The Best Insect Glaive Builds In Monster Hunter Wilds

Insect Glaive is one of the most unique weapons in Monster Hunter Wilds, and it can also be considered one of the most difficult. While the weapon itself doesn’t have difficult combos, you have the added aspect of a Kinsect that you need to manage during fights.

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Here’s how to play the Insect Glaive in Monster Hunter Wilds!

You have to collect buffs from monster parts to enhance your weapon and also spend time developing your Kinsect so that your weapon deals the most damage possible. If you are interested in playing with the Insect Glaive, here’s a detailed guide that will help you get ready.

Insect Glaive Build Overview

Insect Glaive is all about managing your Kinsect buffs when fighting a monster. There is a Red, White, and Yellow buff that you can collect from a monster when fighting with an Insect Glaive. Each of these buffs has value, and you need to make the Kinsect hit specific monster parts to collect them.

Once your weapon has all the buffs, you can then perform combos with your Insect Glaive to deal high damage. However, for this, your Kinsect needs to be leveled up, and your weapon needs the standard damage perks such as Critical Boost and Weakness Exploit.

However, you must remember that getting a build in place won’t be easy since you are limited to what kind of Decorations you can attach to your weapon or armor. This means you will spend a lot of time farming as Insect Glaive is extremely stats-dependent, and you need to optimize your build for the best results.

Insect Glaive Build Guide

Here’s a rundown of the Insect Glaive build that you should be running:

In the weapon slot, your best bet is to go with the Artian-crafted weapon Diprielcha with full focus on the Dragon Element. It is also recommended that you craft the weapon with three Attack Infusions since that is recommended for an Insect Glaive. Additionally, you need to attach a Razor Sharp/Dragon Jewel Level Three for the Razor Sharp Skill and Dragon Attack skill.

Additionally, attach one more Dragon Attack Jewel to increase the overall Dragon elemental damage. Critical Jewel Level Three provides Critical Boost, which is also required to optimize damage.

When it comes to Kinsect, go with Monarch Alucanid. You can obtain it by leveling up the Culldrone to Rarity 4 from Gemma. The Monarch Alucanid provides Element Boost from its Kinsect Combo, and it also comes with Stamina Recovery. Both of these are good buffs to have for your Insect Glaive build.

In the head slot, G. Ebony Helm Beta comes with one Level Two Jewel slot, where you need to attach the Phoenix Jewel Level Two. This will give you the Coalescence skill, which increases your elemental damage whenever a blight is cured. Hence, it’s quite easy to trigger this skill in battle, as you will be affected by blight quite frequently.

In the chest slot, go with Arkvulcan Mail Beta, which provides Weakness Exploit Level One. Additionally, it comes with a Level Three and Level Two Jewel Slot, where you need to attach a Chain Jewel Three and a Phoenix Jewel Two, respectively. Chain Jewel Three provides the Burst skill, which increases attack and elemental damage upon dealing consistent damage to monsters. Phoenix Jewel Level Two increases the Coalescence level.

In the hands slot, go with G. Ebony Bracers Alpha, which gives Burst Level Two and Divine Blessing Level One. However, it doesn’t come with any Decoration slots, but those are worth sacrificing for the buffs you get from the armor piece.

In the waist slot, go with Gore Coil Beta, which comes with a Level Three and Level Two Jewel slot. Here, you need to slot in Tenderizer Jewel Level Three to increase the level of Weakness Exploit and a Phoenix Jewel Level Two to take Coalescence to maximum.

Finally, in the legs slot, go with Gore Greaves Beta, which also comes with a Level Three Jewel Slot in addition to two Level One Jewel slots. In the Level Three slots, go with Tenderizer Jewel Two, and in the Level One slots, add Sane Jewel Level One. Here, Sane Jewel gives you the Antivirus buff, which helps increase Affinity when Frenzy is cured. You get inflicted by Frenzy through the Black Eclipse buff from the two-piece Gore Magala Gear.

In the Charm slot, go with Exploiter Charm Level Two, which comes with Weakness Exploit Level Two, which helps to take that skill to its maximum.

Insect Glaive Build Skill Overview

Here is how the skills will look once your build is ready:

• Dragon Attack Level 3
• Razor Sharp Level 3
• Critical Boost Level 3
• Weakness Exploit Level 5
• Burst Level 5
• Coalescence Level 3
• Antivirus Level 3
• Constitution Level 2
• Divine Blessing Level 1

Tips To Play Insect Glaive Build

The first thing you need to learn before playing Insect Glaive is how to collect buffs from monsters. Make sure you have all three buffs, and then you will have to charge up the Insect Glaive. Upon doing that, launch an attack and finish off your combo with Rising Spiral Slash.

The Insect Glaive also helps you to jump above monster attacks and mount them very easily. While you shouldn’t be doing it too much, it’s one effective way to keep yourself safe during fights and topple monsters more frequently.

Finally, Insect Glaive lets you play quite aggressively, and you should take advantage of that. You can switch around the monsters quickly and keep up your offense, which will help you to finish fights very quickly.

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