How worth is Elementless jawel 2?

[Alby]

I just drop it right now randomly, while I was refreshing my equip.
I was focussing on affinity but half of my weapons have status or cannot equip that jawel.
(Hammer Malady's Fist ll - Gunlance Rose Burst - Lance Garon Dhara l - Jagras Cannon ll)
What should I do?
My opsions if I want to equip that jawel are:
Wait for better things
Or build Hammer Grandock l / Diablos Shattered l - Gunlance Glutton ll - Lance Heavy Bone l..
(Basically all the bone first line)
Help!

[Ghostility]

It increases base damage by 5% (used to be 10% before iceborne, it got nerfed because Raw used to almost always be the best option).
You can see immediately the effect on your damage once you've added the decoration to your build.
That jewel is always worth if it doesn't have any status / element (or if the status / element needs to be awakened and you don't awaken it). But it's less good than it used to be.

[Alby]

Originally posted by Ghostility:

It increases base damage by 5% (used to be 10% before iceborne, it got nerfed because Raw used to almost always be the best option).
You can see immediately the effect on your damage once you've added the decoration to your build.
That jewel is always worth if it doesn't have any status / element (or if the status / element needs to be awakened and you don't awaken it). But it's less good as it used to be.

Yeah, as I though..
But I think I'll wait for more stuff to unlock.
Those weapons in the bone tree have very little sharpness and looks REALLY ugly xd.
FINALLY the stuff that I got now have a different look.. praise the gods..

[Remi]

On a 300 raw weapon it grants 15 raw, equivalent to Attack Boost 5 not counting the 5% crit. It's worth it generally speaking, but awakening some element might be better on certain matchups, like water on Teo.

[BOWSER]

Since you're focused on affinity but worried about sharpness, may I suggest equipping 3 pieces of Teostra's Kaiser set for Master's Touch. I use it on my Hammers which has 50-65% affinity, x3 Weakness Exploit, and 2-3 Latent Power.

With all of the Crit maintaining the white sharpness, you'll be able to cut tails with a Hammer.

If you want more crit, use Grinding Fulgur. It has a sliver of white which can last 15-20 minutes of normally fighting a monster without sharpening.

If you want more Sharpness with +affinity, use the Guild Palace Mace. You'll never go below white sharpness before a monster flees.

[Alby]

Originally posted by BOWSER:

Since you're focused on affinity but worried about sharpness, may I suggest equipping 3 pieces of Teostra's Kaiser set for Master's Touch. I use it on my Hammers which has 50-65% affinity, x3 Weakness Exploit, and 2-3 Latent Power.

With all of the Crit maintaining the white sharpness, you'll be able to cut tails with a Hammer.

If you want more crit, use Grinding Fulgur. It has a sliver of white which can last 15-20 minutes of normally fighting a monster without sharpening.

If you want more Sharpness with +affinity, use the Guild Palace Mace. You'll never go below white sharpness before a monster flees.

I'll check those weapons/armors when unlock.
Right now I don't even know how Teostra looks

[Greb]

It used to be pretty damn good, but now it's just average. I still wouldn't consider it skippable, but it wouldn't be the first thing I'd slot into a build even with an elementless weapon, although going without it is kinda inefficient.

Depends on the weapon, really.

If you're the kind who believes damage is all that matters and stacking it is the true key to success then yeah, it's still pretty nice and almost brainless to fit into any set, especially since Garuga legs exist.

Similar question would be if Free Element is worth it over just using a weapon with natural element that doesn't need to be awakened and then just buffing it with its associated X Attack skill. Depends on the weapon.

[Muted Kobold]

Depends. On weapons with no element (not including weapons that need awakening) its always worth it.

But if the weapon has an element that is asleep, you need to do some math. Against a creature who is weak to that element the element is usually better. Element also adds flat damage to weapons which is equivalent to the element value divided by 10 before modifiers

It usually is better on faster weapons or chargeblade. But Hunting Horn is now on that list as they easily can get a 100+ damage boost on ele now. Kirin Thunderwail can get up to 120.6 extra damage before modifiers from lightning.

[Xilo The Odd]

its ok, if you just happen to have a left over 2 slot socket, its typically better than a single expert or attack jewel if all else like agitator has been maxed out already.

[Gidedeon]

If your runing greatsword its one of the best gems u can use.

[Alby]

Originally posted by Gidedeon:

If your runing greatsword its one of the best gems u can use.

just lance,gunlance,hammer and heavy bowgun