40c base damage (18 str/6PS/120 active wpf/quick swing/bodyhit/no speed bonus or sweetspot penalty)
against
(min|avr|max damage)
25 armor: 24|33|45
50 armor: 8|16|31
75 armor: 2|7|20
30p base damage
against
25 armor: 21|29|36
50 armor: 9|16|27
75 armor: 2|9|19
Wait, so me trying to stab platers is completely useless? So even the stab of a german greatsword is inferior to its swings? Stabbing has no use at all, apart from it having range? Damn, buff pierce!
They don't have some of the same bonuses that polearms have, but they have fantastic animations.
Am I the only one who fights a greatsworder over any top tier polearm anyday? I find the polearm animations ridiculously confusing. I always get killed by double attacks.
When a polearm hits your block, it bounces back in way that almost exactly resembles the animation of chambering a new attack (to avoid confusion, chambering an attack is preparing an attack. Holding LMB is chambering an attack, the other thing is called chamber blocking). Because of that I always fail to spot double attacks or hiltslashes, cause I just assume its just the bounceback. And than suddenly, bam your dead.
They also swing much faster as far as I can tell, maybe the chambering animation takes longer, but the swinging part seems to be a lot faster. I should fraps that shit and compare it on slow mo once, because I will probably get ridiculed now.
