Monster Hunter World: Weapon Stats Explained

[@spacecaptainlennix]

0:21 Affinity 1:40 Sharpness 3:31 Ore Tree vs. Bone Tree 6:12 Hidden Elements 7:20 Elderseal

[@chaschannel4275]

Some heros dont wear capes

[@gaijinhunter]

Sorry I saw 3 squares for the awakening charm and assumed it meant it can be upgraded to LV3, you guys are right it's only up to LV2. *sigh*

[@hasanalipuskullu6496]

It's ok gaijin nobody is perfect!

[@user-hc5et2jj4t]

gaijin hunter Disliked, unsubbed. ;)

[@kennygts10]

The Kirin gives you lv 3 free elemental

[@elsdalhberg372]

yeah i made Kirin Armor (although i find it really ugly) to finally use these sweet hidden Elements on some Weapons ^^

[@victorsandeen2694]

gaijin hunter If it has three squares they should fix that, it's misinformation.

[@kylefiliault196]

Gaijin, dude, i cant thank you enough for making these videos. Every single one of your MHW videos has been in depth, informative, insightful, and not to mention entertaining. Quality stuff, man. You are the real deal. Your MHW video library is easily the best MHW guide content on the market. Capcom should honestly pay you for these.

[@shroomyd.7260]

You can also tell when its a crit because there will be a little star under the damage dumbers thanks gaijin

[@Kougeru]

Shayne D. I can barely see the star

[@shroomyd.7260]

Kougeru ya same but once you get used to looking for it its easy

[@seanchan7966]

So that’s why nergigante is the elder dragon killer

[@nuke2099]

*Spoilers* Except in the story it fails to kill anything. It can only toss them around but that's it.

[@MultiRv90]

Nuke2099 Well, you dont want him insta killing your hunts for you. Would be boring.

[@tylercafe1260]

Nuke2099 I think they might do story updates for the game :o still mlre mysterys to be solved. Like Xeno'Jiva how is it even possible to be created?! Can an other exist? How many can there be? How was the bioenergy stored? Has Xeno'Jiva always been in the concoon or is it recent? Was it an egg? If so wheres the mother? Are there any hunters or civilizations on the New World? Also lol " New World" when the game is trying to be the a really big international game xD

[@seanchan7966]

Nuke2099 Well technically yeah he does kill them.He overpowers these elder dragons with all his force to prevent them from using their elemental powers to its maximum potential and with the highelderseal basically forcing them to flee.Although it gets tired real quick,it can regenerate real quick too basically taking chunks out of the elder dragon each encounter.So it kinda wins in attrition unless the elder somehow still has strength to fight without losing parts of its body.Although I can’t wait to see what happens when alatreon comes.Hoping to see a turf war between them but I doubt it,probably in special arena by itself.

[@CyberColossus]

Thanks for the vid Just FYI the Awakening Charm doesnt go to level 3, only 2. Thanks GH

[@ljlucianboi92able]

Jordan Samuels good stuff

[@wheelskelton2108]

There seems to be a way to unlock that final upgrade using a part gotten from tempered elder dragons.

[@giovanniruggiero469]

Btw u need free element jewel that need 3 slot fortunately almost all greyed out weapon have the 3 slot jewel, so you need a piece of some Armor that got free element or make the full Kirin Alpha Armor that got the skill lvl 3 plus it makes you fabulous

[@kmaster262]

Giovanni Ruggiero............is fabulous another word for gay cause I can't see myself in that armor wearing assless chaps.

[@g1370]

Meese Frost To each their own. Paolu set is JoJo's Bizarre Adventure-tier fabulous and best in the game.

[@204_rc]

Two years later since you posted in Feb of 2018 and this just helped out another newbie to MHW. Thanks so much for this info and for presenting it so clearly.

[@gaijinhunter]

This makes me very happy to read! ^^

[@fibskrazula]

Thank you for this! I had a few questions about the stats and I was stumped even after some googling. You've earned my subscription, way to go.

[@Sleepin-N-Snoozn]

I've been watching a lot of your older videos and I have to say I'm really digging the simple DNA animation on the left when you have some text on the screen. It's a small touch but it makes the video feel more "alive" in a sense rather than cutting to nothing.

[@SoFreshNSerene]

Great video I just hit 200hours into this game and as a mhtri veteran I’m loving all of this! And I explain and then show my friends and people your videos to help them out and give them advice

[@BroBro...]

The elderseal explanation was extremely helpful. Thank you, keep up the great work and happy hunting.

