Question about glaive

[Charles Wiltshire]

I'm new to the series,well i played in mh on ps2 long long time ago,so the question:i finally crafted anjanath glaive(because its most powerful for now) and its says it improve blunt insect damage(something like this),and when i equipt blunt insect,my glaive in stats meny start to be blunt type,does insect decide what type of damage glaive is use(blant or slice)?
And could u recommend good glaives and insect to middle of the game,and if u can few tips and tricks from masters of glaives pleeeease.

[Charles Wiltshire]

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[Kyukyu]

I suggest you watch this if you want a really good in-depth guide for Insect Glaive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFmi1NhaQyU

Insect Glaives only do slashing damage. Only certain kinsects can do blunt damage and your current Insect Glaive gives blunt kinsects a little damage boost (can be good for breaking horns and stuff like that I suppose, but I only use sever kinsects myself).

Since I prefer having a kinsect with a lot of speed, as it helps you getting extracts WAY faster, I only either use the Pseudocath III or Grandcathar III (both start from the Culldrone lineage to the Windchopper lineage). One has a blast cloud effect which builds up to deal 120 damage after some time (depending on monster weakness to blast) and the other one is amazing to heal yourself and others.

Now other people probably will have other opinions but afaik the Pseudocath III is easily the most used kinsect.

[DarkFenix]

No. Each kinsect does blunt or cutting (sever) damage, as stated in its stats. All glaives do cutting damage, as they're all bladed weapons. If a glaive says it gives a sever/blunt boost, then it boosts the kinsect's damage if the damage type matches up.

And there's no point recommending mid-game weapons, just make whatever hits hardest or looks best for you at the time, you only need worry about optimising much later on.