Afraid Safi'jiiva will ruin monster hunter for me?

[GundamIT]

From what I've seen. When Safi'jiiva is out, the meta just changes to pretty much all Safi gear. I really don't like the idea of one monster having the best gear for basically everything. I like seeing all the different builds people make, and not just oh Safi gear. Also don't want to have to soli use Safi armor and weapons to be relevant.

Ok, Just to be clear. I usually go for the best weapon I don't soli play whats "meta". A lot of people are just assuming this. Rathalos gs is my favorite gs. Was just trying to say ( clearly failed ) I don't like that one monster has like 90% of the best gear. What I mean by that. Luna weapons are really good sure, but not if you want to use an element. In this you have to use a different weapon. This is balanced to me. Now with Safi weapons you can make your weapon the best for like every element/status. That is not balanced in my opinion. Also I personally think most Safi weapons look bad too.

[Faust Wither]

i want my safi bind axe with frostcraft in it. yum

[JPM岩]

Originalmente postado por rustleBonez:

If you aren't using Safi weapons I'll be kicking you from hunts and remotely deleting your savefile.

I hope this is how the final fight of Iceborne will be like

[Zelph]

Originalmente postado por Lumika:

Safi is just like behemoth and kulve combined, everyone used their gear because it was overtuned to oblivion. You don't have to follow the meta, but the gear is so stupid strong that by not doing so you gimp yourself, specially now with the bloated hp values. I don't enjoy 8+ min hunts, that's boring as hell.

See, some of us are the opposite. 8 minute hunts should be about average as that is more of a hunt and less of just beating on a creature that doesn't move for 3 or 4 minutes. 10 minutes is about the sweet spot for me, especially with groups.

[demon1103]

Honestly, I plan on getting those Safi weapons...but not exactly for stats or meta, but because they are sexy AF.Would also be fun to mess with a resentment build, so far I have kinda avoided having red health at all like the plague, so this would be a nice change.

[DoT]

They Are Basically "Custom Weapons" They aren't 1 sole type of weapon, a whole team of charge blade users can still end up having a completely different weapon and making that custom weapon is the fun part. It's End Game.

Besides, Once Arch Tempered Monsters Release a lot of people will cart trying to risk and reward Taking damage from attacking into getting 1 shotted lmao.

[Mr. Orion Quest]

It's meta as much as it's you making what you want, how you want. It also frees up your armor slots for more QoL and/or defensive options if you wanted, since you could potentially front load a good portion of your DPS build on the weapon itself.

So, sure they're "meta" in the sense you'll be using them a lot, but the rest of your gear can be almost anything you could want, you're no longer bound to specific pieces or sets of gear.

[Sekaro]

I say screw the meta. Look at me, I'm still using SavageJho weapons despite all those threads stating it "sucks". They just look rad as hell and I'm most definitely getting Safi weapons for that reason as well. As long as its not some iron or bone slapped design, I say it's worth farming.

[Prince Ice Blaze Winters]

safi armor at base value with no augments, caps at 174, the highest defense value of all the masterwork armor.

the entire beta set has 5 4* jewels, 4 2* jewels, and 4 1* jewels.

the set bonus gives a MASSIVE increase to all forms of damage, and health regen is decent as long as you don't take damage and continue to attack the monster.

all of the safi weapons have white sharpness, and you can infinitely roll them to trade out sharpness, defense, jewel slot, attack, affinity, element boost, and various monster armor perks (makes it so you need to wear 1 less armor piece, cause your weapon has the armor set perk on it) that all roll between a 1-6 star (can only have 1 6* perk at a time, but can run a full set of 5* perks).

i have about 20 weapons, give or take, and 4 pieces of the beta set (f*cking hardhorns never drop unless the horns are broken, but no one knows how to break safi horns) on xbox one.

[Juno Brier]

Originalmente postado por Ice Blaze Winters:

safi armor at base value with no augments, caps at 174, the highest defense value of all the masterwork armor.

the entire beta set has 5 4* jewels, 4 2* jewels, and 4 1* jewels.

the set bonus gives a MASSIVE increase to all forms of damage, and health regen is decent as long as you don't take damage and continue to attack the monster.

It also looks like trash and has none of the skills I like. Pass.

[Narcoleptic Marshmallow]

Originalmente postado por Ice Blaze Winters:

the set bonus gives a MASSIVE increase to all forms of damage

No it doesn't. It gives a massive increase to affinity, which is already easy enough to 100%, and gives a bit of elemental/ailment damage, both of which already have a cap regardless of this.

A lot of meta builds don't touch it at all, and the only reason anyone at all will run 5 piece Safi armor is because they think it looks cool.

[Endarion]

Originalmente postado por Narcoleptic Marshmallow:

Originalmente postado por Ice Blaze Winters:

the set bonus gives a MASSIVE increase to all forms of damage

No it doesn't. It gives a massive increase to affinity, which is already easy enough to 100%, and gives a bit of elemental/ailment damage, both of which already have a cap regardless of this.

A lot of meta builds don't touch it at all, and the only reason anyone at all will run 5 piece Safi armor is because they think it looks cool.

the elemental bonus actualy rises the cap so it stacks with other elemental bonus pretty well

so for example the armor is meta if you want to maximise damage with elemental CB since phial damage can't crit so critical element is not the best option

you still deal damage to yourself tho

personaly i'll stick to mastertouch

[cruste]

i think i will definitely mod to get the safi weapon iam not really in the mood to spend 1k on one stupid monster.
it is sad that everything is outclassed and not simply a further augmentation for all the weapons.

[Nauct]

Originalmente postado por cruste:

i think i will definitely mod to get the safi weapon iam not really in the mood to spend 1k on one stupid monster.
it is sad that everything is outclassed and not simply a further augmentation for all the weapons.

Disgusting

[Narcoleptic Marshmallow]

Originalmente postado por OutSeal:

the elemental bonus actualy rises the cap so it stacks with other elemental bonus pretty well

I didn't know that. Good to know.

I guess a lot of the weapons could run 3pc Safi and 2+1pc Teo with Safi weapon to get the absolute maximum possible damage, but you're still running around at 60-70% hp at all times assuming you never sheathe and never miss, and a lot of things will 1 shot you at that hp.

The amount of people carting because they think the armor directly boosts your damage enough to make up for the hp drain will be glorious.

Originalmente postado por cruste:

i think i will definitely mod cheat to get the safi weapon

Fixed it for you.

[Endarion]

Originalmente postado por cruste:

i think i will definitely mod to get the safi weapon iam not really in the mood to spend 1k on one stupid monster.
it is sad that everything is outclassed and not simply a further augmentation for all the weapons.

well at leats you're honest and not trying to hide that you cheat