[@MonkeyGaming861]

gaijin, as always an amazing video :)

[@billwumsen4108]

Thank you really much for this video! I almost didnt know nothing besides the awekening effect, and didnt know that it would have that much of an impact!

[@NeoFluchs]

Good start for a day to see a video from gaijinhunter :).. cant wait for more

[@HoloCatHead]

Thank for explaining the sharpness multipliers and elderseal. This helped enormously.

[@novian1452]

i'm still confused about affinity after all these years playing monster hunter and watching this video tho XD but that explanation about elderseal (especially poison on kushala not affecting as it used to be) really helpful :')

[@MK-13337]

In your mind translate "affinity" to "crit chance" and you understand it better :)

[@Ahlgreenz]

If you have 10% affinity, your attacks have a 10% chance of dealing more damage, 25% more damage to be exact. So if you attack a monster with a weapon that deals 100 damage on an attack, every 10 attacks (because of the 10% chance) should do 125 damage instead of the 100 damage.

[@novian1452]

what if the weapon got minus affinity?

[@MK-13337]

Muhammad Faris Novian Then you have a %- chance to deal a "negative crit" which means the attack does 75% damage instead. The negative sign in front of let's say "-20% affinity" just means that you have a 20% chance to get a negative crit, not a negative probability to get a positive one :)

[@Ahlgreenz]

Matti Kauppinen exactly, so if you normally would hit a monster for 100 damage, your -affinity attacks will do 75 damage instead. Hope this helps!

[@deitoxwhitebeard7240]

Liked and subscribed because you didn't beg for likes and subscriptions before delivering the content of the video. Thank you, sir.

[@oldsora5396]

Thank you Gaijin :D this is one of the tutorial the game needs the most

[@atropabelladonna12]

Excellent. Thank you for covering sharpness damage buffs and elderseal!

[@ivannabong]

Another Monster Hunter lesson taught by our Monster Hunter professor, Gaijin Hunter!

[@g1370]

Gaijin is the hero we need. Great to learn about the elderseal mechanic. Going to be farming Kushala Daora so I will be shutting that bird down.

[@Dj671993]

Thank you for the elder seal tip. That's the main thing I needed to know pretty much got everything else 😊

[@ImmortalYama]

Thanks for the elder seal explanation! I was really confused on what that was

[@IsraTheBlack]

Dragon Pods slinger ammo also remove the elder dragon abilities.

[@DanishingAct]

Loved you on the 8-4 cast.

[@Gharon]

Thanks for the video, useful info for both newcomers and veterans. That being said: Should i go for the Bone tree or the Ore tree? I can't decide... all the weapons look soooo different from each other. It's really hard to choose which one of them i want to grind materials for. Nothing is as motivating as working towards an end-game weapon that looks EXACTLY like the very first starter version you got for free. In case my tone wasn't sarcastic enough and you can't tell: Yes... i'm REALLY salty about the lack of variety in weapon designs in World. It's really really disappointing compared to previous games.

[@RA8IDP3NGUIN1]

both. No reason not to.

[@hooffmmanchang3964]

i dunno if help, but every MH i had play i always go for iron weapons (or ore if you prefer that term), it unlock better sharpness faster than bone, and having good sharpness is better than higher raw damage.

[@SkeLexTor]

Great video!!! I do believe that slots should be the next item explained as I noticed that the slots have different "looks".

[@bakachikan4051]

thank you very much about the elder seal info. i needed that.

[@Mlj247]

Hey gaijin I’m from 758 And been watching your vids since 3u up till world Nuff respect dude 👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿

[@GuardianofVods]

Thanks for the awesome educational content as always!

[@joeywind71]

Love the weapon you are using in this video.

[@cobbfullinc9019]

This whole time I’ve been reading keenbone as kneebone.

[@Idothinkysaurus]

At least now I know exactly what negative affinity does. I was leaning towards the "0 or lower means no crits" explanation, but now I know "0 is base damage, anything lower is less damage". It's good to finally have it cleared up.

[@baddragonite]

Was just looking to see if you had a video like this for world a few hours ago lolol

[@Yeraus]

Damn, THANK YOU for explaining the Elder Seal mechanic. I literally farmed Vaal Hazak for like 5 hours and was always like: WTF is that smoke man, sometimes it's there and sometimes it's just gone, do I have to hit it with torch pods or something? Guess my mates sometimes used Elder Seal weapons and sometimes did not, thanks for clearing that up!

