User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter X Discussion/@comment-5721990-20151014162639/@comment-5119020-20151015055142

You're forgetting the era of the most broken weapon in MH history. Not even MH4 Vanilla IG can top this. It's MHG/MHF1 SNS. That thing had a 1.5 damage modifier.. for free. That's as much as purple sharpness in 2nd gen, which didn't exist then.

SNS got buffed quite a lot in MH4.