How important is affinity?

[Kyle Hunya]

Does affinity really matter a lot?

[Arcanyxia]

From how I understand, affinity is crit chance. Your opinion of how valuable crits are is your own

[r3d_belmont456]

Affinity later on is what will help squeeze out more damage from your weapons (or if it is negative affinity, decrease it significantly).

Affinity sort of acts like a damage multiplier for your raw damage stat, or more specifically it is crit chance, tho the way it works is a bit different. Here's a guide that may help you:

https://www.vg247.com/2018/08/08/monster-hunter-world-affinity-guide-what-is-affinity/

[Smiles]

If I know the monster well and I know when to dodge etc, I am not to worried about affinity, but on a new Monster or a tougher one, I use every bit that I can. I think its personal pref. Affinity can make a fight go faster thats for certain.

[Azta]

According to gamepedia, it's accuracy. The better your affinity the more chance you hit higher damage.

[Aviate]

Affinity is a stat that randomly effects if you do MORE or LESS damage.
If Affinity is positive, then there are "chances" (much like a crit) to do more damage, and whatever your Affinity number is, is what your base damage will be raised by percentage-wise.
If it is negative, it works the opposite, there's a chance of doing less damage at the percentage equal to your negative Affinity.

[Voodoo]

affinity is crit chance with base multiplier being 1.25 dmg and if you have critical element 1.35 damage.

at 200 true raw, 2 affinity = 1 true raw.

[Xilo The Odd]

some skills are dependant on critical hits happening so having a high affinity helps there, some sets are built with 100% affinity and maximum crit damage in mind to boost your overall damage signifigantly.

just remember without crit status or crit element, those damage type will not crit, just your raw damage, so high raw damage weapons with decent affinity are usually preffered.

[scram]

affinity on its own is kind of minor, but you can make sets based around high afinity rates and bonuses on critical hits

for instance, you could equip 3 pieces of teostra's armor to activate a set bonus that stops your weapon from losing sharpness when it lands a crit. pair that with a high affinity melee weapon and skills like weakness exploit and you will find yourself doing more damage with less downtime to sharpen

[JJGRINCH]

Affinity is that makes High Raw Weapons a must.

But don't fill slots with Critical Eye.... is a waste.

[L3pr4ch4un]

Affinity is good for GS, crits basically - for example, tobi kodachi - with the true charge slash (charge once, land, pull back charge, land, 3rd (second spot) land it - with leviathan (vaal hazaak, second form) and weakness exploit, not much in the way of crit gear - on the TCS (true charge slash) - I can do 674 if i land it on the tail. HR 250-300 on the other 2 at full charge.
Now with affinity, and the right gear/better gear, it'd be even higher. (but i hate dober, and like my pointy viking (nergigante) set.
Affinity is good - and you definitely don't want negative affinity (granted some sorta negate it for draw attacks) but it only really picks up later in the game at high attack weaponry.

[Vanessa]

Without factoring in crit modifiers (such as Crit Boost and Weakness Exploit) - 1 point of affinity confers a 0.25% damage increase. RNG evens out - at 20 Affinity you have a 20% chance to crit for 125% damage, and therefore 20 Affinity is equal to a 5% effective damage increase.

[JJGRINCH]

Originally posted by L3pr4ch4un:

Affinity is good - and you definitely don't want negative affinity (granted some sorta negate it for draw attacks) but it only really picks up later in the game at high attack weaponry.

With Weakness Expose and Maximium Might you can negate easy the negative affinity... making the Diablo weapons the best right now.

[Xilo The Odd]

Originally posted by Commissar JJ.Maihem:

Affinity is that makes High Raw Weapons a must.

But don't fill slots with Critical Eye.... is a waste.

not necessarily, once you've got attack 4 for that 5% affinity bonus stacking straight affinity beyond that point in your single slots could give you that extra bit of crit you need for that 100% crit build. some 100% crit builds that are popular on console actually use them. not many but some.

but overall it all depends on what you want to crit for, damage, special effects like with crit status/element/masters touch, and what kind of weapons your using it for.

[JJGRINCH]

Originally posted by Xilo The Odd:

Originally posted by Commissar JJ.Maihem:

Affinity is that makes High Raw Weapons a must.

But don't fill slots with Critical Eye.... is a waste.

not necessarily, once you've got attack 4 for that 5% affinity bonus stacking straight affinity beyond that point in your single slots could give you that extra bit of crit you need for that 100% crit build. some 100% crit builds that are popular on console actually use them. not many but some.

but overall it all depends on what you want to crit for, damage, special effects like with crit status/element/masters touch, and what kind of weapons your using it for.

You waste less slots using WE and MM, giving you more room for another good skills plus Atk. Boost 4 (never go beyond that)

[BurlsoL]

Originally posted by Xilo The Odd:

Originally posted by Commissar JJ.Maihem:

Affinity is that makes High Raw Weapons a must.

But don't fill slots with Critical Eye.... is a waste.

not necessarily, once you've got attack 4 for that 5% affinity bonus stacking straight affinity beyond that point in your single slots could give you that extra bit of crit you need for that 100% crit build. some 100% crit builds that are popular on console actually use them. not many but some.

but overall it all depends on what you want to crit for, damage, special effects like with crit status/element/masters touch, and what kind of weapons your using it for.

This. GS, hammer, or long sword, with critical draw, critical eye can do some very large damage every time you unsheath your weapon for a hit. It doesn't help unless you know the weapon and the fights so that you don't get hit by anything particularly dangerous. But the damage is really nice when it works.