question on 2 star vs 3 star elemental weakness

[BaconBankai]

Is it a big jump? I was wondering if it would be worth swaping elemental weapons from 2 too 3 star element even if said weapon has like 100 less elemental damage or just less damage overall. I tried looking up the multipliers but it seems people don't know the exact numbers or math behind elemental weakness's in mhw.

[Flatulence Florence]

I kinda wanna know this too. Was waiting to craft a high lvl dragon bow but also wanting to know if its worth switching out my 186d Tobi bow and crafting a 130d dragon bow with 300 dragon damage for 3 star dragon damage weak monsters on HR? Dont wanna waste the resources if its not.

At work atm and cant remember the name of said dragon bow.

[Greb]

It's usually always better to just go with raw damage anyway. I don't know how much of a jump 1 to 2 to 3 stars is, though. I imagine it's a crippling weakness at that point though. I remember using a water hammer on Anjanath and it totally wrecked him, but later I used an ice hammer on him and he barely seemed to feel it.

[BaconBankai]

Originally posted by Greb:

It's usually always better to just go with raw damage anyway. I don't know how much of a jump 1 to 2 to 3 stars is, though. I imagine it's a crippling weakness at that point though. I remember using a water hammer on Anjanath and it totally wrecked him, but later I used an ice hammer on him and he barely seemed to feel it.

people keep saying to me that raw damage is best for slow weapons with high motion values and elemental is good for fast weapons sense elemental damage does not get changed by motion values

[KN1V3Z]

^Correct. Bows are best utilized using ELEMENTAL WEAKNESS. Although some vets would make an argument with the Diablos bow for raw damage.

[Bodhsativa]

Insect Glaive, SnS, Bow, DS and even longsword should be focused on either elemental or status attacks with 3 stars. Sometimes it's not possible though. for instance the mud fish monster swaps elements depends on whether he is covered in mud or not. In this case, take a status or a two star for a more consistent damage if you aren't on a team.

The reason you gave above is correct.
However I would suggest using an elemental weapon with high raw damage. And nothing with negative affinity unless you can boost the affinity.
Negative affinity weapons will occasionally do LESS damage than the base.

[AwkwardMan]

Without going and looking up the actual values, I'd assume 1 star correlates to 10 or 15 percent of your weapons true elemental damage, 2 stars is 15 to probably 20 percent, and 3 stars is 25 and up but it doens't usually get above 35. Also keep in mind that just because a monster is weak to an element doesn't mean they are weak to it everywhere on their body. just like with raw damage monsters have elemental weak points on their body.

The field manual is only meant to give a general sense of weaknesses, if you want to know specifics of how an element does against a monster in a certain spot check out sites like Kiranico and read up on how the damage formula works.

[Sid Icarus]

Speaking of mud covered monsters, you can "wash off" the mud very easily by hitting the mud covered parts of their body with watermoss from your slinger. Grab some and give em a bath.

[BaconBankai]

Originally posted by Sid Icarus:

Speaking of mud covered monsters, you can "wash off" the mud very easily by hitting the mud covered parts of their body with watermoss from your slinger. Grab some and give em a bath.

oh awesome! thx for the tip!