How to use the Dual Blades in Monster Hunter Wilds

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In Monster Hunter Wilds, the Dual Blades are an excellent choice for both beginners and experienced players who favor speed, agility, affinity enhancement, and swiftly inflicting status effects via damage. Notably, these weapons underwent minimal alterations from the previous game, as they’ve proven effective and don’t require significant adjustments. The Demon and Archdemon modes of Dual Blades continue to pack a powerful punch in Monster Hunter Wilds. This article will delve into how these blades function within the game and explore their associated mechanics.

The Monster Hunter Wilds Dual Blades explained

In Monster Hunter Wilds, the Dual Blades are a compact set of knives, considered small compared to other weapons in the game. They prioritize agility and swift attacks, while also activating specific modes to amplify their power: Demon, Archdemon, and Demon Boost enhancements. The Demon Boost is a temporary speed boost that’s activated by a well-timed dodge, functioning independently. On the other hand, players can initiate the Demon Mode buff at their discretion. This special buff drains stamina.

Engaging in combat against adversaries while in Demon Mode increases a meter for the Dual Blades. Once fully charged, it activates the formidable Archdemon mode, offering enhanced power and exclusive attacks. Consequently, skilled users of the Dual Blades in Monster Hunter Worlds should focus on agile evasion, swift strikes, and careful management of their stamina to reach the Archdemon mode, at which point they can unleash their full potential, demonstrating why these blades are among the game’s most dependable weapons.

We’ll go into more detail below, but the ultimate summary of how they work is this:

  • Trigger the stamina-burning Demon Mode to get a temporary buff and fill up the Archdemon Gauge
  • When in Archdemon mode, spend the Gauge on your most powerful attacks and combos
  • Use the perfect evade and Demon Boost to keep your mobility up.

Demon Mode and Archdemon Mode explained

Activating Demon Mode for Dual Blades is achieved by pushing R2/RT. This action causes your hunter to show the blades facing in reverse and emitting a red glow. In this mode, you enjoy increased damage output, speed, agility while dodging, and temporary invulnerability to knockback. However, be aware that your stamina depletes continuously in Demon Mode. When it runs out, the mode ends automatically; but you can also manually stop it by pushing the same button again before the stamina depletion is complete.

In Demon Mode, harming your enemies contributes to filling the Demon meter located at the top-left corner of your screen. Once it’s completely full, you will instantly transform into Archdemon Mode, as indicated by the meter starting to glow. This Archdemon Mode persists until the meter is fully depleted again.

As a gamer, here’s how I might put it: In Archdemon Mode, my stamina remains untouched, and I gain access to devastating new moves such as the Demon Flurry, an attack that packs a punch like no other for the Dual Blades. However, these potent attacks come at a cost – they deplete the Archdemon Gauge.

Remember that having Archdemon and Demon Mode active simultaneously isn’t a contradiction; they can coexist. Proficient players aim to maintain Archdemon Mode as much as possible, starting to build the gauge early for activation, then using Demon Flurry and its variations to deplete the gauge, followed by triggering Demon Mode once more to refill it again.

Skilled players try to keep Archdemon Mode activated throughout gameplay by building up the gauge quickly, using certain moves (like Demon Flurry) to lower the gauge, and then activating Demon Mode to fill it back up again.

Demon Boost and Perfect Evades explained

Another significant advantage of the Dual Blades lies in their abilities, Demon Boost, and Perfect Evades. In Demon Mode, you can dodge an enemy attack at the last possible second with your Dual Blades drawn, which transforms your Hunter into blue form, initiating a twelve-second “Demon Boost”.

The “Demon Boost” ability enhances both your damage output and speed, transforming your dodges into whirling assaults that can harm surrounding enemies. This means that simply avoiding attacks can deal damage to foes. You can utilize this ability repeatedly, but mastering the precise dodge is crucial each time. Moreover, “Demon Boost” can be employed simultaneously with both “Demon Mode” and “Archdemon Mode,” allowing you to have all three buffs active concurrently if you strategize your gameplay skillfully!

Dual Blades tips

Here’s some basic advice for actually using this weapon in the field:

  • Get a Dual Blade weapon that inflicts a status effect like Poison or Paralysis. Because the Dual Blades hit so rapidly, these effects get built up on enemies fast.
  • The Lunging Strike and Spinning Slash (press Circle/B several times) is a combo that will quickly build the gauge when Demon Mode is active.
  • When the enemy gets knocked over, stunned, or temporarily immobilised for any reason, now’s the time for those high power moves. Use Blade Dance by rapidly pressing Triangle+Circle/Y+B to carve them up. If Archdemon Mode is active, you can change the combo part way by pressing R2/RT, enhancing it to the more powerful Demon Flurry.
  • Practice the Perfect Dodge! It’s hard to do, but skilled players effectively never leave the Demon Boost mode, and are all the more deadly for it. If you can’t get this right, you’ll never get the most out of the Dual Blades.
  • Keep a little stamina in the tank. Demon Mode drains it, but try not to fully run out, so you always have some left for evasion.
  • The Focus Strike is deadly, as when you land it, it causes your Hunter to roll along the monster’s back, carving it up along the way. This actually makes the attack more deadly the larger the monster is – as there’s more monster to roll along.

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2025-02-27 21:14