SnS are amazing for support. Paralyzing, Sleeping or Elemental attacks are the main traits of SnS. Thus, their usefulness is mainly online.

For the earlier parts of the game it is optimum for agility against bosses mostly. My style so far has been Lance for offline non-boss missions, Sword and Shield for offline bosses, but i haven't fought Quropecco yet. For him i'm assuming i'll need something higher up on the damage scale, so i'm going to try upgrading that Great Sword that's been sitting around in my item chest forever. Figure i should have enough materials for the first two upgrades.

Great Game.

I've seen tuns of SnS users at the higher HR's, so don't worry about a population issue, I have only seen 2 other Gunners that stick to Gunning, have 1 of them on my Friend List the other one just comes and goes.

SnS... 4 SnS's would be enough to cripple a Deviljho forever look at it that way, it's like a pack of rabid wolves destroying something.

Anyway, SnS isn't all about status effects, they are very similar to Guns in that you can do thingst he long way or the fast way.

Online Tier 1 I can choose to kill Royal Ludroth in 100+ shots or kill it in 20 shots. It's really down to what I want to do and what options I use.

100+ shots to ludroths body or whatever with any shot except fire or 20 shots of fire to it's face. (Which is actually 60 shots technically.)

I find SnS ok on most mobs but you realty got to use items on-top of it. There are the high dmg SnS out there that might be worth going after if your finding what your using now as gimp and that kind of seems to be the trick behind SnS to have lots of SnS for diffrent suasion sadly you cant changes sword in feld that would of been a nice effect for SnS. Also i have no idea how ppl are moving though the game soo fast taking me forever to go on i guess mainly because i am aiming to get upgrades hehe. Something i been wading the add effect of dragon is that dmg or dmg + vs dragons? If it is dmg + on dragons what are the mob types in this same i am amusing dragon are the ones with wings and ever thing else that scaly is a lizard.

Dragon damage will merc any wyvren in the game and I mean any, everything is weak to it, can't remember any exceptions.

That's probably why the SnS that is all Dragon Damage is so sought after.

Great Jaggi is resistant to it, lol.

Anyways, I met a nice couple of people yesterday; we hunted 3 Lagiacruses and did some charm runs. I finally got a Sense -10 Charm, perfect for my play style! I use it on my Lancer + Barroth armor to keep my stamina high = all other members can do a ton of damage while the wyverns come mostly after me ^_^

Good tips, thanks! I actually prefer evasion to blocking, due to my Evasion+1 and Evasion+ skills, but you're definitely right about the rest. And, of course, blocking is pretty damned important too.

 All the weapons are good, it just comes down to your playstyle. The switchaxe is nice due to its range, power, and versatility, but it's fairly slow and lacks blocking. If you're into speedy attacks, I actually recommend the Sword and Shield, or the Lance. With the latter, remember to use the step ability to reset your cooldown: that way you can almost constantly be on the attack.

 If you're comfortable with the lance, why not stick with that? It does high damage due to its fast attacks, and I butcher that stupid bird with it in about three minutes now.  Just keep jabbing the enemies' weak points, and learn the step and block-advance techniques. Counter-thrust is useful too, especially against the big bosses.

Agility, mostly. Though Agility is something the Great Sword is heavily lacking in too, i'm just not comfortable facing bosses solo with the Lance just yet. Online, sure, but not offline yet.

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yeah I do find Sns really useful in online, I can put them to sleep allowing us to plant loads of bombs. its in single player I have problems. dib8erman, is kinda think your right. Went against Rathian the other day, my speed and mobillity meant I didn't die at all but it took me 40 mins to do it becuase of the low damage count. However I think the mian problem im having is that I suck at water fights.With R.Ludroth and Gobul i did manage to kill them first time, but i died twice and it took me 48 minutes both times.With Lagi I can't kill him. everytime I try I run out of time and have to capture. I guess I just need to get better at water combat.


If I like sns, what other wepaon classes should I try, ive experimented with the switch axe and i can take down great jaggi and querepeco really quickly but I die against everything else