Guild Wars 2

While i like they finally payed attention to it they did it in wrong places imo. I can see where they were going for it but honestly shacking still doesnt worth casting with it poop damage for 10 energy, grasp shadow remains as the most weird pull in the game being an melee attack.

The only thing that improved here is the ability to keep someone in place by comboing 5+4. Thing is it cost total 35 energy and require myself to waste a block for this combination. Its not worth it by any means as i may as well do graps shadow in Glint, swap to Shiro and do jade winds.

Shame they only increased immobilize duration and added unnecesary buffs to grasp shadow+basically removed counterplay for shack wave.

No i don´t use it.

They should rework it into a condiweapon or something other useful.

No, because buffs they attempted to make were terribly misplaced and haven’t touched core issues of OH Sword.

ive always used it. shield is really inconvenient. Why would you use the block just to immobilize?

Yes, and for the previous two seasons in fact.

Ragion.2831:

ive always used it. shield is really inconvenient. Why would you use the block just to immobilize?

Well it had good healing.. till they nerfed it into ground. In s2 i started running sword offhand as i value low cd block and interrupt more than what shield has to offer now. Still imo both are terrible in current state for me

Ive always used OH sword, for the block. At least Grasping Shadow gives a bit of Fury now, so I actually have a reason to use it, if Facet of Darkness is down or im not in Dragon Stance.

Im not super keen on axe, because the location where Frigid Blitz’s shadowstep dumps you is a bit random, and its put me into undesirable locations before, and Temporal Rift’s pull is a bit buggy. I find it fails to pull more often than it does pull, and the damage is just a bit underwhelming when it does actually hit.

Shield. No, because aforementioned self-immobilize, and barely ok-ish heal.

Why did they remove OH Dagger prior to release. It likely would’ve been better than any of the offhands Rev currently gets.

For PvP yes, much better than shield specially now that it became trash tier vs decent players… ugh shield was already “average” before getting overnerfed, immobilizing yourself is digging your own grave.

Argon.1563:

Ive always used OH sword, for the block. At least Grasping Shadow gives a bit of Fury now, so I actually have a reason to use it, if Facet of Darkness is down or im not in Dragon Stance.

Im not super keen on axe, because the location where Frigid Blitz’s shadowstep dumps you is a bit random, and its put me into undesirable locations before, and Temporal Rift’s pull is a bit buggy. I find it fails to pull more often than it does pull, and the damage is just a bit underwhelming when it does actually hit.

Shield. No, because aforementioned self-immobilize, and barely ok-ish heal.

Why did they remove OH Dagger prior to release. It likely would’ve been better than any of the offhands Rev currently gets.

Wait, Rev used to have OH dagger instead of sword?

Also, I’ve been using sword more often now as well.

Akrib.4297:

Argon.1563:

Ive always used OH sword, for the block. At least Grasping Shadow gives a bit of Fury now, so I actually have a reason to use it, if Facet of Darkness is down or im not in Dragon Stance.

Im not super keen on axe, because the location where Frigid Blitz’s shadowstep dumps you is a bit random, and its put me into undesirable locations before, and Temporal Rift’s pull is a bit buggy. I find it fails to pull more often than it does pull, and the damage is just a bit underwhelming when it does actually hit.

Shield. No, because aforementioned self-immobilize, and barely ok-ish heal.

Why did they remove OH Dagger prior to release. It likely would’ve been better than any of the offhands Rev currently gets.

Wait, Rev used to have OH dagger instead of sword?

Also, I’ve been using sword more often now as well.

Never in live. It was data-mined though.

Varezenem.2813:

Akrib.4297:

Argon.1563:

Ive always used OH sword, for the block. At least Grasping Shadow gives a bit of Fury now, so I actually have a reason to use it, if Facet of Darkness is down or im not in Dragon Stance.

Im not super keen on axe, because the location where Frigid Blitz’s shadowstep dumps you is a bit random, and its put me into undesirable locations before, and Temporal Rift’s pull is a bit buggy. I find it fails to pull more often than it does pull, and the damage is just a bit underwhelming when it does actually hit.

Shield. No, because aforementioned self-immobilize, and barely ok-ish heal.

Why did they remove OH Dagger prior to release. It likely would’ve been better than any of the offhands Rev currently gets.

Wait, Rev used to have OH dagger instead of sword?

Also, I’ve been using sword more often now as well.

Never in live. It was data-mined though.

It was seen on stream too. Dagger oh would be cooler tbh. Dual wielding just doesnt work in this game

I can just never get offhand sword to work properly for me. I like the block and immobilize, but grasping shadow always fails when I need it most. No on ever comes the full length of the pull and some don’t go anywhere. I like the idea of grabbing a few tail zerglings or an important person out of a group, but it just never works.