Guild Wars 2

Hope people will see where I’m coming from with this. Before I played cc war I spent a long time with both LB GS and Axe GS. There’s a lot of complaining about mace GS right now, and although its nothing like terror necro or cantrip ele was, I can see why it would wreck a fair portion of the player base.

I genuinely hope these ideas will elicit a positive response, and the devs can work on bringing up the GS while raising the skill floor on skull cracker builds.

A: make 100db a burst skill

This would kitten skull crack 100db builds much less than you’d think, as it would still be fairly easy to pull off if a hydromancy or geomancy sigil was used on the GS. What it would do however is raise the difficult of managing adrenaline with this weapon combo, as they would need to be used with 3 bars of adrenaline. This would make healing surge more viable over healing signet and thus the build would be less OP when 1v1 vs power builds. There would also be hidden benefits, such as more frequent condi cleanse in team fights, as well as being able to revisit the damage/speed of 100db.

B: Replace the 2 skill with a pushback

One fun but altogether useless fact is that kick synergises nicely with eviscerate. A pushback on the GS could bring up axe burst builds and give an interrupt to LB/GS builds. It would however do the least for mace as it has little synergy, except maybe with shield bash.

C: Add a push (outgoing) and a pull to the return of bladetrail (raise the CD?)

With the nerf to leg specialist this skill is fairly weak. One thing many GS warriors didn’t do was position themselves so the outgoing blade trail could miss, but the returning one would hit the opponent. To use the pull effectively would require both positioning and opponent prediction, which is great IMO.

Thought someone might have something actually useful to say about warriors.

Never mind me then :’(

Here’s something useful.

Greatsword.

Because it’s fine the way it is.

My suggestion.

Add a CharrSword.

Make it unfathomly huge like the charrzooka skin.

Red Raven.7824:

Here’s something useful.

Greatsword.

Because it’s fine the way it is.

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the only thing the GS really needs, its a better burst skill. Adding a better burst skill does not mean “moving” one skill to that slot. I would like a leap.

Red Raven.7824:

Here’s something useful.

Greatsword.

Because it’s fine the way it is.

I pretty much agree with this.

The thing GS needs are fixes to things like pathing of Rush and speed of Bladetrail (needs to be increased to actually hit stuff). The burst skill is actually so bad that you will never use it unless you misclick, so that needs work also. These things, however, were known since launch.

HB as a burst skill is a bad idea IMO. I really don’t understand the complaints about HB, it does exactly what it is meant to do, deal high cleave damage while leaving you completely open to attack from all other angles then front for 3,5 seconds. Nerfing it by making it a burst skill would make warriors somewhat obsolete in PvE as well, as proper thieves would now outdamage warriors more then they already do.

Adding push/knockback effects to GS also seems like a poor suggestion to me. When I use GS I either want to stick to my target or leave them far behind. A push/knockback is not going to help with either. It has no synergy with the GS itself. This suggestion really only provides synergy with Eviscerate.

The only thing I’m positive about, is adding some sort of pull effect to bladetrail, having the GS thrown on some sort of chain, where if you hit, you can activate a pull for a short period of time. This, however, I don’t see happening anytime soon.

My two cents.

Fair enough. These aren’t half baked ideas, but if you guys aren’t feeling them then that’s that.. As for other suggestions, after experiencing how useless the leap is on fiery greatsword (when not using the glitch >: ) is, as well as adding more mobility to an already highly mobile weapon, I’m not sure how adding another leap would work.

The HB burst skill idea was actually originally posed by J S.. I think…. But clearly people want to keep things simple and I’m cool with that.

Phaeton.9582:

Fair enough. These aren’t half baked ideas, but if you guys aren’t feeling them then that’s that.. As for other suggestions, after experiencing how useless the leap is on fiery greatsword (when not using the glitch >: ) is, as well as adding more mobility to an already highly mobile weapon, I’m not sure how adding another leap would work.

The HB burst skill idea was actually originally posed by J S.. I think…. But clearly people want to keep things simple and I’m cool with that.

Keep it up though man. Meant no disrespect.

About HB, it’s not so much about simple as it is about not repairing something that isn’t broken. If HB needed toning down in any way, you would see it more often in, for instance, high end tPvP.

It’s not meant for that. Some weapons are good in PvE, some in PvP. That’s something I am absolutely cool with.

Rush needs a cleave animation instead of its kittenty uppercut, like fiery greatsword rush.

I’d much rather see them change stomp to a ranged stomp/leap type move to resolve the mobility issues and such as right now the main thing I miss about greatsword is the mobility.

As for greatsword in particular, there’s nothing wrong with anything but the burst skill. Make it a parry like the Ranger’s move. Give it a 1/3/5 second duration and if you parry a melee attack you do moderate damage and knock players back in a frontal arc that knocks back 200/400/600 yards.

No one really use the current GS burst skill. Need to be changed, so i agree, make 100b a burst skill and beef it up.

Turn the second skill into a teleport that will teleport you behind the target.

Zoid.2568:

No one really use the current GS burst skill. Need to be changed, so i agree, make 100b a burst skill and beef it up.

Turn the second skill into a teleport that will teleport you behind the target.

Saying things like that make me believe you don’t play a warrior

Atherakhia.4086:

I’d much rather see them change stomp to a ranged stomp/leap type move to resolve the mobility issues and such as right now the main thing I miss about greatsword is the mobility.

As for greatsword in particular, there’s nothing wrong with anything but the burst skill. Make it a parry like the Ranger’s move. Give it a 1/3/5 second duration and if you parry a melee attack you do moderate damage and knock players back in a frontal arc that knocks back 200/400/600 yards.

Great idea actually. This would be very nice.

I’m actually ok with them swapping GS burst skill with 100b. Our GS burst sucks and I rarely ever use it unless it’s for cleansing ire. I’ve always felt like Burst moves should be our finishing moves. Kind of like how Limit Breaks are in FF. They should be our super powerful, mess you up moves that are used to polish off a weakened opponent. 100b fits that so much better than the current crappy one which I cant even remember the name of because I use it so little. IF they do swap them, it needs some tweaking. It should be made stronger, although people will probably complain about that, and be more accurate and faster since we’d be using adrenaline on it. I just want our burst moves to be something big and flashy and worth spending adrenaline on. Not some crappy slash like our current one. If they wont swap them, then I want something cooler looking as our burst. Maybe we grab our opponent by the throat and toss them into the air, summon 100 greatswords and impale them with all the blades juggling them in the air, something like that. or even better, something like this…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QgX8RuEAoo