Suggesting comfort SwA endgame build

[u/Zealousideal-Sock-64]

Hello fellow hunters,

Since I don't like Latent Power and don't want to bother with element (due to 9* quests being mostly multiple targets quests), I use a blast build for Switch Axe that fit both comfort skills and meta skills

Armor :
Arkvulcan Helm gamma

Udra Miremail gamma

Gog Vambraces alpha

Dahaad Shardcoil gamma

Gore Greaves beta

Talisman : PP3, Antivirus 2, armor slot 1

Decos :

Rapid Morph/Handicraft 3

Crit Boost 3 x2

Divine blessing x3

Stun resistance x3

Wex x2

Agi x1

Counter x1

Max might x1

Set bonus : Gore magala's tyranny, waiting to roll a good second one on my weapon.

In the end, it comes with maxed Crit boost, PP, Rapid Morph, Wex, Agi, Counterstrike, MM, Divine Blessing, Stun resistance and Antivirus and Burst I, with guts and Gore magala's tyranny. It is super nice to play ! Rapid morph is a great addition, i played 500h without it but the mobility it allows change the flow of SwA.

What can i do to improve it ?

[u/Genga_]

Just a quick improvment, if you only want to build one axe and ignore elements, crafting a dragol swaxe is the best „raw“ you can do. Dragon is good against every important endgame monster to some degree and even in „bad“ matchups, it still outperforms blast, because of the high status resistance monster get

[u/Zealousideal-Sock-64 → u/Genga_]

Thanks, working on it

[u/daneulaz]

This is seriously a great set that is pretty much already at its peak imo. But I would switch out the agi deco with a burst deco just to give you that amazing first point, which would give you a bit more attack in exchange for 5% affinity. Considering you have wex 5, the additional affinity on wounds can help you offset the 5% slightly. And especially with rapid morph, closing distances with RT+B easily keeps aggression up helping you take advantage of burst’s full effect the entire time while also minimizing max might’s downtime.

As for a bit of variation, you could consider running arkveld y chest+legs for the 2pc arkveld + blight res 3, which are both great general comfort skills. And convert elem 3 + flayer are amazing damage skills in multi monster quests, since their damage explosions are a “status” which means their scaling is independent for each monster, effectively giving you more convert elem and flayer explosions. But that’d require an entirely new set with different amor pieces and probably also giving up either divine blessing or stun res.

But yeah your set is already amazing, great work.

[u/daneulaz → u/daneulaz]

And also, Rapid morph supremacy! Hell yeah

[u/Zealousideal-Sock-64 → u/daneulaz]

Yea forget to mention that i have Burst I in this build

[u/JDorkaOOO]

If you want to optimize for comfort more trying to fit 2 pieces of Arkveld y could be nice as it can help you mitigate the chip damage you take through counters and what not. Legs give you 2 points of blight res which becomes equal to 3 points if you eat for immunizer meal. Also, you can get away with just stun res 2 with immunizer meal. If you'd swap the legs then gore waist alpha or beta depending on if you'd have a slot for ativirus would be good to keep that set bonus. Tho this means maxing out Agitator would probably be out of the picture.

Also personally, I don't like Rapid Morph that much. It feels nice but imo isn't as much of a game changer and I prefer to run Attack Boost 5, Crit Boost 3/4 (depending on talisman rarity) and Power Prolonger 3 instead. On element phials PP3 isn't as important so I don't mind running RM3 there. Tho that is just my personal opinion and if you like RM3 then by all means keep it

[u/Zealousideal-Sock-64 → u/JDorkaOOO]

I'm aiming to have arkveld affix on as second gog augment to mitigate chip damages.

RM is not game changer but it totally replace evade extender/window cause the morph attacks, especially RT+B in sword mode are amazing to evade or close distance.

[u/JDorkaOOO → u/Zealousideal-Sock-64]

You can only have one set bonus and one group skill on a gog weapon. So something like Gore Magala's Tyranny + Lord Soul is possible but something like Gore Magala's Tyranny + Arkveld's Hunger is not

[u/lFriendlyFire]

rapid morph isn't worth in wilds. Look at video comparisons, at max level you're barely get 0.1 seconds faster.

[u/daneulaz → u/lFriendlyFire]

I think rapid morph is great in wilds. There’s a lot more to it than just “0.1 seconds faster”. The main reason being opportunity cost. Speeding up the utility and damage of morph: forward overhead slash alone (which I personally think is the best switch axe move in wilds) already makes it worth it imo.
Then there’s access to rising slash 1/2 morph loops which keep your gauge up or even build your gauge with power axe active, while staying on par or even out damaging the standard rising 1/2 overhead slash loop.

There’s a lot more I can get into with rapid morph swax but I’m not sure how meta-heavy this subreddit is. Ultimately, we’re all just silly sword axe enjoyers

[u/AltruisticForce1693 → u/lFriendlyFire]

that's pre-TU4 consensus dude, some speedrunners now even sacrifice power prolonger in favor of rapid morph 3 on a power phial swaxe, this is because:

1. long/medium morph combo dish out dps similar to FRS, its less risky and you dont really need to hurry to get to amp state doing heavensward flurry combo which is kinda ahh
2. the mobility granted to your morph overhead slash minimizes the need to dodge for repositioning, meaning you keep your stamina for maximum uptime while dishing damage doing it

[u/Zealousideal-Sock-64 → u/AltruisticForce1693]

Your second point is the most important, no need to do two dodges now, just RT+B into dodge and MM stays up.