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3/21/2019 8:08:40 PM
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I Love Swords, But They Suck
I've always used a sword. But they have no place in the game. They suck at killing ads, they're bad in pvp, and they're mediocre at best at dealing DPS to bosses, so long as the boss is staggerable.
Somethings gotta change with swords to make it so they have a place in the game somewhere, because I want to use them, but the only time I can use them is for fun, if I'm doing a strike or whatever where it doesn't matter too much, I go ahead and use a sword. If I'm in quickplay, I'll use it for fun as well. But if I'm in a raid, doing reckoning, or playing competitive, you better believe I'm having to use something else because a sword (aside from black talon in PvP) is a terrible weapon choice for oppose to other heavy weapons.
Not sure what you could do for Swords, more movement speed??? Slashes actually hit all enemies in front of you? Moving them to a different slot? Cooldown based energy meter instead of ammo??? I don't really know what the answer is, but I truly believe that as much as I love swords and will likely to continue to use my masterworked Abide the Return, I know that it's one of the worst heavy weapon categories and doesn't bring much to the table aside from possibly consitent stagger to Majors, and SOME bosses (atleast the ones who can't one shot you with melee like Reckoning knights), and being able to possibly loop a stomp on certain bosses and majors to prevent them from using other attacks.
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2 RepliesWe need armor! Seriously swords needs armor, you will die to a shotgun before you even do a full slash animation. Movement speed needs to go up, whats the difference from a guy running with a shotgun than a guy with a sword? Increased lunges and hit registration. I should not have to slash a guy 3 times before the sword finally decides to deal damage, this is a problem on both pve and pvp. Blocking with sword should not drain a lot of ammo, one bullet from a hand cannon takes away almost half of your ammo. Blocking with sword should not slow you down either, we have jumps that go insanely high but we slow down when guarding with a sword? Swords should go to special slot, there is absolutely no reason anymore for swords to stay in the heavy slot. Shotguns on the special slot right now actually deals more damage than swords that are on the heavy slot. Unless bungie seriously buffs the heck out of damage on swords there is no real reason to keep them on the heavy slot. Faster sword animations, apart from quickfang, swords animations are terribly slow. As I said previously, a shotgun will kill you before you even have a chance to attack. These are all the things a sword truly needs to be viable, all these changes wont even make them OP because shotguns still shoot faster than a sword ever could at dealing damage, shotguns still go much farther than swords, shotguns can be aimed and spreads are more forgiving than a sword ever could since swords are inconsistent anyways. Missing a swing pretty much spells death for you when using swords.
