Sword

Sword Basics

The Sword and Shield are a pair of melee-focused weapons that offer solid offensive and defensive capabilities when used together. Use a combination of arcing swings and lunges in your attacks and a shield to maximize your and your allies’ defense.

Sword Mastery

The Sword and Shield have two ability trees to allocate points into. Choose between a variety of abilities, upgrades, and passives from the Swordmaster or Defender trees.

Swordmaster Tree

The Swordmaster tree focuses on a strong offense. Apply pressure to enemies to deal powerful damage with the abilities in this tree.

Defender Tree

The Defender tree focuses on a strong defense and tanking. The abilities focus on interrupting and staggering targets and provides you improved survivability and buffs.

Sword Ultimates

The ultimate ability for the Swordmaster tree, Leadership, provides a persistent damage bonus to all members in your group, including yourself.

The ultimate ability for the Defender tree, Defensive Formation, will summon a defensive area whenever you are blocking and reduces the damage taken by all nearby allies. Positioning is key for this ultimate, as it can aid in keeping nearby allies alive while they deal damage to targets focused on you. Pair this ultimate with taunts to maximize its power against non-player enemies.

Tanking with the Sword & Shield

You can tank using the Sword and Shield by using a Carnelian gem in your Sword to activate certain taunt abilities. Taunting non-player enemies will cause them to focus on you, allowing your allies to capitalize on the enemy’s distraction. Keep an eye out for the “Taunt Gem Compatible” text in ability tooltips to learn what abilities can trigger taunts.