Best GreatSword , GS ?

[Qlimax]

Best greatsword for now ? just bought IB DLC and now there's the Safi GS, wonder if Wyvern Impact is still the strongest ?

[HimmDawg]

Currently, it's the Safi GS. Before that, it was the Acid Shredder or Shara Ishvalda GS. Wyvern Impact is unfortunately quite weak in Iceborne :(

In 2 weeks, the next good GS is the Raging Brachydios one. It almost equals in strength with the Safi GS, but it's more flexible due to the Lv4 and Lv3 Deco Slots + the fact that you have natural purple sharpness.

[Vandals[UK]]

Wyvern Impact DOES have an upgrade, but the numbers weren't that impressive. Especially the fact it has -15 Affinity took a massive hit.

A good substitute is the Royal Venus Blade RVB (1296 atk) (upgrade from Guild Palace Blade) from the event: 50 Shades of White (MR 7 or higher).
Where a single point of handicraft will push RVB into purple, suppressing Immovable Dharma that requires Lv5 Handicraft to push it to purple sharpness.

But the ultimate end game GS (as of now) is the Safi's GS which can give 1450+ atk while having 5% affinity.

[Juliane_L]

Originally posted by HimmDawg:

Currently, it's the Safi GS. Before that, it was the Acid Shredder or Shara Ishvalda GS. Wyvern Impact is unfortunately quite weak in Iceborne :(

In 2 weeks, the next good GS is the Raging Brachydios one. It almost equals in strength with the Safi GS, but it's more flexible due to the Lv4 and Lv3 Deco Slots + the fact that you have natural purple sharpness.

this. rajang GS is also a decent non safi GS.
if you build for crit draw+frostcraft, velkhana and rathalos GS are the best, choose between those 2 depending of the elemental weakness for the monster. i have no idea if safi greatswords are better for this playstyle tough.
guild palace GS is also a strong and pretty comfy option.

[HimmDawg]

Originally posted by Juliane_L:

if you build for crit draw+frostcraft, velkhana and rathalos GS are the best, choose between those 2 depending of the elemental weakness for the monster. i have no idea if safi greatswords are better for this playstyle tough.

Every GS should be viable for a Frostcraft build since element on a GS is kinda a trap. 600 element on a GS might add a bit bonus damage but it's really minor.
That being said, they are both great GS but in comparison, Safi outclasses all of them right now

[CovfefeCat]

Safi Blast or Sleep is probably your best bet. I see some people run poison too, but a lot of people in MP run poison anyways and you can't build Poison or Para status while a monster is already afflicted by that status, but blast obviously only takes a second to proc, so you get better value out of multiple people having blast. Sleep as well, because obviously you aren't DPSing a monster while it is asleep, you ideally TCS its face then blow 8 bombs as it wakes up, so having sleep on a GS that ALSO can push the highest raw is very ideal.

But you're not likely to get more than 2 sleeps if GS is the only one with it, maybe not even more than 1.

Blast is, at least from what I've seen, considered the best, even without any status boosting skills, but the sleep looks better IMO and there is always the matter that if you're GS in the first place, everyone wants you to TCS a wakeup hit because "big number jaja".

I don't think that element ones are worth it, but maybe if the monster has 3 star weakness and you are running full Safi crested armor there could be SOME scenarios it outperforms blast damage. Note that I do not know if Safi weapons have an element cap, as a lot of other weapon types so far people have tried to reach a cap and failed. But common sense says element/status bad for slow weapons, we just obviously don't have a straight raw option from Safi.

Also I'm not sure how well a Frostcraft/Crit draw build works for GS, never looked into their viability. It's too easy to reach 100% affinity in IB so I haven't seen Crit draw used in a while.

[Skarekroww]

Originally posted by Qlimax:

Best greatsword for now ? just bought IB DLC and now there's the Safi GS, wonder if Wyvern Impact is still the strongest ?

Acidic glavinous, Shara isvalda, Safi'jiiva (blast)

[Crusader]

Currently safi. if you don’t want to farm him, raging brachy is coming on april 9-10 with a greatsword that is really close to it in terms of stats.