Weakness Exploit or Critical Eye?

[Shockal]

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[Suzaku]

Weakness exploit. It's not even up for debate.

[Seamus]

Both.

[Shockal]

Originally posted by Seamus:

Both.

I ain't got enough slot room for both, that's why I'm asking

[~KeNnEtH~]

Weakness Exploit first.

The assumption is you will naturally and logically try to land most, if not all, attacks on weak spots.

That will straight up give 50 affinity at level 3 which is just incredible.

The assumption holds because if you only go for non-weak spots, even if you boost your affinity or damage, it will still be low damage.

Critical Eye should then be used to boost or make your resting Affinity up to 50.

Then, you get 100 Affinity on a weak spot.

[Shockal]

Originally posted by ~KeNnEtH~:

Weakness Exploit first.

The assumption is you will naturally and logically try to land most, if not all, attacks on weak spots.

That will straight up give 50 affinity at level 3 which is just incredible.

The assumption holds because if you only go for weak spots, even if you boost your affinity or damage, it will still be low damage.

Critical Eye should then be used to boost or make you resting Affinity up to 50.

Then, you get 100 Affinity on a weak spot.

What I'm aiming for if I go with a Weakness Exploit modification for my build is 2 Maximum Might and 3 Weakness Exploit so I get 70% affinity, which I think is enough, but a large amount.

I'm not investing 100% affinity because I still have other skills I want to reserve.

The only reason why I'm asking is, as said, im not sure if you can aim the weakspots on things like Kirin, who is **** to hit. Eitherway I guess I could change my build everytime I decide to fight it.

[JPM岩]

Originally posted by Shockal:

Originally posted by ~KeNnEtH~:

Weakness Exploit first.

The assumption is you will naturally and logically try to land most, if not all, attacks on weak spots.

That will straight up give 50 affinity at level 3 which is just incredible.

The assumption holds because if you only go for weak spots, even if you boost your affinity or damage, it will still be low damage.

Critical Eye should then be used to boost or make you resting Affinity up to 50.

Then, you get 100 Affinity on a weak spot.

What I'm aiming for if I go with a Weakness Exploit modification for my build is 2 Maximum Might and 3 Weakness Exploit so I get 70% affinity, which I think is enough, but a large amount.

I'm not investing 100% affinity because I still have other skills I want to reserve.

The only reason why I'm asking is, as said, im not sure if you can aim the weakspots on things like Kirin, who is **** to hit. Eitherway I guess I could change my build everytime I decide to fight it.

WE is one of the most important skills in World, regardless of what youre fighting; the massive damage increase from it from even kissing a weakspot is a big game changer.

[Zelph]

Originally posted by Shockal:

Originally posted by ~KeNnEtH~:

Weakness Exploit first.

The assumption is you will naturally and logically try to land most, if not all, attacks on weak spots.

That will straight up give 50 affinity at level 3 which is just incredible.

The assumption holds because if you only go for weak spots, even if you boost your affinity or damage, it will still be low damage.

Critical Eye should then be used to boost or make you resting Affinity up to 50.

Then, you get 100 Affinity on a weak spot.

What I'm aiming for if I go with a Weakness Exploit modification for my build is 2 Maximum Might and 3 Weakness Exploit so I get 70% affinity, which I think is enough, but a large amount.

I'm not investing 100% affinity because I still have other skills I want to reserve.

The only reason why I'm asking is, as said, im not sure if you can aim the weakspots on things like Kirin, who is **** to hit. Eitherway I guess I could change my build everytime I decide to fight it.

You should only ever be aiming for kirins head. And while that might be hard for some weapons, you lose a lot of damage if you don't.

[Shockal]

Originally posted by JPM岩:

WE is one of the most important skills in World, regardless of what youre fighting; the massive damage increase from it from even kissing a weakspot is a big game changer.

Originally posted by Suzaku:

Weakness exploit. It's not even up for debate.

Originally posted by ~KeNnEtH~:

Weakness Exploit first.

Alright. Weakness exploit it is.

[Shockal]

Originally posted by Zelph:

You should only ever be aiming for kirins head. And while that might be hard for some weapons, you lose a lot of damage if you don't.

I use a Sword and Shield so I don't know if it's going to leave the biggest dent, but next time I do try Kirin again I will try to aim for the head.

Like Thanos once said.

[Zelph]

Originally posted by Shockal:

Originally posted by Zelph:

You should only ever be aiming for kirins head. And while that might be hard for some weapons, you lose a lot of damage if you don't.

I use a Sword and Shield so I don't know if it's going to leave the biggest dent, but next time I do try Kirin again I will try to aim for the head.

Like Thanos once said.

Hit zone is 55 for the head for sever, 31 on the body. That is a pretty significant difference. Don't know how accurate this is, but that is 55% of true damage vs 31%. Elemental adds to that even more.

[~KeNnEtH~]

Originally posted by Shockal:

What I'm aiming for if I go with a Weakness Exploit modification for my build is 2 Maximum Might and 3 Weakness Exploit so I get 70% affinity, which I think is enough, but a large amount.

I'm not investing 100% affinity because I still have other skills I want to reserve.

The only reason why I'm asking is, as said, im not sure if you can aim the weakspots on things like Kirin, who is **** to hit. Eitherway I guess I could change my build everytime I decide to fight it.

Yeah, that's fine too. 70% crit chance is plenty. 100 Affinity is really just ideal but it's only necessary for sets that are banking on Master's Touch to keep a short white sharpness bar from dropping to blue.

You can consider adding Critical Boost to your set after the 70 Affinity.

For Kirin, assuming you are a melee user like me, your focus should be on your elemental defense.

It has relatively low HP so the main issue about it is not so much on it having only the head as a weak spot but rather, its thunder attacks and our lack of in-built elemental defense as melee users.

As long as you keep hitting the head with Weakness Exploit on, even without your big moves, it will go due to its relatively smaller health pool.

Getting the Thunderproof mantle and Temporal mantle, eating a Veggie Platter at the canteen, slotting Thunder Resistance (not really needed unless you are fighting the AT version) and ensuring you don't start right off the bat with negative thunder resistance will help.

[JPM岩]

If you plan on using a different weapon than normal to fight kirin, Switch Axe's Sword Form doesnt bounce off of Kirin's armor when it's charged

[Shockal]

Originally posted by ~KeNnEtH~:

You can consider adding Critical Boost to your set after the 70 Affinity.

Nah I ain't got room. I do appreciate the Kirin tips, but just so you know, I have already solo'd Arch-Tempered Kirin, so meh.

[Shockal]

Originally posted by JPM岩:

If you plan on using a different weapon than normal to fight kirin, Switch Axe's Sword Form doesnt bounce off of Kirin's armor when it's charged

I'm addicted to SnS

[Drat Souma]

For efficient damage, you should mostly be aiming for weakspots. WE is the best for this.
If, for some reason, your playstyle makes it difficult to target weak spots (head too high for eg), CE can help to mitigate negative affinity on the weapon.