Well I would say there's no Best Weapon in MHU, it's all up to your own personal preference. The argument/discussion on which is the best will never end since the weapons are balanced out IMO. Either it has high damage (u lose out on affinity or slots or sharpness) or high sharpness (u lose out on damage etc)... You gain some, you lose some..

This post has been edited by derlin: Oct 8 2009, 02:50 PM

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true true great explanation there
just get what u like n boost(with armor skills) it to your preference

the reason of me saying vicous torrent is better because
high affinity
high purple sharpness with sharp sword skill
and lastly not too sure if you realize this it has better attack range
check it out
with max out it has 1400+ with 70% affinity i think
i could be mistaken
been a while since i pick up monster hunter
psp also sell already
but definitely top 3 hammer for pure damage that i can guarantee

i m from kajang, usually i d play with derlin at his parents place or at mcd if he s in kajang, else i d go subang to play with him at his apartment with a bunch of friends.

i used to help him out to get to hr 6 back in mhf2
mhu he helped me catch up to hr9 (my psp was undergoing repairs/modding thanks to wetfusion- he did a good job regardless what people might say)

and for the "best weapon debate"

i dont know much bout hammers but for gs it would be diablos sword or tigrex sword (both require draw crit - which is painfully easy to get)

diablos has the highest damage potential in game, while tigrex allows the user to ditch artisan for something else (options).

and for those newbies who dont know how sharpness affects damage, its basically more or less like

green 10% bonus
blue 20%
white 30%
purple 50%

so getting a purple sharpness weapon is definitely more worth it (20% damage difference from white to purple)

so how much damage can the diablos sword do?

base 1488 raw -divided by 4.8 to get real damage so true raw is 310 not 1488

damage for an unsheathed attack (hit n run) = 279 (306 if hits centre of blade)
damage for an unsheathed level 3 charge attack = 831 (914 if hits centre)

if you have potential activated add 20-30% damage bonus to that

and the first hit on a mob thats sleeping is triple damage

GS is THE BOMB!!!

i still don get it, whats the use of affinity actually? I mean, what does it do?

Affinity = Critical damage.

U will do 1.25X damage when you see a red color flash from your hits to the bosses/mobs.

affinity is overated imo

10 % to do 25% more damage is very low

with 50% affinity you do extra 17.5% extra damage on average

Agree. so, to make sure GS reaches its fullest potential, go for high raw damage + purple sharpness+ unsheateh critical = godlike

just forget about the element damage for GS bcox GS is not meant to make multiple hit. GS is like u using a sniper in a gulf war, u give a head shoot and run..haha

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yes
dun forget ur equation less 1 thing (high raw damage + purple sharpness+ unsheateh critical + charge lv3 =beyond godlike)

If you are talking solely on GS then yes, for anything else I can't agree with you

seems to be there is quite alot GS user ...
many ppl used to use katana instead of GS ....
but now the trend seems to change o.0

yalo a lot of GS and katana user
Is there any GunLance user?

This post has been edited by kaeza: Oct 10 2009, 12:36 PM

i'm a katana user...

there was once i tried GunLance... not suit my style...

i am a katana user also^^ dunno why though GS is pain but i just can't stand that it walk so slow lol.

GS u dont walk with it 1 ...
u keep it when ur not in use ^^

so meaning u have to like hit it, sheath it, then run, hit it once then sheath and run again?

something like tht ...
u can guard with it when u cant roll out of the atk ...

but if GS u rarely got the chance to fully charge ur atk lol

nope... this is becoz ... u dont really know GS ^^

lol not interested in GS anyway lol