sword viable?
I’d rather run Celestial myself for Sword. But in PvE anything works. If I were playing in a dungeon and I had you with me, as long as we finished the dungeon without wiping a lot it doesn’t matter what setup you play. Hell you could even play bearbow an I’d be fine with it.
Well right now I’m playing necro. The damage is kinda pitiful. I’m sure this has got to be better lol.
Sword is uhm – point is it’s got a mixed bag of skills, power and condi. Means you can’t maximise your damage or survivability. It’s quite unfortunate.
Sure sword is viable for regular PvE. If you go for a condi build, spam Flurry to stack up bleeds; if you go for a power build, take the Blademaster trait and use Final Thrust liberally. Sword has a good variety of skills. For your offhand, you can really go with anything.
Sword always was viable in open world PvE and became more powerful in the recent update.