Guild Wars 2

Fluffball.8307:

I’ll find links to both videos if you’re interested because they are ideal examples or sword use, just let me know and I’d love to put in the 10 minutes searching for them.

That would be great, thank you.
And, do you recommend also turning of the autoattack/autotarget for PVE?

Fluffball.8307:

I was going to do a point by point but I couldn’t. I mean I just disagree. I don’t think you’re wrong with your points, I just — if I had my way — would design the sword exactly the way it is right now. It’s very important to how I play that it stay the way it is. Everything many people view as a negative is a positive to someone who likes the sword.

Can you explain this please?
I recently starting playing ranger and it seems to me that the sword is actually a really low skill cap weapon that basically involves watching your character be locked into an auto-attack animation until whatever you are hitting is dead. (Note, I do know that the animation can be cancelled but appears to take almost a second to do so.) The other skills don’t add much dps and are meant for evasion, but with the delay can’t be used to dodge much of anything (along with 3 usually just rolling me into terrain and not actually connecting).

Presumably I am using the sword wrong, but how is it meant to be used?