User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: Statuses/Mechanics/@comment-451754-20121209235727/@comment-50.124.139.228-20121210035646

I sometimes find the automatically sheathing your weapon useful, since you can easily panic dive the moment you regain your balance. When you are sent flying, you get your weapon back out as you are getting back up. With a bulky, slow moving weapon like the switch axe, it is very hard to get out of the way of any follow up attacks.

On a similar topic: wind pressure. Similar to quake, but I find it more dangerous. Quake is usually a side effect from a very powerful attack that will take a bit of time for the monster to get up from. However, windpress is ofentimes deliberatly used by monsters to catch hunters off guard just long enough to strike. Windpress is also very annoying since it stops you from attacking during times that the monster is helpless (eg, flying away, landing, just hovering for the whole battle *coughrathaloscough*). There needs to be more good sets with windpress skills since they would open up many windows for attacking.