COMPLETE ARMOR META GUIDE - What is the Armor Meta and Where did it come from? | MHW
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Good video can't wait for the rest of the community to return so you gt more people
I know you’ve mentioned World is your first MH, but have you considered trying some of the older games? Would love to hear your experience with them in a comparison video with your own opinions!
I actually just used the Azure Starlord legs in a super recovery/dragon phial Swaxe build today. It can be pretty useful for the extra lvl 3 slot, but very niche most of the time.
@@bmrajino2740 Thanks
@@Rena_Skuxy I own MH GU, I just havent started it
Even all this armor can't boost my player skill (cries indefinitely)
Git gud.
1000 deaths if you need it.
You can DO IT!!! KEEP TRYING!
You'll be better. Eventually...
This is why I can't play without Health deco's lol
@waslos man why not ask why do people play for over 1k hours. Lol
As a GL user, I have never felt too worried with the meta.
As long as you are having fun and the people playing with you are having fun as well, you're doing it right!
With GL all you need is Artillery 3
I'd say around 50% of the high rank gear always stays "usable". It takes you 5 min longer in a hunt, but it would take you 500 hours just to get your Kjarr weapon.....so it evens out lol
thank you! worthy of being teammate.
@Walamonga 1313 i would also add Evade Extend or the weapon feels super clunky movement wise.
Now that positive attitude is a fine attitude. I salute you sir.
"why do randos cart so much?"
it's because the glass cannon meta like this gets pushed on them
new players should put on the training wheels to learn a monster's moveset and mechanics first
then as they improve, they can switch out defensive skills for offensive ones
no one cares for your dps when they have drop their own dps to lifepowder for you every 2 seconds
Best comment. Period.
Someone joined my hunt and carted 3 times cause they wanted to foresight slash arc tempered nerg with long sword... I think it’s cause they watched team dark side.
@@koricthegreatwashedupfight9088 I main LS yeah no, I dont foresight slash when im with others, too much down side of you fuck up. Solo however oh yeah imma fuck up over and over till I have the timing with whatever monsters movesets
@@koricthegreatwashedupfight9088 It is doable but in the last phase you almost need superhuman skills to foresight everydive bomb and since there are lots of them positioning is key.
Well said.
"How to become strong very early in the game"
Step 1. Beat the game...
Methinks our definition of "early" doth not align
Na the campaign is early, after It its when the game really starts. You can beat the game with watever. I beated every thing in low rank Up to rathalos with the starting armor unupgraded. Almost every move was a one shot
Wolfman2120 dude 😂😂😂was thinking the same thing
Wolfman2120 in this game its early. Play for example Mhgu and dont even touch the endgame for 500+h
😂😂😂
Methinks this is your first MH game
I started HR with zorah armor and then worked my way up.
Same, it's easy enough to farm for without good gear or even skill, and is a halfway decent setup for CB
Same, I only needed Zorah armor to get through the game. I've gotten pretty good, i'm just shit with builds, skills, stuff like that.
Step 1: Start new file
Step 2: Get the bone chest and waist ASAP
Step 3: use bone HH
Step 4: profit
Kek
Kak
Ok wtf is even happening.
You must leave a prayer to King Kek
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No. Only to Jesus.
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"white sharpness is meta for melee" *laughs in chargeblade*
*laughs in green sharpness hammer*
laughs in shelling gunlance(cries internally cus it sucks and gl gets no love)
@@jaydenliberty9536 Hold on guys, I gotta sharpen my hunting horn/hamer........ wait a second
@@gringgles2633 Wide gunlance primarily using poke-blasts is pretty sweet, and much quicker to guard with when needed than the long charged shelling style :)
I remember starting the game with hunting horn and getting messed up by the baroth because my max sharpness was yellow. Ended up changing to insect glaive
Hey, thanks for the great vid. Just wanted to clarify that razor sharp on CB is meant to help you maintain sharpness through guard pointing, not SAED, and that there are actually a few builds that use it well ! Thanks again for the rest, very useful for friends who would join the game now !
