Schwert

A Warrior wielding a Long Sword

General

A Sword is a right hand weapon that causes slashing damage.

Dictionary Sword Definition: "A weapon consisting typically of a long, straight or slightly curved, pointed blade having one or two cutting edges and set into a hilt (handle)" - [[1]]."

The Warrior's Swordsmanship attribute improves damage dealt by the sword and related skills, and is often a requirement for this weapon type. Skills from this attribute can only be performed when equipped with a sword.

Damage Stats

Swords tend to have a narrower range of damage than axes, however the average damage output is comparable (e.g. a sword may do 5-7 damage, whereas an axe of the same quality would do 3-9).

The maximum damage range for swords is 15-22.

Swords swing every 1.33 seconds.

Upgrades and Modifiers

A Sword can be equipped with a magic hilt (name prefix) and/or pommel (name suffix) to add extra bonuses to the weapon.

Furthermore a sword may come with a number of non-salvagable magic modifiers.

See "Weapon Upgrades" for details.

Sword Types

Note: The visual appearance has no influence whatsoever on the weapon stats. A Brute Sword with damage 15-22 is just as good as a Shadow Blade with damage 15-22. Which look you prefer is merely a matter of taste.

The following sword types can be found in GuildWars:

Prophecies Campaign

• Ascalon Razor
• Brute Sword
• Butterfly Sword
• Crystalline Sword
• Falchion
• Fellblade
• Flamberge
• Forked Sword
• Gladius
• Long Sword
• Plasma Blade
• Rinblade
• Scimitar
• Shadow Blade
• Short Sword
• Spatha
• Tribal Blade
• Wingblade Sword
• Non-standard swords
  • Candy Cane Sword (no requirement, fixed stats, inflicts a fixed amount of damage)
  • (Fiery) Dragon Sword (inflicts fire damage, hilt cannot be upgraded)
  • (Icy) Dragon Sword (inflcts cold damage, fixed stats, hilt cannot be upgraded)

• Unique Swords:
  • Grognar's Blade
  • Grognar's Sword
  • Ogre-Slaying Knife
  • Victo's Blade

Factions Campaign

• Broadsword
• Celestial Sword
• Crenellated Sword
• Dadao Sword
• Dusk Blade
• Gothic Sword
• Katana
• Oni Blade
• Plagueborn Sword
• Platinum Blade
• Shinobi Blade
• Sunqua Blade
• Wicked Blade
• Non-standard swords
  • Jitte (blunt damage)
• Unique Swords:
  • Quivering Blade
  • Rajazan's Fervor
  • Shiro's Sword
  • Sskai's Sword
  • Kanaxai's Edge

For a list of all swords in the game, see also: Category:Swords.

External Links

Some nice images of swords can be found here and here.