Guild Wars 2

I don’t get why this even exists. For power users its horrid damage. For condi users its horrid damage.

Just seems like an outdated idea from gw2 vanilla that was just left in there and never truly removed/fixed.

I mean it prevents sword 4 primary from going on cooldown after you use it….its in the way. The animation is clunky and slow if you do the rip as well….you are better off auto attacking with whatever weapon you are using.

Would like to see rip removed or grant another effect of some kind.

I mean I don’t wanna make the ability OP, I just want to clean it up and give it some added utility.

Ideas for Rip:
-After Impale, if you wait 3 seconds you have a 4 second window on which to active “Rip”. Rip must be activated within 130 range. It causes target foe to become dazed and crippled (or incumbered) for 1.5 seconds, while doing a vomit (like when u eat too much halloween candy) animation. After rip is activated, Impale goes back on its 15second cooldown. You may choose to activate sword 4 anytime after the initial impale hits to put it back on cd and cancel the rip. If impale misses it goes right back to cd and skips rip.

-something simpler: remove rip

-something simpler: rip, as is, applies poison or some kind of control effect (cripple or something useless) to the target along with the measly damage.

I like your suggestion, maybe a leap at the enemy to extend the range of Rip (for enemies that kite) would help. Maybe make it unblockable?

Too bad offhand sword is so totally weak and worthless it doesn’t make sense to take it in any scenario. Everything it does is outclassed by the other offhands. I think even offhand axe gets more action in sPvP, which is next to nothing. At least offhand axe is good for a laugh/gimmick build, offhand sword is just garbage.

Thuggernaut.1250:

I like your suggestion, maybe a leap at the enemy to extend the range of Rip (for enemies that kite) would help. Maybe make it unblockable?

Too bad offhand sword is so totally weak and worthless it doesn’t make sense to take it in any scenario. Everything it does is outclassed by the other offhands. I think even offhand axe gets more action in sPvP, which is next to nothing. At least offhand axe is good for a laugh/gimmick build, offhand sword is just garbage.

im using oh sword right now in my condi build for wvsw. and its working fine, I like it.

Sword 5 Functions the same as a shield, except it breaks when a melee attack hits it, in which case it does a nice condi bleed. Its 5s less in cd as well than a traited shield 5. Sword 4 vs shield 4….sword 4 gives a ranged condi attack that does nice damage, its a decent tradeoff in wvsw since most of ur enemies are ranged. I mean I got shield mastery spec’d and I’m still taking sword OH over shield OH.

Sword OH serves as a block, and is a more effective damage dealer. The only real kicker is the fact shield gives defense by default on equip…so you don’t have access to that with sword. Its just nowhere near to being OP….which arguably is the problem if you think about it.

When you need a middle ground between the defense of a shield and the offense of a torch…..sword OH is there.

there was a time when OH sword was very op.