September 04, 2013 05:40PM
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I don't know that I faced one of these specifically during Krunk's lifetime, though I'm certain I faced some greeting builds. The general rule for Krunk was this: If your mainhand isn't cursed, you will regret it, so got get a cursed mainhand wield.
There is a log of Krunk fighitng a paladin with a wrath mainhand. Why? Because I would rather bash them double the amount of time than give up my cursed mainhand so that I can damage them instead of getting it negated by righteousness. Also it drains their mana, which can be useful.
With that out of the way, how do you face Greeting/Crashing Giant? Preparedness.
Have a cursed mainhand. If they can't disarm you with crashing, the feints won't matter.
Enlarge. Between savage feeding and being at least as large as they, it will be very difficult to permalag you long enough to finish the job for non-RBW.
If you are Shigru, this becomes basically impossible due to masochism. Once you get free of the lag, fallback, flee, chug blood, re-up enlarge, etc. then bash them back. It might be harder to bash a greeting giant, but orc bash is orc bash, and it is still the best option you have.
On the off chance Greeting/Crashing giant is also a Sword spec (defensively so much better than you that you can't really beat them down in raw melee) and RBW (offensively so much better due to deathblow lottery). Either only fight when you have a slave to soak up damage and are confident you can fallback behind them, or just don't fight them. This build is almost totally incapable of killing mages, so they will get bored and delete soon enough. Any other combination is much easier to deal with so long as you have a cursed mainhand wield, and you have no excuse not to as weapon type for this kind of fight matters almost not at all, so even a cursed mainhand sword is preferable to getting your weapons disarmed and being bashed to death.
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