Puncture is a very good attack, the problem with puncture attacks is that the ones that hit hard give up a lot of defense. But where you'd do okay damage on a slice you will do great damage on the lunge. Thrusts and Jabs don't do much damage but keep up good balance and defense.

Most puncture weapons have a great deal of balance which offsets it slightly.


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I use a jabber in PvP, but in the normal course of hunting it's always a slicer.

You can get a foil I think that will well balanced but its fair puncture and its a crap ME. If you plan to stab get a forged sabre IMO, if you want to pvp/hunt an Iltesh is nice because you can cycle through the feint/draw/sweep/slice/chop/lunge/thrust/jab combo...once again this is just my opinion.