Guild Wars 2

New to the ranger class and currently having a lot of fun with it but am a bit frustrated with how finicky the sword auto attack is.

I would like to get some feedback on the following suggestions which I think would make the auto attack smoother. (I’m pretty sure these ideas have already been thought of before.)

1) Moving your character breaks the sword auto attack chain immediately. You do the first attack of the auto chain only until you remain stationary, at which point you continue with the chain again.

2) The leaps from the auto attack chain pushes my character into the middle of a boss/mob making it difficult to even see my character at times. Make the leaps stop at outer edges of the mobs hit box instead.

3) Make S#2 break the auto attack chain immediately like S#3.

Before Quoting “Suggest changes or make it smoother”

the topic on this has been discussed by nearly Every new Ranger because it Feels different and not of the norm compaired to other Melee weapons.

look through the Ranger fourms there are threads filled with tips on how to use the Sword and its machanical functions are not changing anytime soon.

first place to start is Turn off AA and learn the timing that way to better control when you leap and where by using the forward face of the ranger as a direction marker , then the leap part of the auto will leap in that direction if you de-select the target.

just don’t face front pointing towards a cliff.

I love sword and torch and sword and horn… I hear dagger is fun too. The trick with the sword sadly is practice practice and carry and axe too for those times when the environment will punish you for using sword.

I’ve read some of the suggested and there seems to be an even split of people who like the auto- quirky- jerky ranger sword and those that wish it functioned more like the warrior’s, gaurd’s or mes’s.

Good hunting.

I’m for a complete change of the one-hand-sword, because it is a whole bug

Just to heat the discussion about this topic again:
The sword is useless while fighting constructs, near cliffs or dying enemies. You will allways fly to a position where you don’t want to go. In addition you can’t move in the flank and you can’t dodge in the right time. The only positive about the auto attack is for lazy people who don’t want to follow the target manually.
Skill #2 and #3 are too slow to use them for what they’re created – dodging. The only thing is to flik flak aroung like a clown, that you nor the enemy know where your position is already and laughing about rangers kicking themselves from high cliffs (like everywhere in fractals :P )

They could always make it so that you only leap if they’re so far away, or more preferable, give you movement speed (not swiftness, flat move speed like sig of wild) to keep with the “stick to them like glue” theme but not lock you down

I’ve said this so many times, it’s gotten ridiculous …

Sword AA keeping its leap and being able to interrupt Sword AA with a dodge roll are NOT mutually exclusive … you could have both

The only issue with Sword AA is the fact that it animation locks you.

The fact that it does this makes little sense. There are several other abilities in the game that are leaps that you can interrupt mid-leap.

I don’t care if people go flying off cliffs, etc. because of bad control of their ability.

I care that I am not given full control of my character when I use this AA chain despite even removing it from auto-cast and manually pressing the button. If I press it and go into the animation, there is no way to interrupt it. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I leverage interrupting various skills all the time on my characters in a large assortment of scenarios that call for it.

I care that any time a Ranger is using sword AA their opponent knows that during AA 2/3 they will 100% land their attack as the Ranger can’t interrupt those to dodge.

^ This. Not only your opponent knowing they can land their attack during the 2/3 AA, but the ranger themselves knowing that they are screwed during that frame.

Sebrent and Wonderouswall, I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels this way.