I think Attack Charm can be considered for new players, or those in early-late game. They can get that Atk boost 4 with the charm and the free attack deco. It's a pretty cheap and efficient way of getting attack and +5% affinity.
It's not needed when Rathalos Helmet or Geralt set have Atk Boost 2 and you can slot in your guaranteed 2 more.
I can think of a use for evade extender, gap closing for spreadshot HBG's. I'm still fairly new to MHW, at just shy of 300 hours. I recently, as in today got a glutton HBG from an ATKT I was mostly carried through. I say "mostly" carried because I contributed to the fight thanks to your semi recent video showing among others, a griffon blazooka build. I'm an IG main but I started low rank with HBG, ended up getting wrecked a few times to Anganath before I found my love of IG's. When I got into high rank I wanted to give HBG's another shot (pun not intended) and I discovered your channel. They're not Insect Glaives, but I'm slowly starting to appreciate bowguns again.
Great job on the video!
Just realized that I spend more time mix n matching armors in MHW than I do dressing in real life.
Dressing in real life is for normies, you my friend, are a hunter
@@keynonburns4921FUCKING NORMIES!! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
Because you have something to choose in mhw
It's worth mentioning that sharpness also increases the amount of elemental damage you do, maintaining white sharpness is very important for doing max dps on an elemental blademaster
If I’m playing solo I go for offensive builds but with team I go for defensive because I don’t want to cart.
Liked for that advice on the geralt set, that's a really good tip. And with the guaranteed attack deco from story plus the bonus from the quest that's attack boost 4 too.
Me, on PC: No Geralt.
Sad.
Haepax same the first sets he showed with the Geralt and deviljho weapons
Me on PC: Yes Geralt
Happy.
Me on pc: Yes Geralt.
Also me on pc: Not a high enough rank. :(
Robert well that isnt nice
I'm glad I found this video! I was so confused about what armour is good or not. Wasn't sure what all the skills meant. I'm enjoying the game a lot more now
Death Stench set is what I mainly run with, usually works fairly well (also looks pretty awesome to boot). The affinity info was very useful btw, will come in handy when using Pickle's weapons and their super low affinity
There's "meta" then there's "works for me" 💁🤣
Thanks for taking the time to create this very in depth video.
TL:DR Drachen for raw dmg (+Kjarr ele weapons), crit element (rathalos, azur star) for element weapons and xeno/kirin armor for guns!^^
Even there.. Crit element is inate in kjarr and they're very much meta now
@@rocklebrun7538 It´s a TL:DR not a laundry list!^^
@@Spinexus I feel like there's no real point in using crit element from the rathalos/Azure set anymore tho. The Kjàrr dbs are amazing, and the Kjàrr cb are finally making elemental phials viable.
@@rocklebrun7538 You tell me how a fresh endgame character is gonna magically get a kjarr weapon and the one he wants on top of that!
The best ice bow build to date is still using rathalos.
@@Spinexus with all the events up, for another 3 weeks, there's no reason not to get as many kjarr weapon as you can? I feel you're on the defensive alot, this video is about META, not second most effecient, but MOST.
4:26
Lance mains: "wait, it doesn't take you 20+ minutes to kill a single monster?"
Im kind of stuck with my greatsword build....Its just too comfortable! And i just solo'd AT teostra with it for the first time yesterday! You should show us your ideas for some quality type builds sometime! You know, that 80~15% you talked about!
Anyways, Thanks for your awesome content, even though i dont follow the meta, i love your videos because they show me so many optimal gear pieces and combinations that im usually unaware of!
Now im going to start building a wide range build using the empress legs to help my friends beat behemoth!
Thank you man. I am lvl 65 and I got a lot of new info in your videos. Great content.
A 40m video could really use some timestamps
Evade Extender is the best defensive skill in the game for LBG. You don't need to conserve stamina like with bows, and the weapon is already extremely mobile.
