Guild Wars 2

You know you want them. The ability to swing the most aesthetically-pleasing weapons in the game with fluid, one and two-handed Swordmaster motions.

This weapon would emphasize rapid auto-attack damage, freeing up initiative to spend on utility 2-5 skills such as a stealthing gap-closer (that costs 6 initiative), a backwards leap that evades attacks, and a skill that imbues the Thief with protection and swiftness (2 boons that currently lack an on-demand source for them).

I was thinking that the stealth skill could be a large AoE cleave that also bestows Aegis onto the Thief and nearby allies.

In other words, this would be a dps, support, and tanking weapon, rather than a burst one, and fill in some niches the Thief currently doesn’t have covered. And well… it’s a Greatsword. If Arenanet is going to give GS’s the best skins and legendaries, everyone should be able to enjoy one.

Your description sounds very similar to the roles that sword already currently fills.

I don’t disagree that greatsword probably gets a disproportionate amount of graphical love, but there’s half a dozen weapon options I’d rather see thieves get before greatswords that’d fit and grow the profession better.

L2p Ranger. Hey, who knows if they did they would need to let Ele’s and Engineers use GS, too. I want the Greatsword on my Engineer to shoot poison rockets and aoe stun for 3 seconds.