Guild Wars 2

I basically exclusively play PvE I do a lot of dungeons and stuff and I was wondering is there a good viable build for one hand sword? Any help is appreciated

Pretty much everything is viable in PvE. While the Sword is a terrible weapon to PvE with (weak power/condition hybrid mix) it’s still useable. Do note that your damage will be very low and you will be somewhat a liability/dead weight, so this does NOT qualify you as a DPS for speedruns. Not even close.

Nothing about this build has been tested, but just something that would make sense to me. The basic gist is that Sword is a bad weapon to the point it’s not worth investing to improve your personal DPS, and just trying to support your group to a sub-optimal level all for the sake of pleasing yourself with a Sword aesthetic via banners/vuln and EA.

I’ve guessed that Dual Wielding/Empowered apply to condition damage too, that’ll need clearing up by someone who knows.

The point is, sword a horrible weapon and should only be used in “play how you want” or “chilled” runs.

Or you could run the Meta axe build using A/M and A/Sw.

No because they moved all of swords physical damage to final thrust. Which in theory hits as hard as evicerate if it crits when the target is below 50% health. But the recharge is 15 seconds. While eviscerate is default 10 seconds. never the less evecerate doesn’t have a HP threash hold requirement and the Axe Auto attack chain does more damage than the sword auto attack chain.

So that makes sword not as viable as AXE for pve. Sword is a viable weapon for PVP though. Mainly because of the Leap, the Cripple and Immobilize.

Warlord.9074:

No because they moved all of swords physical damage to final thrust. Which in theory hits as hard as evicerate if it crits when the target is below 50% health. But the recharge is 15 seconds. While eviscerate is default 10 seconds. never the less evecerate doesn’t have a HP threash hold requirement and the Axe Auto attack chain does more damage than the sword auto attack chain.

So that makes sword not as viable as AXE for pve. Sword is a viable weapon for PVP though. Mainly because of the Leap, the Cripple and Immobilize.

exactly what warlord said although you can run a slight mix with the sword. rip hits for a decent chunk and final thrust can really hurt. with that said you should always run deep cuts with sword to boost it’s condition blade master will enable you to depend less on precision which can be good. since as warlord said it’s not exactly got enough dps to be a highlight.

it’s a bit of a hybrid weapon with a bit of both which is why I want to test it out with carrion gear.

I was thinking some more along these lines but like everyone has stated we havn’t or don’t use swords probably outside of PVP. Here is another experimental build that I have never and probably will never try.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNAscTjkOJvtP+OMxBAzjh+pozjkmiKVB7A-jECBIMCik0BiKAM/pIaslgFRjVtATbiIq2hoIa1SB4nyI-w