[@levobertus]

Here's a small correction: Blue sharpness has usually given a 1.20 modifier, not a 1.25 modifier. Also, from 1.05 to 1.25 it wouldn't be a 20% boost exactly. It's from 1.05 to 1.20 which is slightly less than a 15% damage increase.

[@Kornifail]

Levobertus how much is white?

[@levobertus]

Kornifail usually been 1.32 like he said

[@Koops2245]

Aha That yellow sharpness modifyer explains my Marth's sword debacle...

[@jasonlobo2350]

AverageJoe5050 so we got a melee player here and with my same main 7w7 unless you're talking smash 4

[@Koops2245]

+Jason Lobo We're talkin' Mystery of the Emblem~

[@Skoll-Hati]

for anyone struggling with Teostra's fire aura especfially for MR. If you pop on heat guard you won't be affected by the fire aura

[@Totallyking]

Awesome video as always. Thank you!

[@caiohenrique6396]

I always like gaijin tutorials, they are the best... I wanna play this game so much =(

[@HammerspaceCreature]

Worth noting is that the dragon powerups aren't permanent even without elderseal. You can still stagger them out of it with other weapons and they will go away on their own sometimes such as after Teostra does his supernova. Elderseal just makes it guaranteed.

[@xarris37]

Thank you for explaining elder seal!

[@porknbeef4265]

the negative affinity signs are the numbers that have a blue star behind the number, i see it all the time with my barroth switch axe

[@The_Gamer_DaD]

Great video , very clear. Thanks man 👍🏻

[@mr.calzone146]

Hey could you do a small PSA on new mounting etiquette because I’ve had many issues with players flash bombing a flying mount which is less effective than the full mount

[@albiedo391]

Stinko Stinkis I know it’s so annoying

[@notscorchingsands9718]

Stinko Stinkis not every player watch these so might not do much

[@JackboMack]

I think just getting the monster down ASAP with a flash and letting the whole squad waylay is probably more DPS.. but I also hate it when it gets downed when I’m riding it. Oh well

[@cyclecoma7916]

And while he's at it, he should do a PSA for longsword users about looking out where they are swinging those things

[@ghostwolfyeah]

more dps than letting somebody topple the monster and then flashing when its in the air again, and not wasting somebodies efforts to mount the monster?

[@sp0el]

The Awakening Charm only has 2 upgrade levels, so you still need Free Elem/Ammo skill somewhere on the armor in order to get 100% of hidden element.

[@rashan141]

Actually, it IS mentioned in the game that elderseal does something. I forget where, but that's how I learned about Elderseal affecting Kirin.

[@Viktoria_Thaelin]

You can harvest monster bone + from bone piles, something I think you forgot to mention is typically the bone line has - affinity

[@Zephyrhawk17]

So helpful! Thank you for the vid!

[@TheDoomGrenade]

The game doesnt really explain the elderseal mechanic outright, but you can find it in the "useful information" of elder dragons in the monsters field guide. Its hidden, but i think its easy enough to find, ich you use this feature.

[@MaxiJrpg]

Very nice tutorial. :) Cant wait to get back home and keep playing :D One question - do you plan on doing a top 5 for the different weapon types someday? I think I watched the Dual Blade Vid for MHGen like 50 times and enjoyed it a lot :D

[@t-800trench7]

Another great video. Loving this game.

[@clouds2589]

I have a beef with elderseal. There is very little visual indication that you've successfully applied it. The auras disappear but they also disappear on their own as well. Every other status effect is very well pronounced and obvious. They really should put like.. some dragon element colored chains around the monster or something.

[@snaffu1]

Thank you so much for this!

[@ThisIsAnte]

I believe the free element charm can only be upgraded to 2.

[@AndrewLawton16]

you are correct

[@Samusear]

Yep

[@rainbow-chan6468]

Good to know about Elder Seal. Was wondering what that was about.

[@BarokaiRein]

I honestly had no idea that's how sharpness worked. I kinda just assumed that you do more damage sharper the weapon is but never really saw that big of a difference in numbers so I just forgot about it. Rank 50+ running around in full Xeno set with WE3 and still learning basic shit.

