Is the Wyvern Ignition Great Sword OP?

[76561198055083273]

Thinking about switching over to GS from Lance

[Raybrandt]

It's pretty good, personally using it a little more for the looks than worrying about whether or not I'm using the best weapon :P

[Angel]

it's the best greatsword in the game! and it looks amazing, love slicing tails off and hitting for 1400 damage on sleeping monsters

[=Sarsante=]

Its the best, its not op

[Ragosta tin Dei]

Its slightly stronger than Jagras, nothing more.

[Ǵ̶͓̂͑lí̴̤̀̄́tcĥ̸]

Top tier, wouldn't call it "the absolute best" but either that one or the Jho one with a pretty specific set is essentially a speedrunner weapon, so it can certainly seem OP in the hands of a good user. But then again, so can many of the others. Very high physical and true damage with elementless and crits (via max might, weakness exploit, augments and so on). Ease of acquisition makes it feel OP earlier in the game too.

More often than not the discrepency is seconds off the timer, few minutes max. Beyond that it's the user, not the weapon.

[HunterXCooL]

OP no... But it's the best and cool looking GS... Strongest for raw damage yes...

[Stationary Traveller]

Originally posted by ⊂╫i└└ i∩':

Top tier, wouldn't call it "the absolute best" but either that one or the Jho one with a pretty specific set is essentially a speedrunner weapon, so it can certainly seem OP in the hands of a good user. But then again, so can many of the others. Very high physical and true damage with elementless and crits (via max might, weakness exploit, augments and so on). Ease of acquisition makes it feel OP earlier in the game too.

Even on an average to bad player it's very easy to do dumb damage with it with the proper build. There's no reason to use other greatswords aside maybe for elderseal.

[~KeNnEtH~]

Best greatsword

[Ǵ̶͓̂͑lí̴̤̀̄́tcĥ̸]

Originally posted by Moonmadness:

Originally posted by ⊂╫i└└ i∩':

My snip

Even on an average to bad player it's very easy to do dumb damage with it with the proper build. There's no reason to use other greatswords aside maybe for elderseal.

Other than one very important reason - because they want to. Not everyone cares about min-max unless the difference is so significant it utterly annihilates everything else, which isn't the case.

[Diavolo]

It's the best in most case, sometimes the Deviljho one is better. And to answer honestly, have a "main" weapon in MH feels a little stupid to me.

Don't bother too much on that, and keep trying to get better with most weapon you can.

The GS is easy to use, but you can clearly see a good GS user from a bad one.

Keep in mind that now the GS is inflated af, since the new event you'll see all kind of GS player that have no clue how GS work at all :D

[Stationary Traveller]

Originally posted by ⊂╫i└└ i∩':

Originally posted by Moonmadness:

Even on an average to bad player it's very easy to do dumb damage with it with the proper build. There's no reason to use other greatswords aside maybe for elderseal.

Other than one very important reason - because they want to. Not everyone cares about min-max unless the difference is so significant it utterly annihilates everything else, which isn't the case.

GS isn't a complicated weapon; raw damage is literally the only thing that counts for it. The only thing that could matter for a "noob" is how to deal with sharpness loss and not carting while charging, but other than that it's simple - give them a GS with more raw damage and they will do more damage.

And about the difference in strength, the sword deals ~7% more damage than the next most powerful GS (Jho) without the need to spend any point in Handicraft to get to white sharpness or to use many skills to offset the negative affinity (one augment is enough). Even with ZERO optimization this sword will deal more damage than the Jagras Hacker right off the bat, and with only a Non-Elemental Boost deco also more than Anguish.
Again, unless you really like the aesthetics of another weapon - which was never the point of the thread or even your own first reply - there's no reason to not use Wyvern Ignition for anything that isn't elder dragons.

[♋Phenex]

It's the best greatsword against everything that isn't weak to dragon in which case the jho GS is better.

[Dog]

Greatswords suck.

[Lunacy]

It's about as good as Jho sword, just depends on the rest of your build.

[Stationary Traveller]

Originally posted by Zod the Defiler:

Greatswords suck.

I'm sorry, can't hear you over my 1.1k dmg TCS.