However, the Insect Glaive usually favors Elemental sets because they have a small added elemental damage bonus over their raw damage cousins. After all, you can’t keep dealing damage if your weapon loses sharpness or if you have to sit and sharpen. True Critical Element offers a small bump in damage, but it’s not worth it to lose Master’s Touch. Since you’ll be smacking the monster with your bugstick fairly often, it makes more sense to run high affinity and Master’s Touch so you don’t lose sharpness while you do so. The meta for Insect Glaives is based around Master’s Touch. We can’t talk about the best Insect Glaives without first talking about how Insect Glaives get high damage. Check them out if you want to see what the meta Insect Glaive builds are. With that in mind, let’s take a look at the top 5 best Insect Glaives.ĭisclaimer: Images are courtesy of the r/MonsterHunterMeta album. In multiplayer, there can be an argument for the increased mounts which can lead to more damage, but I personally believe a build geared toward straight damage will outpace most aerial builds. But at the same time, you get the benefit of being a murderous attack helicopter with an insect best friend. Insect Glaive users in this latter camp will usually put more effort into aerial attacks, which have less motion values and thus less damage. However, the trade-off is a loss in damage. Skills like Vitality or Stun Resistance will help hunters take hits and keep going with the hunt. These hunters run skills that just make the hunt less challenging or just more fun. However, in the other camp are the comfort-heavy hunters. In this regard, Insect Glaive users that follow this belief will only use optimized ground combos because that’s where the Insect Glaive’s damage is at. This is the crowd that this article is going to be geared toward cause DPS helps end monster hunts faster and, theoretically, if you play perfectly, you shouldn’t need comfort skills. On the one hand, there are players that want nothing more than just DPS. If you’re interested in seeing the divide in Monster Hunter’s community about comfort vs practicality, then look no further than the Insect Glaive.

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