User blog comment:Bonaparrte/Your Weapon and You/@comment-2036320-20100531023653

@Bmombaerts: The lance has the sweeping strike for crowd control. You can also combine the backstep with a normal jab to get an effect similar to the LS's fade slash.

@PurpleIsGood: Thanks for the kudos, but it really wasn't that much work. I enjoy trying all weapons, particularly when facing new monsters. Some notes: Overall, all weapons lose sharpness at more or less the same rate per hit. What makes the GS lose sharpness slower is that each hit count more and you hit less times. GSs do have a generally better sharpness bar though, particularly on upgrades. The hammer, while having shorter green sharpness, is not really at a disadvantage here. It has the highest elemental damages, and if you favour the superpound then you will need to resharpen at more or less the same rate than the GS.