Monster Hunter Now: Best Great Sword Build for High Damage

Mastering the Monster Hunter Now Great Sword: A Sleep-Based Build Guide

The Great Sword in Monster Hunter Now is a powerful weapon, capable of devastating blows, but its size requires strategic play. This guide details a build maximizing sleep effects for massive damage.

Optimizing Your Great Sword Build

Unlike the poison-focused Long Sword, the Great Sword excels with sleep. This build utilizes a relatively rare monster for the weapon, but the remaining gear comes from more common hunts.

Complete Great Sword Build

Weapon Selection: The Frilled Blade

The Frilled Blade is the optimal sleep-based Great Sword. Its Evade Extender skill enhances defensive maneuvers, crucial for the Great Sword's slower attack speed. You'll need Somnacanth materials to craft it.

Armor: Nightmare Paolumu and Tzitzi-Ya-Ku

The Nightmare Paolumu (from a paid event) provides crucial pieces, offering Rude Awakener (significantly boosting damage against sleeping monsters) and Driftstone slots. Tzitzi-Ya-Ku, a more common monster, contributes Status Sneak Attack (guaranteeing sleep buildup from rear attacks), Evade Extender, and Artful Dodger for improved evasion.

Driftstone Slot Optimization

This build offers ample Driftstone slots. Prioritize Sleep Attack for increased sleep buildup (Azure). Alternatively, enhance evasion (Artful Dodger and Evade Extender, Azure/Pale) or rear attack damage (Sneak Attack, Pale).

Driftstone Slot Effects:

• Sleep Attack (Azure): Increases sleep buildup (50 at rank 1, 150 at rank 5).
• Sneak Attack (Pale): Increases damage from rear attacks (10% at rank 1, 30% at rank 5).
• Artful Dodger (Azure): Improves evasion ease.
• Evade Extender (Pale): Increases evasion distance.

This build transforms the Great Sword into a sleep-inducing powerhouse, maximizing damage output and survivability. Remember to utilize rear attacks for guaranteed sleep buildup.