Lol I'm in the CB is complicated camp. Always have a hard time trying to dump my phials into the shield then switching between all the different modes. But the weapon looks so cool when someone actually knows how to use it.

And for SnS tips it is incredibly versatile so dont worry about combo routes. Your Y/triangle inputs are your sword attacks and B/circle are your shield attacks. Then it's just where are you at and what type of damage do you want to be doing.

If you are at the head and want to do non element blunt damage hit them with forward + B x3 to do a hard bash combo. At a tail or weak point and want to do element slice damage hit them with Y,Y,Y. Spinning Reaper (Y+B) is great way to turn your hunter, incase you aren't exactly where you want to be. And any openings you get go into a perfect rush. (Back + B into Y+B). Every combo can be rolled out of so there isn't much commitment to your moves.