Guild Wars 2

Increases your critical-hit chance with a sword.

Critical Chance increase: 10%

There’s no change reflected in my critical chance % when I have this trait equipped and have a sword in either main hand or off hand.

Not sure if its working.. Maby use the trait for gaining fury on immob.. I like it more

The trait in itself has always been lacking, most other weapon-specific traits (Merciless Hammer, Forceful Greatsword) comes with an innate -20% cooldown reduction along with a unique effect, like more damage on disabled foes, might gain on critical…

But sword trait just gives critical chance… and one that we can’t even really confirm if it works or not because the hero tab remains the same whether you have the trait or not.

If it had something like -20% cooldown reduction on sword skills along with the critical boost that is reflected in the hero tab, that’d be pretty cool.

I’d also like Final Thrust placed back into the sword AA chain, But I guess that’d be too much to hope for at this point…

I was thinking it could be useful in a 30/25/0/0/15 dungeon build using axe/sword over axe/mace with this trait to get an extra 10% crit chance. Sword 4 also does high damage with its 2nd attack and sword 5 is a nice block.

What’s weird is that Strength X Axe Mastery, which is a similar trait, does show a change to crit damage when it is equipped.

I’ve been using it on blind faith. Anet says that it gives me an extra 10% crit so it must work as intended.