Weapon crafting in high rank

[Knusperwichtel]

serious question. In high rank do I understand it correctly that many weapons you can craft after you finish the story are not worth it because artian weapons are stronger? So whats the point in the end?

[Gaidax]

Artian weapons are a time investment, crafting the Artian weapon is easy, but you need to upgrade it for it to actually be better. - and that process is RNG and takes time.

Other than that - there are various cases of base weapons being better. For example, best Gunlance right now is not Artian, best Bow for one of the builds is not Artian and so on.

[thundercawk69]

Depends how you want to play the game. If you want to min/max, then no artian weapons are not always better. Otherwise, yes.

[MacBeth]

artian lack skills, and upgrades to compete with early normal tree weapons
and you lack high decorations to make artians worth it

[X.X]

Artians will be better for some weapons but youll need, good decos and best bonus stats if you want the best.

[Knusperwichtel]

Thanks for the help! I understand this now a little bit better but I find it still confusing. I spend so much time on low rank to kill enough monster to craft all armors and weapons and then wupps you need a whole lot more material for the same armors just with a "+" now

[Mildly Nuclear]

Originally posted by Knusperwichtel:

I spend so much time on low rank to kill enough monster to craft all armors and weapons

This was a mistake. This is ALWAYS a mistake. Only craft what you need to progress until you get to endgame.

[HekiReki]

Artian weapons aren't THAT much better than the monster ones, depending on your weapon, and most are ugly. Don't worry too much about it. The artian weapon system is awful to be honest, I've rolled maybe 300ish at this point and never seen a 5x attack weapon, I've seen 4x once. This is only high rank, in future we will get master rank.

[Knusperwichtel]

Originally posted by Mildly Nuclear:

Originally posted by Knusperwichtel:

I spend so much time on low rank to kill enough monster to craft all armors and weapons

This was a mistake. This is ALWAYS a mistake. Only craft what you need to progress until you get to endgame.

yeah but my inner monk wanted all the armor and weapons and charms still had fun! :)

[Black Lamb, Rock Enjoyer]

Originally posted by Knusperwichtel:

Originally posted by Mildly Nuclear:

This was a mistake. This is ALWAYS a mistake. Only craft what you need to progress until you get to endgame.

yeah but my inner monk wanted all the armor and weapons and charms still had fun! :)

Ignore the guy lmao. Idk how some people will unironically say rush to "endgame" when there is none.

[Niwoh]

Artian weapons are overrated, for some builds they're really good don't get me wrong, but for most builds normal weapons are either better or only slightly worse than a perfect artian.

[Sheldon J. Plankton]

Some monster weapons are better than Artian. For example: the bone HBG vs the Artian just because of the access to more ammo types. Don't worry too much about Artian as well, because they'll be obsolete once Master Rank comes

[zmanbuilder]

Monster weapons all reach rarity 8, so they all stay viable.

[Khergit Horse Archer]

artian's perks are generally going to be those triple 3 deco slots, if u dont have the decos then y not just use the monsta wepons

also materials r pretty ez to find, altho i havent much luck getting artian upgrading mats

[Hettar]

If you're learning the game, or want to optimize your damage, Artian weapons are stronger in most cases.
But if you don't care about doing more damage, or feel that monsters die a bit too quickly, monster weapons are totally fine. And for fashion, of course.