Ranger Greatsword is the most broken weapon in the entire game and should have seen some nerfs a long time ago

[GuriGashi.5617]

Not sure how Ranger Greatsword has gone under the radar for so long, but a weapon that has high DPS, a block skill, 2 evade skills, stealth through a leap finisher into smoke field, a hard cc which refreshes and sets up your burst skill (Maul) and insanely low cooldowns has to be without a single doubt the most powercrept weapon in the entire game and the weapon itself carries the majority of all current and past Ranger builds

Edited February 7 by GuriGashi.5617

[Frequency.6407]

N1 melee weapon by a long shot

[Deadmoose.6594]

Ranger gs, but I just saw a berserker do over 25k damage to me in one hit too, I'm not okay with that.

[arazoth.7290]

4 hours ago, GuriGashi.5617 said:

Not sure how Ranger Greatsword has gone under the radar for so long, but a weapon that has high DPS, a block skill, 2 evade skills, stealth through a leap finisher into smoke field, a hard cc which refreshes and sets up your burst skill (Maul) and insanely low cooldowns has to be without a single doubt the most powercrept weapon in the entire game and the weapon itself carries the majority of all current and past Ranger builds

Pretty telegraphed spells that you can see coming for dodging, blocking and so on

[Gotejjeken.1267]

It not nerfed as there are no good builds left to use it with.  

Edited February 7 by Gotejjeken.1267

[Avatar.3568]

It's very good weapon, but the rest of the ranger kit hold its back to get broken, when untamed port had no cast time this was literally broken. Without its still the best weapon kit by itself in the game (wait till staff for warrior comes out, it will claim r1) 

[Sinister.5792]

Dodge golemn was invented so you can practice your dodge 🤣

 

thank me later

 

this information is worth 20gold, make sure to pay me in game, goodluck

[Hotride.2187]

Honestly its the smokescale, not GS, with LB stealth on top. Stealth from GS3 in smoke bomb, evades on smoke assault, GS4 block, LB stealth, just the dodges you have with energy sigil, maybe lightning reflexes and there you go, you have a pretty good evasive sequence to not get hit much.

Remove the smokescale and things look differently. At least they removed the knockdown on takedown...

Ranger GS is a strong weapon, yeah, but its not broken on its own.

GS2 you can get behind the ranger to avoid the dmg and that is the dmg of GS, nothing else on GS does actual dmg. Though of course you are usually eating GS2, GS5, GS2 while being CCed.

Edited February 7 by Hotride.2187

[Master Ketsu.4569]

Ranger GS is not much better than Rev or Warrior GS once you account for dumb stealth combos.

Maul is a very fair skill to get hit by due to being highly telegraphed. The problem ONLY comes when you can stealthmonkey it. Before damage powercreep was addressed, a long time ago there used to be a really degenerate low-effort build you could play that would just oneshot people from stealth with 30k+ damage on Ranger GS, and then just run away while it recharged. That build got nerfed along with the damage patch so it's not really an issue anymore. However, it's still annoying for the same reason stealth is annoying. It's not actually a problem with Ranger. People need to stop blaming classes and certain weapons for the fact that the reveal-on-hit and no real soft detection makes stealth in this game naturally low counterplay. Ranger GS is not a problem. Stealth is badly designed. Thief DE rifle is not a problem. Stealth is badly designed. Just about every problem build that uses stealth has the central flaw of what makes it stupid and uninteractive rooted in stealth being badly designed in a way that makes it uninteractive. Other games let you either see an outline or hear a sound when a stealthed enemy is close enough ( WoW ), or make stealth reveal if you got hit with a CC Skill ( Tera ), or revealed you when you used an offensive skill instead of after it successfully hit ( Every game except GW2 ).

At the absolute very least, dodging or blocking a stealth attack should reveal the attacker and I have yet to see a good argument against this that didn't sound like it came from a Rank<1400 player. The issue is that Anet has repeatedly failed to understand just how bad this mechanic is designed. The current iteration is waaaaaaay too hand-holdy. I can understand MMO's pandering to casuals but pandering this hard is just intellectually insulting.

 

 

 

 

[Frequency.6407]

GW2 stealth is really great when it comes to PVE mobs 🤗

Unfortunately, when it comes to PVP, seems like a free invlun/de-target/de-engage isn't really healthy 😉

[Wolf.1972]

On 2/6/2024 at 5:39 PM, GuriGashi.5617 said:

Not sure how Ranger Greatsword has gone under the radar for so long, but a weapon that has high DPS, a block skill, 2 evade skills, stealth through a leap finisher into smoke field, a hard cc which refreshes and sets up your burst skill (Maul) and insanely low cooldowns has to be without a single doubt the most powercrept weapon in the entire game and the weapon itself carries the majority of all current and past Ranger builds

YES THIS! I been saying this for the longest time, they need to nerf it. It's WAY too overloaded.

[Goldilock.2584]

No necros gs is