Best elemental GS's for late MR

[John Marston]

Hello! So, i just finished Raging Brachy quest, did some Guiding Lands farming and I have a question: what are the best GS's for each element? I was reading about Safi weapons but unfortunately i don't have Plus and it would be hard to do it alone... so Im counting on that weapons from other monsters are better maybe. If so, which are they? For each element/ailment of course.

[Fraktal]

I've never touched GS but I believe raw is king for that weapon.

Hopefully someone more experienced comes to this thread.

[Juliane_L]

elemental isn't meta but if you want to try it velk and rathalos GS are pretty good with a frostcraft build depending of the elemental weakness of the monster. maybe kirin GS aswell?(i dunno for that one)

[Walrus-Sama]

Safi Blast or Raging Brachy GS are best.

Safi Poison, Sleep and Para below that I think.

Element sucks on GS.

[Juliane_L]

Originally posted by Walrus-Sama:

Safi Blast or Raging Brachy GS are best.

Safi Poison, Sleep and Para below that I think.

Element sucks on GS.

element not being meta dosen't mean that it sucks.

[Temuthril]

Originally posted by Juliane_L:

element not being meta dosen't mean that it sucks.

Excluding Frostcraft shenanigans, what benefits do elemental greatswords have?

[JPM岩]

Originally posted by Juliane_L:

Originally posted by Walrus-Sama:

Safi Blast or Raging Brachy GS are best.

Safi Poison, Sleep and Para below that I think.

Element sucks on GS.

element not being meta dosen't mean that it sucks.

Yes, but technically no. The elemental values are just really low on GS, and it's one hit every few seconds. It's a better choice to use something with a high raw and status than something with element.

[Remi]

Use status, whichever you like, wide sweep has a humongous status application multiplier. And both para and sleep work great with GS. Element is poop.

[L:D]

The only good elemental is ice and only for Rajang. And to be honest you might get more damage using safi blast + frostcraft, which in your case, and if you really like to hunt Rajangs, you might want the Velk GS.
But it doesn't mean you can't use elemental tho, and if that's the case you can go for Ruiner nerg for dragon, Velk for ice, fire i think it's Lavasioth, Kirin or Fulgur for thunder and, for water you can either go for Jagras or Venus blade, Venus blade is a event item tho and idk if the event are still going.

[hellbringer]

don't elemental GS do something an additional 20 damage per hit on something 3 star weak and goof HZV?

[Meat Man (Alfons)]

Originally posted by JPM岩:

Originally posted by Juliane_L:

element not being meta dosen't mean that it sucks.

Yes, but technically no. The elemental values are just really low on GS, and it's one hit every few seconds. It's a better choice to use something with a high raw and status than something with element.

I believe it actually has the highest elemental modifiers in the game on its *HORIZONTAL slashes, but it still isnt that good compared to stacking raw

Edited the wrong part, it is the horizontal slashes with high elemental

[Fuhrergy]

Personally I tried elemental GS just because I had gear for elemental SnS, but the damage wasn't worth it even if the monster was weak to it.
Go with beta silver rathalos set, spec for elemental damage you want, pick some augments for affinity like expert, tenderizer, take critical draw and quick sheath, (abuse jump attacks with airborne jewel if you want).

But for the gear alone:
Silver rathalos set with (edit: damascus mail beta, made a mistake here), take alpha rathalos if you only want to use fire damage with Rathalos Gleamsword (it's not the best fire damage, but gives affinity, compared to other greatswords with good elemental damage and negative affinity, which is important with silver rath set).
For other elements take silver rath set beta (or for any because you can get creative with decorations, alpha doesn't have good ones for GS), look for best elemental damage you want in a GS and take affinity into consideration

[♋Phenex]

Basically frostcraft + maxed out safi elemental GS.
Build should look like this but replace GS with one of each element. You still build for attack.
https://i.imgur.com/NfomeXw.png

[CourtesyFlush09]

Go Raw or go home.

[John Marston]

Okay, so from this all posts I assume that elemental GS's are a piece of crap. So, should I use Raging Brachy GS? I even got the Immortal Reactor from the first kill, i was happy af. To this point I used Immovable Dharma and it is pretty good in my opinion. My plan is: use Dharma against elders, and then pick Free Element skill to get this Elderseal, and against other monsters, use Rage Brach GS with Raw dmg boost. What do you think?

[Remi]

Originally posted by WhiteFatalis:

Okay, so from this all posts I assume that elemental GS's are a piece of crap. So, should I use Raging Brachy GS? I even got the Immortal Reactor from the first kill, i was happy af. To this point I used Immovable Dharma and it is pretty good in my opinion. My plan is: use Dharma against elders, and then pick Free Element skill to get this Elderseal, and against other monsters, use Rage Brach GS with Raw dmg boost. What do you think?

In the grand scheme it doesn't matter what GS you use as long as you stack for raw and crit skills. Elemental ones might be behind ~10% and elderseal will only proc once or so, but if you deem that proc to be worth investing points into, then go for it. Can't go wrong with Raging GS though, and you can just layer any model you like luckily.