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#Monster Hunter
final hedge
final hedge
we take those
willow charm
I want to play Rise after not playing for a while
can't decide if I should boot up my old save or start fresh
final hedge
how far did you get
willow charm
i beat basically everything
final hedge
sunbreak too?
willow charm
all that would be left is grinding investigations for the final magnamalo variant
eh, i probably have enough other games to play that i shouldn't get back into a hundred hour timesink
red gazelle
Thank u
tiny wind
||hunter are sick of killing newborn dragon so now they killing the mom||
hollow comet
all that would be left is grinding investigations for the final magnamalo varian...
oh yeah, I don't think I've done scorned mango
hollow comet
now that's something else
hollow comet
risen cgv down :D
elder tusk
"nah that cliff won't protect you in these new games"
teal halo
"BITCH, YOU THINK MY HITBOXES ARE FIXED? NAH, SIS! WE MOVIN LIKE GRANDPA PLESIOTH OUT HERE!"
tardy grotto
Vertical mobility? Nah, we do vertical hurtboxes in the house
hollow comet
"BITCH, YOU THINK MY HITBOXES ARE FIXED? NAH, SIS! WE MOVIN LIKE GRANDPA PLESIOT...
😭 😭
all those hours of playing valor LS paid off
@tardy grotto for some snazzy perfect guards
i keep forgetting I can turn the instablock followup
could have hit the wings for some nice damage
lol
elder tusk
hell yeah
hollow comet
holy shit lmao (Mail of Hellfire)
35 raw for 100 defense is pretty good, but blue scroll 😭
final hedge
getting the static electricity shock from a car door handle and fucking dying
hollow comet
💀
final hedge
I wish they didnt have the crown farming achievements bc otherwise I would probably 100% at least one of my monstie hunters
I'm pretty close on wilds
final hedge
maybe sometime I will finish the sunbreak post launch content but I don't wanna fuck with the like big grinding mechanics they put in
hollow comet
if you ever want to break it i'm down 🙂↕️
and yeah i'm not the biggest fan of the rng skill reroll for qurio stuff... but thankfully the anomaly investigations themselves aren't bad imo 
ough..
rampage 😔
final hedge
ok yeah this game has unrealistic expectations of me
hollow comet
my camps 😭
hollow comet
ok yeah this game has unrealistic expectations of me
ough dang
let's see what world is asking
huh 57/100 even though i've played it less
final hedge
when it has stuff on there like train lots of buddies and I've been doing boosted dojo nonstop for 200 hours and not got it
thats too much lol
hollow comet
oh but they have a bajillion achievements just for tiering up
hollow comet
when it has stuff on there like train lots of buddies and I've been doing booste...
dang really :o
final hedge
I have 70/100 on world
hollow comet
huh i have the buddy one, idk what the conditions are tho
final hedge
who knows
hollow comet
i would check in and switch em out
final hedge
these are my only remaining wilds ones
hollow comet
😔 😔 😔
final hedge
I at least have that for world bc I played basically all of it with friends
gonna suck to get for wilds though I fear
would just have to grind out SOS flare responses
hollow comet
final hedge
you gotta name your lil bird
balmy swan
I was not expecting how much Wilds Gunlance is clicking with me as a World/Wilds swaxe main
Like I would've assumed they don't have much in common
But actually, they share a lot wrt resource and combo management, the big difference being that the swaxe's defense game is based on evasion and the GL's defense game is based on guarding
hollow comet
👀
balmy swan
I don't even have that many GL hunts under my belt comparatively (just under 50 vs 100+ with GS and CB and nearly 200 with swaxe) but I'd say it's already my second most comfortable weapon
hollow comet
yeah, I remember giving it a try in Wilds, definitely was just kinda mashing into wyrmstake full blast and wyvernfire but it was quite comfy on lower difficulty monsters
want to properly learn it someday
balmy swan
Wyrmstake full blast is fun, but I'm finding I'm getting a lot more mileage out of full burst and the basic poke/shell combo
Full burst especially because you can do it out of the forward running slam, so it's a really good repositioning follow-up
The one big problem I've run into is AT Nu Udra; that big fire explosion is unblockable by default and really hard to evade with the GL's lower mobility
balmy swan
Desire sensor strikes again
final hedge
so so real
hollow comet
😭
hollow comet
Wyrmstake full blast is fun, but I'm finding I'm getting a lot more mileage out ...
yeah, I have to learn the basics
the only thing I learned when I was playing it was memorizing the 4 or 5 ways to get into full blast 😭
balmy swan
Lol
hollow comet
I don't know how to full burst but I can guess how to poke/shell
balmy swan
As a rule of thumb I'd say poke/shell for quick poking, full burst for small openings, full blast/wyvernfire for large openings
balmy swan
I don't know how to full burst but I can guess how to poke/shell
Full burst is just shell after a downward slam
You need a full clip to get max damage out of it, but it does a lot of damage
hollow comet
balmy swan
I will add, my playstyle is very much oriented around being a Wide type junkie. Constant booms
G.Arkveld GL my beloved, I will never leave you
Oh, the other fun thing about full burst is that it's one of your follow-up options out of a perfect guard, so there's that as well
hollow comet
stylin just a little
skyward thrust is really fun, especially if it's a vertically thick monster 🙂↕️
candid perch
This will effect the local astalos population
hollow comet
😭
lapis juniper
I think tempered lagi got slightly buffed
And that has caused
Everyone
To no longer possess braincells fighting him I fucking guess lmao
balmy swan
Have people ever had braincells when fighting Lagi 😛
I say as if I myself haven't run face first into its lightning burst on multiple occasions
lapis juniper
I say as if I myself haven't run face first into its lightning burst on multiple...
