What is EFE and EFR? Build Comparison MH Rise

What monster will you be fighting?

Will any QOL skills help you stay in the fight longer?

Which build has the higher EFR EFE?

Do the hit zones favor raw or elemental?

 

 

When you are comparing builds there are many things to look at, and those are just a few. You want to get all of your QOL of life skills, you want hit those juicy damage numbers, and people tend to steer you only towards damage. We're going to talk about how to compare builds and what you should look for when you do.

 

Before we get started damage isn’t everything. If you need ear plugs or evade extender to stay alive then go for those. These tools can be used to add damage skills around your quality of life skills.

 

There are tools like this one I made, or the GrindingLands but they are both using EFR and EFE. What are they and what are their limitations?

 

 

EFR

This is a term that’s thrown around but it’s your weapons effective raw and it’s a way to measure how much damage one build will do compared to another. It’s calculated by taking your attack after buffs, crit modifier, affinity, and your sharpness and it spits out a value.

 

Raw* (((Crit Modifier-1)* Affinity) +1) * Sharpness

 

This is useful because sure, one build could do more damage per hit but when hunting you’re not just focusing on just one hit. You need to see what set is likely to do more damage over a hunt by averaging out your normal attacks and like likely hood of you criting. If you want to learn more about what the Crit modifier is you can learn more about it here but it starts at 1.25 and increases by .05 for each level of crit boost you have in your build so the max is 1.4.

 

EFE

EFE is very similar to EFR but instead of using Raw you use Element, and instead of a Crit modifier it’ll be your elemental Crit modifier. In Rise every weapon starts at 1.00 and goes up by .05 for each level of Elemental Crit you have.

 

 Elemental* (((Elemental Crit Modifier-1)* Affinity) +1) * Sharpness

 

Limits

I’m sure you’ve noticed but where are the motion values? Where are the Hitzone Values? The simple answer is they aren’t being accounted for which means unless you are deciding between two builds of the same element or two raw builds it’s hard to tell what you should be using. This is where the program I’ve created steps in.

 

With  the Damage calculator that I’ve created here you can see how much damage you will do to each monster with your given skills. This will help you decide on whether to use Water or Fire, or even Dragon or Raw. Monster hitzones are different and one build might be better for one monster and another for a different monster.

 

How to Decide on a Build

 

With all this being said here are some thing you should be focusing on when comparing builds.

 

What monster will you be fighting?

Will any QOL skills help you stay in the fight longer?

Which build has the higher EFR EFE?

Do the hit zones favor raw or elemental?

 

 

It’s VERY important to think about which monster you will be fighting. For monsters like Tedronadon you might want tremor resist, or bring handicraft against Rajang since it doesn’t run very often. After you have an idea of which skills you want then move on to the next step.

 

Let’s face it, not matter how well we know a monster not all of us are speed runners. We won’t always dodge roars, we’ll get stunned and really anything can happen. Focusing only on damage skills is a bad idea and you’ll really want to make sure you have skills that will keep you alive if you need them. What I don’t mean is putting only defense skills on your build but putting in the ones you like isn’t a bad idea.

 

When you have two builds you should look and see which ones have the higher EFR and EFE. I normally add both of these together and compare the total score but choose what you think is best for your build then go with that.

 

This last tip is for when you’re fighting a specific monster. Maybe you are really a speedrunner or you want to farm a monster faster. The best way to see which build is best would be to do the calculation yourself which you can find my article talking about how the formula works, or you can take the much easier route and use my damage calculator.

 

No matter what builds you’re making or monsters you are hunting I hope these tips helped. Make sure you subscribe to my blog below or follow me on twitter @TheTopicHole so that you are notified when I post new tips or check out some of these other articles to you might like.

 

Thanks again for reading and I’ll talk to you next time.