Guild Wars 2

I’ve played the Revenant during BWE2 and I have to say, it’s been a blast and I’m really pleased with the improvements from BWE1! The only thing that felt rather clunky is the animation for the sword auto attack.

In my opinion, it doesn’t look fluent and streamlined, so I was thinking that maybe Shiro’s dagger attacks from Guild Wars 1 would fit very nice for the sword auto attack.

As a reference, you can check this video out at 1:23, as soon as he starts attacking: https://youtu.be/WLkXU9anxkQ?t=1m23s . You can clearly see a fluent transition of the attacks that looks really cool. I love the way he spins around attacking and it really makes me think of a fast, vicious, martial combat master.

But can you do those spins and flourishes while moving?

It’d look really silly and stilted the way I see something like that turning out.

There is a class in the game that has that spins and flourishes, but they had to sacrifice the fluidity of everything BUT the attack animation to accomodate. And people hate it.

CoughRanger’sSwordCough

It’s a neat idea, but I can’t see it being done easily.

You got a point there, yeah. But in Guild Wars 1, if you equipped a pair of daggers (that could also be swords, but mechanically function as daggers) on a warrior, it would do the auto-attack and allow you to move while spinning, so it looked quite neat in action. I remember using a W/A build and it was purely amazing to see!

edit: To clarify, Shiro’s dagger attack animation is the same animation that the warrior had while wielding daggers, despite him being an Assassin.