Weapon - bone or ore?

[<HANDUMF>]

Hey, wanted to know what veteran players think... Thanks!

[Zand]

Thats not really a Either/Or question.

[diasandro]

It depends on what you are trying to build. As the weapon tree branches start from either ore or bone tree.

e.g. if you are going to build HBG Destruction's Fusillade, then of course starting from Ore tree is what you want.

Since you are asking this, I am assuming you are new to the game. Here is some tip. Just upgrade (or craft) highest defense armor early game. When the materials unlocked, start upgrading your current weapon to the next highest raw attack. Once you reach Elder Dragons, you can start building something decent.

The most important thing in early game is to make sure you are not fainted from monster's attack, meanwhile low damage only makes the fight longer. Thus defense is your first priority early game.

[Surian Bedivere]

At first its the call between sharpness (iron) and attack power (bone). But further into the weapon trees that actually doesnt apply anymore. Just pick whatever you want. You are free to make more than one weapon and i would advise you to just make whatever you have materials for. Or based on your current hunts. There's no risk experimenting a little by making everything, and truth be told i've only ever found one weapon i didnt like amongst all of them.

Good hunting!

[cruste]

imo
ore to rush through the story
sharpness is more important than a lil bit more dmg, nobody likes bouncing all the time at armor plates of the monster

blunt weapons can deal better with low sharpness
like hammer or hunting horn

[prpl_mage]

As mentioned, each tree will branch out to different monsters.

Not sure if it's the same for all weapons but Bone tends to lean towards thunder and fire elemental and Ore towards ice and water. Dragon can be found on both (?)
As for status, Bone should have Blast and Paralyze while Ore has Poison.

Now don't take the above as actual rules, this is just what I remember from the top of my head.

[<HANDUMF>]

Thank you guys, you are great!

[ciel]

I tend to like ore more cuz they have a variety of hidden elements depending on what weapon you're using. bone's always unsealed dragon damage. i like my gimmicks.

[IrisMachina]

doesn't matter. theres good weapons on both trees.

[JPM岩]

Bone will give you much higher raw, and is usually the recommended tree, however, Ore will give you much higher sharpness; BUT, if you get higher sharpness on an Ore weapon, the Ore weapon will be a much better choice