Yea it would be like focusing that direction to gain chip damage. It would carry a drawback that it might be more predictable what the final swing is. (Or they spam 2 so the opponent thinks they are going for the 3rd then mix it up with something else). But at least that would give the target player a way to notice and counter it. I wonder if a button-click skill would simply go thru the parry?
I'd like to see them keep it all within the standard directional mouse swing without any special hotbar buttons if possible.