User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: Greatswords/@comment-3062343-20120414092421

Was it Tri or P3rd that changed the Art of Unsheathing/Crit Draw skill? I think it was P3rd, but I'm not too sure. Anyway, it was changed so that it now adds 100% affinity to the weapon, rather than making the affinity 100%; i.e. in previous games, a GS with, say, -30% affinity would always score a critical hit on the draw attack, whereas now it will have 70% affinity on the draw attack. And yeah, the final Ala GS is probably the most-used GS in the game. The Black Tigrex GS gets a decent amount of use though (I believe the regular Tigrex GS outdamages it when in white sharpness, but it only has a tiny amount of white, so the Black Tigrex GS is probably the better in the long run). As for my opinion of Greatswords/Great Swords (I have no idea which one is correct either); I'd place them around the lower-middle in terms of how much I enjoy using them. I use them occasionally on certain monsters (Tigrex being the obvious monster), but they're certainly not something I'd care to use as my main weapon in a game. There is definitely a certain satisfaction derived from landing a Crit Draw-enhanced level 3 charge on Tigrex's head though, that I don't get with any other weapon, so they score a few points in that regard. Oh, and for the record, the King Atillart Sword is back in Tri G. Yay!