Ok, I get it. It’s a defensive weapon with good burst damage, BUT, “Greatsword — A brute force, heavy-damage weapon with emphasis on countering and evasion.”.
(I’m emphasing on wvw, and pvp)
Gs4 for blocking dmg and strike back when the target is close to you, and you conter back with Gs5 and then gs2.
But gs3 evasion… 0.5 seconds of evasion and 1.25 seconds of the cast time you could get hit, even the sword 3 and dagger 4 has higher evasion time, and they are not emphased on evasion.
Now the AA that is what I came for.
Swapping weapon takes 9seconds.
What we use gs are basically gs4 gs3 gs2 3s + 1.75s + 0.75s if we use those 3 skills = 5.5s and 3.5 s doing nothing, we could use the gs chain that takes 2.56s (the animation takes that <via wiki>). Some one wud say 5.5 ~~ 6s + 2.56s = 8.56s and u could swap weapon again. But we don’t really use AA chain.
When will you swap to GS on ranger?
When the enemy comes melee.
-You will block the attacks and the rush away or stun it and burst with gs2
if you are low hp
-block with gs4 or daze with gs5 and running away with gs3. You won’t use 111 to get that 1s evasion, you dodge. And it’s not easy to complete the third chain hit.
When u use gs1?
When the enemy is low and can’t run away,you are on GS and your swapping weapons is on cd.
Will you use 111 to evade damage when he is chasing you? Clearly not. U use gs4 and gs3 and run like a kitten.
In summary:
Gs1 chain is useless, deals no dmg and ppl don’t use it for that 1s evasion.
Gs5 only stun if hit from behind, kinda useless.
Gs has 2 useless skills for me, they could make gs gives defensive boons (gs gives no boons to ranger, sad)
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