Tips for using sword?
You have the right idea. Get good with about face and take your sword 1 ability off of auto attack. Practice, practice, practice!
OR try to time your other skills/movements really well between the AA chain, you kind of get used to after a while.. but yeah it is quite annoying, the good think is it’s annoying for your enemy to because it literally glues you to your target, it’s like a freaking marriage