

Personally I try to get evade extender vs window since I think hoping further is more useful. I believe it goes a smidge further and has a smidge more iframes in iceborne now. The MH math guys (tuna and jinx) have made a lot of interesting points regarding SA hops in world vs iceborne, and have noted that one of the best buffs to SA in iceborne is to the hops. Tenderizer/Evasion, Critical/Evasion, etc. One of my complaints about world was that Iframing attacks without mantles was either too hard, or the skills to give you a bigger window required too many sacrifices in other areas. Or maybe my reaction time has taken a turn for the worst. It's almost mind blowing how hard it is to Iframe attacks in this game compared to some of the earlier installments. For some reason, that's way harder in world. I remember playing SA in 3rd gen (3 ultimate), and I was Iframing attacks no problem, side hopping tail whips, rolling roars, etc. Evade window 4-5 actually has a usable amount of Iframes for me, I might even start using it. The good news for SA is, for a lot of the sets it looks like you can get evade window 4-5, which will make the weapon more accessible.

Originally posted by crimsonedge11:This, but it's most definitely going to change though. I'm guessing you use 4 namielle minus the pants? Too bad I cant figure out what element SAs are good outside of the obvious ones like namielle or jang. Yeah, I've listed Strobila, it's a really good SA. I seem to be having difficulties finding a fire elemental weapon that doesn't look like total crap though (I refuse to use base bone/iron weapons). Lots of monsters weak to it since they went thunder heavy in this expac. Water damage seems to finally have quite a bit of use in Iceborne which is great. Oh and it also looks cute on female avatars! It's also got decent SWAXE abilities built in with a fair amount of slots.

Reason why I choose Namiella 4 piece though is because it actually boosts your elemental damage quite a lot when it procs, which means I don't have to worry about elemental decos. Originally posted by Squidvasion:Personally I've been using Black Strobila like crazy, along with the 4 piece set from Namielle, but this is of course by no means min-max super mega speedrun 110% efficient build.
