Summary

• Rise introduced powerful Longswords like Big Menacing Scythe and Silver Severer on top of fan favorites like Tigrine Need.
• Phantom Mirage offers versatility and Chameleos Soul ability, topping high-rank builds with high raw damage and affinity.
• Nargacuga's Darkest Night boasts more raw damage and sharpness, along with high affinity, making it a key weapon for Sunbreak.

The 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Monster Hunter series is known for its great variety of weapons and, of course, its many fearsome (an🎉d sometimes creepy) monsters to hunt down. ♔But across these many weapons, it can be hard to pick out even the type you want, let alone a specific one from the vast crafting trees.

One of the most well-known of these weapons, and one that seems to have gotten a lot of love in Rise, is the Longsword. Longswords operate not unlike many Japanese swords, focused more on timing and precise strikes with a 🐭good ability to cover ground more than the Great Sword. But of course, what's best for you? Though there's no exact "best" depending on how you play, this is a strong selection of favorites from the community.

Updated February 15th, 2025 by Hilton Webster: While Monster Hunter Wilds is just on the horizon, that doesn't take away from what makes every other Monster Hunter so special. The mobility of Rise is unmatched, and some of the Longswords it introduced up to its final Title Update were incredible, packing some of the most power in the entire game.

16 ꧋ Defender Long Sword 𒁏

The grin🥀d is the whole gameplay loop of Monster Hunter, chasing down fearsome beasts and breaking specific parts to gather the materials to make the biggest and set builds you can, all to get even better at, well, mo♚nster hunting.

With the release of Sunbreak though, it might seem daunting to go through such a long journey to reach the new expansion you paid for, and that's where the Defender gear comes in. Far and away it is the strongest base game weapon se🧜t. There are no frills to them, but they'll serve you well until you specialize or reach Master Rank.

15 Wind Thief Scimi▨tar II

Monster Hunter Rise may be more inviting and explanatory than earlier games, but that doesn't mean it still isn't dizzying to look at the massive weapon trees for the first time, and they don't offer much guidance through them either. Thankfully, one of the bette✤r Longswords you can get is the Wind Thief Scimitar II, craftable fꩲrom one of the first monsters you'll hunt.

Styled after the Great Izuchi you make it fro♍m, the Wind Thief Scimitar is all about affinity, Monster Hunter's critical hit chance. There are other early weapons that have higher damage, but mastering affinity now is a great ওstep towards later weapons, as Rise really loves high affinity builds.

14 ꦐ Hidden Saber I

The natural progression would be to the Hidden Saber. Any veteran players of Rise will tell you that Nargacuga weapons rule the meta and with good reason. The Hidden Saber is far from the bes📖t weapon in the game, but it will easily carry you through the early game's Low Rank Hunts.

The Hidden Saber is again a high-affinity weapon, with prett🌱y good sharpnesꦫs to boot. If you've already been building out an affinity build, it will easily carry you into later affinity builds and will let you cut through those Low Rank hunts with speed. Nargacuga is going to become either your favorite or most hated monster after all these hunts.

13 Julienne Blade 🍎

Entering into High Rank for the first time, you are introduced to a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:big difficulty bump, and with it, new and improved weapons and armor sets since much of your or😼iginal gear will start to lag behind. So one of the better pieces of better gear to start off your High-Rank journey with is the Julienne Blade.

The Julienne Blade is relatively simple. It doesn't come with anything fancy, no elements or big special effects. Instead, it has decently high damage for its rank an꧂d some strong blue sharpness to boost. Coupled with attack boost for the ram𝓰page skill and some armor to bring you higher, the Julienne Blade will carry you until you reach greater heights.

12 ⛎Big Menacing Scythe

One could argue, perhaps rightly, that the Big Menacing Scythe isn't really a long🃏sword at all. And to that statement, Rise would tell you it doesn't care, and demand you use the Big Menacing Scythe as a longsword. Be the grim reaper you've dreamed of being.

In truth, the scythe deals poison damage, which ca✃n actually be a hefty chunk of extra damage alongside its already quite powerful attacks. And when paired with armor and talismans that boost poison and cr🐬its, the weapon can hold its own quite well. Death comes for all, even monsters.

11 Wyvern Blade Maple ⛄

The Wyvern ༺Blade Maple is an interesting inclusion in the game. It's quite strong in raw damage, but not the strongest. It comes with nꦑo affinity by default, and its sharpness is a decent blue, but nothing higher. What it excels in, however, is great elemental damage.

Elemental damage can be quite situational in Rise, depending more on specific monsters to really bring out its benefits. But the amoun✨t of fire damage it deals is genuinely quite large on top of already powerful attacks that means even against monsters not weak to fire it can hold its own, while it can rip through those weak to it.

10 🍰 Rampage Blade 𓆏

✱Newly introduced in Rise are Rampage Weapons, weapons of all types designed for you to customize as much as you want. Unlike other weapons, they come with multiple rampage skill slots to let you more precisely fine-tune your build, which is perfect for a game with 🐲no "perfect" weapon.

That said, Rampage weapons have sometimes failed to match the more handcrafted experiences of other weapons, which you could argue 🙈is the one downside of such customization. But the latest update has given more skills to let you be a bit more free. It can work well for powerful elemental builds or raw damage builds to fit with any armor set you lಞike. Plus, rampage weapons have the unique ability to be layered with any other weapon of the same type, so fashion choices give it an extra positive.

9 Reওddnaught Blade 🍷

Crimson Glow Valstrax is a terrifying monster. Rightfully so, even it was designed after a comet and can ambush divebomb you at a moment's notice for devastating damage. So it's only fitting then that its weapons are also incredibly powerful, especially when paired withꦜ Valstrax's own armor set.

The Valstrax set has the unique effect of inflicting you with Dragonblight when below a certain amount of HP, boosting your Dragon attacks massively and boosting your resistances, letting you tear through enemies weak to dragon. On t𓆉op of that, even without the unique set bonus, the massive amount of white sharpness on the weapon makes it an easy fit into other builds too to boost its raw damage and affinity.

8 🉐 Deepest Night

An expected entry in this collection is the Nargacuga longsword, Deepest Nighౠt. Nargacuga weapons have something of a monopoly on the top spots of the various weapons. Like Nargacuga itself, its weapons are all🐽 about fast attacks that dig deep, hence the incredibly high affinity.

Even by default, the affinity is gargantuan, with some white sharpness keeping your damage nice and h🐼igh. As such, the best places to focus this weapon are on retaining sharpness and boosting affinity even further. It has absurd damage, possibly even surpassing higher raw damage sets if you can play it right.

7 Tigrine Need🦩 ☂

The Tigrine Need fits a wider demographic than many weapons. It's almost a pick-up and forget kind of weapon. It has negative affinity, but this is countered by majorly high damage, one of the highest raw damage values on any longsword in the game. Unlike many High-Rank builds, the Tigrine Need lets you equip it and play. No matter what,ꦕ you'll be dealing high damage.

In theory, other builds can get you higher damage with some precision and expert play, but Tigrine Need negates that necessity. And if you're paired up with a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:hunting horn partner who can negate that negative, aꦺnd maybe even push it to a positive, the weapon's one major downside gets pushed to the side.