Especially for HBG
A point on Evade Extender: I mainly play Gunlance Shelling and I have really good experiences with Evade Extender, not so much on the defensive side but on the offensive. It's good to get near the monster faster when it's not that far away, but out of reach, without putting away your weapon, which saves some time. Also, Shelling doesn't require that much offensive abilities, like attack up and affinity up, so you easily have some spare slots for this skill.
This videos is great and very detailed,
but you should consider making a video showcasing defensive builds.
This video is a great lerning tool but some people just dont have the time to figure it out for themselves sadly...
heya, new to this game, just reached highrank, I've seen I got the alpha and beta builds now, are they the same alpha and beta as later on? so is it useful to farm Deviljho already for the weapons?
When do we unlock the gamma stuff? i have the zorah stuff alpha and was thinking of upgrading it, but i saw in your video theres a superior version.
Im kingda stuck at the end of the base game and iceborn, im wearing the guardian armor set and Defender shield V, any advice?
Evade extender is amazing IMO, it make dodging with some weapons so much easier and repositioning easier, i always use it in my bow builds if i need to be more defensive.
I feel like I pretty much NEED it on SwAxe and GLance (I don't play many other big slow weapons). Being able to reposition or catch up to a monster faster is just too useful.
I only feel mandatory for Gunlance and maybe Switch Axe, and I don't o beyonh the 2 point of the Empress beta helmet TBH. Also I learned Evade extender is not that usefull for bow thankss to Kirin :/
Evade Extend is awesome on DBs and a must on GL.
this skill definitely most effective for DB & Bow. The rest have a better skills to prioritize.
I've been trying to figure out how do you find out what armor works with what weapons and what decorations would you use
Marathon runner also applies to Wild Swing on the Switch Axe and Dash Thrust(Continuous) on Lances.
Hmm... even if it takes longer, I prefer to build (100%) towards defense. I don’t care if I could beat the monster two times in that same amount of time, I get really frustrated playing glass canon :/
I lost all of my monster Hunter: World saves about 8 months ago, but, after seeing all the cool new content I've been grinding the game out again. I cannot stress enough how useful your videos and this META guide has been in helping me come back to the game. Thank You!
I know I’m 3 years late but I’m new af to MHW and you’re the first person I’ve seen say they’ve lost their saves. May I ask how what you play on, how you lost it, and is it a common occurrence? If it happens a lot I’m not even going to bother grinding the game.
@@raisnhed Nah I lost my saves because I lost my PSN account. Have spent a few thousand hours on the game across PS4 and PC and I don't think I've ever lost the saves due to a technical glitch.
Ooo, so what I'm getting is the Gerald set is good for almost everything? Because I can just put my attack jewels onto it and boost that for affinity on my karma bowgun untill I can get my deviljho parts and get that to farm charms when greatest jagras comes around.
Never knew how important artillery was for charge blades. Thanks for the video
The Quality Content I subscribed for 👏
Thanks Yash!
So how'd u watch 40 min of content In 5 min?
Evade extender is also good for learning fights, made nergi much easier for me
Meta be like "behemoth and teo gamma, there you go .."
behemoth is easy i have like 8 or 9 kills i havent beaten a single at monster yet
What about part breaker, I assume it's strong or am I really just niave to think so?
Bit late to the video not sure if the meta has changed but
High affinity
Critical boost
Masters touch
And that's about it? The rest can just be defensive or quality of life skills?
I would say instead of trying to be "stronger" early game faster, just be a solo player and keep doing optional quests and Learn more about how monsters behave and whats the best way for you to fight with whatever weapon you finally decide to main. I started with the bowgun until I finally stayed with longsword.
After awhile you can start tackling missions without going to the canteen because you dont even need the extra boost, you know you can get shit done without it.
Ironically some of the best times I teamed up, was with players who were normally solo like me. We didnt have to constantly worry about one of us fainting because we all knew when to fight and when to stay back and heal a bit. No one was trying to be a hero.
