Best Dragon Great Sword?

[Strifeboy]

I know Elderseal reduces rage and i just beat ape escape and Stingy boi and they spent 90% of time raging leaving really little time to actually hit them.

[CourtesyFlush09]

Elemental GS is not worth it. At all. Go raw.

[myhr2]

Mmmmh, you actually kinda want to fight the monsters while enraged due to how powerful the Agitator skill is, plus some monster are almost always enraged (Savage Deviljho).

One good tip though is to time your CCs for when the monster is enraged. Lure it near a ledge to get a mount for exemple.

[Strifeboy]

Originally posted by CourtesyFlush90:

Elemental GS is not worth it. At all. Go raw.

Best raw GS haha?

[Nerevar]

so tc. you know not as much as you think you do. as elderseal doesnt do what you claim here at all. it doesnt reduce enrage at all. never did.

elderseal only works on very specific moves of certain elder dragons. neither rajang nor stygian are elder dragons to begin with. so it does nothing on them.

overall elderseal is kind of a meme tbh. only monster where it has some use is safijiva for faster energy draining. it reduces kushs wind buildup and spike grow speed on nerg and effluvia aura on vaal but its overall a pretty bad effect in generel.

as for elemental gs : just forget it exists. 1s post is correct.

[Nerevar]

Originally posted by Strifeboy:

Originally posted by CourtesyFlush90:

Elemental GS is not worth it. At all. Go raw.

Best raw GS haha?

safi blast/raging brach.

[Strifeboy]

Originally posted by Nerevar:

so tc. you know not as much as you think you do. as elderseal doesnt do what you claim here at all. it doesnt reduce enrage at all. never did.

elderseal only works on very specific moves of certain elder dragons. neither rajang nor stygian are elder dragons to begin with. so it does nothing on them.

overall elderseal is kind of a meme tbh. only monster where it has some use is safijiva for faster energy draining. it reduces kushs wind buildup and spike grow speed on nerg and effluvia auro on vaal but its overall a pretty bad effect in generel.

as for elemental gs : just forget it exists. 1s post is correct.

Weapons that wield Dragon Damage have one of three levels of Elderseal - Low, Average, and High - indicating the rate at which the effect triggers. When Elderseal is triggered, an Elder Dragon will be briefly staggered and their special Aura will be dissipated for a short time. A normal monster will be forced out of their enraged state when Elder seal is triggered.

Sorry removes rage, figured it would make fights easier when they arn't raging.

[CourtesyFlush09]

Originally posted by Strifeboy:

Originally posted by CourtesyFlush90:

Elemental GS is not worth it. At all. Go raw.

Best raw GS haha?

Right now, the best GS period is Raging Brachy's. 2nd best is Safi's. Both have blast element because it's by far the best element in the game.

(I know I said to ignore elements in my previous post, but I forgot about Blast. Always go Blast if you can).

[Nerevar]

Originally posted by CourtesyFlush90:

Originally posted by Strifeboy:

Best raw GS haha?

Right now, the best GS period is Raging Brachy's. 2nd best is Safi's. Both have blast element because it's by far the best element in the game.

(I know I said to ignore elements in my previous post, but I forgot about Blast. Always go Blast if you can).

blast is a status not an element.

[Strifeboy]

Originally posted by Nerevar:

Originally posted by CourtesyFlush90:

Right now, the best GS period is Raging Brachy's. 2nd best is Safi's. Both have blast element because it's by far the best element in the game.

(I know I said to ignore elements in my previous post, but I forgot about Blast. Always go Blast if you can).

blast is a status not an element.

Does non elemental boost work for status weapons?

[Nerevar]

Originally posted by Strifeboy:

Originally posted by Nerevar:

so tc. you know not as much as you think you do. as elderseal doesnt do what you claim here at all. it doesnt reduce enrage at all. never did.

elderseal only works on very specific moves of certain elder dragons. neither rajang nor stygian are elder dragons to begin with. so it does nothing on them.

overall elderseal is kind of a meme tbh. only monster where it has some use is safijiva for faster energy draining. it reduces kushs wind buildup and spike grow speed on nerg and effluvia auro on vaal but its overall a pretty bad effect in generel.

as for elemental gs : just forget it exists. 1s post is correct.

Weapons that wield Dragon Damage have one of three levels of Elderseal - Low, Average, and High - indicating the rate at which the effect triggers. When Elderseal is triggered, an Elder Dragon will be briefly staggered and their special Aura will be dissipated for a short time. A normal monster will be forced out of their enraged state when Elder seal is triggered.

Sorry removes rage, figured it would make fights easier when they arn't raging.

tbh i never noticed a difference when useing the seal vs when not on enraged state on normal monsters. and i used seal for a long time in basegame. and given you wallbang instantly anyway upon enrage dispell its kinda pointless like i said : memeskill.

[Nerevar]

Originally posted by Strifeboy:

Originally posted by Nerevar:

blast is a status not an element.

Does non elemental boost work for status weapons?

no it doesnt. NEB is dead.

[Strifeboy]

Originally posted by Nerevar:

Originally posted by Strifeboy:

Does non elemental boost work for status weapons?

no it doesnt. NEB is dead.

Rip, guess ill go blast, honestly its probably one of the more fun effects anyway.

[CourtesyFlush09]

Originally posted by Nerevar:

Originally posted by CourtesyFlush90:

Right now, the best GS period is Raging Brachy's. 2nd best is Safi's. Both have blast element because it's by far the best element in the game.

(I know I said to ignore elements in my previous post, but I forgot about Blast. Always go Blast if you can).

blast is a status not an element.

It's a big ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ whatever, really.

Notice how I didn't comment on your previous reply where you were wrong when you said "safi blast/raging brach"? Because those aren't the best RAW GS in the game (which is what OP asked). They are Blast weapons, not raw.

Why didn't I comment on it? It's because I know what you meant and didn't feel the need to nitpick every single damn thing.

[Dax23333]

Blast is only the go-to because we now have weapons with madly high raw that happen to have blast as well. It's good for sure and explosions are nice but the Gold Rathian weapons were the go-to "raw" weapons with thier poison for a while, just because more raw.

And elemental/status greatsword isn't nearly as trash as it has been historically... It has some pretty beefy multipliers on elemental damage on some attacks. 5 sleeps in a fight from an awoken Wildbite (and set built for status) is not to be sniffed at.

[Warkrunner]

I personally find a dragon element weapon more useful than blast for elder dragons, especially Kush. So, I would also argue the Safi Draksplitter is a good alternative, and has more synergy with frostcraft setups.