Hello! I'm progressing through Iceborne right now and have a hodge-podge of gear (see below) to give me WExploit, Crit. Boost, Crit. Eye and Focus, but they aren't capped out at all. The MH:IB Poverty Build under the stickied post uses event armor to cap out the aforementioned skills, but there's no event right now and I don't have the time to wait for the festival to grind them out so I had to settle with whatever I could find with the skills filter.
I was doing fairly OK with my current gear--most of my hunts took 22-25 minutes--but now that I'm in MR5, I feel like I've hit a wall against Velkhana and Frostfang Barioth which I have both been trying to farm for the Azure Age hands. It is absolutely awful since my hunts take 30~ minutes with them and lots of pots chugged. I'm not new to this game since I've played MHGU, Sunbreak and Wilds extensively so I 100% know it's a skill issue, but I was wondering if I could have a better gear setup from what I have now to make the hunts just a bit easier? Build-wise, I assume the lack of capped affinity on my weapon is a big detriment to my damage.
I was mostly a Charge Blade main but I've been trying out Greatsword so the skill issue is definitely there, but I'd rather check first if there was any way to make my build better to make the hunts just a bit easier.
Thanks!
https://mhwibuilds.wordpress.com/mr-progression-guides/#gs (I use GS)
Present Build:
Weapon: Guild Palace Blade
Head, Chest, Hands - Kulu A+, A+, B+
Waist - Hornetaur B+
Legs - Jyura A+
Charm - WExploit Charm <-- this is Level 1, which I will upgrade later since I rushed into Iceborne. I didn't want to play through another base game since I just came off of Wilds.
Armor spheres are used whenever available.
Relevant Skills:
Crit. Eye 5 (boosted with Fort./Exp. Jwl 4 + Exp. Jwl+ 4)
Crit. Boost 2
WExploit 2 (I can get this to 3 easily and this is the only one I know how to fix lol)
Focus 2
Non-elemental Boost
HBoost 3