In that case, it doesn't sound that bad to me. At the moment, I can agree that the sword range kind of sucks compared to other options. That's part of the reason why they aren't commonly used in the Crucible right now. Your point on the ammo though, I don't agree with. Do you tend to use heavy attacks or light attacks? Because if you use a lot of heavy attacks, you could be using up more ammo than necessary. Let's say there's a somewhat-strong Knight and you're using an Adaptive Frame sword. You could kill it with 2 heavy attacks and use 8 ammo. Or you could kill it with 4 light attacks and use 4 ammo. You could also kill it with 2 light-to-heavy aerial combos, which come out faster than standard light combos, and use 4 ammo. In my case, I prefer using light attacks because it saves ammo in the long run. There are times when a heavy attack's burst damage is nice, but I'd rather not use two heavy attacks back-to-back and waste a lot of ammo and potential damage. I tend to use heavy attacks if something comes up and I need to wrap up a fight. And compared to shotguns, swords are much, MUCH more ammo efficient than they are. One heavy ammo brick in PvE tends to give you 14+ sword ammo depending on your ammo capacity. And despite the fact that swords don't really make sense, you can put Backup Mag on one. Swords are the only weapon in the game where putting Backup Mag on them increases their 'reserves' AND grants more ammo to them when you pick up heavy ammo bricks. Right now, that is.