User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: Greatswords/@comment-219.89.184.193-20120418060738/@comment-143.88.0.213-20120418171448

"[...] GS's with status ailments [...] end up being kinda... unhelpful."

Please elaborate on this. As a fan and wielder of Slaugher+, I'm curious as to what exactly unhelpful delineates. I'll admit the other status GS tend to have relatively low values for Status Attributes, COUGHPICKAXEBLADEUSELESSCOUGH, and then there are those with good Status like Cat's King that don't have enough sharpness to be useful beyond High Rank Quests. Is this what you mean, or is it something else?

The Great Sword is my weapon from the series rivaled only by Hammers in functionality, Gunlances in sheer bad assery and Switch Axes for their multi-purpose capabilities. In my opinion the Great Sword has all 3 attributes and in the hands of someone with a good sense of timing, they surpass the other weapons. Great Swords are very misunderstood and called slow and clunky. That's because people try to use them like the other weapons. It's a One-Hit-Wonder. You're not going to be comboing with it unless you're either really lucky or, if you're like me, really greedy.