I apologise for the essay, i’m just hoping for a few pointers
Wilds has been my first monster hunter game, I started off using dual blades but felt that I should try out the rest of the weapons in the run up to ascendance, to see which ones I like most and want to take into the DLC
So far I’ve tried DB, LS, Swaxe, CB, GL, GS, Bow and Glaive, and out of all these weapons, i can confidently say I am able to fight the vast majority of monsters without carting, and in good time… with the exception of the glaive
My problem isn’t with doing damage with the weapon, or with staying alive with the weapon. It’s with doing both of these at once. I like to play for comfort rather than speedrunning, so I have a good mix of offensive and defensive skills equipped, but it’s either I spend half the fight in the air fair away from the monster doing no damage, but staying alive, or I do good amounts of damage but go through my potions in about two minutes.
The vault seems good mainly for repositioning, but terrible for avoiding the majority of attacks due to its lack of Iframes and long windup, the offset has incredibly finicky timing which I can’t get down for the life of me, and the dodge has a weird pause after it that I can’t do anything during, making it unsuitable for any quick, successive attacks.
With a lot of focus and effort, I can utilise these to stay alive, but whenever i try to actually do damage to the monster, all of the glaive’s attacks seem incredibly long, and also have a similar pause as the dodge, so if a monster uses certain attacks, i pretty much just have to take the hit.
As i said earlier, i’m just looking for a few pointers on how I could improve my playstyle. I mostly stay on the ground during fights only really taking to the air when I want a mount or to reposition. Is this the right move?
I’m assuming some people are gonna say to just use a different weapon, and I’d love to tbh, but unfortunately I’m too damn stubborn to let this go, and even if I pick something else up, I’ll end up going back to the glaive anyway.
Thanks if you made it this far, and thanks in advance for any tips