Monster Hunter Now: Top Great Sword Build
Author: Lily
Mar 13,2025
In the vast arsenal of *Monster Hunter Now*, the Great Sword stands out as a devastating force, capable of unleashing immense damage with each swing. However, its size demands a strategic approach. This guide details a powerful build maximizing the Great Sword's potential.
To truly harness the Great Sword's power, you need to exploit monster weaknesses. Recent updates have introduced sleep-inducing weapons, significantly altering the combat dynamic. This build focuses on sleep, requiring a combination of specific gear and skills for consistent sleep effects.
Optimal Monster Hunter Now Great Sword Build
Unlike the poison-focused Long Sword, the Great Sword shines with sleep-based attacks. While obtaining all components requires hunting a relatively rare monster, the majority of the equipment can be acquired from more common hunts.
Complete Monster Hunter Now Great Sword Build
| Item | Effect |
|---|---|
| Weapon: Frilled Blade | - Element: Sleep - Evade Extender I (Grade 8) |
| Helmet: Nightshade Paolumu Helmet | - Rude Awakener I (Grade 5) - Rude Awakener II (Grade 8) - Driftstone Slot (Grade 8) |
| Mail: Tzitzi-Ya-Ku Mail | - Status Sneak Attack (Grade 2) - Artful Dodger (Grade 4) - Driftstone Slot (Grade 5) |
| Vambraces: Tzitzi-Ya-Ku Vambraces | - Status Sneak Attack I (Grade 2) - Status Sneak Attack II (Grade 4) - Driftstone Slot (Grade 5) |
| Coil: Tzitzi-Ya-Ku Coil | - Evade Extender (Grade 2) - Status Sneak Attack (Grade 4) - Driftstone Slot (Grade 5) |
| Greaves: Nightshade Paolumu Greaves | - Rude Awakener (Grade 5) - Status Sneak Attack (Grade 6) - Driftstone Slot (Grade 5) |
Weapon: Frilled Blade
The Frilled Blade stands out as the premier sleep-based Great Sword. Its inherent Evade Extender skill provides crucial distance after dodging, enhancing survivability. While not essential, this skill significantly improves defensive maneuvers with the Great Sword's unwieldy nature. You'll need Somnacanth materials to craft it.
Helmet & Greaves: Nightshade Paolumu Armor
The core of this build utilizes Nightmare Paolumu materials, introduced in an early event. These provide crucial skills, including all three levels of Rude Awakener, boosting damage dealt to sleeping monsters by 100% on the first hit. While less frequent now, Nightmare Paolumu appear in events and occasionally as rare spawns.
Mail, Vambraces, & Coil: Tzitzi-Ya-Ku Armor
Completing the build, Tzitzi-Ya-Ku armor provides key Status Sneak Attack skill points. Maximizing this skill guarantees sleep buildup with rear attacks. You'll also gain additional Evade Extender and Artful Dodger points for improved evasion.
Optimizing Driftstone Slots
This build boasts a relatively low Driftstone slot requirement. Five slots dedicated to Sleep Attack are ideal. Alternatively, you can allocate slots to enhance dodging (Artful Dodger and Evade Extender) or increase damage from rear attacks (Sneak Attack).
- Sleep Attack (Azure): Increases sleep buildup (50 at rank 1, 150 at rank 5).
- Sneak Attack (Pale): Increases damage from rear attacks (10% at rank 1, 30% at rank 5).
- Artful Dodger (Azure): Improves evasion ease.
- Evade Extender (Pale): Increases evasion distance.
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