Because greatsword is safer with better mobility, cleave and control. Greatsword has 50% more dodge count and an extra 10% dodge bonus. Executioner can’t cleave elites, so it’s single target. With greatsword you can cleave an entire clump of enemies mixed in with trash mobs, control the trash mobs, often stagger maulers, clean out the trash mobs and damage/kill maulers (or literally whatever else is on front of you) all simultaneously with the same wide sweep, high base damage heavies. And it stacks better with power boosts like 40% power from Mercenary, since that’s boosted damage that you’re hitting everything with.
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