Guild Wars 2

Great Sword #3 skill definitely needs some change or improvement.

Right now it’s nearly impossible to damage somebody with it in the PvP setting.

- It takes too long between choosing area on the ground and the actual damage to happen
- The AOE is VERY small. Make AOE bigger keep the maximum of 5 targets affected

Or return it to an auto-fire mechanic again. That would at least fix one of the issues with it.

I have to agree. Mind Stab is a love-hate issue for me. I absolutely love the look of it. Nothing makes me feel more awesome than thrusting my sword into the ground and having it come up under someone.

But it has plenty of problems. In PVE it’s not quite so bad other than being inefficient due to the animation timing, but in PVP it’s practically unusable. Coupled with the animation issues with Spatial Surge (awesome ability, terrible syncing between end-of-damage and end-of-animation), it makes me want to not even bother despite the fact that every other ability for the Mesmer greatsword rocks my socks off. Mirror Blade is possibly my favorite ability in the game. The berserker is awesome, and who doesn’t love an AOE knockback?

If the ground-targeted nature of Mind Stab is the price of admission for the rest, that’s fair; I remember the auto-aim beta version, and I could see how that could be too much from a balance perspective, especially with the boon-stripping (although I would gladly trade a little of the damage to have that version back). But the timing needs some looking at. The range of the AOE is also a little wonky, and while I’m not sure how the damage is balanced (i.e., how many targets it expects to hit for damage balance purposes), I hope it’s not balanced as a five-target AOE. To be frank, that’s simply unrealistic in any scenario other than a fifty-man zerg stacked on a gate in WvW.

All that said, excepting the timing issues, I love my greatsword, and I hope it gets some tweaking as soon as feasible.

I agree and it’s also one of the main reason why I’ve decided not to touch Greats sword again because I cannot bare to have a skill that’s not always reliable and useful when I need it. It was updated and nerfed in previous stress tests.

There are many other players who share the same opinion on this one.

There are two primary problem with this skill.

1. The AoE is so ridiculously small that it fails to land on enemies 90% of the time. Let alone using this skill against any real players in PvP.

2. The casting animation and the duration of the animation for the sword to pop out of the ground further ties to the problem mentioned in #1. The skill will almost always lag behind where the enemy is at and fails to hit.

Mesmer was the last prof released and there are other skills and traits that currently need to be fixed and polished as well. It’s one of the most interesting profession I must say but It’s really frustrated to play sometimes when bugs are present in certain skills/traits.

Thanks for input. Is there any way to point ANet’s attention to it other then hoping that they have read this thread

It worked during BWE 1 and 2… LOVED IT SO MUCH! Now this crap… Sorry, but it really isn’t what I signed up for when I enrolled under Greatsword Users… Change it back please Arena Net

Feels good to have some support

The AOE is small, but the skill is fine (but could be a quicker animation). Just use Illusionary Wave to knock a player down, then hit them.

All GS#3 needs is to remove the root-component. The animation length is ok, as is the radius, but the fact you stand still is the problem in PvP.