User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: Greatswords/@comment-219.89.184.193-20120418060738/@comment-4555457-20120418192249

the most efficient way to get a status inflicted on a monster is by doing as much status damage per second as possible - this is not the greatsword's strength, which lies in dealing heavy damage in few hits - so while something that deals ~400 status damage could prove useful on a greatsword considering the huge amount of status inflicted per hit, the jobs best for weapons that can deal many hits in a short amount of time