[@charizard1802]

Ohhhh... so that’s what those purple slashes I suddenly kept getting were after I got the low rank rathalos set

[@playmushku]

Hey Gaijin Hunter, you mentioned a good build might come out of the free element skill on the Zorah armor, and as it so happens, I've been using a free-element status glaive build all of high rank thus far. When paired with blast, it becomes extremely strong from my use of it. I use the Zorah torso (blast attack lv2), belt (fortify lv1), and gauntlets (free elem lv1 & Bombardier lv1), which unlocks the Zorah Mastery (Critical Status). I'm still tossing between the Zorah greaves (Bombardier lv2) or the Dodogama greaves (Blast Attack lv1) for the best damage, but either seems to work very well. When I combo that with the Awakening Charm II, I get 100% out of the hidden element, and depending on what pants I wear, high bombardier and/or blast attack. This makes the Chrome Blade II (the last glaive of the ore tree) Have insane blast build up. When you combo that with the dust effect from the blast kinsect, the amount of explosions and damage building up is quite the sight to behold, and that's without gems or any particular helmet (I'm mostly partial to the guild lobos though). Thought you might be interested after mentioning it in your video, I'm working on a video for the build right now if you want to see how it works in action, but I hope this is inspiring to try out status glaive, because I think it's better than status dual blades now (with the exception of sleep), since just a change of pants or gauntlets and a kinsect swap to match the weapon's status can make for a great status build.

[@SkippyGranolaSA]

Kinda seems like awakening fire element and building for crit element/fire damage on those high-affinity Odogaron weapons would be pretty powerful

[@Lumineszenz]

According to the wiki the blue sharpness multiplier is 1.20 not 1.25. You tests show that as well. 42 is 100% damage, the hit with blue sharpness was 49 damage 42/100*120=50.4 - 42 was probably rounded up so it's a bit too much

[@Lanzetsu]

Wait, so if I have NEGATIVE affinity does it mean my "normal hits" will have change to do LESS damage then? I thought positive Afinity is "Ok more crits" and negative affinity was "Well... not crits"

[@trustypatches669]

Satoshi2Yahiko Yeah sometimes you get blue damage numbers and deal 25% less damage

[@tylercafe1260]

Negative affinity isn't too bad since the weapons that have it compensate with really high base damage. Even then you can get the ability Expert to raise affinity in general to make the weapon even better :)

[@SomersBugtopia]

Affinity Booster usually takes low affinity weapons to positive and using Weakness Exploit just breaks it.

[@Howema]

from what i've seen bludgeoner is litterally the Blunt skill from Generations and balanced around g-rank content. so it's best used with green sharpness. i have a Ragefire magda floga with a few points in handicraft for blue sharpness and that puts me around 1362 attack with the large attack food buff, dropping green boosts my attack to around 1440 or more and effectively cancels out the drop in damage as your sharpness decreases but the loss of good sharpness starts to hurt at yellow or lower while it's a free damage increase at green.

[@Howema]

to add to this: blue sharpness does gain some additional benefit from bludgeoner but just dropping from blue to green sharpness has the effect of a cat food Attack UP (L) it goes up further at yellow but it's maybe an additional 60 raw to drop down to yellow so the sharpness modifier has a greater benefit here than to drop down further.

[@DaiReaver]

Very useful vid, just a shame it didn't cover the different phial types that we get on weapons like the charge blade too. Just been googling around to find answers on impact phial and power element phial etc.. Will see if you've already covered it in another vid.. seems to be a lack of info on it in general at the moment.

[@YourPalQWERTY]

DaiReaver he’ll cover it during the switch axe and charge blade guides or you can just watch his MH3-4 guides on those weapons and it should explain it there, it’s the same way in worlds to my knowledge

[@jamesholcomb9538]

Impact phials do impact (ko) damage to the monster so it's great for smashing heads. Power phials on cb do element damage. Find your monsters weakness and you can do some crazy damage. Btw, impact hits in a straight line on SAED and power makes a v-shape around a 90-degree angle from the hit on SAED. At least it does on the rathalos cb.

[@anubis243-x5h]

If you want to be able to KO a monster, go with impact type for CB. To really benefit from elemental you have to learn the monster's weak spots, and even then raw damage seems to be the way to go in mhw, so impact types are probably better overall.

[@dollenrm]

James Holcomb but wait there's power phials and power element phials whats the difference?

[@BrotherofLink3]

Impact/power phials go toward impact charge attacks and power elemental phials go toward elemental charge attacks. Same attacks, depends on the weapon if it’s impact or elemental.

[@wingedangel81]

Great video! very helpful!

