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When seeking a quick, reliable, and fun weapon to use inMonster Hunter Wilds, you may wish to try out the Dual Blades weapon. This is an easy-to-learn choice with the ability to adapt, learn, and grow in the game with the knowledge you get with each fight. There aren’t a ton of combos to learn to maximize how much damage it does, and it relies solely on how well you can learn each monster’s moves.
Monster Hunter Wilds: Sword and Shield Guide
Balancing offense and defense perfectly, the Sword and Shield weapon is always a solid choice for hunting.
Dual Blades Moves
This weapon has one of the simpler movesets but does require you to get very up-close and personal with the monsters.
PlayStation 5
Double Slash
Left Click
Lounging Strike
Right Click
Demon Mode
Blade Dance
Triangle + Circle
Left Click + Right Click
Demon Flurry (Usable after Blade Dance I)
Demon Dodge (Perfect dodge while in Demon Mode)
Focus Strike: Turning Tide
Right Click + Shift
Use Demon Mode as Often as Possible
This alternate weapon stance is key to accessing your more powerful moves.
The main mechanic with the Dual Blades is theDemon Modeability. This doesn’t look like much at first, but it is vital for doing more damage with the weapon. This alternate stance will drain your stamina but will empower your attacks and give you access to Archdemon Mode once it has been fully charged. To charge up this meter, you must use Double Slash or Lounging Strike attacks to avoid draining the Demon Mode meter. Once the meter is filled, you don’t need to activate Demon Mode while the meter is flashing, but you can still use it to have access to your moves and have the extra damage. However, you must be mindful of your stamina getting too low and disengaging Demon Mode when stamina is too low when a monster is having its attack phase.
There is a way to stall your stamina being drained while in Demon Mode as well, extending your time in the stance to keep attacking monsters. If you use Focus Mode to view monster wounds, you’re able to use Focus Strike: Turning Tide to attack the monster and perform a grappling move. This move will have you partially mount a monster, destroy the wound of your target and perform a follow-up attack, allowing you to regenerate your stamina even if Demon Mode is active. It is a powerful attack that you should make use of often and regularly when hunting monsters with the Dual Blades.
Plan on staying close to monsters and dodging incoming attacks often.
You will want to be as close to the monster as possible when using this weapon. The Dual Blades are one of the most close-range weapons in Monster Hunter. Being close will allow you to land your strikes and Focus Mode will ensure your attacks are aimed in the direction you wish to strike at. The goal with the Dual Blades is the same as the rest of the weapons, but you’ll need to be more careful than you’ll need to be with most other weapons. With this in mind, you’ll also get access to a special dodge in Demon Mode. When you perfectly dodge a monster attack with Demon Dodge, you will reach another empowered state, granting you access to a new attack after dodging.
It may be tempting to spam attacks and chain them together as often as possible to have high damage output. But this will usually put you at risk more often due to being animation-locked during your attacks, keep an eye on what the monster is doing and time your dodges with the monster. Weave dodges into your combos when you’re attacking the monster. Using Blade Dance or Demon Flurry, and then performing a Demon Dodge will allow you to avoid damage and provide yourself with a damage buff before you go back into unleashing more attacks.
Sticking close to a monster, timing your dodges appropriately, and making full use of your empowered attacks will make all the difference when using the Dual Blades. This weapon is straightforward and reliable when it comes to dealing consistent damage but does rely on you being extremely close to monsters at all times. While the damage output isn’t as high as some weapons like the Long Sword or Great Sword, it does enable you to essentially attack at all times with the tools it has available.
Monster Hunter Wilds: Bow Guide
The Bow has received some new and interesting new tricks in this newest iteration.
Monster Hunter Wilds
The unbridled force of nature runs wild and relentless, with environments transforming drastically from one moment to the next. This is a story of monsters and humans and their struggles to live in harmony in a world of duality.Fulfill your duty as a Hunter by tracking and defeating powerful monsters and forging strong new weapons and armor from the materials you harvest from your hunt as you uncover the connection between the people of the Forbidden Lands and the locales they inhabit.The ultimate hunting experience awaits you in Monster Hunter Wilds.
