Guild Wars 2

i think GS is overpowerd, therefore every 1 has a GS and that doesnt look so good..

Do you think it’s a balancing issue, or an issue that a lot of people love greatswords because, well, they’re enormous swords? A lot of popular characters in other media have large swords (most famously, Cloud from FFVII,) and we have a lot of cool greatsword skins.

I’d be wary about making balance changes based on “Well, lots of people use <weapon>, so it must be overpowered! Plus, it looks bad when so many people use that weapon!”

THAT what they should make!
Replica of Buster Sword!!!!

I tend to disagree. Only 4 classes can wield GS.
Guardian has the choice off several melee weapons. Bout 40% (I estimate) choose Greatsword. This is highly depending on build and roll. Keep in mind the guardian often plays ranged

Same goes for Warrior. It might be a lil bit more favoured, but not very much.

On the ranger the greatsword is one of the best melee weapons, but then again, many rangers hardly ever go melee (although they should try it more imo)

Mesmer, Yip you might have a point here, but it is not as if all mesmers choose greatsword.

The issue is imo not that the GS is OP (besides maybe on warrior, but thats more cause the whole class is OP), but that 4 classes use this weapontype.

I just wish they’d spend at least half the time working on skins for the other weapons as they do the greatswords. Greatswords always look awesome…

Do pistols, torches, shields, maces and staves get the same attention? Hell on. Torches all look like kitten, pistols are all slight modifications, shields always look tiny and awkward, and the staves only see appearance changes in the head of the staff, which is usually super tiny and not even noticeable.

fair point all of you.. but i mostly agree on that a-net is spending to much time working on GS and not giving attantion to other weps.. (and btw i play a GS ranger :P)

mercury ranique.2170:

Keep in mind the guardian often plays ranged

What? Guardian only has one real ranged weapon, and that’s scepter.

The GS is indeed super popular. I feel like ANet would be inclined to make the other weapon options more viable, but that would mean re-balancing the weapon skills of four different classes.

On the other hand, maybe there are 3 legendary GS skins for a reason.

I think we’ll see the tables turn when Greataxes are released. Nothing but awesome skills and skins possible for that.

Well, I take that back – they COULD go the Hammer route and take what was potentially an entire weapon set of kitten skins and turn them into tiny little hammer heads… Except we’lll see Greataxes with blades the same size as the current 1h axes

I doubt it’s a viability issue so much as it’s a “cool factor” issue for most players.

I use a GS on my guardian as it has the best melee weapon abilities to my class. It keeps the character versatile while still keeping it from being overpowered. If you think the GS is overpowered because you play other melee types that can’t keep up, keep this in mind…

1) GS is a 2-handed weapon which will automatically do more damage
2) Shields offset your lack of damage with more defense
3) GS is melee only – this helps those who are ranged to have an advantage over them
4) You also may want to consider researching your character build to ensure it is doing what you want (i.e. healers do less damage, some damage is over time, some is immediate, and some people specialize in crit chance/crit damage where others focus on conditions)
5) If you think that there are too many options for the GS than the weapon you want, focus on telling us which one you want more options for and not just complaining about what’s wrong. Focus on the solution, not the problem.