We were doing just fine, nobody had fainted
Everyone else charged his ass when he was charging underwater
I
I don't get it
My flabbers were gasted
balmy swan
It's the primal Smack Monster instinct
hollow comet
what determines when he comes out of the water
balmy swan
Passing or failing the DPS check, I think
balmy swan
Either you do enough damage to him or you time out and he does his giant lightning nova
hollow comet
noteddd
i feel so clumsy in that stage
also, what determines if you bring it up the spikes at the end?
balmy swan
Luck of positioning, as far as I've ever been able to tell?
tardy grotto
When does one unlock Lagi?
balmy swan
Erik has a quest that unlocks it, I don't remember what the HR requirement is
elder tusk
HR31 is the minimum but you have to complete two other quests first
I think you can't actually unlock it yourself until you're HR35 because it requires the apex runback
balmy swan
It looks like you have to beat the Gore Magala story quest and the sidequest where you capture a Doshaguma for Erik
final hedge
so the strat for underwater is to stay close to him and spam the claw weapon attacks
you can get through it really quickly
I did nadia's quest today
man that is a buffed up gore lol hes goin crazy
but for some reason it gives you 5 commission tickets which are the first I've gotten bc my boat luck has been dreadful
so I could finally make my beloved jawblade :)
final hedge
yeah I was not expecting it at all
elder tusk
jawblade :)
elder tusk
hollow comet
holy moly
i currently have a kushala 3 with 4 1 slots
if I switch my chaotic gore legs to gaismagorm legs I might need this 2nd level of berserk, although I'll have to find somewhere else to slot my Rapid Up 4
final hedge
freakin serpents man
get outta here you whimsical ass guys
floating around n stuff
also when finding that picture earlier of the jawblade I saw this and was like dang maybe I should do more sunbreak
hollow comet
also when finding that picture earlier of the jawblade I saw this and was like d...
shell yeah
is that the guild LS
full sage
...wasn't anything even vaguely resembling my sunbreak/rise main fit/weapon, but it was the only one i could find off hand.
elder tusk
Time to take on The Rompest Popolo
pallid sapphire
also when finding that picture earlier of the jawblade I saw this and was like d...
I need that sword irl
final hedge
its neat
hollow comet
i wish it was also a GS
hollow comet
shell yeahhh
blue mizu...
huh
that was.. not as tough as I feared
hinoa and minoto definitely helped, but so did a shield lmao
poke poke poke
final hedge
are you anime
hollow comet
final hedge
your character
final hedge
honse
elder tusk
Time to take on The Rompest Popolo
jesus fucking christ that sure is how you buff Rompopolo
also people somehow joined me even though I didn't use a flare
which is. annoying.
teal halo
as a Rompopolo Enjoyer i am scared
tardy grotto
Rompo is fun
final hedge
I dont love aoes
tardy grotto
Just dodge
teal halo
get out of the a then
elder tusk
you probably have auto flare on
I intentionally made sure it was off beforehand because I was grinding with randos last night 😭
I checked after and it was definitely off, and I never even had time to fire one even if I somehow fumbled the shortcut
oop sorry for the ping
final hedge
hollow comet
FINALLY
on the hunt where i forgot to use the provision division too
i had no heals left
snow helm
I'm just getting started with High Rank on a new Wilds playthrough since the graphics patches have made it much better looking and enjoyable, and I am once again reminded that a) I love the new monster designs so much and b) man they really fumbled Mizu's theme in this game (relative to Rise)
final hedge
the new monsties and new armour are very good yeah
balmy swan
it's got a lot of sauce for sure
snow helm
Rey Dau is definitely up there for me too honestly, it unseated Bazel as my favourite flying Wyvern by far
But even some of the cheap and cheerful monsters in wilds like Quematrice and Hirabami have such cool designs
There's not a single new monster I wouldn't be happy to see come back
Balahara is easily the best version of "sand/ground swimmer" they've done so far imo
You can definitely tell their design ethos has changed with the new graphical capacity they have, lots of little details and subtle elements, but I think it's not jarring with the updated older monsters
tardy grotto
But even some of the cheap and cheerful monsters in wilds like Quematrice and Hi...
