Affinity or Element Damage ?

[Formula of Love ❤]

I'm having a hard time to choose in between Affinity and Element Damage, for example if I want to upgrade my weap to Dual Destroyers II & Kadachi Claws II, which weap should i go to ? Should I focus more on Affinity instead of element damage or vice verse? Any suggestion are appricieted in advanced :) Happy Hunting

[Omega]

theres a cap for Elemental Damage on weapons, you just want to hit that cap, and then go for w/e you need also if youre going for an elemental damage oriented set, you want at least two pieces of the rathalos gear to get the crit element boost iirc

[Len]

Affinity and damge for DPS. Health Regen for sustain.
Niche builds requires Slot upgrade for augments too.

In any case, never go for element damage on augment.

[Sinister_Alpha]

sooo...

lets say, nergigante is weak to thunder,
do i use kadachi db for affinity
or
do i use kirin db for elemental dmg?

which does more damage?
affinity damage that show or elemental that doesnt show?

[Formula of Love ❤]

Originally posted by This Is Spartaaa!:

sooo...

lets say, nergigante is weak to thunder,
do i use kadachi db for affinity
or
do i use kirin db for elemental dmg?

which does more damage?
affinity damage that show or elemental that doesnt show?

im wondering which does more dmg too :/

[Draescan]

Originally posted by This Is Spartaaa!:

sooo...

lets say, nergigante is weak to thunder,
do i use kadachi db for affinity
or
do i use kirin db for elemental dmg?

which does more damage?
affinity damage that show or elemental that doesnt show?

Questions like these confuse the hell out of me. Either one will be good, the damage difference is negligible. What matters is your ability to hit the squishy bits as often as you can, and not picking a weapon that the monster is resistant to. Either affinity or pure elemental damage is fine, doesn't matter which one.

That being said, unless you're using something like the rathalos set, affinity doesn't affect elemental damage.

[SlicedAndDiced]

Originally posted by This Is Spartaaa!:

sooo...

lets say, nergigante is weak to thunder,
do i use kadachi db for affinity
or
do i use kirin db for elemental dmg?

which does more damage?
affinity damage that show or elemental that doesnt show?

depends on the build

One tip for you.

Dont focus on DPS

if you cant keep on that mind set you'll end up building bad habits on making builds.

To answer you question. In general getting the kirin db is better because you can easy replace your missing affinity with other skills, such weakness exploit and etc you can suplement what your missing easier with kirin db

[chuchuTrain]

Blue sharpness to white > attack because this is like a 10% attack boost, google for real #.
**10% of 230 is like 23, way better than a +3 attack skill (230 is a random wep damage).
High raw + elemental is > very high raw - because of the elemental weakness but not as flexible. even with elementless - only really like 2-4 damage.

Always go raw over Elemental, raw does way more damage. Next is Crit around 65% is good enough. Then its crit damage - this doesnt affect elemental crit damage.

*This assumes have white sharpness (white sharpness adds damge to element also)


when your MIn - Maxing then think about adding Elemental damage after raw is max.
*Every +30 elemental attack only gives you like 1 or 2 dmage in the game.

9/10 times igonore elemental crit.

-Status weps - if you dont attack fast or a lot then i dont see the point in this. Unless you are doing some specific things.
*explosion on twinblades are better than on a GS.