User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Discussion of the Week: Gunlances/@comment-16331478-20170325113837

1) It's my main and favorite weapon type, always has been and always will be.

2) The freedom of combos it allows is frankly bigger than that of any other weapon. You can chain so many moves into so many different moves you hardly stick to just the same combo for more than a minute. Exlosions are cool too I guess.

3) Well that's a question that will just spark pointless flame wars. Lance got shafted really hard in favor of GL during the second half of 4th gen so it's not even an argument, but I used to be a lancer as well as a gunlance in 3U and 4U so it pisses me off either way.

4) Of the ones I've tried, 3U's GL felt the most solid. Faster animations, being a great underwater weapon, and a monster roster that doesn't actively punish you for picking a weapon with a big shield.

5) Obviously 2nd gen because lul just looking at footage you can tell it sux.

6) It rarely happens to me, I'm ususally the one blasting people.

7) If MHXX didn't come out yet I would've said "add guard points" but it looks like they beat me to it.

8) It would probably just become broken at that point.

9) Alioth's Asterism, the Lucent Nargacuga GL. Sure, it had bad raw, but pretty much everything else about it was jacked up to make up for it: natural purple sharpness, 30% affinity, 200 poison that doesn't need awaken and Wide lv5 shells. Plus I just like the design.

10) I don't think I have one. Maybe the Stygian Zin GL in 3U, but that's just because the dragon element had to be awakened on it and that didn't make any sense when every other stygian weapon had natural dragon on it.  And the design of it is pretty ugly. It's good in 4U though.

11) Yeah I am, it finally added something that makes GL fun again (the guard points). The changes made in 4U and Gens did nothing but frustrate me (slower animations and the heat meter), but this is great.

12) I dont know, I don't play Frontier nor know enough about it to answer this. Just add bigger explosions, kthx.