User blog comment:Artemis Paradox/Monster Hunter Portable 3rd, Impressions/@comment-1955829-20110126184330

"And low rank armors cannot be improved to HR level anymore either. They have a normal low rank limit and that's the end of the line"

Aw, shit (for me, no for the game). I didn't know that so far and I tought I could upgrade my mix Jhen Mohran/Agnaktor to get Sharpness+1 without Blunt Edge with decent defense for High Rank. Now there are more Sharpness+1 sets but most of them are hard to get (among them there are low rank Jhen, Damascus and Deviljho) and got Blunt Edge except for full Amatsu, and you know how this is a pain to delete Blunt Edge without deleting Sharpness+1 or to get Sharpness+1 without pieces from a set that naturaly gives Handicraft points. But this isn't a big problem for the game, at least it makes it somewhat more difficult (before 3rd gen it was quite easy to get Sharpness+1).

Oh and if you went far enough (like after beating Alatreon and getting one of its weapon), is there still purple sharpness or weapons are now limited to white sharpness ? I saw that Anguish (Deviljho's GS) which had a purple sharpness with Sharpness+1 in Tri only got a tiny white sharpness with Sharpness+1 and a tiny blue without.