crit boost or specific elemental jewel

[Mika gunhild]

i know elemental weapon is not that good, im just very bored with the game since i have done everything so im planning to make funny build

back to the topic which jewel should i build with, critical element jewel(slot 2) or specific elemental jewel like fire attack,water attack(slot 1) and whats the big difference?

[Plumber]

flat element over crit element, and even if you’re trying to lean heavily into element damage and low MV high hitcount moves, it still ends up being better to take other skills over crit element

There are currently no weird monsters like pre-World metal raths or Gravios for it to be worth forcing Crit Element to work without WEX, and since WEX is one of the best affinity skills and there are practically no hitzones that have favorable enough raw value to trigger WEX while not being as desirable as element (I think it’s super fringe stuff like zinogre to the point where Bow might be doing like 1 or 2 extra damage per hit), Critical Element is stuck in limbo where it functionally has to compete with raw.

It’ll see more use in G rank when we get skill/slot powercreep

[Mika gunhild]

Originally posted by Plumber:

flat element over crit element, and even if you’re trying to lean heavily into element damage and low MV high hitcount moves, it still ends up being better to take other skills over crit element

There are currently no weird monsters like pre-World metal raths or Gravios for it to be worth forcing Crit Element to work without WEX, and since WEX is one of the best affinity skills and there are practically no hitzones that have favorable enough raw value to trigger WEX while not being as desirable as element (I think it’s super fringe stuff like zinogre to the point where Bow might be doing like 1 or 2 extra damage per hit), Critical Element is stuck in limbo where it functionally has to compete with raw.

It’ll see more use in G rank when we get skill/slot powercreep

so i take it as my specific elemental build will work if paired with critical build? do i need raw affinity like critical eye to make it solid since wex are not that hard to found on armor skill

[Plumber]

“elemental builds” in Rise are just getting the standard physical/critical skills as high as they can go while also getting elem atk up to Lv5, yes

Valstrax arms give 2 points of WEX and you can gem in the last point; rest is up to your discretion based on whatever talismans you have or what weapon you’re using, but Teostra helmet and Rajang legs are both pretty efficient, so slap together whatever you want out of the chest and waist, typically Vaik chest for its deco slots and Anja waist for atk+ and good slots