Hunter Stuffs.

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Spamming? Guard? What are you even talking about?
Wasn't this about getting big dmg with Weak Stance, i.e. attacking?

Unless I have been fed a ton of misinformation again, weak stance and avg stance are mutually exclusive.
This means unless you have a braver sub build exclusively for dual stances and stance dance for bosses where you can easily reach the weakspot, you will not get the weakspot boost often.
Hunter is not a precise class.

I don't know about you but as for me I almost always hit the weakspots <.< and no I'm not trying to brag about it, I just honestly don't have any trouble with weakspots. Since I hit weakspots more than I hit anything else it made sense to use Weak Stance. All I know is that Hu/Br with weak stance was dealing more damage overall for me (also killed ennemies much faster) and yes I've tried average stance and other stuff.

As for the def and guarding part, what I meant (based on you saying over end is difficult to spam since you take lots of damage) is that with enough defense (obviously hunters can tank) and/or you're just good enough with guarding it is not that difficult to be in the middle of attacks while attacking yourself. (since there's also going to be a skill to guard all around your body in the updates to come, it's even easier)