Guild Wars 2

Thief sword skills rarely gets buffed (a least from what I have seen) so I thought up of this little buff to the swords AA skills.

My idea is basically move crippling slash down to the second AA slot and remove the weakness from it.

Then the new third AA skill would be Weakening strike: Target gets weakness for 2s and their endurance is reduce by 5%-10%

Thought this up because there are not a lot of weapon skills that play around with the endurance bar, and again thief sword skills rarely get buffed. So with this buff it may spice up things a little for the S/x thief in PvP and would not really change anything for it in PvE.

I main thief and I strongly suggest not doing this. We don’t need any more S/D thieves.. It’s near perma evade is already OP as is. If you want to talk about buffs though for thieves, change Death Blossom on Dagger so D/D is actually viable in PvP. That would be a lot more beneficial to the class than buffing sword.

@SimpleKingly
What you said plus redesign body shot. Would also increase cripple from dancing dagger back to original 5 seconds (was ninja nerfed long time ago).

supa suop.8026:

My idea is basically move crippling slash down to the second AA slot and remove the weakness from it.

Then the new third AA skill would be Weakening strike: Target gets weakness for 2s and their endurance is reduce by 5%-10%

I main thief, but in my opinion Sword AA is ok as it is… but what you suggest is interesting. Maybe the third attack would be too strong and I would either remove the weakness on third strike or the reduced endurance.
And cripple duration on second strike would need some duration decrease because the second hit is “fast” compared to the third one which is really slow in comparison.

Overall I think it does not need any buff, but the endurance reduce would be interesting to see how it would impact :P

Edit: I meant that the third strike feels more telegraphed and, personally, it feels slower.

SimpleKingly.5021:

I main thief and I strongly suggest not doing this. We don’t need any more S/D thieves.. It’s near perma evade is already OP as is. If you want to talk about buffs though for thieves, change Death Blossom on Dagger so D/D is actually viable in PvP. That would be a lot more beneficial to the class than buffing sword.

I agree with him.

Let us focus on solving issues of weak/unreliable weapons (thinking D/D, P/P) than improving a weapon that is not bad at all.