P.s God bless anyone who is a hunting horn main I could not believe he buffed us like 65 times in this huge hunt we was in and he made it way easier 😂
this Video didn't help me but will be helping my friends who are new to the Game. Good Video :thumbs_up:
Quick tip, if you keep dying using a high damage build trade attack decorations for vitality. It will make your survival way easier. All damage builds you gotta be good and careful to use well. I mainly use high damage build on tempered elders and lower and on arch I switch to vitality so it’s less likely I get one shotted lol
So conflicted since I love playing GL, bow, and glaive. and I got a lot of the meta gear. However, I don't know exactly where I sit comfortably with meta. I like group play over solo, but I like being a mesh of offensive and supportive instead of being straight up dmg or def. I usually just end up being heals with randoms anyway...
I used rathalos set till nerg. After that I used the chest and legs of rath and the rest for nerg to get crit element and hasten recovery. Did pretty good in terms of survivability and damage having weakness exploit and maximum might.
Just wanna take the time to say thank you for this super awesome video helps me out alot
Divine blessing stacks with the food skill defender hi, so it too is also an incredibly good defensive skill
I like divine blessing but it should be more consistent to be meta
Nice video as always! Quick question tho, I’m currently running a Lance build (Eye Patch, Urgaan, Urgaan, Kaiser, Urgaan) will it still be viable if I switch my Lance to Deviljho’s and my Charm to Handicraft?
Jho lance is very strong you should be fine
The Odogaron is a very nice Lance also. I main Lance and I used Jho's and Odo's a lot. If you can get the Taroth Crest Claw from Kulve Taroth, it's amazing for raw dps. A few of the elemental lances are viable as well.
I still feel like the kulve chest beta is one of the best chests in the game. Mainly because it's great for casuals with the stun resist it's okay for higher level players with the gem slots and crit boost already. Pretty much the majority of my builds use it for its versatility. While it's not the drachen or damascus chest, still really good imo
Thanks for the incredible guide!
The amount of information that you have to keep track of in this game is just staggering.
rath soul helmet, nergigante chest, drachen arms, kulve gamma belt, azurlord legs, constitution charm. and of course, filling up with decos for an A+ elemental bow build
Seriously though, use those SoS flares if you're just starting. There's a ton of us with nothing left to do just running around slaying Nerg and LR walls for fun
People like you are the future
what's better that high rank blossom it's at minimum +2 on every element
Putting the ad on the 13:37 mark is a 200iq play
What if I suck playing with dual blade and take a lot of damage do I still do the damage build
If you are playing dual blades you are committing to playing a high dps "glass cannon" role. Maximizing anything other than your dps on DB's is inefficient because other weapons will just do other jobs better. Of course you are free to use whatever armor and skills you like, this is just about optimization.
if i have Guard up + ear plug + heat guard + Nullify wind pressure will I able to survive Lunastra's nova with my shield up?
Astera Jerky is all you need honestly. And the problem isn't really the nova but the damage the fire deals to you while you're around the stupid amount of fire that lion puts out
Could you do this for MHGU ,*Over
A couple notes:
- mounting damage is unrelated to your damage output, it's a fixed value depending on the weapon and the mounting attack you're using
- Kjarr bows are actually BiS for 3 out of 5 elements; thunder and fire are still good if you want to make comfier builds with con3+ss2
- the fact there are very specific monsters that you can't reliably use Peak Performance against it doesn't change the fact that Empress beta chest is still one of the most efficient chest pieces in the game for damage builds.
What about status weapons? Build like an elemental weapon, or just build damage?
Depends, element is barely noticeable anyway.
Personal meta:
Uragaan. That is its own tier because of the set bonus. Also includes Xenojiva set bonus, these two are just in a league all their own.
Then any form of health boost, and everything else afterwards going from defense to damage and stopping at utility with stone thrower at the very bottom.
I was lucky enough to get a guard up deco early on
@@lilox3690
Lucky boy.