Also really like Rompo
snow helm
Yeah, Rompo feels like they have the makings of a low level staple
They also future proofed them by saying that a) they exist in the rest of the monster hunter world and b) usually they live in normal wetlands
snow helm
Honestly that feeling is a huge part of MH's appeal for me, the catharsis of finally getting the quest completed screen is exquisite
teal halo
They also future proofed them by saying that a) they exist in the rest of the mo...
love how Alma immediately recognized it once it showed its face. this thing is a known creature that the guild has studied for years, its just that the thriving population in the eastlands lives in a goddamn oil spill
final hedge
Killed my first Gogma (wilds, first kill on try 12)
excellent work, did you do it solo or with support hunters
potent kraken
excellent work, did you do it solo or with support hunters
With Shadow and two other randoms
near bane
the randoms where the bane of us most of the time
others it was the connection just quitting on us
final hedge
the support hunters are very competent
would probably recommend them over randoms
also bc they dont take carts off you
near bane
depend entirety on the quality of the player, support hunters do less damage in exchange for not carting
halcyon fractal
Hehehe
I ran a dnd session set in the mh world
My players fought a Daimyo Hermitaur
hollow comet
!!
took it down without followers
although 2 carts
liking lance a lot
it's like lies of p..
halcyon fractal
Did you do anything special for combat or was it just direct D&D
there was a bit of a preamble for finding it, but after they found the big crab, it was just direct combat
mystic cape
My players fought a Daimyo Hermitaur
What system?
halcyon fractal
oh! D&D 5e
elder tusk
😭
You need to achieve a state of detached zen so the desire sensor can't detect your earthly desires
final hedge
ok fuck me I got 1
balmy swan
farming gog really sucks huh
i'm not prepared to stake this out as a hill i'm willing to die on, but a thought i had during Omega was "wow, this is fun to fight and miserable to farm"
Gog i can see existing in that same space, though fortunately i've not had to farm him heavily
balmy swan
there's a lot of back and forth about these big, elaborate, mechanics-heavy setpiece hunts, i wonder if some of it isn't down to the disconnect between "wow, fun fight! i was sweating the whole time!" and "okay, now do it 20 more times so they drop a gem"
balmy swan
you can craft the gog pieces in the melder for 320 points
...that's not including the gem etc, right? i think that's just for the mutated armaments
near bane
yeah the armaments, you require quite a few of those
id say you will farm him more for those than the gem
balmy swan
yeah, i had a bunch of relic tickets sitting around bc i've basically crafted all the artians i want at this point, so i just pitched them into the melder and now i've got Gog spheres for days
hollow comet
there's a lot of back and forth about these big, elaborate, mechanics-heavy setp...
yeahhh
the first time connecting the elderbreaker and getting to p3 was cinema, now it’s still cool but not my favourite fight
I don’t really like big setpiece monsters because the level of interactivity is generally lower
though i like gog much more than safi because you fight it more, especially in P2
i still have not gone back to omega after 1 normal clear which might be saying something lol
all I need is materials for the IG and SnS… and maybe the armour set
rich valve
I think that the Wilds set piece bosses are at least significantly better than most previous ones
balmy swan
I think that the Wilds set piece bosses are at least significantly better than m...
well Zorah Magdoros is definitely a low bar 😛
hollow comet
yeah 😭
elder tusk
I really hope Zorah being a stinker doesn't discourage them from continuing to try
balmy swan
i mean, as Jacquerel said, they took another swing with Wilds; Omega and Gogmazios are both setpiece fights and they're much improved
i'm still not thrilled with the idea of having to farm them, but they're both fun to clear at least once
amber frost
I still have hope their ability to do better setpiece monsters means dalamadur might be on the horizon
elder tusk
tbh I feel like the way the community talks about setpiece hunts, spectacle hunts, siege hunts, etc, is flawed from a terminology standpoint
a setpiece hunt is a hunt where the monster is primarily just an object in the environment for the purposes of the hunt's mechanics
lao, the mohrans for the sandship phase, zorah, dalamadur
balmy swan
oh, i see what you mean
elder tusk
spectacle hunts compromise but don't outright eliminate the traditional formula
balmy swan
spectacle hunts compromise but don't outright eliminate the traditional formula
yeah, this is what i was thinking of--what Uno referred to as "hunts with mechanics"
elder tusk
ahtal-ka, the second phase of the mohrans, omega, gogmazios, some others I'm blanking on
elder tusk
then there are siege hunts, which is anything with mounted artillery 😏
rampages are technically siege hunts
a lot of siege hunts are setpiece hunts, but a few are spectacle hunts
elder tusk
(calvin's dad voice) despite the inclusion of artillery, the gogmazios hunt is a spectacle hunt rather than a siege hunt
hollow comet
LMAO
amber frost
ahtal-ka, the second phase of the mohrans, omega, gogmazios, some others I'm bla...
