Guild Wars 2

I see a lot of back and forth regarding the sword auto-attack. One camp insists it is broken and needs to be fixed, the other says it is fine and just needs skill to use. I say, why not give ranger another 1-handed melee weapon?

Half the reason that sword bugs me is that it is the only choice for 1-hand main that is not a ranged weapon. This can be a pain when you want to experiment with different off-hands, but don’t want to micromanage your auto-attack and dodges all the time. I often run great sword (particularly in open world PvE), because it’s just so easy to use, defensive, and quite mobile. I would like to see another 1-handed melee option, that sits somewhere between the sword and the great sword in terms of offense/defense, with a regular non-sticky-jumpy auto-attack.

Does anyone else agree? What weapon would you pick and how could it fit into the overall game balance?

This has been asked for for ages now, and considering how the only occasion they had to do it they instead decided to give us another ranged weapon that focuses on support, I guess we’ll have to wait until they decide to do an other expansion and give us new elite specializations. This however does mean that we won’t get any new weapon if other classes don’t get one too…