We need armor! Seriously swords needs armor, you will die to a shotgun before you even do a full slash animation. Movement speed needs to go up, whats the difference from a guy running with a shotgun than a guy with a sword? Increased lunges and hit registration. I should not have to slash a guy 3 times before the sword finally decides to deal damage, this is a problem on both pve and pvp. Blocking with sword should not drain a lot of ammo, one bullet from a hand cannon takes away almost half of your ammo. Blocking with sword should not slow you down either, we have jumps that go insanely high but we slow down when guarding with a sword? Swords should go to special slot, there is absolutely no reason anymore for swords to stay in the heavy slot. Shotguns on the special slot right now actually deals more damage than swords that are on the heavy slot. Unless bungie seriously buffs the heck out of damage on swords there is no real reason to keep them on the heavy slot. Faster sword animations, apart from quickfang, swords animations are terribly slow. As I said previously, a shotgun will kill you before you even have a chance to attack. These are all the things a sword truly needs to be viable, all these changes wont even make them OP because shotguns still shoot faster than a sword ever could at dealing damage, shotguns still go much farther than swords, shotguns can be aimed and spreads are more forgiving than a sword ever could since swords are inconsistent anyways. Missing a swing pretty much spells death for you when using swords.