Guild Wars 2

My request is pretty simple, sword is our only weapon without a -20% CD reduction. Since all other CD reduction effect, just put -20% CD on all sword skills with Blademaster, in addition to the 10% crit chance with sword. Its not really a big change, its mostly just for consistency. (I do run dual swords in WvW, but it still makes sense to give sword a CD reduction trait.

You may have a hard time justifying a buff to Impale for some people.

ronpierce.2760:

You may have a hard time justifying a buff to Impale for some people.

Yeah -20% CD on Impale would be pretty OP.

Some weapons don’t get the CD reduction, because their cooldowns are already pretty short. Ranger main-hand Axe is another one. But they do get an offhand CD trait, which includes their longer offhand-Axe cooldowns.

Basically, those skills are already balanced (-ish?) with their cooldowns in mind.

I’ve come back to say, HOWEVER. This trait could use some life. While CD reduction (imo) is not the life it needs. It does need help.

The cripple idea was not bad, but I don’t think quite hits the mark.
But along the same idea, what if it was:
Increase critical hit chance with swords by 10%, and increases condition duration by 10% while wielding a sword. Just a random idea. Feel free to help me out. :P

ronpierce.2760:

I’ve come back to say, HOWEVER. This trait could use some life. While CD reduction (imo) is not the life it needs. It does need help.

The cripple idea was not bad, but I don’t think quite hits the mark.
But along the same idea, what if it was:
Increase critical hit chance with swords by 10%, and increases condition duration by 10% while wielding a sword. Just a random idea. Feel free to help me out. :P

I would love for my sword to get a 2sec cripple on auto attack. I might start using leg specialist again and really be annoying.

It already does have a cripple on the auto attack…

While maybe CD reduction is OP, it does need something. 10% condi duration is nice, but it needs to be more than just a stat bonus IMO. Maybe something like "sword skills have a chance on crit to cripple or bleed. Make it really short base duration like 1 or 2 sec cripple and 2 or 3 sec bleed. Make the chance on crit 30%. This would make people use rabid over dire more and synergies well with the 10% crit from Blademaster already. Or maybe make it “all cripples inflicted by your sword have a chance to inflict immobilize” but then its just like leg specialist :/

I actually think “Sword crits cripple enemies” would be good and go nicely with Leg specialist. Sword already has issue with moving targets as it is because F1 is so kitten clunky.