User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: Sword and Shields/@comment-924747-20120513102804

Well I'm bored right now so I guess I can share my experience on this by just answering the questions. Enjoy~

Q1: A bit cliched here, quick monsters where you don't have enough time to pull off a triple pound (Narga comes to mind, but not Barioth mind you).

Q1.1: Actually I have, plenty of times before, but the most recent one would be using Eternal Strife on Rathian in MH3, worked much better than I thought it would since I was using it for the lulz.

Q2: Yeah, Lao is the only monster I wouldn't recommend using SnS on, lack of damage output as mentioned also. Surprisingly however, using SnS on Shen ain't so bad, I remember raping his ass badly with it in MHF2 (didn't bothered using it though even for the lulz in MHP2ndG).

Q3: MH1. Eternal Strife, 'nuff said. :megusta:

Q4&5: Eternal Strife, not just because it's ridiculously strong in MH1, but I love the design for it.

Q6: In technical terms, part of the difficult weapons to use, but that's because the only thing in my head (along with Art's) when it comes to MH is damage output, and yeah SnS is one of the harder weapons to use for maximum damage output. At least it's very user-friendly though, so that's a definite plus.

Here's the lighter side of things if you guys are bored about this. One time I fought Alatreon with a hammer in this group (farming for skypiercers), and this one guy had SnS and the other two was using lance I believe. Every time, and I say, Every.Freakin.Time. I KO Ala, while the lance dudes were going for tail (they went for body after it was severed), the SnS dude went for the head and kept shield bashing it.....Over and over again (even going so far as knocking me from behind a few times). All I can say is that, he is a complete retard, not for thinking that doing KO damage to the monster when they are KO'd would prolong their KO since it's understandable if they don't know the mechanics of the game and just assume things, but for knocking someone with Alatreon's Metamorph doing max damage to the head during KO, while he does barely any. Yeah, you heard that right. Shield bashing the head of a KO'd monster, I will let that marinade in your head for a few days.