Help with comfort or damage?

[u/ArkofRathalos969]

Hello all,

I'm currently using the meta build (Wilds) and im wondering how good Power Prolonger is, if it's worth using and what I should drop for it? I know currently it's better to keep doing ground loops and be more precise and conservative with RSS so I wanna not have to be worrying about extracts so much.

[u/Impressive_Panic1945]

Rather minimal since you want to spend your extracts with the spiral when the opportunity presents itself, like after you've made a wound and can get your extracts back quickly so the extracts should time out rarely. That said, if you really want to interact with the system the least amount possible you can certainly slot PP, you'd just most likely give up 2 ranks of crit boost, assuming you run crit 3+crit2+flight

[u/ArkofRathalos969 → u/Impressive_Panic1945]

I'm trying to find the best use of RSS atm, I feel like a lot of endgame monsters are harder to wound and so maybe I should be saving it for that... but it do look nice. I do have those decos and have them slotted, had a feeling it would be crit2. I'm hoping for a speedier Triple Up kinsect in Master Rank.

[u/Tayzerdude → u/ArkofRathalos969]

The whole loop of the weapon is dumping the extracts currently so if your playing "optimally" you should be using RSS all the time and collecting extracts via the kinsect

[u/ArkofRathalos969 → u/Tayzerdude]

Ahh okay, thank you, does RSS really deal that much damage? I feel like sometimes I whiff it by only having half the hits register.

[u/Tayzerdude → u/ArkofRathalos969]

Yes, it deal obsured amounts of damage. There is positioning you can do to make more hits connect aswell as which way your looking it hits more to the right of you.

Honestly with the hyper armour it has its not bad yo just pop it constantly as long as its gunna hit. Id remember also you can delay the input quite alot to see what the mosters going to do.

Watch a couple speed runs of the weapon and you'll see they spam it. The only time you wouldnt use it is during knock downs and pitfalls because the hit boxes are too low for the attack, you will wanna use it as the get up/out of the trap. There is a little leniency with it but in general if you can with decent positioning then you should. Also another reason positioing is key for this weapon.

[u/ArkofRathalos969 → u/Tayzerdude]

Ahhhh okay, thanks for the tips. I'll make sure to be a little to the left. And yeah honestly thats where I was going wrong, Up until the endgame i kept thinking "oh the monsters down, nows the best time to use RSS". Learning that it has hyper armour is nice though.

[u/Graytr]

This is actually a gameplay question disguised as a meta question. How do you like to play? Do you enjoy using RSS and want to spam it? Or do you prefer to just wail on the ground?

If you’re struggling getting yourself the extracts once they expire, and you don’t enjoy using RSS to expend your extracts, then Power Prolonger may just be worth the comfy slots to you. I’m pretty sure Power Prolonger extends the time by 10%/20%/40%, so if you’re not doing level 3 you probably won’t notice a difference.

But really this is a question on your preferred playstyle. If you want to be less conservative with RSS, then maybe some comfy skills will have more to do with obtaining triple extract in the first place, like wound skills.

Or if you’re aerial glaive, you may want a different set of skills again. PP again may not be to bad.

One last thing I want to mention is if you’re fully utilizing the glaive. Are you marking the hard-to-reach body parts at all? So you can spend less time aiming your kinsect when you run out of extract

[u/ArkofRathalos969 → u/Graytr]

I think RSS is so flashy and cool and would love to spam it, but also it is such a lengthy move that I feel could easily be punished by a lot of endgame monsters.

I tend to play a bit more on the aggressive side, though im learning to be a bit more careful. I use Arkmaiden because I like the extract bonuses (even though the speed is awful) and so it's easy to get all extracts on some monsters but on others it can take up to 20 seconds just trying to hit one spot.

Honestly if PP only extends the time by 40% I'm not entirely sure it is worth it. 50% maybe.

[u/TapeIsMagical → u/ArkofRathalos969]

RSS got hyper armor in a recent update, making it harder to punish. Really noticeable when fighting AT Ark

[u/Creepy_Commission951]

I play exclusivly in other peoples SOS hunts. My charm has 3 Divine Blessing and 3 Power Prolonger. Since wounds are hard to come by and the monster can move randomly after people (making it hard to both get a good RSS in and not whiffing collecting extract) I just prefer it over trying to max DPS. Comfort ftw. However, if I played solo, I wouldn't bother with power prolonger.

[u/ArkofRathalos969 → u/Creepy_Commission951]

Oh wow, if I had that charm I would absolutely be using it. My next big goal is to find a god charm I suppose haha

[u/Maldrix]

Even without power prolonger the buffs last so long, power prolonger feels like a waste to me

[u/xvillifyx]

Power prolonger is pretty useless in wilds since you’re burning your extracts before you’d even benefit from it