Best Weapon?

[al.gif.moon]

What is the best weapon?
best weapon in your opinion/best weapon in the opinion of whole community as it is?

[D. Flame]

Long Sword is objectively the best weapon.

Not my favorite weapon, but objectively the best one.

[gooDnight]

Not much room for debate, since there is only one weapon with "Great" in its name existing. So take it as the devs answer aswell.

[Smaugi]

The one you like the most.
There is literally no other answer.

[Bum]

Originally posted by D. Flame:

Long Sword is objectively the best weapon.

Not my favorite weapon, but objectively the best one.

"Objectively" Based on what exactly? DPS? In that case how is that objective? Best weapon "objectively" would be the horn as it can stun the monsters, cut tails and buff the whole group while doing decent dmg. You give everyone time to do dmg with proper stuns, you buff everyone with sick solos, and if you're bored you can poke a tail for slash dmg. No other weapon can do as much as a horn.

[Suwako]

Join the DB cult. Make the "DuAl BlAdE iS ThE eAsiEsT" crowd angry as you do top damage, most breaks, and no death hunts.
The elemental damage you can dish out is fantastic, demon mode dodge is quick, so if you have at least a couple of levels in evade window you can iframe most monster swipes. Part breaker is stupid good on dual blades because of their speed, You can get velkana armor pretty early on in iceborne so you can get critical element pretty quick too.

All you have to do is... Become absolutely addicted and unable to function physically, mentally, or emotionally without mega demon drug and Dash juice. Your mental fortitude will crumble with sheer agonizing terror at the thought of doing a hunt without at least 2-3 dash juices in your inventory because you didnt spend 5 hours farming kelbi horns.

Once you unlock guiding lands you will stare at your screen apathetically as you farm research points to meld stuff to get dash juice. You will spend hours hearing the gathering jingle and come to loathe it, as your body will eventually refuse to give the good brain juice for finding dragon treasures for that research point boost. It will feel like licking the walls of a dry well in the Sahara desert hoping to get just the tiny bit of moisture on your tongue to find any sort of relief from the agonizing pain of running laps in the same 3 zones for optimal gathering spots. No longer will you feel joy from this game, nothing but agonizing farming for small hits of dopamine when you do farm enough to go on a couple hunts, like an addict doing whatever it takes for that next hit.

Dual blade is great, do dual blade.

[Bobucles]

please set metrics before getting "objective" about them.
For starting rookie weapons, long sword and dual blade has lots of success. Their play styles put players in strong aggressive positions and they have excellent recovery from mistakes. Greatsword is simple to pick up as it can beat the game using one attack. The lance is flat out undertuned so why pick it as a starting weapon, rookies want easy wins.

Bowguns have too many spreadsheets and too much inventory management for a rookie. The bow is high risk and takes a quite a bit of effort to pay off.

I've seen my share of rookie hammer players, and their life is pure hell. Something about the weapon just doesn't work out at the rookie level. It doesn't quite hit hard enough, isn't quite safe enough, and hunts consist of rookies orbiting around monsters waiting for an opening they can never find. It doesn't really take off until the hunter gets familiar with more advanced mechanics.

[D. Flame]

Originally posted by Bum:

Originally posted by D. Flame:

Long Sword is objectively the best weapon.

Not my favorite weapon, but objectively the best one.

"Objectively" Based on what exactly?

It does everything well, and is top tier in almost every category.

[Bum]

Originally posted by D. Flame:

Originally posted by Bum:

"Objectively" Based on what exactly?

It does everything well, and is top tier in almost every category.

I see, i lost my time. Well played.

[D. Flame]

Originally posted by Bum:

Originally posted by D. Flame:

It does everything well, and is top tier in almost every category.

I see, i lost my time. Well played.

But you is bum...

• It is melee so it doesn't have the negative defense of ranged weapons.
  
• It is melee so you don't have to worry about consumable management (ammo)
  
• You can move quickly with it unsheated, unlike something like Great Sword
  
• It has some of the best range of any melee weapons in the game.
  
• It has high mobility thanks to things like the multi-directional fade slash.
  
• It has some of the best defensive capabilities in the game because you can follow up a quick, low commitment poke with a high invulnerability window counter, that can also be followed up with a spirit combo finisher for instant meter gain.
  
• On top of that it, has some of the best DPS in the game too.
  
• It has a simple game plan which makes it easier to learn too.
  
• And though, not part of the objectively list, it is nice and flashy, which is just icing on the objectively best cake.

There is a reason why it is the most used weapon by a massive margin.

[FuyuNoSora]

Horn is the most popular weapon if you don't count the other 13 weapons.

[D. Flame]

Originally posted by FuyuNoSora:

Horn is the most popular weapon if you don't count the other 13 weapons.

Definitely one the top 17 most popular weapons in MH.

[Agoraphobic Meep]

RAGHHHHHH GREAT SWORD IS GREATEST. THERE WILL NEVER BE A GREATER SWORD THAN GREATSWORD.

Outside of rise and first gen where it feels kinda weightless and weird to handle, greatsword is objectively the most satisfying weapon in this series. It just feels so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ good landing a charged hit and getting immediate visual feedback in the form of the monster reeling.

In terms of actual balance, with world specifically community consensus is divided between HBG and LS being best. HBG gets faster hunt times so I tend to say HBG is better almost objectively, at least for speed running.

[Anoyun?]

Originally posted by al.gif.moon:

What is the best weapon?
best weapon in your opinion/best weapon in the opinion of whole community as it is?

the best weapon is the one you master to use. well if you gonna go for opinion of the whole community it will be just a pissing contest, some will troll, some will meme you wont get a straight answer from the community coz some will be butt hurt if there weapon of choice wont get selected as the BEST even its by vote they wont accept the conclusion. so just stick on what weapon you can master and that will be the BEST.

[Felvine]

the switch axe, charge blade and the gunlance are the best weapons.

because the switch axe = 2 weapons, sword and axe... we all know that 2 is better than 1, it's basic math.... same goes for the gunlance since it's both a gun and a lance so 2... and the charge blade is equal to 3 weapons : sword, shield and an axe (i'm not biased i swear)

[Teratus]

Depends on preference and skill.
It's possible to output insane DPS and utterly wreck some of the games most powerful monsters with the vast majority of weapons, even the most basic of them like Sword and Shield.