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 demands a strategic approach. This guide details a top-tier build leveraging the sleep element for maximum damage output.

Optimizing Your Great Sword Build

Unlike the poison-focused Long Sword, the Great Sword excels with sleep effects. This build requires materials from a rare monster, but the majority of equipment comes from more common hunts.

Complete Great Sword Build Breakdown

Weapon Selection: The Frilled Blade

The Frilled Blade is the optimal sleep-based Great Sword. Its inherent Evade Extender skill enhances defensive maneuvers, improving survivability. Somnacanth is the source for this weapon's crafting materials.

Helmet and Greaves: Leveraging Nightmare Paolumu

The Nightmare Paolumu, introduced in an early paid event, provides crucial components. Its parts offer the Rude Awakener skill (three levels), significantly boosting damage against sleeping monsters (100% damage increase on the first hit). While less frequent now, Nightmare Paolumu remains obtainable through events or as rare spawns.

Mail, Vambraces, and Coil: Maximizing Status Sneak Attack

The remaining armor pieces primarily enhance Status Sneak Attack, guaranteeing sleep buildup with rear attacks. The Tzitzi-Ya-Ku, readily tracked with paintballs, provides these components. This section also contributes to Evade Extender and Artful Dodger for improved mobility and evasion.

Optimizing Driftstone Slots

This build offers a relatively low Driftstone slot requirement. Five slots are ideal for Sleep Attack. Alternatively, allocate slots to Artful Dodger, Evade Extender, or Sneak Attack to further enhance your combat capabilities.

• Sleep Attack (Azure): Increases sleep buildup (50 at Rank 1, 150 at Rank 5).
• Sneak Attack (Pale): Boosts 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 comprehensive guide provides a powerful and effective Great Sword build for Monster Hunter Now, allowing you to maximize damage and survivability. Remember to adapt your strategy based on the specific monster you're facing.