AHTAL KA MENTIONED
elder tusk
my shitpost hope for the expansion is that they give us Guardian Ahtal-Ka, with the lore that they were used to construct some parts of the Ruins, specifically so we can joke that it's made out of Ahtal-Concrete
amber frost
DAS CONCRETE BABYYY
balmy swan
idle thought--what about a setpiece hunt where a gigantic monster is getting driven berserk by an infestation of small monster parasites on/in its body, and you have to climb on and clear them out in order to get it to calm down
this was mostly born out of the thought "how could you make Zorah Magdoros more engaging"
elder tusk
zorah but it's infested with clone nerscylla (this makes it sound way worse than the idea actually is but they're the most comparable precedents)
I think it could work as a combination of a timed multihunt and a shifting terrain challenge
the logistics of routing to each monster would be an interesting thing to solve, deciding when and where and how to take out each one, react to the possibility of them pathing and wandering to suboptimal places, choosing to either aggro and kite them or just let them carry out their cycle and reposition somewhere better by the time you've taken care of something else
if this one is in this zone by the ten minute mark it becomes less convenient to access, etc
they could also draw on the old egg quest standby of certain routes being temporarily blocked off (though idk how they'd reconcile this with seikret auto-pathing in a way that doesn't make it pointless to attempt because it'll just make everyone's bird ubers take longer)
elder tusk
god yeah
near bane
I should learn to play ultra support
We could group and and play sometime
I ask from time to time if anyone is down to play but no one ever seems too
elder tusk
my playtimes are always super sporadic but I'm hoping to eventually start playing with people I've actually interacted with more often
final hedge
a lot of siege hunts are setpiece hunts, but a few are spectacle hunts
the serpents in rise are this second one
I am 100% down to fight gog with people
fair warning playing with npcs I normally cart once or twice
I still only have one gem
hollow comet
i'm down to play on weekends where I go home.,., but that's quite sporadic 😔
honestly am considering bringing my pc to school, only really stopped by the question of desk/under-desk space
final hedge
second deskfast pippin
near bane
what do you weapons do you main ?
hollow comet
second deskfast pippin
not enough room.,.,.
near bane
i play lance and as long as i have my lance in my hand i will not go down easily
hollow comet
but I may have room to pop it onto the corner of the desk I suppose
hollow comet
what do you weapons do you main ?
in Wilds, the closest I have to mains is Bow, and I'm picking up Lance too
I'm dropping LS so Bow is the next closest
final hedge
in wilds I have been playing bow, ls, gs, and horn
currently bow and gs have my most developed setups
final hedge
in wilds I have been playing bow, ls, gs, and horn
oh and sns
I've been doing gog with bow because its an elemental damage machine
hollow comet
I wonder if elemental lance leaping thrust spam is good in wilds
for gog I've been taking LS, but bow sounds fun yeah 
are you supposed to use fire for P1 and P2 then dragon for P3?
final hedge
mostly
if you gloop the oil in p1 and 2 then you can switch to dragon on that part for a bit until it de gloops
but swapping slows things down because you have to fuck around with the bird
hollow comet
yeahh that's what i was thinking
it seems annoying to switch for P1 with melee anyways since it moves around a bunch
😩
final hedge
yeah I would just keep fire and then move to dragon
hollow comet
final hedge
dragon in p3 is essential though because its what determines if you all die or not
final hedge
whether you can hide behind a shield for the nuke is determined by how much dragon damage you do to him
but he also cant die for the entire like 2 minute sequence
so its possible to do enough damage to kill him but not to stop the nuke killing you which I have done twice and feels kind of bullshit
you cart and then come back and hit him once and he dies
hollow comet
yeah 😭
final hedge
its also crazy that you need his gem for 2 of his armor pieces bc he does not drop that shit
hollow comet
yeah idk if i have one
maybe i've gotten one if it's for the waist
but grahhh
at least you don't need it for the weapons!!!
final hedge
yeah thank god
void narwhal
I get more of Gogs rare stuff than Seregios Dissenters
I must have killed over 30 of 'em and have ONE
final hedge
trick for steve is do duo investigations
hollow comet
mutual hostility is such a good enraged skill name,.,
agitator makes it sound like you get stronger by ragebaiting them 😭
hollow comet
trick for steve is do duo investigations
why’s that :o
final hedge
lots of drops from quest reward
hollow comet
ah gotcha
i will take down double 9* steve one day
i have trouble landing my perfect guard counters against it though
maybe i can rely on the counter guard double thrust GP instead
hollow comet
it’s faster
void narwhal
I think with my armor so ascended they'll stop oneshotting me at least
New quests kind of print upgrade materials handily
final hedge
the 10*s?
