User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: Lances/@comment-4775842-20120615230334

My personal favorite lance (for the time being anyway) is the Elder Babel Spear R, simply because I've been using it since it was just a tiny iron lance. Plus, it complimented the Ingot+ armor near perfectly (the hue of gold was slightly off). It was great to use because the set gave me Guard Boost (the gunner armor does this too. Odd, since there aren't any barrels that compliment that set) and I was able to gem in Guard +2. The only other skill I thought I needed was Constitution +2 (to minimize my stamina depletion), but I didn't have enough slots, to even get +1, so I just focused on upping my Thunder Resist (because the armor already gives you Thunder Resist +10), and in the end I ended up getting Thunder Resist +20. So all in all, my set was PERFECT for fighting the lagiacrus, or any thunder monsters actually. Of course, there's only the one... and, my fire resist was -10, and fire monsters are the majority of the monsters in the game.

I must disagree with some of the previous posts, saying lances aren't useful against monsters like uragaan and barroth. I have easily taken down many uragaan with the previously stated lance, and barroth are very easy if you use the counter move during every one of his charges (sometimes he'll be going too fast to hit with this, but it still works very well).

Now to answer the questions:

1. Lances work well against all monsters for me, though on plus monsters uragaan and tougher I do require at least one other person, since the lance doesn't do enough damage to take them out on my own.

2. Nothing. Although, I found lances much too restrictive in MHF2 to fit my style of fighting, making them near obsolete. I suppose I could lance a few monsters with it, but the prey's are too fast to be easy to kill with a mediocre lance at the moment.

3. MHT, no competition.

4. The Elder Babel Spear R.

5. Hmm... My favorite lance for it's looks... I don't really know, since I haven't gotten far enough in MHF2 to make an informed opinion on this. But from MHT, I'd have to say I like the Diablos Lance the best in looks.

6. Lances are the best supporting weapons in that they can deal damage to specific areas more easily and precisely than other melee weapons, since their goal is more to kill the thing. And gunners have a sort of circumferance around the monster that is the only safe zone for them, and this is longer to travel safely upon than for melee weapons, meaning that the monster may have changed position before the gunner can get into position to fire.

One last thing, I'm not sure what the meaning of the word 'broke' means in this particular blog. I've seen it used a couple of times, and I can't discern whether it's being used to positively or negatively describe lances.