User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-4256715-20110815104417

On interesting thing..which is actually only about balance and not monster ecology...that a friend asked me before: how come..that a hunter can take a gunlance and huge shield..and walk around blocking (even though only slowly) ,BUT he can NOT walk with sword and shield blocking?

and also: why does the weight of the switchaxe change when changing modes (it obviously does because anyone who COULD run around during swordmode WOULD!)...i know this is a balance thing because swordmode is sorta stronger than axemode...but still..