question about afinity

[Yogi]

if my weapon has 0 will gear with critical eye and other afinity boosting skills make it over 0? or does the weapon have to at least have some?

[Seamus]

No, the weapon doesn't need some.

You can even use affinity skills to get the negative affinity weapons like tigrex weapons to stop doing reduced damage.

[Plumber]

Affinity is the sum of your weapon's base affinity (tigrex has negative, narga has positive), your armor skills (CE, Weakness Exploit, Agitator, etc.), and affinity-boosting temporary buffs (like palico rousing roar, cutterfly, Hunting Horn buffs).

Any percentage above 0% is that much chance to do 1.25x damage, potentially improved by Critical Boost. Any percentage below 0% is that much chance to do 0.75x damage (iirc).

[Mandalorian Deathknight]

but with Brutal Strike ramp skills its best to have a negative affinity

[Seamus]

Originally posted by Mandalorian Deathknight:

but with Brutal Strike ramp skills its best to have a negative affinity

Not really.

That skill is actually pretty terrible.

Better off going for high affinity.

[Plumber]

Brutal Strikes is only a chance to negate the negative affinity, so it ends up being less favorable than affinity/atk ramps anyway. It’s also a bit counterintuitive as a skill, since it has zero value if your affinity goes positive for any reason.

[Yagger]

Originally posted by Mandalorian Deathknight:

but with Brutal Strike ramp skills its best to have a negative affinity

better off aiming for silk bind boost

[Seamus]

And because I know someone's going to come in and try to ramble about how brutal strikes is good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd0B_q46Fno

[DoEFotGS]

Originally posted by Mandalorian Deathknight:

but with Brutal Strike ramp skills its best to have a negative affinity

If I correct, Brutal strike has 25% activation chance, so hit not only need to be negative, it's also need to proc this 25%. Double checking always going bad and not worth using.

[Duskyer]

If Brutal Strike was a guaranteed proc then it would be worth it. Wouldn't be broken either because there's no way to actually lower affinity.

[Seamus]

Originally posted by Duskyer:

Wouldn't be broken either because there's no way to actually lower affinity.

*Anymore.

[chuchuTrain]

Originally posted by Duskyer:

If Brutal Strike was a guaranteed proc then it would be worth it. Wouldn't be broken either because there's no way to actually lower affinity.

i think it would be powerful if it was guarantee as u can just boost your attack, and crit boost might boost it also.

only balanced by u not being able to get negative affinity, and brute strike itself is 25%.

since this will completely negate needing to get wex and crit eye.

[Cerberus]

affinity can go above zero, below zero, or remain at zero. it can even go from negative to positive.

to answer your question, weapons with zero affinity can gain affinity from skills.