Best Thunder element insect glaive?

[プロ Darth Assassin]

I really like thunder element glaive so i wanna ask which is best and why and also good armor set for it.(currently thinking odogaron set,)

[Carambar]

Destroyer Bo with free element up, otherwise kadachi's pillar.

[Linguistically Inept]

benefits to both kadachi and kirin, generally kadachi though

kadachi has higher raw, native affinity, l1 deco but more importantly 3 augment slots... also has speed boost, making your kinsect fly faster... a lot of people really like this; i think its overrated and not necessary in the slightest; but nice to have anyway

kirin is r8, so only one augment slot, has a l3 deco but more importantly has higher base elem damage, this is important because elem damage caps at ~+30%... also has elem boost which is nice if you're running something like a grancathar kinsect (because you can atleast get the elemental damage even if its raw power level is pathetic), but generally you want to be running psuedocath/monarch alucanid


ody armour is horrible for IG, the skills are lacklustre, you gain pretty much no benefit from punish draw (you should basically never sheathe IG) and whilst protective polish is nice; you can get it much easier as an l2 deco

stuff you want to look out for are

damage ♥♥♥♥ - standard stuff; crit eye, attack boost, crit boost, weakness exploit, peak performance, agitator.... if desperate then latent power/maxmimum might, they arent reliable at all though

power prolonger - longer extract buffs

anything that increases or lengthens sharpness (as you burn through super fast) - handicraft, protective polish, masters touch or razor sharp... failing that then speed sharpening would be good

personally i run 2p azure rath (head and belt, both beta) with 3p xeno (others, i forget; but probably beta too) and crit eye charm along with kirin glaive for thunder IG, its not optimal (crit could be wayyyy higher with kadachi), but it looks flashy and isnt objectively bad

[Voodoo]

I would say kirin would be better if you ran critical element, why would you run critical element on ig i have no idea, so kadachi it is.

[プロ Darth Assassin]

ty i will foloow ur armor set cuz i really like it but do u use alpha or beta?

[lmaogg]

thunder pretty much dominate by Kirin, kadachi is your only other viable option.

[Carambar]

Why not Destroyer Bo? https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1511992157

[Voodoo]

Originally posted by Carambar:

Why not Destroyer Bo?

only 60 more thunder than kadachi for price of 3 jewels so to get max benefit you will need to run 6 lvl1 jewels while kadachi only 3

all while kadachi also got 10% base affinity.

With your set you would squeeze more if you ran kadachi with 3 bolts and rathalos b chest and kaiser b hands.

[Carambar]

Good point, plus kadachi's also get 3 augmentation slots. I'll check it out

[Voodoo]

bo gets 3 too.