kind of a stupid question probably, but when a monster is weak to an element, how important is this compared to raw weapon damage?
i have a coiled nail+ that i would guess is more powerful than my schattenthing (gore great sword), but the gore weapon has dragon. if a monster is weak to dragon is the coiled nail+ still better? i think its rare 4 and the next highest i have is rare 3, does that automatically make it better?
i've looked at the tables on the wiki, but i'm not sure what the numbers for weaknesses mean.
i'm on the level 5 solo quests if that makes any difference. i'm about to do yian garuaga and wondering if its worth even trying to get a water element weapon given that i probably won't be able to get a rare 4 one (I only have coiled nail+ from getting stuff early from online hunts with higher ranked hunters).