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Kushala down now.  Didn't get combo'd once which was obviously down to my god-like positioning and nothing to do with complete luck.

Died once to a him catching me in one tornado, hitting me, and sending me into another immediately behind me.  Spent a fun 10 seconds of trying to  throw a flash bomb but I never had control.

With wind proof skils he would be quite easy but without I think he's the toughest ED.

Going to farm him with randos now.

Farmed Kush with randos.  He is tedious.  At least the Rathosii (similar airborne dudes) do stuff when they are flying about to give them some interest.

And then HR32 after that quest.

The grind is now on.

Bagged AT Kushala set on PS4 this weekend. Cool handicraft pieces but a tad lacklustre AT battle experience imo.

HR 70 in GU, loving it!

Now off to meet Deviljho on PC.

Just done Jho on PC.  Amazing experience at full frame rate.  229 defence makes this game rather challenging now.

Is it true that element damage on weapons is basically meaningless if you're not using a mashy fast one?

Sword and Shield, Dual Blades, Long Sword, Bow and LBG are good for elemental damage afaik. Might have forgotten one.

Managed a couple hours on GenU while my mom's here, just doing the LR village requests I hadn't done yet. Love it so far, can't wait to look into new weapons etc. Just sticking with the Insect Glaive for now.

I’d add lance. Possibly gunlance but not sure if it hits as often as a lance (not used it).

Ahh. Cheers.

Raw had a more complicated formula.  But the key thing is that each attack movement has a different amount of damage.  E.g. a level 3 GS charged attack might do 150% damage in one hit while a SnS combo of 5 hits might do 20%, 30%, 20%, 20%, 20% (110% in total).  The SnS will have hit 5 times and delivered less damage raw but will add 5 hits of element damage while the GS will only add one hit of element damage.  (These percentages are made up)

The attack movement values are what I look for instead of the raw in a weapon.  In general the larger the damage, the slower the attack is going to be.

Just googled and this is a good resource for the real attack percentages.

That's because you are a kleptomaniac   

And it has to be said element weapons are more exciting than pure raw.  Apart from Dragon - I'm using Nergi's switch axe and dragon element is the least visually appealing effect.

Not sure if this game makes Blast sound like an element (it's a status).  That doesn't have the same damage per hit like element, it builds up with each hit and then goes boom.  Than can be effective.

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I always forge one of each flavour and take whichever that particular monster is weakest to, even if the base damage is lower.  But thats just me.

I'm doing this too, hence my queries on whether I'm wasting my damn time or not.

At over 100hrs in now, talking about timewasting at all seems a little moot, but.

They're definitely right about wyrmstake finishing being faff, ime. I only ever do that by accident.

Meanwhile, I’ve been basically happy with the quality of my randos recently. Good rate of buffing and care, no stupidities at capture point, very few failures due to carting

It can’t possibly last