User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: Freedom Unite Armor Sets/@comment-2215026-20120627025155/@comment-969093-20120703163343

(fixed your horrible grammer to make my response easier to understand for others who read this)

Q: "Wouldn't you rather have better skills?..."

A: Who are you to tell me Quick Eating is not a good skill? You rather get hit and killed with a way too long healing animation, spending more time on healing than you could have spent on attacking with the use of Attack Up skills? What's the use of offensive skills if you can't stay offensive? Might as well go with 1 defensive skill and remain offensive than be passive half of the time with only offensive skills.

Q: "...that affect you in battle, or might make you kill the monster faster?"

A: You're saying Quick Eating doesn't affect players in battle. Can you really say that to me with a straight face? It significantly cuts the animation speed for item consumption and allows you to heal/buff yourself in shorter time frames than you would be able to otherwise. Thus allowing you to quickly pull yourself together and get back to attacking. Would you rather get hit once by a HR9 Tigrex in Rage Mode, almost die and spend 40 seconds waiting for an opening to safely recovery, or heal yourself in 5 seconds and immediately return to attacking?

Q: "For example, when you are hunting a Rathalos, would you rather have Quick Eating or AuL/Sharpness +1?"

A: I go with both.