void narwhal
And the Mizu/Triple Chicken
void narwhal
well something gave me a ton of them, wuh
I'd exhausted them last I played and after a few missions I had multiple levels worth
Maybe I was just lucking out in general
final hedge
I think you maybe misread
near bane
the neat thing about investigations is that you can get a guaranteed gem as a reward
final hedge
if you get lucky enough to find one that has that listed yeah
near bane
allot of rest or luck with sos beacons
final hedge
ye
void narwhal
Now I'm sitting here trying to figure out where i got all those damn spheres, we mostly did the event quests for unique gear I missed and the 10s
final hedge
probably just from doing high star quests
hollow comet
amazing
elder tusk
👏
teal halo
you have not just earned the title of hunter or hero
you have earned the title of master
hollow comet
@oroi_03
final hedge
he cut da bread
hollow comet
does a damn good job too
night prairie
this is excellent
final hedge
now we just need a toaster 🦁
potent kraken
By JoCat
potent kraken
Very nice
elder tusk
I love you Dodogama, I love you JoCat
I'm so torn on Dodo returning
because on one hand, oh my god I love Dodogama
but on the other hand, I do not want to hurt Dodogama
void narwhal
Definitely one of those 'do we need to do this?' kind of monsties, just wants to eat lava
teal halo
i dont think it even CAN fuck up the ecosystem
it literally just eats random rocks from the ground
elder tusk
it could maybe provide meaningful competition to the guardians over wylk
snow helm
Wylk-juiced Dodogama that's like three times the size and way more dangerous would be pretty funny
I was actually thinking about options for more guardians in the expansion and one I've realized makes perfect sense is actually Tetsucabra
Since it's basically an organic bulldozer
naive elk
Arch-Tempered Dodogama
elder tusk
if Dodo does return, I'd really love it just being a situation of "uhh yeah these things aren't even remotely dangerous, we have no reason to hunt them, please leave them alone" and they occasionally turf war and do nonsense to our benefit
halcyon fractal
oh hell yeah
final hedge
I would be very happy if there was a dodogama just like chillin in the master rank village
absolutely don't expect it to actually happen. but I don't need to hunt him I just like his silly face
tardy grotto
Dodo, my bloved
halcyon fractal
i mean if tetsu was seen in Rise as a baby in the gathering hall and nowhere else
it COULD happen
elder tusk
he happily agrees to eat cement every day
halcyon fractal
elder tusk
REAL
potent kraken
Arch-Tempered Dodogama
With little wings to do a ground slam from on high
hollow comet
the heart colours are the sharpness levels 😭
snow helm
What are folks' pitches for a new Cephalopod for Wilds expansion? They could do almost anything; Nu Nudra, besides being on fire, is pretty traditional but Xu Wu is so weird it really opens the field. So I'm really curious about what they end up doing with them
Another Cephalopod Apex feels like it might be too much, but damn they're so flashy as it is
night prairie
need a low tier cephalopod like lala barina was for spiders
rich valve
hard to guess without knowing the environment, a snow/mud/oil/bones lurker that you have to persuade to get out of the ground could work
final hedge
amazing
fortunately this makes bow overtuned while in the fps sweet spot rather than nerfed everywhere else
because its performance without the fps thing is already very strong
so you can ignore it as a non speedrunner
hollow comet
the video focuses on bow, you get more ticks on pierce bow at different fps
2 -> 3 ticks per arrow on the training dummy at around 38-40 fps
hollow comet
fortunately this makes bow overtuned while in the fps sweet spot rather than ner...
🙂↕️
final hedge
ye I watched it
night prairie
oh my god
hollow comet
i can't even reach 40 fps though so it's out of my hands 💀
hollow comet
this is frying me
it's just so funny that I'm all like ⁉️ when seeing the video, and then the bowgun player is posted up in the comments with optimal FPS for each shot type
😭
final hedge
yeah thats a real bowgun moment tbh
hollow comet
i love it
final hedge
they make up for not having a moveset by adding a ton of mechanical setup stuff
except in rise where they do have a moveset
hollow comet
i like the switch skill where you become titanfall devotion
ramping up the fire rate
elder tusk
This keeps happening and modders keep fixing the exact same problem that causes it
calm hearth
gotta love randomly finding out that my preferred weapon deals more damage at exactly my preffered FPS lol
elder tusk
🙏
hollow comet
let me in...
dark juniperBOT
I think there was an issue similar to this in GU
Bows that fired multiple arrows at once were less powerful than they should have been because the game couldn't register every arrow hit at the framerate GU ran at
Este (they/she) ↩️
hollow comet
oh yesss i remember reading about that
halcyon fractal
the heart colours are the sharpness levels 😭
no i think its just the rainbow
wait
...
TIL sharpness is measured by the rainbow
red > orange > yellow > green > blue > purple > white
final hedge
ya
elder tusk
after white comes the color of the sky :)
final hedge
except purple comes after white in monhun
final hedge
purple is the special master rank one
at least in world and I think rise
in wilds it goes red orange yellow green blue white
halcyon fractal
ohhhhhhh
hollow comet
I think there was an issue similar to this in GU
Bows that fired multiple arrows...
found it!
this series of documents is amazinggg, there's one for each weapon with
- movesets for each style with motion values, suggested combos, and recommended Hunter Arts
- info on Hunter Arts
- recommended progression and endgame weapons and sets
and other tips and tricks
steep carbon
I do wonder if Wilds will finally run decently on my machine
Could not run when it launched but I hear it's got lots of optimization
elder tusk
Outside of weird edge cases it's much better
steep carbon
rustic dove
hip hip hooray
elder tusk
Dreamspell's music always gets stuck in my head super hard 😭
rustic dove
you should carry me sometime <:fingerguns:725802317164838955>
bet
teal halo
i have great skill with the charge blade, the long sword, and the switch axe. now, it is time for a foray into something new and strange. The Bow
rustic dove
dont forget to cap your framerate
hollow comet
yeah bow is very good out of the box
steep carbon
wrong channel woopsies
balmy swan
Messing with Gunlance in 4U, it's fun
Though not being able to hop forwards is messing with me a bit
balmy swan
the forward hop and the backwards roll, two of MonHun's biggest pieces of game-changing tech
hollow comet
for real
hollow comet
😭
hollow comet
🙂↕️
maybe i will finish witcher 2 someday
i played it for 15 hours, binged all the books in a week or two, then forgot to keep playing
final hedge
witcher 2 despite not being a great game on several levels does have toxic yuri in at least
hollow comet
:O
final hedge
I think its just on the scoia'tael path?
