User blog comment:Mckrongs/Monster Hunter 4 for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-216.60.21.56-20121210002836/@comment-83.165.23.90-20121211180526

^ I was classifing the Bug Staff as a support weapon because it helps the hunter by giving him some power-ups. Just like the hunting horn does (but this one helps your friends, too).

By the way, the idea of use the new weapon as support by throwing the other players to the air (to attack the monster's back, or to make one of these new "on-air" attacks) sounds interesting, specially since the BS has a similar move that allows the hunter to jump over the monster. Also, when I played a Dragon's Dogma Demo, your companions could make something very similar to let you to jump and attack a griphond. The only problem is that this tactic will be useless in offline mode, because there won't be other hunters to help (well, who knows, maybe the cats...)