r/SwitchAxe

Title says it - I play SwAxe, and I really need help putting together a build. Up to this point in the game I've been able to just use a full set of whatever, maybe I'd have to switch it out for elemental resistances but I've never had to worry about skills. I feel that now I have to worry about them.

Currently I'm running a gamma Rey Dau set with a maxed defensive talisman and a single defense deco, the rest of my decos are in evade extender and damage of various types.

I'm not good at putting together mixed sets, and would like it if someone gave me a set to use to make it easier. I feel like no matter how much defense I have gore still one shots me regularly or two shots by knocking me. I'm still practicing my offsets but that aside I need to know what I'm doing wrong that's costing me this fight so badly.

Any builds are appreciated. I have a very high dragon element focused Gogmazios SwAxe (atk +1ex/sharp +2 [1ex]/elem+2ex), I don't have a raw focused one yet.

I'm willing to craft anything, and I most likely have the decos already. I am HR130+ so I have everything unlocked up to this point.

Edit; I am willing to "save scum" if I have to, but I haven't done it in the past and will have to learn how to

Edit 2; Gog weapon current skills are Lord's Soul and Arkveld's Hunger

I just recently swapped from a sub optimal GS build to a fully built GMT/LS swaxe build. I’ve been joining some hunts with my buddies and I’ve had damage trackers on just for myself to see and I can’t seem to get nearly as much damage as I was hoping for. In bigger hunts like gogmazios with less wounds and more movement I can’t get good damage off and even on hunts like Arkveld or Rey Dau I can’t seem to stack up as much damage as I was getting before. I get I don’t have the experience to back it up yet but I’ve really been frustrated with how far I’ve fallen behind. Any tips in the right direction will help.

As the title says I’m a lance main looking to learn a new weapon so far with my experimentation I’ve started to learn and pick up its with it’s from what I’ve done so far find it has nice charge attacks isn’t as complicated as charge blade doesn’t need a million combos just to do damage has a nice offset attack and has a mindless button slam attack with good damage but I would like to be able to use it in some of the higher ranks monsters so far haven’t done much but what builds would help me learn as I typically run a comfy near immortal build

Hi, I just got the game not even a month ago and grinded my way up to past hr100. I am starting to work on my Artian weapons, and I am going for a dragon element attack build. I was hoping to roll an atk 3+/sharp 2+ weapon but while doing the grind came across an atk 1+/elem 2+/sharp 2+ and wondered if it had any chance at being a good weapon for anything other than Gog? (Element phial)

Atk: 735

Aff: 5%

Elem: (Drag) 340

Lot of white sharp

I'm gonna keep going for my atk 3+/sharp 2+, but just wanted opinions on this particular weapon while I'm still grinding. All thoughts welcome, if it's trash just let me know!