dont quote me on that
if you didnt know the game basically has two very different second halves depending on who you side with when leaving the first town
hollow comet
that does ring a bell
hollow comet
i'm feeling tempted to play worlddd 😔 arghh ... I'm having a ton of fun with rise and don't have that much free time to split, but there's some fights I still haven't done, and the hit sfx are so nice 😔 😔
this is my curse
balmy swan
woe, infinite MonHun upon ye
hollow comet
NOOOO
final hedge
rise it first
hollow comet
i will restrain myself..!
also yeah i don't really have time for world atm since a lot of my next goals are charms
which is grinding lands,.,.
and then Alatreon and Fatty
wanton scroll
Just used all of our good luck for the rest of our life
hollow comet
😌
wanton scroll
Brachy kinda got pushed out of the top 20 cause of Narwa and Ibushi, and Daimyo Hernatuar
hollow comet
ooh where is this made
wanton scroll
wanton scroll
That's what I think
hollow comet
gotcha
wanton scroll
Everyone hates us for throwing shade at brachy
hollow comet
i think it's ok, i didn't realize it was that liked
idk what other people like tbh
as in general community consensus
final hedge
fit check
I have been making a lot of fits just not posting them
I am also back in lagi hell atm bc the azure age stuff needs his gems
so decided to try hammer for the first time to shake things up a bit
its actually very dynamic
wanton scroll
Our current fit
final hedge
very colours
hollow comet
so decided to try hammer for the first time to shake things up a bit
hammer is really fun yeah
good fits all around 😌
hollow comet
Our current fit
what LS is that?
wanton scroll
what LS is that?
Gale Scimtar+
final hedge
watch out! you are standing in wet cement
too late. im stuck
final hedge
what LS is that?
its the izuchi ls
final hedge
gaismagorm?
dark juniperBOT
…people like brachydios?
Jainus ↩️
teal halo
yeah
it's a decently popular monster
fun fight, neat music, raging is epic, yadda yadda yadda thats what what everyone says
final hedge
I am not a brachy fan
it gives you an annoying debuff and makes aoes everywhere
and it looks kinda goofy
teal halo
it gives you an annoying debuff and makes aoes everywhere
i like vaal hazak for those reasons
final hedge
cool looking weapons though
final hedge
i like vaal hazak for those reasons
I dont really like aoe spam in monster hunter
rise had a lot of it
teal halo
and i understand that feeling
but i like it because i play too many bullet hells and that carries over
hollow comet
rise at least has good defensive options, but yeah brachy and vaal are not my favourite
i dropped world 3 times because of raging brachy, and only ended up progressing because I got an antiblast 4 and cheated in an antiblast 1 to fight it
final hedge
yeah since rise leans quite character action-y with hunters you have a lot of tools to work around all the aoes
hollow comet
and ofc the 2nd one I beat gave me an antiblast 1
hollow comet
yeah since rise leans quite character action-y with hunters you have a lot of to...
🙂↕️
final hedge
but world does not give you those tools
final hedge
and then puts raging brachy in front of you like good luck nerd
I wouldn't have done him solo I dont think
hollow comet
yea :( it’s quite large and the puddles are too
i would not have without blastblight res 3
wanton scroll
…people like brachydios?
considering the vitrol we got when we posted it elsewhere
hollow comet
i appreciate the explosive boxer vibe but the fight is mid for me
one of the fights where breaking parts feels the most impactful though
mostly because the puddles are so annoying lol
wanton scroll
heck, Granagolm is awesome
mystic cape
Brachy has the benefits of being a flashship and easily meme-able
hollow comet
garangolm is awesome yeah
rustic dove
i freaking love brachy
rustic dove
i have a lot of nostalgia for it bc it was the first time i hit a wall and realized i had to prepare for a hunt
elder tusk
rustic dove
and its one of the first monsters i couldn't just clutch claw counter for free
wanton scroll
Brachy kinda got pushed out of the top 20 cause of Narwa and Ibushi, and Daimyo ...
Don't hate hate it but it's degraded in rank from my end of world
It's fun, but also there are cooler fights
My iceborne wall was Barrioth, and then it was smooth sailing from there on
Personally my one gripe with Brachy is his world fight since the game loves throwing invasion monsters in the Elder's Recess
Savage Jho, Seething, Banbaro
all of them make the game suck to play with Brachy around
Also, new headcanon: Azure Rathalos/Pink Rathian are the transgendered forms of the opposite base monster
wanton scroll
elder tusk
naptime :)
rapid lion
...can you get a Legiana in any of the tamer games? Because Legiana is probably my favorite monster (with Odogaron in second, I think) and it's also both very new and very aestetically tied to an extremely specific location although the Shrieking variant actually isn't in that location so I guess it's fine elsewhere.
Unfortunately I haven't played enough MH games to have very many opinions (only base-game Worlds) but the "personal beef with" is probably Diablos (maybe Jyuratodus just from the time spent farming it).
elder tusk
I'd be amazed if you can't get Legiana in 3
hollow comet
Unfortunately I haven't played enough MH games to have very many opinions (only ...
diablos is so valid
hollow comet
...can you get a Legiana in any of the tamer games? Because Legiana is probably...
