User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 358: Magical Barrier Particles, Review./@comment-24112129-20131101024945/@comment-7418318-20131101150407

And I refuse to believe that Laxus ever went into Dragon Force.

Just because he got a scale-like pattern on his arms isn't enough to convince me of him actually going into Dragon Force.

When Natsu and the twin Dragons went into DF they got a lot stronger, but Laxus didn't get any apparent power boost, because with the way he was kicking their asses before, he'd have totally pulverized Natsu and Gajeel if it really had been Dragon Force, unless a 2nd Gen DS's Dragon Force is a pathetic joke compared to a 1st or 3rd gen.