What do you consider an Easy Mode Weapon?

[Roon72]

Seriously...I am a Bow Main and I have been experimenting with the Insect Glaive. To be honest that weapon is just not my style but after testing out the Glaive I have on solo hunts with monsters I have come to believe that the Insect Glaive is a very easy weapon to master. I can see the appeal as it gives you a way of mounting monsters without ledges. But more importantly the Kinsect is massively overpowered with what it can do. If the Insect Glaive did not have the Kinsects I don't feel it would be half as effective as it is with them. I see Insect Glaive as pretty much a beginner weapon that new players can easily learn how to use. Now then, I'm curious to see what you believe is an Easy Mode Weapon in this game. Me, I also think that Longsword is a close second.

[Rathex 🐆]

heavy bowgun u stand and pew pew and win

[CourtesyFlush09]

Pretty much all ranged weapons. They are beta af imo.

[NinJun54]

Agree about the IG, the vault and air mobility makes avoiding certain monster attacks relatively trivial, but there's some complexity about the kinect mechanics, the LS is more or less the same, easy to learn and use.
I'd say SnS is more beginner friendly, although very hard to master (as almost all weapons in the game IMHO), it's more forgiving, since the moveset has generally short animations. Also, it's very mobile, and has a shield as a last resort to some attacks, there's some invincibility frames from the back step and u can use items with the weapon unsheathed. The DB is about the same, fast animations, high mobility, but less resourceful, although I think the moveset is simpler. Other option is GS with fc and hit and run tactics, it's kinda dumb but can be useful with some annoying monsters. Maybe the dumbest thing is spread HBG with shield though LOL.

[Misaow]

The great sword?
Its pretty much just charge swings.
Air attack? that's a charge.
Slide attack? that's a charge.
Combo attack? charge combo's.
Mounted finish? that's a charge.

Oh! kick and tackle if you want to get fancy.

[Smaugi]

Dual blades and longsword.
Like really that's what most new players go with right?
Its easy , can work early game where bowguns are ussualy late game and it Has the meele weapons damage reduction.
I killed tempered ruiner with random safi dual blades (blast ones without blast decos or awakenings) by just mashing random buttons.
I remebered demon mode is a thing after the fight.

[Meat Man (Alfons)]

Longsword. It has no reason having this many iframes on Foresight slash. Why bother dodging normally when you can hehoo spirit gauge up

[cruste]

literally everything with a shield

[Washing Machine]

All of them. Anyone writing novels how their weapon requires perfect mastery of the monster's behavior and Nostradamus predictions and hard reads of every next move they take are full of it.

Point and click at a monster with a range weapon ain't hard. Turtling behind a shield ain't hard. Rolling around and stabbing the ankles ain't hard. Bonking some heads ain't hard.

[BOWSER]

The Hammer is easy mode for me. It was my second choice when I started the game, my first choice was Heavybow Gun but I didn't like constantly running out of ammo and having to craft them in addition to learning the game so I went with the Hammer. I'm not saying it's an easy weapon. It's extremely slow and you get punished for missing attacks, but from my experience on the 2nd playthrough I realized dodging, using the claw clutch mechanics to wall bang/tenderize, and mounting are the real damage dealers regardless of weapon knowledge.

[ressenmacher]

I would say that the HBG requires very little skill to get good results with. You automatically block attacks with one of the best shields in the game, you do high damage, and you have access to ammos that allow you to ignore hitzones and distance. All you really need to do with Sticky HBG is point and click somewhere on the monster and sometimes stop doing that if the monster is trying to hit you.

Additionally, I would say that the Lance and Gunlance can yield victories without much skill against the majority of the monsters in the game. With Guard 5 and Guard Up + either the Vaal regen or a health augment, it is possible to just sit there and endlessly turtle poke with low commitment attacks while sustaining your health. It isn't fast, and it isn't fun, but it will beat almost everything. The exceptions are certain endgame monsters that do so much chip damage and attack so relentlessly that you begin to need to play well and avoid some attacks in order to win, as well as those with a more limited timer (Fatty, AT Velk, the Jangs, prolly R. Brachy, etc).

Originally posted by CourtesyFlush90:

Pretty much all ranged weapons. They are beta af imo.

I disagree in regards to the Bow and LBG. The Bow has to remain close to the monster, needs stamina management skill, and trades the difficulty in aiming to hit desired parts for extreme squishiness. Especially when you reach endgame tempered and archtempered monsters, where the damage is high enough that many twoshots turn into oneshots in gunner defence, I would contend that Bow is absolutely one of the hardest matchups.

LBG can be more busted (esp with Sticky or Pierce), and in certain matchups I agree that it's fairly brainless, but the reloading (especially the need to slow reload a lot of ammos if you mess up your evade reload) combined with the squishiness makes it require skill in most fights where the monster has a good gap closer or ranged attack (like, Velk is tough with a LBG no matter your build, but Legianna isn't)

[Roon72]

Originally posted by CourtesyFlush90:

Pretty much all ranged weapons. They are beta af imo.

As a Bow user I can state with authority that The Bow is not the easiest weapon to use. The controls are very wonky and not easy to pull off without practice and experience. That and the lengths you have to go to just to get your Bow to do a decent amount of damage is insane. Have to get those Flow charts out and map out what skills are best to maximize damage without cheating you know. And math is not my strongest skill in real life. Bow is a big support weapon so i rely on you Blademasters to do most of the damage while I squeeze out as much as I can.

[Juliane_L]

Originally posted by Lord Gwyn:

Dual blades and longsword.
Like really that's what most new players go with right?
Its easy , can work early game where bowguns are ussualy late game and it Has the meele weapons damage reduction.
I killed tempered ruiner with random safi dual blades (blast ones without blast decos or awakenings) by just mashing random buttons.
I remebered demon mode is a thing after the fight.

as a DB main, can confirm.
i beat all of base world and did most of the post game while only ever spamming demon dance. i only needed to actuallly learn DB after getting wrecked by AT xeno.

[Washing Machine]

And I beat base world and IB with HH doing nothing but Y+B into L2 near things faces.

[Kawalorn]

Heavy Bowgun with Shield upgrade. You can just stand there and take most attacks and not care about dodging.

Sticky Light Bowgun. You can just stay far away and pepper monster with constant damage without aiming for specific parts. Of course this one requires a lot of resources, so at least it's not as abusable early game.

I guess Dual Blades in melee are easy, since you don't really need to know any combo paths to optimize your gameplay, but at the very least you actually have to deal with monster attacks, unlike the two above, so it's way better.

[𝓇𝒾𝓃𝒶𝒶𝒶𝒶𝒶]

My top zero skill/easy mode weapons.
-Shield HBG: Higher damage than everything else and there's no need to even guard.
-Sticky LBG: Shoot near the head and get a free KO.
-Longsword: iframes stacked on top of iframes with a side of iframes.