Greatswords are actually slower than most top tier polearms, if you fail to attack before them it just means you:
- have crap connection, lag or bad ping
- your reflexes are slow
- you've been hiltslashed
90 speed glaive is faster than 92 speed Danish Greatsword, not to mention that it's longer which means GS guy has to facehug glaive guy.
Xant once told me that they are faster because they attack slightly before model does but I see no good reason for that since none of those are curved weapons.
But they are indeed faster, most good players know that
To prove my point I'll just show you polearm which has 92 speed like Greatswords:
Long Hafted Blade
weapon length: 153
weight: 2
difficulty: 15
speed rating: 92
weapon length: 153
thrust damage: 19 pierce
swing damage: 37 cut
slots: 2
Do you really believe that this weapon is as fast as Danish GS?
I really don't get it why people cry so much about twohanders. Must be because they suck at 2H themselves. Once you're decent at 2H you don't want to play anything else, even if you try something else you'll get bored after a short period of time and respec back to 2H.
People who play other classes are either:
- FotM scum
- roleplaying a theme (like Ujin with that silly str shielder hybrid of his)
- don't know to play so they choose archery/xbow because it's the only class they are familiar with (Quake, UT, CS, CoD, BF, TF...)
When 2H was truly stronger than polearms there was like 80% 2H players. Make greatswords stupid easy and effective as pike is atm and you'll see everyone and their dogs running around with 2Hs on their backs. That's probably the reason why they don't wan't to buff 2H swords.
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