Legiana is in stories 2!
rapid lion
I just have bad memories of farming Diablos for ice insect glaives and repeatedly getting hit by a charging hitbox which is noticeably taller than it looks like (which is something you only notice on insect glaive). Honestly Diablos just seems like an insect glaive counter between the too-tall charging hitbox and the armored back...
wanton scroll
naptime :)
ours:
rapid lion
nice
hollow comet
diablos murdered me until i used a weapon with a shield 😩
wanton scroll
Legi is in our top 5 for a reason
rapid lion
I think it's my top 1 if I had to pick, although Odogaron is definitely up there and very fun to fight. I'm trying to remember which others I like...
hollow comet
I got Espinas too
rapid lion
Hm. Paolumu and Radobaan are both just kind of neat? Paolumu was very fun to fight with insect glaive and much less fun to fight with dual blades, I remember. But also just... neat and interesting. And Radobaan I cannot explain other than it just being funny.
rapid lion
I do sometimes mentally refer to Radobaan as Autobahn though.
elder tusk
it's a common nickname for both of them
rapid lion
fair enough.
...I also have a very specific gripe which approximately 90% of players will not have, which is that I struggle to tell apart Rathian and Rathalos unless they're next to each other because while they are color-coded green and red, I am slightly red-green colorblind and they look very similar to me.
elder tusk
😭 yeah that happens with red-green colorblind players
The greatest distinctions are their tails and the spikes on their wings
rapid lion
yeah I just always forget about those. (Also I have not played Worlds in a while so I'm kind of working from memory.)
elder tusk
and Rathian has the long chinspike
fun fact they use the chinspike to feed their young
rapid lion
Pink Rathian was also kind of annoying, I remember? Its tail was armored unless you stood at the very tip (which left you more vulnerable) and it loves hip-checking you.
rapid lion
fun fact they use the chinspike to feed their young
...how? Do they like... impale stuff on it?
Does it secrete a "milk" of some kind?
elder tusk
produces something vaguely analogous to milk
rapid lion
Ah, huh.
elder tusk
I think it might be a denatured poison or something
rapid lion
I mean, it would not be unheard of to have a substance which is venomous when injected but not when ingested. It would be kind of inefficient, but I could see that sort of venom delivery being evolutionarily hijacked.
elder tusk
let us use rathian venom as a cooking ingredient
wanton scroll
It could just be venomous to other species
rapid lion
I mean, it is a venom, not necessarily a poison.
elder tusk
I feel like I remember something about the young needing to be exposed to it to build immunity
Also I'm hesitant to call it a venom because they're capable of producing it in ways that aren't characteristic of venom
wanton scroll
Poison then?
rapid lion
I always thought that venoms are toxic when injected and poisons are toxic when ingested and that was the distinguishing characteristic.
wanton scroll
Also TIL that Pukei Pukei is just Bird Wyvern Rathian
elder tusk
they produce it in their mouths, their claws, and their tails
I think Dreadqueen functionally sweats it?
wanton scroll
Forbidden bath water
rapid lion
That's unusual but not unheard of? The sweating is more characteristic of poisons, though.
elder tusk
forbidden bathwater 🙂↕️
rapid lion
usually as a "don't touch me" think like poison dart frogs.
elder tusk
Ye
hollow comet
turns out fighting alatreon a few dozen times in world means i kinda get it a bit more in old gen
definitely not 1 to 1 but some moves are recognizable
not being flashable when it has aura is really annoying though 😔
elder tusk
elder tusk
please land. please. you're not azure rathalos. please land.
rapid lion
I think I vaguely remember Kushala Daora being annoying? Or... actually, you know what stands out as annoying to me? Shamos. Their entire goal in life is just to piss you off and waste your time.
elder tusk
Shamos very much have the small monster spirit
Kushala is a motherfucker in World specifically
hollow comet
yeahhh i was just about to say I don't mind it in rise
elder tusk
Rise brought it back in line
wanton scroll
Kushala generates a no play zone
hollow comet
the tornados on top of the more realistic (but less maneuverable) environments of elder's recess make it kinda horrid sometimes
especially in its nest
ohhhhh my gosh
elder tusk
I hope we get Rusty in Wilds
wanton scroll
Now that we know it gets weakened by poison we might grab a bowgun and go back in
elder tusk
Kushala's nest in World is the most miserable fuckzone I've ever seen in this franchise 😭
hollow comet
rapid lion
I just remember one monster that chained three staggers together but I can't remember which staggers those were. It's plausible it was Kushala Daora but it might have been something else.
elder tusk
The ol' "don't get hit"
hollow comet
oh the misery
every wind tornado is my enemy.,.,
hollow comet
the cutscene with the tornadoes turning the Elder's Recess crystals into a deadly storm was really hype though
rapid lion
This is weird but I think I remember really liking Anjanath too? It's very effectively set up as your first "big" fight, and when you actually do that, it lives up to the hype without being that hard.
elder tusk
Anjanath is a really strong early game hunt
rapid lion
...oh, actually, I have a potentially-controversial take for "love the concept but not the execution": Zorah Magdaros.
hollow comet
my favourite of the World 3 elder cutscenes, probably because it's most real-life adjacent
hollow comet
...oh, actually, I have a potentially-controversial take for "love the concept b...
very much felt
rapid lion
Zorah Magdaros is such an interesting and fun concept. It's the logical extension of the new monster-mounting mechanics to their utmost by making a monster big enough to serve as an entire level, and it plays with the cannon and ballista mechanics in interesting ways for the first phase. But in practice, while the cannon phase is kind of fun it's not particularly difficult or unique, and then once you're on its back you're fighting against rocks. With a single, slightly janky attack. But mostly you just stand there and punch rocks.
