Power Prolonger

[Qylex]

So I am using Insect Glaive as my main weapon.

I am wondering if power prolonger skill extends the duration of the buffs given by the kinsects

Also, can anyone suggest me some preferred skills for insect glaive builds.

Thanks in advance

[The Wolf Steel]

https://imgur.com/a/22e5fCC

Not sure if all of them are still used, but that's the quickest source I could find

[StormhawkV]

Yes, Power Prolonger works on IG Kinsect buffs but the skill isn't part of the meta sets because it's less important than affinity and damage enhancing skills.

You want to stack Weakness Exploit/Critical Eye/Maximum Might until you reach 100% affinity and then go for Critical Boost and maybe even Peak Performance if there's room for it.

[Qylex]

Originally posted by StormhawkV:

Yes, Power Prolonger works on IG Kinsect buffs but the skill isn't part of the meta sets because it's less important than affinity and damage enhancing skills.

You want to stack Weakness Exploit/Critical Eye/Maximum Might until you reach 100% affinity and then go for Critical Boost and maybe even Peak Performance if there's room for it.

Thank you very much, I was about to get the Xeno chestplate

[Qylex]

Originally posted by Wolf Steel:

https://imgur.com/a/22e5fCC

Not sure if all of them are still used, but that's the quickest source I could find

Thanks for this! I'll use it as my build guide

[The Wolf Steel]

No problem. Feel free to add me if you need help farming some sets.

[Dark Savior]

Originally posted by Currently In-Game:

Originally posted by StormhawkV:

Yes, Power Prolonger works on IG Kinsect buffs but the skill isn't part of the meta sets because it's less important than affinity and damage enhancing skills.

You want to stack Weakness Exploit/Critical Eye/Maximum Might until you reach 100% affinity and then go for Critical Boost and maybe even Peak Performance if there's room for it.

Thank you very much, I was about to get the Xeno chestplate

It is up to user preference.
I prefer it over a full dps set, because my buffs always run out at the worst time such as a KO or paralysis opportunities.

[StormhawkV]

Originally posted by Dark Savior:

It is up to user preference.
I prefer it over a full dps set, because my buffs always run out at the worst time such as a KO or paralysis opportunities.

That's why you collect the red one before. It's the most important.

[Greb]

Insect Glaive is the only weapon I'd feel comfortable using Drachen for, honestly. People say aerial attacks are terrible - they're not - they just have much lower damage than standing there and spamming your endless ground combo. Thing is though, if you're going to stick to the ground, why are you using a glaive anyway, right? If damage was what you cared about you'd be using a Charge Blade, Switchaxe or a Greatsword. So long as you don't constantly do aerial attacks and you make good use of your ground combos when a monster is down, you'll be doing good in my eyes.

So on my Insect Glaive build, I use 4 pieces of Drachen (Armet, Vambraces, Coil and Greaves) to trigger the Elemental Airborne and Masters Touch skills, and then I build for Affinity etc, no need to explain how that works, but I also put Airborne on there as well. Aerials are very nice for some monsters after all, and can make otherwise difficult / annoying fights a breeze such as Lunastra, Xeno'jiiva and AT Nergigante. Also helps ripping off tails, like Deviljho's.

I don't bother with it, but you can consider taking some Constitution skill, to reduce your stamina consumption while in the air, dashing and attacking, but it's not necessary if you use Dash Juice.

Power Prolonger is, eh. I like to have it, yes, because I like the buffs to last as long as possible and I tend to mix two and then save the last one until it begins flashing, to reset the entire buff with only one extract instead of having to collect them all again etc. The longer you're up with Red, the better - but if you don't mind more frequently collecting extracts, I guess you could get away with dropping this skill. I never run without Level 3 though.

It's like Focus on Greatswords and Chargeblades, or Evade Extender on the Switchaxe or Gunlance - it's not required and not everyone uses it, but damn is it nice to have if you slot it in - and hard to get used to not having, once you've experienced it.

Also, don't bother with Master Mounter. The Insect Glaive is not a good weapon for mounting monsters with, at least not offensively.

