Augmentations for switch axe?

[Lil_Pipsqueak]

I use the axe of demons which only has one upgrade slot. I'm kinda torn. Which one should I go for?

[NikemanBOOM]

Health Regen is one of the best augments for SA in my opinion. The weapon hits hard and often, so the returned health is much more than a number of other weapons. You can never really go wrong with it, so long as you're able to get in hits.

EDIT: The SA set I run the most is a DPS set with Kjarr Axe "King" (with 50% affinity), so Affinity Boost is not even a concern. Perhaps I'm a little biased towards Health Regen because of this. :P

[Hunny]

i would personally recommend affinity, normally you would go for the health augment but you dont really heal that much with the switch axe so is not really worth it in my opinion

[Seacat]

What does the rest of your build look like?

[Neme]

Might be a stupid question but... Are augmentations an iceborne thing ?

[Sollorex]

Originally posted by Neme:

Might be a stupid question but... Are augmentations an iceborne thing ?

You can augment in base game.

[Neme]

Originally posted by Sollorex:

Originally posted by Neme:

Might be a stupid question but... Are augmentations an iceborne thing ?

You can augment in base game.

cool cool cheers... was just looking it up lol.. By the looks of it I need to fight tempered monsters threat level 2 for the augments right, or is it just any tempered.. or is it tempered elders.. slightly confused on what i have been reading haha

[Sollorex]

Originally posted by Neme:

Originally posted by Sollorex:

You can augment in base game.

cool cool cheers... was just looking it up lol.. By the looks of it I need to fight tempered monsters threat level 2 for the augments right, or is it just any tempered.. or is it tempered elders.. slightly confused on what i have been reading haha

If you want to augment any weapon below tier 8 you use a Warrior's Streamstone, which is grey, and can be obtained as an uncommon drop from T2 or a common drop from T3. The augment stone for tier 8 weapons is the Hero's Streamstone, which is yellow, and can be obtained as a rare drop from T2 or an uncommon drop from T3. I would not recommend farming T1 for these stones, while they can drop them, it is too rare to be worth while.

[Lil_Pipsqueak]

Originally posted by Seacat:

What does the rest of your build look like?

I use this set https://honeyhunterworld.com/mhwb/?181,84,82,79,76,78,65,aff,0,0,30,0,0,30,30,0,26,0,0,30,0,0,50,0,0,90,0,0,3

[Neme]

Originally posted by Sollorex:

Originally posted by Neme:

cool cool cheers... was just looking it up lol.. By the looks of it I need to fight tempered monsters threat level 2 for the augments right, or is it just any tempered.. or is it tempered elders.. slightly confused on what i have been reading haha

If you want to augment any weapon below tier 8 you use a Warrior's Streamstone, which is grey, and can be obtained as an uncommon drop from T2 or a common drop from T3. The augment stone for tier 8 weapons is the Hero's Streamstone, which is yellow, and can be obtained as a rare drop from T2 or an uncommon drop from T3. I would not recommend farming T1 for these stones, while they can drop them, it is too rare to be worth while.

Cheers for info.. I guess that is what my issue was.. I did farm tempered Baroth and Jyro a few times but never had one of the stones drop to be able to see the ! from the smithy to even know about the augments .. I was still mostly farming non tempered to get gear sets / wep builds together haha

Now that I know about them, will be focusing on the augments and along with set decos now.. still need to read up more on how to best farm set decos..

Again, cheers for the fantastic help

[Lil_Pipsqueak]

Originally posted by Neme:

Originally posted by Sollorex:

If you want to augment any weapon below tier 8 you use a Warrior's Streamstone, which is grey, and can be obtained as an uncommon drop from T2 or a common drop from T3. The augment stone for tier 8 weapons is the Hero's Streamstone, which is yellow, and can be obtained as a rare drop from T2 or an uncommon drop from T3. I would not recommend farming T1 for these stones, while they can drop them, it is too rare to be worth while.

Cheers for info.. I guess that is what my issue was.. I did farm tempered Baroth and Jyro a few times but never had one of the stones drop to be able to see the ! from the smithy to even know about the augments .. I was still mostly farming non tempered to get gear sets / wep builds together haha

Now that I know about them, will be focusing on the augments and along with set decos now.. still need to read up more on how to best farm set decos..

Again, cheers for the fantastic help

the best way to farm in this game is just tempered nirgigante cause he gives tons of tracks and is relatively simple to kill. If you just want easy decorations then tempered big muscle puppy (forgot it's name) is the one for you

[Neme]

Originally posted by Lil_Pipsqueak:

Originally posted by Neme:

Cheers for info.. I guess that is what my issue was.. I did farm tempered Baroth and Jyro a few times but never had one of the stones drop to be able to see the ! from the smithy to even know about the augments .. I was still mostly farming non tempered to get gear sets / wep builds together haha

Now that I know about them, will be focusing on the augments and along with set decos now.. still need to read up more on how to best farm set decos..

Again, cheers for the fantastic help

the best way to farm in this game is just tempered nirgigante cause he gives tons of tracks and is relatively simple to kill. If you just want easy decorations then tempered big muscle puppy (forgot it's name) is the one for you

Tempered Negi for tracks, Muscle puppy / Odogaron for easy decorations, Gotcha

Muscle puppy, that's the second time I've seen someone refer to Odogaron as that, First time was while watching MatthasGames on Twitch haha

[Lil_Pipsqueak]

Originally posted by Neme:

Originally posted by Lil_Pipsqueak:

the best way to farm in this game is just tempered nirgigante cause he gives tons of tracks and is relatively simple to kill. If you just want easy decorations then tempered big muscle puppy (forgot it's name) is the one for you

Tempered Negi for tracks, Muscle puppy / Odogaron for easy decorations, Gotcha

Muscle puppy, that's the second time I've seen someone refer to Odogaron as that, First time was while watching MatthasGames on Twitch haha

Forgot to mention nergigante is also good for streamstones for augmentations

[Mhblis]

With Ax of Demons you can reach more than enough Affinity. DevilJho is even better for this.

For an early endgame set you can look up the White Winds build.

Health Augment for any Melee Weapon is a number one. The SA heals boat loads in sword mode.

The absolute only reason not to go with Health is if you someone how play super clean and are speed running. then you might look into affinity or damage.

[mewlynx]

Originally posted by Mhblis:

With Ax of Demons you can reach more than enough Affinity. DevilJho is even better for this.

For an early endgame set you can look up the White Winds build.

Health Augment for any Melee Weapon is a number one. The SA heals boat loads in sword mode.

The absolute only reason not to go with Health is if you someone how play super clean and are speed running. then you might look into affinity or damage.

-30% affinity weapons need dual affinity augments to reach 100%, afaik. Honestly, I'm not really sure what Axe of Demons's ideal augment is because of this. Probably health or affinity, but I'm really not sure.

[Mhblis]

You dont need 100% affinity. You only need enough that you that you stay at max sharpness for the hunt. 80% will do this easily with Masters Touch.

Prior to that I ran Protective Polish which again will do the job.

But the fact that you dont reach 100% affinity is one of the reasons the Axe of Demons isnt in the meta for SwA.

DevilJho immediatly replaces it and since then the KT weapons came along.

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With SwA unless you are super clean and even the top speed runners arent ,

You want Health Augment because there is constant chip damage. The Hop means you are just plain going to eat the occasional attack for most players.