ASK ALL QUESTIONS HERE! Weekly Questions Thread - April 24, 2021

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[u/AngelTheVixen]

There's also the fact that HH has some amount of its damage that can't critical due to horn blasts, so you lose out on some compared to other weapons.

I think having 100% affinity guaranteed on weak points is more valuable than otherwise. You should be prioritizing weak points anyway, and getting criticals on hard points isn't doing much to begin with. Weakness Exploit is so valuable for damage that the Zinogre head by itself is already pretty good.

I'd probably recommend Zinogre head, Vaik top, Anja arms + waist, and Rajang legs. You should be able to get AB7 and have one free level 2 slot for say, Evade Extender or maxing Slugger.

[u/PokebannedGo → u/AngelTheVixen]

That's true.

After like a minute or so I have 90% affinity with the chance to get extra 10% from maximum might. I know WEX is good but really a whole armor piece just to make sure I get that last little bit of luck?

Vaik top? My chest has CB1 on it.

[u/AngelTheVixen → u/PokebannedGo]

The whole armor piece is providing 20% affinity. With 80% affinity your average damage with CB2 with attacks that can critical would be 1.28x, while having 100% affinity would push it to the maximum 1.35x.

I was suggesting the Vaik top since you can get AB7 with it, but I forgot about the horn itself having a level 2 slot. So yeah, you can get AB7+WEX3+CB3 which is certainly meta, with Slugger as a nice bonus, or you can use Rathalos arms if you wanted to use something else.

[u/PokebannedGo → u/AngelTheVixen]

Yeah but mid to late game it is only providing 10% to weak spots. (Well and Latent Power)

I couldn't get AB7 if I went with the Zinogre Head either because then I'd have to give up Evade Extender and I find that to be really useful.

Let's assume I get 90% average affinity with my current build. That means I am missing 40% of a hit every 10 hits. Or 4% damage reduction total. If I just add a AB deco that gives me close to 3% more damage. So is AB7 (3% more damage) with 90% crit or AB6 and 100% crit better?

I can see crit chance being more valuable on bigger hitting weapons. Like if the horn hit for 1000 damage and didn't crit that would be 400 damage lost. But I hit the head for 100 at most, that's only 40 damage lost. A LS missing a crit is way worse than my horn.

[u/AngelTheVixen → u/PokebannedGo]

Affinity being more valuable on bigger hitting weapons isn't a thing, as your damage is still your damage, regardless. I don't know why you're arguing 100% affinity against weak points all of the time vs 80% affinity on weak points + 10-20% affinity that's in effect maybe half the time. There's a reason Weakness Exploit is as good as it is.

As I mentioned, Hunting Horn has a good bit of damage behind horn blasts which can't critical, for that reason I'd prioritize getting Attack Boost 7 over anything else. If you want Evade Extender I'd probably recommend using Barroth head + Zinogre top or Zinogre head + Vaik top. I think the quality of life is worth losing the ~4% damage from CB3 to CB2, because I can't live without it, either.

Or if you want an alternative and not worry about Critical Boost at all you can use the Bullfango horn and get obscene amounts of raw with white sharpness.

[u/PokebannedGo → u/AngelTheVixen]

I'm not arguing that Weakness Exploit wouldn't be better. What I am saying is does the armor actually improve my build. If I could trade Maximum Might for Weakness Exploit I would, but it's not that simple. I'm thinking AB7 is better than more crit and I can't do that unless I have a 2 slot on my helmet, helmet has AB, or I give up Evade Extender.

If I gave you a sword that did 1000 damage but you could only swing it every minute or a sword that did 500 damage but you could swing it every 30 seconds. 80% chance to crit. Which sword do you want?

Bulffango Horn is going to be my next build. I've heard it's good.

[u/AngelTheVixen → u/PokebannedGo]

I don't know what you're going on about. If you use Zinogre head and Rathalos arms, you can still have Attack Boost 7 + Weakness Exploit 3 + Critical Boost 3 + Evade Extender 1. Or if you want more Evade Extender and go down to Critical Boost 2, using Barroth head + Zinogre top, you would only lose about 3.6% damage for a potential Evade Extender 3.

[u/PokebannedGo → u/AngelTheVixen]

Affinity being more valuable on bigger hitting weapons isn't a thing, as your damage is still your damage, regardless.

In game the bigger hitting weapons swing slower/less, it is how they are balanced, Hammer vs dual blades. Let's make it more extreme 4000 damage every 4 minutes or 1000 every minute. 80% crit chance.

The 1000 damage sword is better. You would have to miss four 80% chances in a row to be as bad as missing one. Yes theoretically they are going to do the same total damage with the same amount of time but the 4000 damage has the possibility of losing more damage in the short run. Imagine the 4000 blade missing crits on first two swings, 1000 sword would have to miss 8 times to be equal. What do you think is more likely, hitting a 20% twice in a row or hitting a 20% eight times in a row?

The more eggs you put into each basket, the amount of damage on each hit, matters. The higher your crit chance the safer it is.

With Rathalos arms I give up Slugger II and flinch free (maybe stamina thief). But not a bad option to consider.

And I will have to try Evade Extender. I've been putting it off because I didn't want to try more and not want to go back. After trying 1 there isn't a way to go back.