Guild Wars 2

Greatsword is hardly useful in actual combat in PvP. It is much more useful for running away. Since the Mace nerf, Greatsword has lost its power greatly since there is nothing keeping a player in place. Even pre-nerfed Mace, it was hard to play since enemies can just kite you and mace lacks gap closers.

Arcing slice is very useless and really needs buffing. I think that the best way to buff greatsword is to give it immobilize for 1,2,3 seconds, which is 1/2 second shorter than amount of time as a hundred blades channel. I believe that this is balanced. Why?

• Flurry has a 4 second immobilize and takes .5 second to start. Arcing Slice takes only .75 second to start. It will be very telegraphic.
• Mace has a .5 second cast time and Arcing slice has a .75 cast time. Mace is a 3 second stun while arcing slice has a 3 second immobilize. Stun > immobilize.
• The immobilize from Arcing slice will not give enough time to stop the last strike which is good damage.

What we can expect from this buff:

• Greatsword may be meta.
• More and more diversity. Greatsword do not need mace or sword to make Hundred blades worthwhile.
• Rush may actually be used to charge enemies instead of running away. The combo will be Rush -> Arcing Slice -> Hundred blades.
• Healing surge may be slotted over healing signet. Healing signet doesn’t provide the sustain for zerkers and healing surge grants adrenaline. We may see Rush -> Arcing Slice -> Hundred blades -> Healing surge to heal up damage taken -> Switch to axe/shield -> Eviscerate since healing surge restores adrenaline.

God I can hear the cries already.

Yeah…this would be to much

I disagree that it would be too much.

It will be too much. Immob is pretty much broken, asking for more will just make the cry louder.

Immobilization is broken because of 20 second immobilization that thieves and engineers can put out. Not because of warrior’s 3 second immobilize.

runeblade.7514:

Immobilization is broken because of 20 second immobilization that thieves and engineers can put out. Not because of warrior’s 3 second immobilize.

Well, it would make it easy to get 6 seconds immobilize at least with sword /greatsword and signet of fury.
Still too much.