Hmmm the only issue i have with "Meta" builds is that everything thats non tempered is no longer that difficult that i usually run whatever i want, usually legiana and kirin so i get more rewards. Even Arch tempereds Aren't too bad as long as i have an elemental resistance, mantles and a good item setup. Hopefully Iceborn's Master Rank is actually as challenging as G-rank once was.
What if I'm using a Kjarr bow that has Critical Element baked in? Any suggestions on a good chest piece for bow users?
Generally speaking, most weapons with crit element are bit weaker, than the hidden tarroth ones. But with crit element, it allows for more customization. You can choose to increase elemental damage, Wex, Crit eye and the like but you can also focus on more defensive skill/build when using them since two of your armour aren't locked out.
So just try to see what you need. And build accordingly I would say
Drachen is pretty good,is hard to find a good chest piece for kjaar bows.
Subbed this video is well overdue
Thanks for this new amazing guide ! Very clear for any new players.
P.S : loved the focus you made on Ciri's armor JK (which btw pairs pretty well with some non META but comfy switch axe builds)
You forgot to mention Kirin Y coils for the marathon runner Very important for Dual Blade builds.
Personally I've never used any stamina based skill besides Stamina cap up on my DBs since I've kept a pretty good balance on my stamina and pacing myself on every battle with this muscle memory. Even on the most optimal builds on AT KT without using stamina cap, I've grown more used to managing my stamina in more cases than one.
Oh man, I forget that one all the time, great point
@@xer0o0HASSAN_CHOP Agreed. Once you get used to DBs, stam management is easy. Plus Dash Juice is a thing lol. The only stam boost I use is Empress' 2 piece bonus.
Honestly I tried the "speedrun" and overall high DPS meta
got bored within 5 mins because it just wasn't fun beating monsters easily, I just run full armor sets I think look cool, throw on some decent jewels and have fun that way, could care less if my build isn't "meta"
Were you killing AT Nergigante too easily? Because if you're referring about normal HR monsters such as rathalos devilj etc... then obviously it's gonna be easy even with non-meta weap/armour
Some of us don’t have the time for 10-20 minutes a run, and why would I knowingly make a fight drag out just to look cool?
Sticking with Insect Glaive, despite no love from Gameconomist
19:44 "Focus used on greatswords". Honestly, I mained GS for a few hundred hours on the PS4 version and never really used focus outside of an AT Kushala set with Kush Gamma arms, where it just came with the arms that had more slots. Similarly, I main hammer on PC and never have used it for any hammer sets.
I think I'm gonna break it down here for you, like a menu.
BARS
Farming AT kulve earned me around 1 mil from so many scales; getting unlucky with 1 more glimstone
great explanations really helpful
I was confused at the elemental meta area can anyone tell me what the bow meta armor is
Maniac Zombotron me too. Would be nice if someone could help!
I don’t understand what 5 and 6 mean at 8:25
Using this video as reference, what is the best set of armor for the fire and ice dual blades?
How about thinking of your own? Half the fun of Monster Hunter is building your own set, so don't ask for some one to do your work and do some thinking of your own.
@@Smeik2901 I hope you realize how dumb your comment is a month later, this is the first MH game for a lot of people, and A LOT of people still don't know how to make good builds.
Does Geralt actually have this set when you play as him? Because he sucked against the Leshen. I suppose it was more a case of running out of time rather than dying though...
9:13 question
Isn't Max Might a Conditional Affinity Boost? I mean they way you describe it really sets it up as a Conditional Increase in Affinity since it requires full stamina, whereas Critical Eye is a true static affinity boost not requiring anything other than having the skill itself to be active.
True, but weapons that use it are at full stamina when they attack. It's cheaper too.
Would it be possible to have the armor pieces written out in a list?
Why doesnt he just play the game for you?
Why use the Drachen y legs instead of Nergigante y legs? You get an extra slot that way.
Wish i saw this video before i started my wish list. I came into the same conclusion as far as armor pieces go but wasted hours researching it. About 140 hrs in and loving the theory craft of the game.
