Monster Hunter Maestro: Forge a Great Sword Blade for Maximum Power

Master the Monster Hunter Now Great Sword: A Sleep-Based Build Guide

The Great Sword in Monster Hunter Now is a powerful weapon, capable of devastating blows. However, its size makes it less maneuverable. This guide details a build maximizing its potential using sleep effects.

To create this effective build, you'll need to slow down your foes. Recent updates introduced sleep-inducing weapons crafted from specific monster materials. Crucially, you'll also need the right skills to frequently induce sleep.

Optimal Monster Hunter Now Great Sword Build

Unlike the poison-focused Long Sword, the Great Sword shines with sleep effects. While this build requires materials from a relatively rare monster, the majority of equipment comes from more common hunts.

Complete Great Sword Build Breakdown

Weapon Choice: Frilled Blade

Sleep-inducing Great Swords are limited. The Frilled Blade stands out, offering the beneficial Evade Extender skill, increasing your distance after dodging. While not essential, it significantly improves Great Sword maneuverability. You'll need Somnacanth materials to craft it.

Helmet & Greaves: Nightmare Paolumu

The core of this build utilizes Nightmare Paolumu parts (from the first paid event). These provide crucial skills, including all three Rude Awakener levels, boosting damage by 100% on the first attack against a sleeping monster. While less common now, they appear in events or as rare spawns.

Mail, Vambraces, & Coil: Tzitzi-Ya-Ku

The remaining pieces focus on Status Sneak Attack, maximizing sleep buildup with rear attacks. You'll also gain Evade Extender and Artful Dodger for enhanced evasion. Thankfully, Tzitzi-Ya-Ku is a more common target, easily tracked with paintballs.

Optimizing Driftstone Slots

This build benefits from a relatively low Driftstone slot requirement. Five Sleep Attack slots are ideal, but you can also enhance dodging (Artful Dodger, Evade Extender) or rear-attack damage (Sneak Attack).

• Sleep Attack: Increases sleep buildup (Azure only).
• Sneak Attack: Boosts damage from rear attacks (Pale only).
• Artful Dodger: Improves evasion (Azure only).
• Evade Extender: Increases evasion distance (Pale only).

This build transforms the Great Sword into a highly effective sleep-inducing powerhouse in Monster Hunter Now.