User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: Longswords/@comment-3193072-20121121014853

I agree with the others that say a Longsword is rather easy to master - pretty much spam the infinite combo - while for other weapons you need to think about efficiency, as in, what attacks take the most time and what attacks will do the most damage?

That being said, Longswords are flocked to because they're just good weapons. They have great speed, decent strength, great reach, and it's one of the easiest weapons to just pick up and play.

However, they're good weapons, like I said, but you can't really go anywhere with them. I used to use Longswords exclusively in Tri, until I started online pay and started tripping all my party members. The problem with Longswords is that they're, once again, just good weapons. In the hands of skilled party members, though, hammers, lances, greatswords, bowguns, even sword and shields can prove to be much more useful, being a boon to the party instead of a hindrance.