Great Sword

The Great Sword is a classic weapon first introduced into monster hunter, its a weapon capable of dealing massive amounts of damage, and its way of use has changed since Monster Hunter 2 when it was added the charged attack. The weapon tree for the great sword its divided between 2 main branches, the Buster Sword branch and Bone Blade branch, the Buster Sword branch having slighty less overall sharpness than the bone blade, in exchange for a wider amount of elemental damage in its sleeve, but both sides having generally lower sharpness bars than other weapons so its wise to have sharpening tools around.

Its a weapon has its own deep of use and it requires certain amount of training to be able to dominate it and fully use it. The Great Sword its not just any big pointy stick, with the R buttom serves as a shield, giving a protection slightly better than S&S, comming as well with a fast-draw shielding, having the "R button" pressed and then pressing triangle. This shielding ability comes with a downfall too, each time you shield up an attack the sword will loose sharpness, its unknown how much it does loose, perhaps just as much as a rebounded attack.

The Great sword has only 3 different attacks the vertical slash (this one can be charged to deal massive amounts of damage in one hit), the horizontal sweep-slash and the upside slash, the size of the Great Sword itself gives all these attacks a wide range of action, also the amount of damage can vary depending on what part of the sword gave the strike the tip and tilt giving the poorest and the middle giving an extra bonus even. All these attacks can be very slow, yet you can chain them giving you a faster response, most hunters just stick to vertical slash since it can be charged and both the upside and horizontal can be dangerous for your partners due to the wide area these attacks have.