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>>3655103
The Ice Sword is the second best Greatsword in the game and unlike the best one you can get it easily, the catch is that you have to be fast enough to use it well or put it on someone in the back rows so they get attacked less often.
There's a few ways to get around its Ice Barrier effect cancelling your attacks.

1)Quicktime
2)Debuffing the enemy with SuperGravity and buffing your Ice Sword user with Hard Fire/Moon Glow for maximized speed advantage
3)Use light equipment on light characters. This requires you to rely on mikiri and/or magic like Dancing Leaves for stronger enemies though as you won't have good defense against certain attacks and would probably die in one hit.

If you feel like it's too much of a pain to bother and you want a good GS user you can grind the Ahli enemies(women with greatswords and winged caps) in the small chamber on the right of the last floor of Leonid's castle, they drop the best greatsword in the game.

Dragon Rulers are pretty fast and have direct multi attacks like claws and tail swipes that make it hard to use the Ice Sword on them, unless you have a Mikiri set, most other enemies don't have such an advantage, consider that the Ice Sword also bypasses Aunas' innate Self Burning, just like in the first RomaSaGa, Aunas also doesn't use direct attacks often, I don't think his true form has any even, the Ice Sword will destroy him effortlessly.
Iirc, the Ice Sword's Ice Barrier also stops multi attack chains like claws attacks if it activates during a chain, but I'm not sure if I remember correctly, I should test it.
>>3655763
>mfw impatiently waiting for my preordered copy