[@largodeeprose]

Woah woah woah woah "Perfect distance"? You mean theres an optimal range to attack the monster with all the melee weapons? As in not just "up in their face"?. This needs a video :D

[@syph81]

Great video ! I was actually looking for a discussion on elemental damages (and why there are not OP builds on them)...is it because it is capped at a much lower level than where you can go by just increasing raw damage or affinity ? It could be nice to have the topic covered ;)

[@giammo5979]

Top 5 weapons when? Best kinsect when? Great video as always!

[@Sror3d]

Ah makes sense now why nergigante is able to prey on elder dragons...cuz he can break their protective shields! So to speak..this was an awesome informative video

[@Feelin_DanDy]

I really like my Blast/Artillery build with the Magda Lahat gunlance, it's only green sharpness though but I've been doing work with it.

[@jacksonparham2576]

I've seen a build on reddit that used focus to increase the speed of the charge shot which gets a boost from Long type gunlances

[@highradicals]

Thank u for explaining that elder seal

[@Jasters_Fear]

Elder Seal is also supposed to slow the hardening of Nergigante's spines.

[@TheDragonflyzero]

I actually dig blugeoner but literallyonly with the hunting horn, never needing to sharpen my horn means more time playing the buffs, not to mention it gives me slugger and that helps out a lot

[@thatguywesmaranan]

thank you for this!!!

[@exodus0529]

I learned the hard way that poison wasn't the way for kushala Zamora anymore lol. I went into it with a poison lance thinking it would help more than the elderseal. I figured they might throw in a twist where there is an E. Dragon resistant to elderseal, and I thought "hey! Kushala Zamora has always had this weird poison weakness in the other games, maybe it would work in world!" Nope

[@heferfantasy5623]

Not all hero's wear capes sir.... thanks

[@TheKingZero17]

Lets be honest here fellas, isn't the ore tree just a boneless weapon line... I'll take my leave now...

[@techni1766]

leave and never come bacc

[@callmegrandpoggers]

TheKingZero17 REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

[@vladventura1928]

If it don't got bone in it, its *boneless*

[@callmegrandpoggers]

Vlad Ventura *REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*

[@jackjohnston8048]

Love ya GH you da man

[@IaconDawnshire]

I still wait to see this game's OP bow

[@Kasparius26]

PSA: The Dragon Pod, which aren't really explained either, are actually Elderseal pods. So when you see these when fighting Elder Dragons, pick them up, wait for the monster to go into its angered tougher state, and throw those pods at it.

[@tylercafe1260]

Kasparius26 Rumor has it they will take elderseal off of them :/

[@CorvenisSan]

There's a lv3 gem that unlock your weapon's element 100% without the need of the charm or armor. Very rare though, only got one so far.

[@kazekizu]

I was just about to make poison weapon for Kushala out of old habit. Interesting choice on the elderseal mechanic.

[@tylercafe1260]

Kristian Tamayo It means all elder dragons rage mode can be affected besides just Kushala who just gets bullied with poison lol

[@Knights_of_the_Nine]

This seems so simple compared to bowguns. Holy CRAP there’s a lot going on with bowguns.

[@Dekaar]

not sure if you forgot but it looks like that Switch Axe has a 3/3 free element even when you don't have the skill. In early game I was using Basel-Armor with 2 parts of legiana (so no free element at all) with a metal SA with hidden Poison and the mobs were poisoned nearly all the time when I was in Sword Mode. Additionally to that I think this applies to Charge Blade too if you're in Axe Mode while having the shield charged. Not sure about that though

[@BANDEV89]

Dekaar I thought about that too but sadly it's not Depends on the phial If it gives you the same phial as the hidden element then its ok you will get the hidden element But if you have anther kind of phial such as power u will not get the hidden element

[@obzen0006]

Not true, some switch axes just have a phial that grants them for example, poison, in sword mode, phials only affect the sword mode so if you're using the iron switch axe, it will deal poison damage in sword mode since it has a poison phial, similarly the barroth switch axe has a para phial, so it can paralyze monsters when hitting them in sword mode. This is only for a few switch axes though, since most have a power or element phial which just boost your raw or elemental damage in sword mode.

[@glowchillzz9988]

I believe weakness exploit isn't a crit nor does it increase crit chance it just does more damage to weak spots

[@XTheBlackSoulX]

GloW ChillZz No, it adds critical chance up. You can check all the skills if you sort armor with R3 in the Forge Equipment menu.

[@exquisitemeat5845]

I-I didn't even know melee weapons have a "perfect distance".

