Best handle for electric coil weapon?

[HELL ON EARTH]

Hi All

Wanted to ask which is the best handle for the electric coil weapon for damage, and moveset to.

Kind Regards

[LuckyCheshire]

That depends, but look for handles that have scaling in Advance, and that have only slashing attacks. Off the top of my head, either the natural handle or the Black Steel Cutter handle should work well, once you get that far.

[HELL ON EARTH]

Originally posted by LuckyCheshire777:

That depends, but look for handles that have scaling in Advance, and that have only slashing attacks. Off the top of my head, either the natural handle or the Black Steel Cutter handle should work well, once you get that far.

Ah thanks my friend, iam just about to take on the swamp boss.😊

[Jolu42]

Originally posted by HELL ON EARTH:

Originally posted by LuckyCheshire777:

That depends, but look for handles that have scaling in Advance, and that have only slashing attacks. Off the top of my head, either the natural handle or the Black Steel Cutter handle should work well, once you get that far.

Ah thanks my friend, iam just about to take on the swamp boss.😊

The default handle for that with an Advance Crank handle alter on my Advance build got me through most of NG+. I found it best default setup and with a +10 upgrade it was staggering and demolishing puppets.

[Gnodab]

I like using it with Circular Electric Chainsaw Handle. Longer reach, solid moveset, swings faster than with the Chainsaw Blade.

[Anatolius]

Master Chef if it wasn't so short. Military Shovel has good reach, but it's a bit too slow for my liking.
Look for a slashing handle with scalings that fit your build.

[HELL ON EARTH]

Ah cool, thanks so much guys for your help.😊

[Tim]

I like both the default and the Circular Electric Chainsaw's handle.
Pure stick: you have the incredible Electric Blitz buff AND an easy-to-use Fable Art attack that staggers.
Stick head+chainsaw handle: Endure is an incredibly useful, cheap defensive Fable Art. Since the charged heavy is easy to land, you don't necessarily miss the Fable Art attack, but you DO end up having trouble spending Fable unless you go out of your way to spam Endure literally every time you see a red attack. So I only like this combination against enemies with very confusing attack patterns.

[HELL ON EARTH]

Originally posted by Tim:

I like both the default and the Circular Electric Chainsaw's handle.
Pure stick: you have the incredible Electric Blitz buff AND an easy-to-use Fable Art attack that staggers.
Stick head+chainsaw handle: Endure is an incredibly useful, cheap defensive Fable Art. Since the charged heavy is easy to land, you don't necessarily miss the Fable Art attack, but you DO end up having trouble spending Fable unless you go out of your way to spam Endure literally every time you see a red attack. So I only like this combination against enemies with very confusing attack patterns.

Ah ok thank you, I just get confused with all this weapon scaling stuff, as in the letters showing you.😊

[Gnodab]

Originally posted by HELL ON EARTH:

Ah ok thank you, I just get confused with all this weapon scaling stuff, as in the letters showing you.😊

If you want a breakdown, here's how it works.

Each weapon has 2 parts, a Blade and a Handle. A Blade has a base damage that increases every time you upgrade the weapon using Moonstones. A Handle has scaling damage that comes from different stats. So putting a Blade on a different Handle will change how much damage the Blade does, and which stats give you that damage.

Increasing Motivity, Technique or Advance will increase the effectiveness of any Handle that scales with those stats. Scaling comes in letter grades, going up alphabetically with D being the lowest and S being the highest (S comes after A).

So say a weapon has D Scaling in Motivity and B Scaling in Technique. That means you'll get a small amount of damage from Motivity but a larger amount of damage from Technique. You can use Cranks to alter this scaling. So if you have lots of Motivity and want to use a more Technique-scaling weapon, you can use a Motivity Crank on the Handle to reduce the Technique scaling and increase the Motivity scaling, giving you more damage for your build.

Advance scaling is mostly the same, except Advance will only ever increase elemental damage on a weapon. So a weapon HAS to have innate elemental damage on it to benefit. Hence why both Tim and I recommended the Circular Electric Chainsaw Handle for the Electric Coil Stick Head. The Head has innate Electric Blitz damage, and the Handle has innate Advance scaling. So if you have an Advance Crank, use it on the Handle and it will increase the scaling, giving you even more elemental damage.

This also means you're kinda limited in terms of what Handles you can use with elemental weapons. You can use a Handle without Advance scaling on it, it's just not optimal.

That's about it. This was a lot longer than expected, but I wanted to cover as much as possible. Cheers.

[HELL ON EARTH]

Originally posted by Gnodab:

Originally posted by HELL ON EARTH:

Ah ok thank you, I just get confused with all this weapon scaling stuff, as in the letters showing you.😊

If you want a breakdown, here's how it works.

Each weapon has 2 parts, a Blade and a Handle. A Blade has a base damage that increases every time you upgrade the weapon using Moonstones. A Handle has scaling damage that comes from different stats. So putting a Blade on a different Handle will change how much damage the Blade does, and which stats give you that damage.

Increasing Motivity, Technique or Advance will increase the effectiveness of any Handle that scales with those stats. Scaling comes in letter grades, going up alphabetically with D being the lowest and S being the highest (S comes after A).

So say a weapon has D Scaling in Motivity and B Scaling in Technique. That means you'll get a small amount of damage from Motivity but a larger amount of damage from Technique. You can use Cranks to alter this scaling. So if you have lots of Motivity and want to use a more Technique-scaling weapon, you can use a Motivity Crank on the Handle to reduce the Technique scaling and increase the Motivity scaling, giving you more damage for your build.

Advance scaling is mostly the same, except Advance will only ever increase elemental damage on a weapon. So a weapon HAS to have innate elemental damage on it to benefit. Hence why both Tim and I recommended the Circular Electric Chainsaw Handle for the Electric Coil Stick Head. The Head has innate Electric Blitz damage, and the Handle has innate Advance scaling. So if you have an Advance Crank, use it on the Handle and it will increase the scaling, giving you even more elemental damage.

This also means you're kinda limited in terms of what Handles you can use with elemental weapons. You can use a Handle without Advance scaling on it, it's just not optimal.

That's about it. This was a lot longer than expected, but I wanted to cover as much as possible. Cheers.

Thanks my friend for the long message and help, think I missed the electric chainsaw somewhere, as iam at the swamp boss area.😊

[LuckyCheshire]

Originally posted by HELL ON EARTH:

Thanks my friend for the long message and help, think I missed the electric chainsaw somewhere, as iam at the swamp boss area.😊

You can buy the electric chainsaw from the merchant inside Lorenzini Arcade, I believe.

[HELL ON EARTH]

Originally posted by LuckyCheshire777:

Originally posted by HELL ON EARTH:

Thanks my friend for the long message and help, think I missed the electric chainsaw somewhere, as iam at the swamp boss area.😊

You can buy the electric chainsaw from the merchant inside Lorenzini Arcade, I believe.

Ah cool thanks so much, will have a look.😊

[Restaldt]

Originally posted by HELL ON EARTH:

Hi All

Wanted to ask which is the best handle for the electric coil weapon for damage, and moveset to.

Kind Regards

I stuck it on the rocket glaive handle for the entire game. Was my main weapon

Spam the charged heavy attack

[HELL ON EARTH]

Originally posted by Restaldt:

Originally posted by HELL ON EARTH:

Hi All

Wanted to ask which is the best handle for the electric coil weapon for damage, and moveset to.

Kind Regards

I stuck it on the rocket glaive handle for the entire game. Was my main weapon

Spam the charged heavy attack

Now that sounds awesome.😁

[Marsson]

I've been using the booster glaive handle with it :D it's glorious!