My G with the best guides out there
Thanks bro!
31:05 Cue his signature laugh
I’m pretty sure there’s a 10% chance for spare shot to work on gunlance shelling
Althouh I mained unlance in previous games (MH4U and onwards), the other reason I really like this weapon is, that it has a bit of tru build vriety, since for the other blademaster weapon ypu just need 4 pieces of Drachen and one of Nerg helm/Kushala Y waist/Empreess B chest and fill with decos. Call me old fashioned but I really want the old skill system back
So focus is good for great sword builds?
Yes, but only two levels are really worth it. Focus 3 is nice but not worth it currently because you sacrifice other skills. Focus 2 is the way to go right now.
low rank i just build bone armour and that lasts till hard mode provided you make use of that vitality mantle
The contract quest is not There for me even though I am HR 60 and Played through thr Story why? Im on PC btw
Shasvin Puvanesvaran thank for the answer but how do you now?
@Shasvin Puvanesvaran ohh Ok 👌 thank
I thought the leshen isnt out on the pc yet
The Kirin Beta legs are actually super meta. They are used on several meta bow builds that require Free Element, including the Taroth Arrow 'Thunder', which to this day retains its title as the strongest thunder bow in the game. That alone is enough to make the Kirin Leg Guards Beta a meta piece of armor. So much for a "honorable" mention, yee?
Also the Luna chest piece is super meta for max deeps builds, of course it relies more on player skill to get the most out of it and in some match-ups it is simply not viable.
Thanks for the tip!
Why the dislikes? I just bought this game again and find this useful to ease back into the game. Ty
I think the Empress Coil gamma also deserves an honorable mention (HealthBoost x2 and EvadeWindow x2 + 1 large decoration slot), I like it for building stamina cap up with the kjarr bows.
Also the only time I can think of that Kirin legs beta are used is the tarroth thunder bow build which needs the rathalos chest for weakness exploit and crit element, so it can't use Kirin chest gamma and has to use those beta legs to efficiently unlock it's hidden element.
Its easily the most useless gamma set for meta builds,not even one armor piece has been used ever.
@@osirisavra1301 Bow has more meta build variation than any other weapon, and it's one of the only weapons that use stamina cap up. Yes Lunastra armor mostly sucks and there's only like 3 pieces anyone would ever use, all I'm saying is that the gamma coil is one of the few worth using, and I think it's better than the beta version he recommended in this video.
And I think Empress is tied with Vaal Hazak for most useless gamma armor sets. I use 1 piece in niche situations for both those sets.
I agree with you,did not see the entire video so i miss the meaning of your comment. Personally i use the chest b cause is very good for peak performance builds (but no bow) and i like the Y gloves but sadly you can't fit it to any set cause drachen gloves OP. Vaal set is just sad,only the gloves are good for dragon bows,that's it.
All you need is the Kjarr Longsword magma. 420 blast with 10% affinity. Don't even need free element to unlock it either. Max your blast to 510 and do a affinity build. Sword already has critical ailment skill. (Same as having at least 3 zora armor).
My definition of meta is health boost, speed eating, and free meal everything thing else is second
The build I use for melee weapos is:
-Teostra Y head
-Kulve Y chest
-Teostra Y arms
-Lunastra Y coil
-Testra Y legs
-Weakness exploit charm and decoration
-Crit boost decoratios
-Vitality decoration
-Non elemental boost decoration (if needed)
-Fortiry decoration
Is it a viable build?
If it works for you, then yes it's viable.
Basically any build is viable. If you mean the most optimized for DPS, uhhh IDK I doubt it honestly you probably could get more damage by replacing some armor
ImpendingGhost how can I improve my DPS?
Im running a tanky set using the chargeblade and a mixed set with Vaal pieces
With health augmention and recovery up I feel like a Vampire who suck the life essence from monsters lmao
"It's an easy quest you gonna kill the leshen" yaaaaah and at nergigante is fair