Man that teostra soul is something else

[Vahnkiljoy]

Watching that first monster take that glorious 216 blast damage was great, running around in full teo and dooting the explosions around like him is a lot of fun.

[Mayo]

216? Shouldn't it be 144? It's +20% of the base 120.

[CookedMeat]

Blast is always fun to play until you realize a generic monster has more than 10k health and you can at most proc ~5 blast damage per hunt.

I remember specifically making a blast build back in Iceborne, it was fun in solo but useless in MP. Well probably will be even more fun if I could get another 3 person running the same build but...

[kl250d]

Originally posted by CookedMeat:

Blast is always fun to play until you realize a generic monster has more than 10k health and you can at most proc ~5 blast damage per hunt.

I remember specifically making a blast build back in Iceborne, it was fun in solo but useless in MP. Well probably will be even more fun if I could get another 3 person running the same build but...

Ehh in iceborne it was always 300 a pop which is nice occasional burst damage that can get a stagger or a break stagger. I found that using aerial attacks with the glaive made it proc heaps and heaps of times

I found blast damage in rise by comparison pretty bad though

[Vahnkiljoy]

Originally posted by Mayo:

216? Shouldn't it be 144? It's +20% of the base 120.

Unsure, I know it was the blast as my friend saw the number as well since things like that everyone can see for reasons, he was using a blast weapon so some combination happened, that or their resistance to blast also affects the damage, valstrax is 2 star to it. Gonna have to test some more.

[Mayo]

Originally posted by Vahnkiljoy:

Originally posted by Mayo:

216? Shouldn't it be 144? It's +20% of the base 120.

Unsure, I know it was the blast as my friend saw the number as well since things like that everyone can see for reasons, he was using a blast weapon so some combination happened, that or their resistance to blast also affects the damage, valstrax is 2 star to it. Gonna have to test some more.

Maybe if there's multiple players it does more damage. I've only ever played blast solo so I can't be sure either (since the status resistance increasing for each player in multiplayer is always kind of a pain).

Edit: wow you're right. It ticks for 216 on Valstrax and triggers fairly often to boot.

[Vahnkiljoy]

Oh thanks for 'for sciencing' that up! If I weren't stuck at work I would have gladly tested again, should test it on other monsters with their varying resistances.

[Mayo]

Originally posted by Vahnkiljoy:

Oh thanks for 'for sciencing' that up! If I weren't stuck at work I would have gladly tested again, should test it on other monsters with their varying resistances.

Yeah, so far it seems like Valstrax has a vulnerability to blast damage making the base blast 180 instead of 120. I assume someone's probably made a list somewhere of other monsters that can be similarly exploded.

Honestly wasn't expecting much from the Teostra dual blades since the DBs are blast/ice and the armor skills were hastily assembled to accomdate Blast 3 and Ice 5, but they still pulled off a respectable 7m40s clear on Val.

[Vahnkiljoy]

Very nice! I mean, it is an explosion so it is doing true damage so all in all, it's free damage for just doing what you would be doing anyway, which, if lucky, could also end up flinching the monster buying more time to go do town.

[Arthur.C]

Well, I love teostra soul for completely different reason, at lv3 it grants you immunity to deadly Poison, no need to worry about those pesky poison spikes on the ground when fighting apex.

[Chaos Mana]

I use the Blasting and Ice damage Dual swords against Yatsukadaki, they annihilate her so quickly, and the blasting goes off quite a lot because of all the combos

[Vahnkiljoy]

Originally posted by Arthur.C:

Well, I love teostra soul for completely different reason, at lv3 it grants you immunity to deadly Poison, no need to worry about those pesky poison spikes on the ground when fighting apex.

That's Teostra blessing, soul is the rampup skill.

[Arthur.C]

Originally posted by Vahnkiljoy:

Originally posted by Arthur.C:

Well, I love teostra soul for completely different reason, at lv3 it grants you immunity to deadly Poison, no need to worry about those pesky poison spikes on the ground when fighting apex.

That's Teostra blessing, soul is the rampup skill.

My bad, Teostra soul is kind weak skill, 20% is really just better than nothing in most situations.