Offensive guard or crit boost on Zoh Shia lance?

[u/Agent_Rico]

Is it worth replacing crit boost with offensive guard? Other slots are going to razor sharp + handicraft

[u/coomgod666]

guardian 3/1 handicraft and critical boost for the other slots works just fine for me, the weapon has a ton of white and you can sneak sharpens in the middle of a fight quite easily

[u/-Darkeater_Midir-]

Zoh shia weapons aren't really worth the loss in slots, but by gog I'm not gonna let that stop me.

I personally dropped sharpness management on swaxe to fit a PP/Handi and CB3. But Lance struggles through sharpness pretty bad, I think OG is mandatory on it, it's too much damage for just playing normally, so try a hunt with just OG/Handi CB 3 and see how bad it feels. But if you were to only choose one of them, OG is significantly better than CB even at 90% affinity not factoring uptime; crit becomes better if you have less than 40% uptime on OG.

In multiplayer absolutely use CB instead, my personal experience is OG uptime just sucks there.

[u/discordhighlanders → u/-Darkeater_Midir-]

That's not completely true, the Whiteflame Torrent skill is cooldown based, so not only does it not get weaker the later in the hunt you go compared to Blast, but it also doesn't rely on you continuously hitting the monster to maintain your status buildup.

I'd argue it's actually better than Artian weapons for the majority of players, as it's very easy to "lose" damage from skills like Critical Boost and Offensive Guard as both penalize your damage for making mistakes. Most Affinity skills in Wilds are conditional, so if you're sprinting and hitting shitzones, Critical Boost is a dead skill from losing all your Affinity from Weakness Exploit and Maximum Might (60-80%), if you're not keeping 20%+ uptime on Offensive Guard it's just weaker than taking Critical Boost 5 over Critical Boost 3, etc.

Whiteflame Torrent doesn't punish your DPS as much as you have a grace period between procs AND it's "true damage" so it doesn't care about hitzones, making it harder to "lose" its damage.

See more details here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CdEtJYonts

[u/NationalIntern7367 → u/-Darkeater_Midir-]

They look badass though. And if your artian rolls suck it’s not that bad. 🤷‍♀️

[u/Dashisaru]

Depends on how well you guard. Even if it isn't perfect, if you guard decently, then offensive guard maybe worth it for the extra damage. If you're more mobile, then crit boost maybe better. I forgot my set up, but I do know for Zoh I use the tier 2 arcv poker, just running blank on my decos