Sword
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This article is about the class of weapon. For the specific weapon sold by NPC weaponsmiths, see Sword (weapon).
The sword is a one-handed weapon that may also be used in the off-hand. They can be crafted by a weaponsmith. Swords balance positioning and avoiding attacks with inflicting damage, making them versatile for any profession to use. The maximum damage range for swords is 950 - 1,050. As of Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire, due to the Holosmith and Weaver elite specializations, the sword is the most widely usable weapon, with only necromancers being unable to use it.
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Skills by profession[edit]
| Skill | Type | 
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Description | |
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| 1 | Sword of Wrath | Slash your foe once. | |||
| 1 |  Sword Arc
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½ | Slash your foe again. | ||
| 1 | Sword Wave
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½ | Send out waves of attacks that strike multiple targets. | ||
| 2 | Symbol of Blades | Symbol | 10 | Teleport to your target, striking them and blinding nearby foes. Drop a symbol at your feet that damages nearby enemies and benefits allies. | |
| 3 | Zealot's Defense | ½ | 15 | Destroy ranged attacks while casting magical projectiles. | |
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| 1 | Preparation Thrust | ½ | Stab your foe with your sword, inflicting vulnerability. | ||
| 1 | Brutal Blade
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¾ | Slice foes, damaging them and inflicting vulnerability. | ||
| 1 | Rift Slash
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½ | Slash foes, creating a rift on them that explodes for additional damage after a short delay. | ||
| 2 | Precision Strike | ½ | 5 | Strike nearby foes with precision, sending out blades that damage and chill them. | |
| 3 | Unrelenting Assault | ¾ | 12 | Shadowstep and unleash fierce attacks on nearby foes. Gain might each time you damage a foe. | |
| 4 | Shackling Wave | ½ | 15 | Slice through the air, sending a wave of energy from the Mists toward your foe and dealing rapid strikes. Immobilize duration is increased per target you strike. | |
| 5 | Deathstrike | ½ | 15 | Shadowstep to your foe and deliver a quick attack, then deliver a second devastating blow if it hits. | |
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 Flurry
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Burst | ½ | 8 | Immobilize your foes with a flurry of bleeding strikes. Effect increases with adrenaline level. | |
| Flaming Flurry
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Primal burst | 2½ | 5 | Lash out with a flurry of strikes that destroys projectiles and shoots fireballs at foes in front of you. | |
| 1 | Sever Artery | ½ | Bleed your foe with a slash. | ||
| 1 | Gash
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½ | Bleed your foe with a gash. | ||
| 1 | Hamstring
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¼ | Cripple your foe with a precise slash. | ||
| 2 | Savage Leap | ¾ | 8 | Lunge at your foe and strike them with your sword. | |
| 3 | Final Thrust | ¾ | 12 | Strike your foe with a final powerful thrust that does extra damage and inflicts bleeding against foes below the health threshold. | |
| 4 | Impale | ½ | 15 | Throw your sword at your foe to impale them. | |
| 4 | Rip
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¾ | 1 | Rip your sword from your foe for extra damage. | |
| 5 | Riposte | 2¼ | 15 | Block the next incoming attack. Riposte and bleed your foe if you block a melee attack. Gain adrenaline if you are not attacked. | |
| 5 | Adrenaline Rush
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Stop blocking and gain adrenaline. | |||
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| 1 | Sun Edge | ½ | Strike your foe and inflict vulnerability. This attack deals more damage based on your heat level. | ||
| 1 | Sun Ripper
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½ | Strike your foe again and inflict vulnerability. This attack deals more damage based on your heat level. | ||
| 1 | Gleam Saber
