee weapon for this profession….please fix. I think this is deserving of some development time… after all this time.

Try getting a thread going on Reddit about this. That is the only place when the devs actually pay attention to the community. The only presence here are mods who’s soul purpose is to make sure we are all being good little kids and not using naughty words or being “mean” towards the higher ups. If you can get up voted over there enough they will respond because that is an outlet open to the whole internet, not just this forum that’s exclusive to the existing player base.

I use one hand sword frequently in PvP but I agree. I would not miss the clunky autoattack chain one bit. #2 and #3 are fine though.

Currently only the Slash is a normal attack. Kick is already a weird single target attack that cripples and Pounce is a leap that gives might to your pet.

My suggestion:

Slash: Hit your foe.
Kick: Kick your foe applying cripple.
Pounce: Leap at your foe.

Only if Kick misses swap to Pounce. Otherwise start over with Slash. Would be kind of unique for autoattack chains but only give you the leap if it actually does something.

Would it still work for PvP if Pounce was a super-speed boon rather than a leap?

Cripple/Super still gives you the ability to chase down a target, and removing the leap would make the weapon more user friendly.

Imo pounce doenst help atall in pvp.