[@aninymouse1651]

Ah, so that's what elder seal does! That's kind of cool. Almost feels like 2nd gen games where to needed dragon element to damage certain elder dragon body parts. Taking away Teostra's and Kushala Daora's weakness to poison is a weird choice, though. Kind of ruins the triangle with Chameleos...

[@aleee2010]

Great video thanks.

[@skylerruin]

I don't know if you've mentioned it in a previous video but could you cover all of the UI elements especially those pertaining to the monster portraits at the bottom left and the heart rate as well as the mini map monster icons and how they change during fights. Thank you

[@Dramatic_Gaming]

Finally, I won't have to farm a completely separate set just to fight Kushala. Doesn't mean I like him now, just I don't have to have a completely different playstyle to fight nim.

[@tylercafe1260]

That just sounds dumb "This other monster makes me play in OTHER ways." yeah no shit :l

[@shaungb-9728]

Great video thanks. Have you got videos on best way to use melding ?

[@DanielCollins85]

My current Charge Blade build with 1040 Attack before food / items. Diablos Tyrannis II ( Not augmented yet ) Diablos Nero A - Artillery Jewel Dober Mail B - Elementless Jewel 2 Diablos Nero B - Magazine Jewel 2 Nergigante Coil B - KO Jewel 2 Anja Greaves A - Steadfast Jewel 1 Attack Charm III I have the Powercharm, Powertalon, Armorcharm & Armortalon always on me. The steadfast jewel & ko jewel are only there until I get something better. Once I get the right warriors streamstones my attack will be even higher. With food and mushrooms I am over 1150 attack. Skills: Diablos Mastery 2 - Bludgeoner Attack Boost 7 Focus Level 3 Artillery Level 3 Capacity Boost Level 1 Non-element Boost Level 1 Stun Resistence Level 1 Slugger Level 1

[@CGBartz]

Maybe try to get handicraft skill into it? Since it has all that space for white sharpness I'll try this build and see how it is :)

[@DanielCollins85]

The BlackWzrd If I had the decoration for handicraft I would.

[@eliaskessler430]

Thanks so much for this video! I watched many videos that claimed to be basic guides but still didn't explain a lot of simple things that I couldn't figure out. I still am not quite sure about how sharpness works... How does the color of your sharpness change? Does it lower overtime (that would make sense logically to me) and how do you increase it?

[@Suichimo]

Teostra's Supernova attack isn't new. He has had that since 4U, I don't remember if he was in 4.

[@Pascll]

hey, umn, I basically found a skill that's not on any armor (correction: it's no high rank diablos armor, but who needs a a set bonus when you can just equip a gem and have the same effect, although it's probably incredibly rare. (never faught high rank diablos, as i'm still busy getting a weapon for every weapon type that I like before I fight more monsters) or decorations and can only be found on a decoration that's incredibly powerful, and has the potential to boost your damage higher than attack +7 ever could. maybe you know about it, maybe not (yeah, you definitely know about it), maybe a video about it would be cool (probably not), as it's a pretty strong skill. either way, people could read this and be like:"I wan't this". the skill is called "non-elemental boost". it boosts your attack by a lot if you don't have any elements (hidden elements don't count, as long as they aren't activated). the boost that it gives is higher than attack +7, and it's permanent. with switch axe, it boosts damage by a wopping 71. just imagine this with attack +7, maybe handicraft or something, maybe agitator, hunting horn melodies, eating for attack, and generally things like that, mixed in with a diablos weapon. imagine how high you could make your raw damage output. IMAGINE THE DAMAGE

[@nuke2099]

Elderseal is too small of a effect to make much difference at least in multiplayer unless everyone happens to be using it. It's also not great because the effect for it can go off before you want it too and do nothing. Some of the dragons you would use Elderseal on happen to be weaker to other elements as well such as Teo (water/ice), Kirin (fire), Nergigante (thunder), Daora (thunder).

[@tuanorton]

One my first fight with Kushala, I brought poison weapon thinking it would suppress the wind pressure like the old game. Well, the fight went horribly wrong and I got trapped within his tornadoes and carted 2 times

[@sonicboom564]

tuanorton it literally does supress him though you’re just garbage

[@Senmetsu]

It seems like the only smart choice for switch axe is to go all raw bone. It's throat damage and has power phial, so it's the best for fighting any enemy. I'd like to be wrong about that

[@AkihiroAki]

For daora, i realize blast also prevent him from using god mode.

[@SirPhones]

7:18 this isnt actually true, you still have to use a +1 Free Element armorpiece, cause the charm only upgrades to level 2