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¾ | Unleash a burst of stored energy with your sword and recharge your other sword skills. This attack deals more damage based on your heat level. | ||
| 2 | Refraction Cutter | ½ | 9 | Strike at foes in front of you and launch a blade of light at your target. Launch extra blades based on your heat level. Each blade inflicts conditions. | |
| 3 | Radiant Arc | ¾ | 14 | Leap to your target and create an arc of light that strikes nearby foes. Gain quickness based on your heat level. | |
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| 1 | Slash | ½ | Slash your foe. | ||
| 1 | Crippling Thrust
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¼ | Stab your foe, crippling them for a short time. | ||
| 1 | Precision Swipe
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¾ | Deliver a blow to your foe. Your pet gains might. | ||
| 2 | Hornet Sting | ½ | 8 | Stab your foe, then evade backward. | |
| 2 | Monarch's Leap
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¾ | Leap back into the fight, crippling your foe. | ||
| 3 | Serpent's Strike | 1 | 15 | Do an evasive roll around your target, striking them and poisoning them. | |
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| 1 | Slice | Slice your foe. | |||
| 1 | Slash
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½ | Slash your foe again. | ||
| 1 | Crippling Strike
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½ | Cripple your foe with a final strike. | ||
| 1 | Tactical Strike
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Stealth Attack | 1 | Blind your foe by bashing them with your sword hilt. Daze them instead if you attack from behind. Applies vulnerability. | |
| 2 | Infiltrator's Strike | 3 | Shadowstep to a foe and strike them. Use Shadow Return [sic] to shadowstep back and cure one condition.
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| 2 | Infiltrator's Return
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¼ | 2 | Return to your original location. Cure one condition. | |
| with no offhand | |||||
| 3 | Stab | Dual Wield | ½ | 4 | Stab your foe. |
| with offhand Dagger | |||||
| 3 | Flanking Strike | Dual Wield | ½ | 4 | Evade and stab your foe. |
| 3 | Larcenous Strike
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Dual Wield | ½ | 2 | Stab your foe and steal boons from them. Deals increased damage if it hits a foe with no boons. |
| with offhand Pistol | |||||
| 3 | Pistol Whip | Dual Wield | ¾ | 5 | Pistol-whip your foe, stunning them, then slash repeatedly with your sword. |
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| Fire Attunement | |||||
| 1 | Fire Strike | ½ | Build elemental flames into your sword and strike your enemies. | ||
| 1 | Fire Swipe
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½ | Heat your sword a second time and strike your enemies for increased damage. | ||
| 1 | Searing Slash
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¾ | Heat your sword a final time and use the full power of your flames to sear enemies and ignite them. | ||
| 2 | Flame Uprising | ¾ | 8 | Jump forward and deliver a fiery blast to the area. | |
| 3 | Cauterizing Strike | ¾ | 15 | Stab your foe with full force, dealing bonus damage against burning enemies. | |
| Water Attunement | |||||
| 1 | Seiche | ½ | Imbue your blade with water, healing yourself for each target you strike. | ||
| 1 | Clapotis
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½ | Deliver a second strike that heals you for each target it hits. | ||
| 1 | Breaking Wave
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¾ | Strike your enemies and unleash a wave that heals allies. | ||
| 2 | Riptide | 1 | 12 | Use the element of water to propel yourself backward and regenerate, leaving a healing area at your location. | |
| 3 | Aqua Siphon | ¾ | 15 | Strike an enemy and draw water from them, causing them to deliver a healing burst to your allies. | |
| Air Attunement | |||||
| 1 | Charged Strike | ½ | Strike your foe with shocking force. | ||
| 1 | Polaric Slash
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½ | Deliver a second strike, gaining swiftness. | ||
| 1 | Call Lightning
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¾ | Deliver the final attack, calling lightning strikes onto enemies. | ||
| 2 | Polaric Leap | ½ | 15 | Shadowstep to your target and deliver a dazing strike. Gain superspeed if you interrupt an enemy. | |
