Guild Wars 2

This is part of a series of suggestions to make condition warrior more viable than it currently is. This thread will take it for granted that condition warrior is significantly underpowered compared to both other classes’ condition builds and to warrior’s other available builds. Disagree with this premise in your own thread, this thread is for discussing ways to make condition warrior better.

MH and OH swords are the major condition slingers for warrior. They’re a mix of power with condition damage. Strength buffs… power and condition damage.

Unfortunately, one of warrior’s best strength builders is plastered on a weapon that only appreciates one half of strength’s bonuses.

1h Sword has only ONE rapid attack… the autoattack. Surely, might-stacking would have to be far less OP on 1h sword than on GS.

My suggestion is for Forceful GS to apply to all swords, making it easier for 1h swords to buff their condition damage.

Forceful Greatsword should apply to all weapons in order to even the gap between them. It is one of the two major reason why most people use Greatswords.

I’m not sure I’d go that far. Consider for example what that’d do to rifle volley.

Nothing it doesn’t already do for Hundred Blades and Whirlwind Attack.

I agree, it should apply to sword to make it more viable.

Sword uses condition damage, might does too.

It would provide a reason to stick up close with the sword and also allow us to back up and let our conditions tick while losing stacks of might. I’d say since sword is much slower it should gain two stacks of might per attack.

Sword is vastly underpowered compared to the other choices at the moment. It is not balanced with the abilities in the rest of the game: It is incongruent with the other weapons.

The other popular choices are viable because they allow competitive gameplay. Really, when your opponents can stealth and do massive AOE damage and all kinds of other tricks, warrior has stats. We have our direct damage and our direct defense. We don’t have much more comparatively.. so we end up using the same weapons because they are the only ones that are -ok- at countering the other classes or situations.

Swords gameplay to me has always -wanted- to be run in, do damage and get bleeds, but stay swift enough to have the option to back off and charge back in. This -could- have made it versatile.

I’ve been talking about how sword needs to be brought up to the level of the other weapons a long time.
Sword has very few competitive builds. Forceful greatsword should apply to swords.
Axes do -not- need this ability though because they are already competitive as it is.
Axes and sword could mix better (via weapon switching) if this change was added, thus expanding the array of builds that are competitive between both weapons.

Alot of people would start caring about offhand where they previously did not.

Sword could become a viable pvp and pve choice with forceful greatsword. Yes, you could immobilize your opponent and perform hundred blades, or stack swiftness and use axe..

Or you could use the closer on sword for what its supposedly meant for.. gain the ability to do more damage when up close or back off.

See why it adds a gameplay mechanic to swords in theory?

Oglaf.1074:

Nothing it doesn’t already do for Hundred Blades and Whirlwind Attack.

I have to disagree. IMO the synergy between weapon swaps would be to high because combining 100b + Whirlwind Attack + Volley would result in insane stacks of might. And its repeatable every 8s.

But I like the idea of having a Forceful Sword trait. Might stacking could make sword condition builds much more attractive.

Precisely. Add more options to mix in to give the other weapons might and provide more versatility. It would not negatively effect current balancing and only enable more variety.