Celtic Heroes

So I am currently llving a warrior with the end goal of it being a sword warrior. However, if I am not wrong, a sword warrior is pretty bad until you get the offhand past edl that allows you to use rupture with a sword. So my question is, should I still use a sword while lvling till endgame, or is using an axe or a spear better? And it is still worth it using a sword throughout the entire lvling process to endgame, which skills do you recommend?

Im not a pro warrior or anything, but from what i have heard the way to go is gele axe late game as sword with the gardens offhand is still meh when compared to the gele axe. I may be wrong but this is what i have heard.