| 3 | Quantum Strike | ¾ | 16 | Strike your foe, charging them with static and causing lightning to strike repeatedly for a short period of time. | |
| Earth Attunement | |||||
| 1 | Crystal Slash | ½ | Strike your opponent with your serrated blade. | ||
| 1 | Crystalline Strike
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½ | Attack enemies with a second vicious attack. | ||
| 1 | Crystalline Sunder
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¾ | Unleash a final crushing blow. | ||
| 2 | Earthen Vortex | ¾ | 10 | Burrow into the ground, then erupt with earth-shattering force. | |
| 3 | Rust Frenzy | ½ | 15 | Strike your enemies with deadly force. | |
| Fire + Water | |||||
| 3 | Twin Strike | Dual Attack | ¾ | 10 | Quickly strike enemies in front of you with the extreme nature of fire and water. |
| Fire + Air | |||||
| 3 | Pyro Vortex | Dual Attack | ½ | 12 | Strike enemies in an arc in front of you, creating burning vortexes on enemies you hit. |
| Fire + Earth | |||||
| 3 | Lava Skin | Dual Attack | ¼ | 18 | Cover yourself in an increasing barrier while dealing damage to nearby enemies. |
| Water + Air | |||||
| 3 | Shearing Edge | Dual Attack | ½ | 12 | Form a frozen blade and spin it toward your enemies. |
| Water + Earth | |||||
| 3 | Natural Frenzy | Dual Attack | ½ | 10 | Fire a random volley of ice and earth at your enemies. |
| Air + Earth | |||||
| 3 | Gale Strike | Dual Attack | ¾ | 20 | Strike your enemies, lifting them and creating cyclones at their location. |
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| 1 | Mind Slash | Slash your foe to make them vulnerable. | |||
| 1 | Mind Gash
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½ | Gash your foe to make them vulnerable. | ||
| 1 | Mind Spike
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½ | Stab your foe and rip a boon off of them. Does additional damage when the target has no boons. | ||
| 1 | Mirage Thrust
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Ambush | ¾ | 1 | Lunge at your foe and strike them with your sword, briefly dazing them. Leave behind a clone at your original location. |
| 2 | Blurred Frenzy | 1 | 10 | Strike your foe with a flurry of strikes, distorting the space around you, making you evade attacks. | |
| 3 | Illusionary Leap | Clone | ½ | 12 | Summon an illusion that leaps at your target, crippling them. After the initial leap, the clone will execute the Mind Slash sword chain. |
| 3 | Swap
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Swap locations with your clone. Immobilize nearby foes. | |||
| 4 | Illusionary Riposte | Clone | 2¼ | 12 | Block your foe and create an illusion when attacked. |
| 4 | Counter Blade
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¾ | Shoot out a bolt that dazes foes in a line. | ||
| 5 | Phantasmal Swordsman | Phantasm | 1 | 15 | Perform a sword strike and create an illusion that attacks your foe. If the sword strike hits, you gain might. |
Related traits[edit]
Proficiencies[edit]
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Sword Proficiency — You can wield a sword in your main hand. -
Sword Proficiency — You can wield swords in your main hand.
Enhancements[edit]
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Right-Hand Strength — Critical hit chance with one-handed weapons is increased. Sword skills recharge faster. -
Ferocious Strikes — Gain increased ferocity while dual-wielding weapons. -
Vicious Lacerations — When you attack while wielding a sword, gain a stack of vicious laceration. This can be stacked up to five times. -
Blademaster — Sword skills gain reduced recharge and conditions they inflict gain increased duration. -
Dual Wielding — Attack speed is increased when wielding a main-hand weapon in your off hand. -
Strider's Defense — When you evade an attack while wielding a sword, gain Quickness. Sword skills recharge faster. -
Swindler's Equilibrium — Successfully evading an attack while wielding a sword or spear recharges Steal. Swords and spears deal increased damage. -
Master's Fortitude — Gain increased vitality when wielding a sword. Gain bonus vitality based on a portion of your power and condition damage. -
Fencer's Finesse — Gain a stacking ferocity effect when you or one of your illusions strikes with a one-handed sword or a spear. Reduces recharge on sword and spear skills.
