Disregarding the dozens of other buffs and changes heavy Swords need (as a whole and individually), at the very least they should be able to kill minors and weaker elite enemies in a single swing [with no damage bonuses active] at the highest difficulties.
Nearly every special weapon archetype now has this capability, and with the amount of risk involved in using a Sword (baring a couple specific loadouts), it doesn't make sense that in high level content, minors take 2 swings, while weaker majors/elites take 3.
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Swords need a buff period especially because legend of acrius does close range burst dmg so much better. They were supposed to be a high risk high reward play style but they got nerfed so bad there’s no point running them. Lament and vortex frames are the only ones that do somewhat decent dmg but after lament got an head scratch of a nerf it fell out of play.