iceborne insect glaives

[Absolute Unit]

I'm planning on getting iceborne in a few days, the current glaives I have are empress cane styx, grunge, tyrannis, and hazak entoma. Should I stick to any of these paths for iceborne?

[Serrassi Effect]

since these are all end game monsters, you'll need to switch early master rank unless you want to use high rank weapons throughout the story

[mewlynx]

Jho weapons are trash in Iceborne, Luna weapons are underwhelming and weirdly end-game, and Tyrannis is no good. Vaal IG isn't terrible but only on dragon weak enemies.

I would recommend using Defender Glaive V until you have a high enough MR to do the event quest "50 Shades of White." The Guild Palace IG you can craft from that will be good enough to carry you throughout story and you can even upgrade it after you beat the story.

If the event isn't up when you buy Iceborne, Glav IG is a good early upgrade, then Velk IG which you could probably use up to the final boss. Nami IG is also super solid and you'll be able to unlock a health augment for it faster than Velk's IG.


Note: What I listed is just what I would do if I wanted to get through story as efficiently as possible. I messed around and crafted all sorts of useless glaives just to have an excuse to hunt the new monsters when I was doing story; if that sounds appealing to you, then you can absolutely just craft whatever sounds fun to use and you'll probably be fine.

[♋Phenex]

You have until May 6th to get the Guild Palace IG from 50 Shades of White which only requires reaching MR 9 so you have plenty of time. As mentioned by maelynx, you can use Defender Glaive V up until this point or switch to a MR bone or ore IG instead for a bit more damage.

[cua_bien02]

If you don't mind running free element/ammo up, the MR ore tree is pretty good and can be upgraded to another good tree later. Also check out any IG that has spirit & strength boost. I think the earliest one you can get is the Glavenus and bone tree, then Ebony Odo tree.

[Absolute Unit]

tbh i don't really care that much about progressing fast through the game, I just like to use whatever weapons look the coolest and are the most fun, while still being decent. I don't like the defender weapons, they look really ugly and make the game less fun cuz they are so op. is the kadachi vipertail viable? I really like how it looks for some reason

[mewlynx]

Originally posted by DaTrueHondaCivic:

tbh i don't really care that much about progressing fast through the game, I just like to use whatever weapons look the coolest and are the most fun, while still being decent. I don't like the defender weapons, they look really ugly and make the game less fun cuz they are so op. is the kadachi vipertail viable? I really like how it looks for some reason

Vipertail is pretty good for early MR.

[Absolute Unit]

k, ty for the responses

[TormentedSalad]

Originally posted by DaTrueHondaCivic:

tbh i don't really care that much about progressing fast through the game, I just like to use whatever weapons look the coolest and are the most fun, while still being decent. I don't like the defender weapons, they look really ugly and make the game less fun cuz they are so op. is the kadachi vipertail viable? I really like how it looks for some reason

I was going to suggest viper kadachis glaive for the early part of the story