Guild Wars 2

I gave them the benefit of the doubt and spent a while trying to get use to the changes to Greatsword.

It didn’t work, its not a matter of relearning, or getting use to the change, the new set up is just plain garbage.

The cooldowns clash with each other, you now spend an unacceptable duration auto attacking. You could probably take a micro nap in the amount of time it takes for a skill to roll off cooldown after the initial burst.

The skill rearrange was an unnecessary switch in a way that can’t even be properly corrected due to lack of player customized skill placement on bars. Rebinding keys is not a compromise or fix, as it rebinds all weapon sets.

The change did nothing to address the apparent issue with Retaliation up time, in fact change only served to increase the potential for continuous Retaliation up time while having a drastic and derogatory knock on effect for everyone using the Greatsword.

A single patch that changes a weapon of this magnitude seems drastic, I would be very interested in hearing the reasoning behind why Greatsword needed to be changed so much, so suddenly, as I have never seen a player say the Guardian Greatsword was too weak or too powerful.

If retaliation is such a hot issue of balance right now they why don’t they do the novel idea of changing retaliation instead of doing all these completely awkward changes to the greatsword?