Guild Wars 2

Just my feedback from the beta so far, sword main-hand is very awkward. They said they wanted to encourage strafing (as they have done with staff) but with sword, due to the nature of the second auto-attack brutal blade you don’t -WANT- to strafe. Because of how the skill is a boomerang (which is very weird for a melee weapon) you want to remain perfectly still, and that’s not good.

Plus, the full auto attack combo is very clunky feeling and the animations seem to be a mix of animations just thrown messily together in a combo. It doesn’t feel fluid. It feels ugly.

Perhaps changing brutal blade to a simple double strike attack would make it 1000% better. Thoughts? Or do you agree with me?

“Plus, the full auto attack combo is very clunky feeling and the animations seem to be a mix of animations just thrown messily together in a combo. It doesn’t feel fluid. It feels ugly.”

Wow I couldn’t agree more, I thought maybe I was just being picky. I agree 100% with the auto attack needing an animation revamp.

The Sword AA chain needs some help with the animations and overall feel. As a Charr, I honestly didn’t like the AA anims for it at all.

That being said, the other skill animations are quite awesome and very nice looking!

I’ve also noticed that Sword #2 animation messes up a bit while you use it during movement. It works fine if you stand still.

Also, could we at least change the first sword attack animation to a normal swing like the other classes?

Lonewolf Kai.3682:

I’ve also noticed that Sword #2 animation messes up a bit while you use it during movement. It works fine if you stand still.

I think it looks fine as it now looks like you’re sweeping you’re sword in-front of you to send out projectiles instead of some silly spin.

I like sword’s auto attack animation. I’m glad it’s at least a little different from other classes, if only slightly

Very true.

And the same goes to the hammer first attack.

The Revenant animations are utter junk compared to what GW2 presented.
It looks like work done NOT by the people who originally did GW2.

Hopefully Black Desert will set new standards when it comes to animations in MMOs.