What Status is the most important on Weapons

[Spada]

Sharpness, Affinity or Raw Power?

[Meat Man (Alfons)]

Sharpness is important to atleast have Blue, and then Raw, then affinity. You can do some Affinity gimmick setups but Raw is the most straightforward

[Tregrenos]

Gunlance shells.

Splozions!

[Greb]

Those are all important. You can't have a total deficit of one without really ruining it for the others.

I guess you can have 0% Affinity or even negative and still do okay though. But Sharpness and Raw is integral for being actually effective and killing stuff efficiently. No point cherry tapping something to death.

[!?!]

Raw power, it's why diablos weapons tend to be the best physical ones despite negative affinity, no slot, no nothing.
You can do a lot to compensate for lack of sharpness or affinity but there's very little you can do about low base damage.

[StormhawkV]

Raw power is the most important because affinity is very easy to get through skills and upgrades. You can also increase the level of sharpness but the best way of getting raw power is to have a weapon with high raw.

If you look at the meta builds for many weapons you will see that most of them stack skills like Weakness Exploit and Maximum Might to make up for the low affinity on the weapon.

There are exceptions of course like the Kjarr IG 'Para' build that uses Peak Performance instead but compare it to the Jho glaive and you'll see the difference between them is rather small while the Jho one is a lot less decoration hungry. Affinity is the cheapest and easiest stat to stack in MHW.

[Xilo The Odd]

whats more important in a golf stance, keep your knees bent or your shoulders square?

[Spada]

Originally posted by Xilo The Odd:

whats more important in a golf stance, keep your knees bent or your shoulders square?

Do you like bananas?

[Irene ❤]

Free meal

[Nimble Mind]

Earplug

[Hurricane]

Originally posted by Greb:

Those are all important. You can't have a total deficit of one without really ruining it for the others.

I guess you can have 0% Affinity or even negative and still do okay though. But Sharpness and Raw is integral for being actually effective and killing stuff efficiently. No point cherry tapping something to death.

Wrong... blue will pen most enemies. Will just take longer to kill if low damage and crit. Massive crit and damage is useless if it cant pen...

[JPM岩]

Affinity is most important, as it essentially multiplies your overall damage with every critical hit, and the more crits you land, the more damage you do; sharpness is second, as it can increase your damage multiplier more; then raw, raw honestly is a flat rate, doesnt change much

[箍峰崚月]

It really depends on what weapon class you are using.
For weapons like GS raw will be the most important
For other fast hitting weapons like DB, affinity and elemental damage will be the most important
Sharpness and its potential is also very important since the damage multipliers between blue and white is large(purple is coming in iceborne i believe)
Ailment is not worth going for most hunts.

Most:
For heavy weapon: Raw>Affinity>Sharpness>Jewel Slot>Element>Defense
For light weapon: Affinity>Element>Sharpness>Raw>Jewel Slot>Defense

Gunlance: shelling level
Bow&LGB&HBG: coating&ammo type

[Broscar]

Depends on the weapon and the monster you're facing.

Garon Lance is pretty strong despite having low raw, because it has natural white sharpness and high affinity. This synergises incredibly well with master's touch and critical boost.

Chargeblade you'll want to max out on raw and sharpness is less important because phial damage doesn't care what sharpness your weapon is at.

LBG and Dual Blades benefit the most from elemental effects. This differs per monster of course, but a rapid fire ice LBG for example absolutely destroys Volganos.

When in doubt however, pure raw wins 9/10 times. It's always been this way in MH games and World doubles down on it by introducing elementless and an elemental attack cap.

[箍峰崚月]

Originally posted by Broscar:

When in doubt however, pure raw wins 9/10 times. It's always been this way in MH games and World doubles down on it by introducing elementless and an elemental attack cap.

If you use elementless weapon have the non-elemental boost skill
Elemental cap is 1.3 from base. elemental damage is calculated by dividing 10 and rounded down

[Broscar]

yah thanks? lmao