the combat with greatsword is really dynamic and fast-paced, but maul just seems so uninteresting of a skill. it has great base-damage, and utility(although why vuln isn’t applied on auto attack 1 and 2 is a mystery) if the bear animation wasn’t a factor it would simply be a downward chop.
low on the totem pole of issues, yes. but…eh.
As quick as the Valkyries ride,
As true as Odin’s spear flies,
There is nowhere to hide.
I love the maul animations. When you think of a bear mauling something, you think of it lurching up and smashing down with it’s huge paws, similarly to how the greatsword is swinging downwards.
Although I acknowledge that, being a Norn Ranger, it also makes perfect sense for her. It probably would look very out of place on, say an Asura Ranger.
For those who like the animation, have u played wvw or pvp? You can see it coming from ammile away, and the cast is slow. It prettynmuch requires hilt bash for a set up. Even warrior has less obvious tells on the hammer, and those attacks have devestating cc AND good damage. A good fix would be to remove the bear in pvp, wvw, but keep it for pve.
Not only would removing the bear make me a sad ranger because that’s probably THE coolest animation in the game, it’d also break the skill, in sPvP you can get Maul to hit people for +30k damage given bloodlust sigils and some might stacks (both easy to do), having a skill capable of putting down any other zerker build, and any non toughness stacking build, with a single blow is not something that can’t have an obvious tell.
They sing dark, delicious notes about power and family.
As their mother, I have to grant them their wish. – Forever Fyonna
