User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: Lances/@comment-2215026-20120613151209/@comment-2123858-20120613180023

I would also beg to differ with your statement lances have piercing damages. so while impact and cutting weaponry generally have a high base raw it is consantly decreased by the monster's defense, lance and gunlance type weaponry the raw hits the monster directly most of the time dealing about the same damage every two hits... Another aspect is the fact that a lance can constantly attack with little delay if all of the dodges are timed, which means you have a major advantage looking at slower weapons. The shield in my opinion is almost useless if you know when to side step...