Insect Glaive

How it plays

• Harvest extracts before engaging, aiming at the parts that give the one you lack.
• Refresh red before it expires: without it, the weapon loses both damage and moves.
• Alternate ground and air depending on the target part, air reaching what the ground cannot.

Focus Mode and wounds

Focus Mode aims the insect as much as the weapon: it decides which part is hit, hence which extract comes back. The Focus Strike also works airborne, which puts high wounds within reach.

Defending

No guard. Defence rests on dodging and on height — and on the offset attack, available only with the red extract: here, defending is a privilege you maintain.

What it brings

• Reaches the high parts that ground weapons only touch while waiting for the monster to fall.
• A complete status palette, and an insect that works while the hunter repositions.

What loses hunts

• Staying airborne for comfort: ground damage is higher, air is a means of access.
• Engaging with no extracts. Without its full state the weapon is an average one missing moves.

What the data says ?

• Its offset attack requires at least the red extract — the only one of the six whose availability depends on a maintained resource.

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• Kinsect level 8 is the most represented in the category, on 20 insect glaives: kinsect level is a property of the weapon, not a per-hunt choice.

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• Complete palette: all four statuses are available to the category.

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Defence

• Guardno
• Power Clashno
• Offset attackyes
• Descending Slash — demande au moins l'extrait rouge

What belongs to it alone ?

• Kinsect level

  level 8 20level 6 13level 7 12level 9 9level 10 8level 4 7level 5 7level 1 5level 3 5level 2 2