[Remi]

Originally posted by Greb:

Insect Glaive is the only weapon I'd feel comfortable using Drachen for, honestly. People say aerial attacks are terrible - they're not - they just have much lower damage than standing there and spamming your endless ground combo. Thing is though, if you're going to stick to the ground, why are you using a glaive anyway, right? If damage was what you cared about you'd be using a Charge Blade, Switchaxe or a Greatsword. So long as you don't constantly do aerial attacks and you make good use of your ground combos when a monster is down, you'll be doing good in my eyes.

So on my Insect Glaive build, I use 4 pieces of Drachen (Armet, Vambraces, Coil and Greaves) to trigger the Elemental Airborne and Masters Touch skills, and then I build for Affinity etc, no need to explain how that works, but I also put Airborne on there as well. Aerials are very nice for some monsters after all, and can make otherwise difficult / annoying fights a breeze such as Lunastra, Xeno'jiiva and AT Nergigante. Also helps ripping off tails, like Deviljho's.

I don't bother with it, but you can consider taking some Constitution skill, to reduce your stamina consumption while in the air, dashing and attacking, but it's not necessary if you use Dash Juice.

Power Prolonger is, eh. I like to have it, yes, because I like the buffs to last as long as possible and I tend to mix two and then save the last one until it begins flashing, to reset the entire buff with only one extract instead of having to collect them all again etc. The longer you're up with Red, the better - but if you don't mind more frequently collecting extracts, I guess you could get away with dropping this skill. I never run without Level 3 though.

It's like Focus on Greatswords and Chargeblades, or Evade Extender on the Switchaxe or Gunlance - it's not required and not everyone uses it, but damn is it nice to have if you slot it in - and hard to get used to not having, once you've experienced it.

Also, don't bother with Master Mounter. The Insect Glaive is not a good weapon for mounting monsters with, at least not offensively.

"Why use it instead of LS when you only stay on the ground" is the typcial argument a person that's never used the weapon correctly brings up. Also IG is still the best mounting weapon without a ledge nearby, but you probably don't even know that it has an actual mounting attack because all the Worldbabs have never used a good iteration of IG before and don't use anything but gay bulge and meme ♥♥♥♥.

Why use anything when you can use ranged cheese or ledge GS? If you only care about damage why would you use anything else?

[Greb]

Mounting offensively with a Glaive is a waste of time for you and your team.

The Insect Glaive is great at mounting. It also sucks. While mounted, you're wasting your buff and you've likely just landed on the back after consuming most / a good chunk of your stamina vaulting, dashing and flying around - unless you did a standard jump followed by the downwards spiral, which does much more mount damage than your typical helicopter spin.

Also, moving around on a monster consumes more stamina because you attack while doing so - whereas every other weapon does not, you merely hop at minimal stamina cost, and can continue shanking the monster in the back. Considering the more efficient method of dealing with a mounted monster is hopping to another part instead of bracing, wasting what little stamina you have remaining doing a flashy version while doing a little bit of damage, ain't worth it.

Finally, although this is really a non-issue due to the stun-knockdown being the more valuable reason to mount than the damage caused by the finisher attack, other weapons that are easy to land a mount with such as a Switchaxe, Greatsword or Hammer also do much more damage with their respective finishing attacks, etc.

The only thing going for the Insect Glaive is yes, as you mentioned, is being able to perform aerial attacks and thus mount wherever you are. This is why it is better used in a "support" or "defensive" role instead - I.E mounting a monster quickly before it retreats to a new zone, or using it to stop Teostra from deploying his nova bomb, and so on.

That's all I meant when I said the Insect Glaive is not a good weapon for mounting with. With the way you just decided to rebuke me for seemingly no reason, I kinda expect you to understand that. I guess not.

[StormhawkV]

Aerial IG isn't bad just because of the damage output but because it doesn't get high affinity since MM doesn't work up there and most monsters have no weakpoints on their backs. IG would be the best mounter with no ledges around IF no other weapons had unlimited access to mounting attacks which isn't the case. Its mounting values are too heavily nerfed to defend that place.

Originally posted by Greb:

While mounted, you're wasting your buff

The timer stops the moment you mount a monster.

[Greb]

Originally posted by StormhawkV:

The timer stops the moment you mount a monster.

Is that right? Hmm.

Okay then