Are Swords bad?

[DubbelNuggen]

Im almost at level 120 with maxed out sword and gun & swords proficiency, rank 7 sword with maxed out stats and high STR, yet i do barely any damage to foes with swords. Any info or tips on how to do a sword build would be awesome.

[BellFall]

The lion's share of sword damage comes from your skills so gotta spam those like crazy
Any acc that reduces cooldown helps alot

[DubbelNuggen]

Originally posted by Thanatos:

The lion's share of sword damage comes from your skills so gotta spam those like crazy
Any acc that reduces cooldown helps alot

So in other words, high tier sword skills and alot of cooldown reduction. CHECK.
Thanks mate for the info.

[BellFall]

Originally posted by DubbelNuggen:

Originally posted by Thanatos:

The lion's share of sword damage comes from your skills so gotta spam those like crazy
Any acc that reduces cooldown helps alot

So in other words, high tier sword skills and alot of cooldown reduction. CHECK.
Thanks mate for the info.

Good luck with your sword play and here's a general skill layout
Sword: Vorpal Strike(chargeable by holding down it's skill key), sword barrier, sharp nail, Horizontal Square
Gun+Sword: Dual Orbital and the above skills. Replace Vorpal with Dual
Using sword barrier prevents you from using your gun during Sword+Gun mode
Star splash is only useful vs Giant slow moving enemies and you can use the dash key to cancel it
Breakdown:
Vorpal Strike and Dual Orbital are the same skill but with slight variations. It's a forward thrust no lock-on (even if you connect with an enemy, it still doesnt kill the momentum the skill gave so you're gonna be stuck floating in the air for a few seconds)
Sharp nail: skill starts when hotkey is pressed
Horizontal Square: Only triggers if you connect with an enemy
Swords ignore the damage reduction on Armored units such as the Gatekeeper and corpes sniffer
use the UFG to knockdown those pesky drones if you're maining sword
Sword arts are basicly the same on both skill sets and require a lock-on

[Bobabender]

Originally posted by Thanatos:

Originally posted by DubbelNuggen:

So in other words, high tier sword skills and alot of cooldown reduction. CHECK.
Thanks mate for the info.

Good luck with your sword play and here's a general skill layout
Sword: Vorpal Strike(chargeable by holding down it's skill key), sword barrier, sharp nail, Horizontal Square
Gun+Sword: Dual Orbital and the above skills.
Using sword barrier prevents you from using your gun during Sword+Gun mode
Star splash is only useful vs Giant slow moving enemies and you can use the dash key to cancel it
Breakdown:
Vorpal Strike and Dual Orbital are the same skill but with slight variations. It's a forward thrust no lock-on (even if you connect with an enemy, it still doesnt kill the momentum the skill gave so you're gonna be stuck floating in the air for a few seconds)
Sharp nail: skill starts when hotkey is pressed
Horizontal Square: Only triggers if you connect with an enemy
Swords ignore the damage reduction on Armored units such as the Gatekeeper and corpes sniffer
use the UFG to knockdown those pesky drones if you're maining sword
Sword arts are basicly the same on both skill sets and require a lock-on

You can end Star Splash's flurry of attacks and just use its finisher by pressing it again or by pressing the R key/Left Click.

[Misuki]

Without skills the sword is really bad yeah..
But the sword skills on level 3 are really strong and thats it where you dmg should come from

[DubbelNuggen]

Originally posted by Misuki:

Without skills the sword is really bad yeah..
But the sword skills on level 3 are really strong and thats it where you dmg should come from

Splendid information dud, thanks alot.

[Misuki]

Originally posted by DubbelNuggen:

Originally posted by Misuki:

Without skills the sword is really bad yeah..
But the sword skills on level 3 are really strong and thats it where you dmg should come from

Splendid information dud, thanks alot.

Thanatos greatly explained the general skill loadout so you are good to go..
Another helpful thing is if you are playing with swords is bring Lisbeth with you( she has a lot of paralyze utility) and equip paralyze landmine(gadget) yourself also.
Paralyzing bosses is really useful in combination with the Sword Skill Star Splash flurry

[DubbelNuggen]

I take it, it doesn't matter which kind of sword i use, the skills is the majority of the damage anyway.

[CaptainLagbeard]

Swords do seem fairly low damage, the skills are more damaging and blade barrier is rather useful against attacks it can block.

[33B]

Dual Orbital and Vorpal Strike are 1-hit-done in PvP tho.

[Lapinoire]

99,999 crit damage full-charged Vorpal Strike 3's, anyone?

[Maledy]

One thing I've noticed anout swordplay is that you seem to do standard attacks much faster when using Gun and Sword, so even if you don't intend to use the pistol much I'd always recommend using it over standard Sword when avaliable.

Another thing is if all of your skills are on cooldown, do air attacks. Jump first, and then spam the attack button. It does WAY more damage, and ends on the third strike with a combo that does a ground slam that seems to also do a decent amount of stagger/knockback.

Oh, and I always do the dash dodge to back away as soon as my skill attack finishes. This prevents most larger enemies with melee knockbacks from using those on you. I use a skill, dodge back a step, then use the next skill, repeat.

[Teliko]

Gun Art Online: Fatal Bullet. :P

[33B]

Originally posted by Remilnelia™:

99,999 crit damage full-charged Vorpal Strike 3's, anyone?

My strongest sword is Masamune G2 with 821 base DMG, the most I can crit is more than 30k, max is almost 50k.

[DubbelNuggen]

Originally posted by / THICC NIBBA n' ANIME TIDDIES /:

Originally posted by Remilnelia™:

99,999 crit damage full-charged Vorpal Strike 3's, anyone?

My strongest sword is Masamune G2 with 821 base DMG, the most I can crit is more than 30k, max is almost 50k.

Nani the ♥♥♥♥, how?