Question to Sword & Shield and Insect Glaive Mains

[Cemre]

Hi everyone, I am currently learning Sword and Shield and Insect Glaive for the Arena. I wanted to ask you, do you ever use the "Airborne" Decoration ? For the Glaive possibly but for the Sword and Shield ? I am very curious, if this is like a meme like Rapid Morph.

I will try to gain some experience with both, i just wanted to ask, if this is a core skill for both weapons, since they jump all the time, or if this is worth melding.

thank you for your time

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Cemre:

Question to Sword & Shield and Insect Glaive Mains
Hi everyone, I am currently learning Sword and Shield and Insect Glaive for the Arena. I wanted to ask you, do you ever use the "Airborne" Decoration ? For the Glaive possibly but for the Sword and Shield ? I am very curious, if this is like a meme like Rapid Morph.

I will try to gain some experience with both, i just wanted to ask, if this is a core skill for both weapons, since they jump all the time, or if this is worth melding.

thank you for your time

No. None for both.

While it might sound good at first, you kinda match your movements the monster movements and do not get hit at all.

[Nihrahk]

Nope. Never used Airborne decoration for anything. Only time it would be "used" is if the weapon has it as a set skill, like the Hirabami weapons.

[Gooubliette]

aerials are a low dps trap for insect glaive. avoid them. You waste so much time in the air when you can get some really good damage in otherwise.

[Nihrahk]

Originally posted by Gooubliette:

aerials are a low dps trap for insect glaive. avoid them. You waste so much time in the air when you can get some really good damage in otherwise.

Pretty much that, yeah. It may be fun to jump around doing aerials, but ground glaive is superior.

[2D神]

Can't speak for IG but never SnS.

[Navi]

airborne does affect the insect glaive including some of its ground moves its a flat 10% buff for it

[goob]

i play sns and no, I prioritize crit boost, attack boost, and any guard skills as they give you a shield so you might as well take advantage of it. In general the meta seems to be Wex + Crit Boost

[Angel]

definitely not on sns

[Justice Potato]

No.

You trying to get an A with a SnS against 'ian?

[Knavenformed]

Insect Glaive main and absolutely not

The Jumping Advancing Slash combo in Wilds does so low damage that it's absolutely not worth using outside keeping up on flying Monsters and Anjanath weakpoints

The boost is also nerfed from World's +30% to a measly 10%
Your grounded combos do what seem like triple the damage that your aerial combos do in Wilds

The game-plan for IG in Wilds is to get a fast mount without focusing on any Extracts, then using your Focus combos to gather triple-buff from a mount-tripped monster, and then just play the duration of the buff out like a Dual Blades.

Aerial Combos are still good for doing some damage while dodging attacks easier by vaulting, but their overall DPS output is abysmal.

[bluntpoppy]

any single attack that ever so slightly moves your legs off the ground counts as an airborne attack, for example, helm breaker, dual blades demon dance and focus strike, sns focus strikes and falling bash, etc...

[casdarius]

yeah airborne buffs damage substantially on your full release move. its seriously a disgusting ammount of damage gained per iteration.

[The Debauchery]

Originally posted by Gooubliette:

aerials are a low dps trap for insect glaive. avoid them. You waste so much time in the air when you can get some really good damage in otherwise.

A shame the classic IG infinite combo has been basically ruined because they changed the B-button input to some weird dancy thing that flings you out of position. Used to be easy to just stand in place and combo endlessly, but now it requires repositioning constantly. Massive nuisance.

I also miss the Generations Aerial Vault which lobs you forward instead of straight up. It was great to use as an improvised dodge or just for closing with the enemy. Kinda ironic that I still played Aerial IG as a mostly grounded weapon even back then.

[Qua2ar]

It's meta on insect glaive because it buffs your strongest move, and you should be spamming that move 90% of the time or you hit like a wet noodle.

So technically insect glaive in wilds is an aerial meta since rising spiral slash is aerial and you should only be on the ground collecting the Extracts for your next rss.

[Kada]

100% use airborne for glaive. It buffs even the grounded moves that slightly take you off the ground, even works on strong descending slash and rising spiral slash.