Guild Wars 2

Today I use ranger sword for the first time. All the jumping around make me feel like a monkey XD. All that is good except I find it hard to use. It seems to me skill 1 has to finish all 3 chain before another skill you clicked will start. I assume it is good in pvp since the movement is hard to predict. But I as the controller cannot predict it either XD. And skill 3 make a big circle along with the camara spinning around makes me lose direction XD. Maybe I am new to this sword skills and not used to it yet. It’s just hard to use I think.

Disable autoattack on sword #1, that gives you some control over it. As to rest you just have to get used to it.

Sounds good, I will try disable auto attack. If not, it seems I cannot use dodge during the skill 1 chain.

This problem is posted daily lol. I’d be suprised if there wasnt a change to sword in the upcoming oct 15 balance patch.

BBMouse.6510:

Sounds good, I will try disable auto attack. If not, it seems I cannot use dodge during the skill 1 chain.

The leap skills seem to have a bug (feature?) where you’re unable to dodge for about a second after the leap finishes. Unfortunately, two of the sword’s three #1 skills are leaps.

The workaround is to tap a movement key just before you dodge. The movement overrides the leap-dodge lockout, and you can dodge immediately (which is why I have to think this is a bug). It’s clumsy at first, but becomes pretty easy with some practice.

(This assumes you have autoattack turned off. If autoattack is on, your character will immediately start the next skill in the autoattack chain, which will probably put you into another dodge lockout.)

Ranger sword is the hardest weapon to use in the game. Don’t feel bad if you had trouble with it the first time. Most people never even bother to try to use it.

Even with a disabled autoattack you cannot react to random occuring events that would require an instantaneous reflexive dodge. The only way to dodge mid leap is to swap weapons & thus interrupting the leap & dodge, not very comfortable or useful :-)

I’m at Jormag and just ran into this big hole in the “it doesn’t make sense to dodge out of a leap” logic. If you’re feared in the middle of a leap, you immediately drop out of it and run away. I’d say that’s pretty good rationale to be able to dodge out of a leap.

Solandri.9640:

I’m at Jormag and just ran into this big hole in the “it doesn’t make sense to dodge out of a leap” logic. If you’re feared in the middle of a leap, you immediately drop out of it and run away. I’d say that’s pretty good rationale to be able to dodge out of a leap.

In my opinion dodge should automatically interrupt leaps, channeled skills etc, changing this would be a great quality of life fix for multiple classes, ranger sword would obviously be benefiting the most.

Kilger.5490:

This problem is posted daily lol. I’d be suprised if there wasnt a change to sword in the upcoming oct 15 balance patch.

Nah, they’ll be shutting down the aged servers to get ready for GW3 (or because the bank foreclosed on them) and we will still have the pointless leap on our best dps weapon.