User blog comment:Plexioth- xD/Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate/@comment-121.223.138.126-20110911084357/@comment-121.223.138.126-20110911093909

Weapons never had that high attack, it was just the class modifiers making them look higher than they actually are. Take the Alatreon Metamorph, for example; in Tri, it says it has 936 attack and 400 Dragon, whereas in P3rd it has 190 attack (before being upgraded with an armor sphere) and 40 dragon. The class modifier for hammers is 5.2, so the actual attack value for the Alatreon Metamorph is 936/5.2=180, so it has higher raw in MHP3rd, even without being upgraded with an armor sphere. All elemental damage prior to P3rd was divided by 10 even before factoring in the other variables, so the elemental value for the Alatreon Metamorph is the same in Tri and Portable 3rd. Back on the topic of sharpness, it really would unbalance the game if purple sharpness were in there, as Green Nargacuga weapons are already very powerful, and the access to purple sharpness would make them even more so. The same thing happened in Unite at high rank, the Nargacuga weapons were the most effective weapon against most monsters at high rank, due to the fact that they could get purple sharpness with S+1. The only other weapons that came close were Tigrex weapons, but only because of the same reason.