Guild Wars 2

Good work on the greatsword buff, it’s starting to get a lot more useable now that maul is actually worth the attack time but there’s something that’s always felt clunky to me: if you press GS 4 to use Counterattack and then press GS 4 again, you throw the sword for a cripple on your target if it hits. It’s great that you can be versatile and switch your game on the fly like this but it’s really held back by the fact that you’re rooted during the animation. This, combined with the short range and really short cripple duration means that if you’re chasing someone and want to cripple them by doing that then 90% of the time they’ll just outrun it. Other similar skills on other classes can be used while moving, what’s more counterattack itself can be used while moving but the greatsword throw can’t.

This would be a subtle buff to a weapon that really needs it that isn’t just more damage or anything, merely more versatility. It also feels extremely clunky.

TLDR: let rangers use gs 4’s secondary skill while moving

I support being able to move when you activate the second part on greatsword 4 ability. This has always bothered me as you would never hit them anyways lmao. Only use is to block.

Me too, in addition, I’d like to see a range increase on Hilt Bash to aid in stunning a running foe.

Yup, never understood why it had to be stationary. Always wished I could be moving. The only time I ever use its active is to catch someone, but I never use it…. because by the time it throws, they are out of range, no matter how close you were when you started.

I wouldn’t ask for to many buffs, just let me move while throwing my greatsword for the cripple. Thats it =p.

Would be a great help

They could also increase the range of the throw, so it has a higher chance of hitting. Or just remove the activation time, so it’s an instant cast.

Kasama.8941:

They could also increase the range of the throw, so it has a higher chance of hitting. Or just remove the activation time, so it’s an instant cast.

The range and projectile speed and duration of the cripple itself are also very horrid, and in a perfect world I’d like to see all of those increased but the skill itself is borderline impossible to use right now even if I wanted to because of the huge delay wherin you can’t move. It’s extremely situational because of the range and movement lock, you’re only going to cripple someone heading perpendicular or towards you – rare – and someone running away from you has to be practically close enough to hit with melee anyway because of the cast time and projectile speed/range, and by the time you catch up to them again the cripple is over. It’s a good concept that I can adapt a skill like that but it’s really completely killed by the lack of mobility in the animation.

I’d also like to take this moment to point out that the Counterattack kick animation upon a block wherin you swing around your greatsword is pretty much the best thing ever.

I agree. The cripple on this skill would be very useful for me since I lack that condition. If they allow this while moving or speed up the animation, that would be helpful