User blog comment:- MHCaboose -/Monster Hunter Frontier G10 Discussion/@comment-7784930-20160325155453/@comment-7784930-20160326020919

@Blazing Black Dragon

That's fair enough, for games before MHX/Gen, since Sword Mode was made much more powerful there with Hunter Arts.

Lightsword is forced from Swordmode, so I don't expect much different on this unless they really bump up Axe mode.