User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: Greatswords/@comment-1758220-20120414162430

Alrighty then. DOTW. Slightly less phonetically pleasing as MAD, but a cool idea to be sure.

Well, I'm rarely a Greatsword user, but I've been here long enough to know the ins and outs of the weapon. I remember that the GS was the first weapon I ever used in MH, and I seriously almost stopped playing because of it. I simply couldn't deal with the slowness, as the Velociprey (and White Velociprey, haha) ran circles around me. But after a while, I stopped spamming random button combinations and tried blocking more and the unsheath attack, and I had a it of a better time with it. Today, while I still find the GS a little slow for my tastes, I can say that it's a fairly balanced and highly capable weapon class.

I do like Tri's moveset over 2nd gen, I might add.