User blog comment:TigrexGo/Monster Hunter 3 Weapons?/@comment-1696682-20100421145306

Guess I started an argument... ah well,l it happens. The DS are stronger than the SnS in the DoT department, heck, they're pretty much stronger than anything in the DoT department. However, when it comes to their main function, at least according to what I keep reading and hearing, they're there to deal Elemental damage, because of their quick attacks. In reality, you only need one weapon for elemental damage, and range weapons can do that better, in a way, as the main use of elemental damage, besides boosting your DoT, is to break certain parts of monsters, (Blangonga fangs, for example.) And yes, I agree somewhat, ChAoS ZeRo, that the SA is pretty much a GS/LS combination, though it's style is somewhat different, and it's a dedicated Axe tree, though from a lot of the vids I've seen, it's far from pin-point accurate like the LS.

...Hope I didn't get myself into a deeper hole with all that.