Best dps for MELEE?

[ShepirotGamer]

Ive heard 30 times already that the bow has the best dps but i dont wanna waste my time making arrows so what is the melee weapon with the best dps?

[Floskan]

You don't have to make arrows, if you don't care about making power coating arrows you have unlimited close range coating.

[Guizin]

charge blade

i personaly cant use anything that isnt hunting horn

[Exdraconian]

Charge Blade

[Mhblis]

What ever you are best at.

GS hits the hardest and DB attacks the fastest.

[AnemoneMeer]

If the only thing you are concerned with is DPS, I look forward to your long career playing Cart Hero. Fact of the matter is that you want defensive options too unless you really think that having Nergigante spikes rammed firmly up your posterior is a fun way to play the game.

S&S and Charge blade have a good mix of offensive and defensive tools, with CB being more offensive and defensive both, in exchange for being slower and far worse in recovery and utility.

Lance and Gunlance have the best defense, with gunlance having better offense while Lance has perfect defense.

Longsword and Switchaxe are very balanced weapons focused around gauge management, with Longsword having better defensive tools, while Switchaxe has better offensive force.

Dual Blades and Insect Glaive focus on spamming out attacks, with dual blades being pure offense and insect glaive mixing in mobility and utility.

Greatsword and Hammer focus on single heavy hits, with hammer being more mobile and generally applicable, with greatsword lives for that single hit that takes off a quarter of the monster's life.

Hunting horn is the godking of utility, with tons of tools to support and improve themselves and their teammates to better face a monster.

While Charge Blade has the best POTENTIAL DPS, it's relying on landing an extremely slow, extremely vulnerable attack that requires extended effort to charge up and correct alignment with the monster's body. Likewise, while Lance has the lowest POTENTIAL DPS, it has one of the highest actual DPS values, because you just stick on the monster and keep stabbing regardless of its actions, with few exceptions. A good lancer will effortlessly outdamage a bad charge blader.

[Venusgate]

DPS is 100% dependant on Hunter skill with weapon

[Floskan]

Originally posted by crimsonedge11:

Hammer is the best DPS melee weapon.

Dunno where people are getting CB from as the best DPS. Several weapons beat it.

If you're better with a CB then hammering, according to the best TA and non TA speedruns hammer loses to CB with about 10 seconds (Fighting the same monsters).

[Floskan]

Originally posted by crimsonedge11:

Originally posted by Floskan:

If you're better with a CB then hammering, according to the best TA and non TA speedruns hammer loses to CB with about 10 seconds (Fighting the same monsters).

Links?

Since i was just looking up tempered Dhjo runs just now: Here. That's not 10 seconds, but you also have some guys discussing fastest kill times here. Just google TA runs if you have doubts lol. But versus stuff like nergi, hammer is op since you can hop all over the place

[Farrel]

Most weapons have situations where they can really shine. As an (admittedly not great) CB main player, against smaller, highly mobile enemies, the main damage output of the charge blade suffers, against larger and less mobile enemies, it is awesome.

I had understood that the dual blades were the highest DPS of the melee weapons, but I honestly haven't really looked into it. To me, the CB is the weapon that has me covered in pretty much any situation.

Can't dodge an attack? Block it.

Enemy in the air? Axe mode can probably reach it.

Need to score a mount? Launch an ally.

No GS to wake up a sleeping monster? With the right setup, you can manage a decent wake up hit.

And yeah, in good conditions, the CB is a damage dealing monster. *shrug* but yeah, I'd honestly say, go with what you find satisfying to use rather than just the numbers.

If you want numbers? just go bow or HBG.

[silberein]

Carving knife best weapon. No need for sharpness to carve

[Floskan]

Originally posted by crimsonedge11:

Originally posted by Floskan:

Since i was just looking up tempered Dhjo runs just now: Here. That's not 10 seconds, but you also have some guys discussing fastest kill times here. Just google TA runs if you have doubts lol. But versus stuff like nergi, hammer is op since you can hop all over the place

http://mhwspeedruns.com/the-thronetaker/

Hammer breats CB in Thronetaker.

http://mhwspeedruns.com/a-whisper-of-white-mane/

AT Kirin, hammer also wins, bigly.

There are some fights where CB might win, but there are other fights where hammer wins, no doubt.

Yeah they're both good at what they do

[♋Phenex]

Probably GS, hammer or CB cause you can stun lock. Based on dem speedrun times, GS is overall better on average.

[Floskan]

Originally posted by crimsonedge11:

Originally posted by Floskan:

Yeah they're both good at what they do

Also, TA rules are too limiting, IMO, and they limit using ledges and wall jump attacks, and that's bread and butter for some weapons. Not really a legit comparison, IMO.

Ledges are fine though, but i agree that not allowing damaging from walljump is pretty limiting

[Goilveig]

Originally posted by Floskan:

You don't have to make arrows, if you don't care about making power coating arrows you have unlimited close range coating.

Plus, crafting coatings tends to be a huge waste of materials for how fast you consume them. At LR, you can get freebie coatings from the chest at the beginning of the stage. At HR, just buy coatings.

[Ragosta tin Dei]

Bow has the highest DPS because you're almost always hitting the weakspots. This isn't true for all monsters but it is true for a LOT of them. Yes, you will still have problems with Teostra, or Kirin and you get better times with melee when fighting Lavasioth, but for stuff like Rathian types, fliers, or bipedal (deviljho, Anja, etc) Bows will have better times simply because they can hit hard to reach weakspots.