Xeno Shmaena | Monster Hunter World Wiki

Max Dmg is 580

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is this the best insect glaive or are there better ones?

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Xeno Shmaena is a high-end late-game weapon. Use it only if you have the jewels that can bring out its potential, better if you can augment it. Until then, stick with Catastrophe's Light.

For a damage build, I wouldn't advise investing too much on Handicraft (if at all) since you'll lose out on charm/decoration slots that you'll need for damaging power. Instead, as the previous poster said, go for the Protective Polish decoration to keep the white sharpness up. This is very important.

Maxing out Agitator, Weakness Exploit and Crit Boost works wonders for me and I've seen my Tornado Slash hit Nergi for up to 160-180. Also keep in mind that with the added affinity that this one has out of the box, you'll have more consistent crits (and thus, more damage) with the smaller hits.

With the upcoming buff to the Kinsect extracts, I'd expect the Shmaena to widen its gap over Catastrophe's Light.

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I have both weapons and mho is, catastrophe has huge raw damage when paired with increased affinity and attack ( I use attack 4, critical eye, and critical boost aka eyepatch, as well as agitator aka 3 pcs nergigante armour). Xeno has fairly similar raw damage, about 100 less, but way more elemental damage. If you are playing with a group that knows what there roles are, then Xeno would be a better weapon; in terms of support. Since you can seriously slow down a monster that is weak to dragon, allowing your teammates with weapons meant for breaking parts, to do so easier. the glaive is not a horn breaker weapon, so high raw damage doesn't really make sense for a glaive main. I like the catastrophe however, when playing with randoms along with the bandit mantel, so I can collect more materials and sever tails. However, you have to keep in mind that Xeno has higher affinity, white sharpness!! (+1.32 attack vs. 1.2 for catastrophe) and better jewel spots for very special level 3 jewels. Pair the Xeno with the rare protective polish jewel, and that white sharpness will not go down for a whole minute. Meaning the Xeno would have basically the same raw damage as catastrophe, with affinity boosts. Also max attack boost is over rated affinity is capped after level 4, so you could get away with level 4 attack and then use masters charm level 3 and eyepatch, for more crit damage than full attack boost. Hope this helps.

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Using this weapon with maxed Attack Boost, Crit Boost, Weakness Exploit and some Handicraft. Still doesn't seem to deal that much damage compared to Catastrophe's Light (built with just Level 6 Attack Boost and Level 1 Crit Boost).

Anyone out there who's Augmented this? Will the crit damage be stronger than that of Catastrophe's Light? Can the white sharpness make up for the huge difference in base damage?

If not, then this glaive is...for inflicting statuses...?

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