Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25281610-20140808193641

Hi, been play MH since 08. My first Monster Hunter game was Freedom, was super addicting but the weapon classes were limiting, a solo gunner didn't work as it makes you heavily vulnrable and i joined a lttile to late to the party for multiplayer, then i grabbed Freedom Unite without even getting past Rathian in solo, which im kinda glad i did cause of Long Swords, lol learned there was a stigma attached to them when it came to online after getting tri last year, one that actually didn't apply to me, after learning the issues, I took my slightly over reckless singleplayer play style and hit up a few notches and instead of being on the defensive during enraged, i was all out, occasionally tripping up a few mosters, this let my allies patch and repair while i was drawing the monster's attention away from them, the reason this play style worked so well  i feel is due to the fact that blocking isn't an option when it comes to Long Swords so learning a monsters attacks and its damage radius is a must for a LS user, so attacking the enraged is possible as you can't soften the blow, only take the damage of move out of the way so you don't get hurt, this also allowed me to learn safe attack zones during enraged, some of which allow a full spirit combo which can either trip a monster up or force it out of enraged allowing your team with slower power packed weapons to step in and do their job, LS users get so much crap cause typically LS users are noobs who think its a badass weapon, tri knda fixed it by forcing players to learn  other weapon styles before learning LS but didn't help much. the Switch Axe is pretty beast an a great substitue for LS users if they want a similar weapon that can allow them to progress into Great Swords which are hard to learn for LS users but also worth it if they can. Lances at first for me were something that looked cool but the limitation of attach radius was a massive draw back, i avoid range weapons but have picked up a bow cause i can use it better than a gun and the reload time is short. currently I have Monster Hunter Freedom Unite on an emulator which does have online support and I used my UMD copy to rip the ISO so not an illegal copy, i did have Tri and 3 Ultimate but Wii lost multiplayer ability, and I owned 3 Ultimate on 3DS which how the multiplayer is set up on it is complete bullsit. 