And the most dynamic part of the fight has you fighting an entirely different monster and in a simplified form.
elder tusk
What if Jhen Mohran made you walk around way more and had less of a gameplay loop
calm hearth
That's not even the worst part, the worst part is waiting on it's back for 10 minutes after you've done everything else to do on there
elder tusk
and then had extremely poorly timed scripting that couldn't accommodate doing it quickly
rapid lion
Another sort of love-hate one: Kirin.
elder tusk
I'm gonna turn that fucking horse into glue 
rapid lion
Kirin really really feels like an Elder Dragon. The ways in which it fights are just so fundamentally different from how everything else works. It's much smaller than other monsters, and unlike... uh, basically everything else I can think of... it doesn't really use its body to fight. It's a mage. And that is a really interesting concept for a fight that's supposed to be a bizarre outlier. It really feels like you're playing a different game.
I like that. What I do not like is having most of my attacks bounce while it has a charged mane. Or the fact that it does so much damage, exacerbated by my bad greedy habit of wearing Legiana armor for extra rewards by default (which is weak to lightning).
elder tusk
I love how much contempt Kirin can exude
rapid lion
The thing about Kirin is that if you just describe it to someone unfamiliar with Monster Hunter it does not feel like it should be an Elder Dragon. But if you actually fight it, it absolutely feels strange and inexplicable and a little bit magical. It's playing by different rules.
elder tusk
lightning unicorn :)
wanton scroll
Sent that MFer back to MLP
elder tusk
I love how it's one of the poster children for "elder dragon" being a trash taxon where they put anything that doesn't fit anywhere else
though I'd love to see a completely trivial elder dragon that's only there by technicality
rapid lion
But at the same time, like... it really does not fit anywhere else.
wanton scroll
we need more Elder Dragons like Kirin
elder tusk
like hey we found a gecko with six limbs
wanton scroll
or Yama Tsukami
elder tusk
I love you Yama
elder tusk
fucked up that it just Has Teeth like that
tardy grotto
though I'd love to see a completely trivial elder dragon that's only there by te...
Fatty
elder tusk
Fatalis is the definitional opposite of trivial 😭
elder tusk
six limbs and an endoskeleton is one of the most common qualifiers
hollow comet
think I'm gonna hop on rise now 😌
all this monstie talk has got me wanting to hunt..
hollow comet
like hey we found a gecko with six limbs
😭
rapid lion
I just remembered my idea for two different Monster Hunter maps: the Skywood and the Darkwood. They're both the same jungle, composed of enormous trees, but the Skywood's "ground" is actually the canopy of the forest, and the Darkwood is the area beneath the enormous canopy, shrouded in eternal shadow by the branches and leaves above. Everything that lives there is strangely adapted to the almost lightless environment.
rapid lion
Possibly, or possibly an arboreal variant. ...I have never fought Khezu but now I'm imagining it biting a branch overhead and swinging towards you.
hollow comet
it can stick to cave ceilings 😔 😔
tardy grotto
it's got fungus
(This is AOE DOT)
wanton scroll
ever see a place and go "Yep, that's a boss arena"
hollow comet
ever see a place and go "Yep, that's a boss arena"
😭
rapid lion
The other idea I had was something like... Radobaan meets Pukei-Pukei? It's a rolling wyvern with odd hooks on its back which can roll through various different plants to cover its shell with them, gaining various useful effects. Like, if it rolls through smokepuffs, it'll leave behind a trail of spores as it rolls. If it rolls in blastnuts, it'll scatter explosive projectiles while it's rolling. That sort of thing.
elder tusk
red khezu is red because it went outside and got a sunburn 😏
hollow comet
rapid lion
Maybe a piscine wyvern that can swim through leaf litter?
I also feel like there has to be something down there with a bioluminescent lure.
hollow comet
lure that's a shiny mining node in the forest 😌 nothing suspicious at all
rapid lion
...no, the lure doesn't look like a mining node. It's bulbous and green and looks almost identical to a vigorwasp.
Or at least to their bloated green abdomen.
Note that there are also vigorwasps with big bulbous glowing green abdomens in the Darkwood.
hollow comet
that's evil 😭
and amazing
running in panic towards the juicy vigorwasp with rathalos hot on your tail..,,
rapid lion
The ideal is that you can tell the fakes from the real ones from a distance, but it's difficult.
and, yes, it does jiggle the lure up and down just like how a vigorwisp bobs around with its idle animation.
elder tusk
10/10
rapid lion
I can also imagine it using its lure as a flail as it, effectively, headbangs at you. Because Monster Hunter deserves a little goofiness.
wanton scroll
The other idea I had was something like... Radobaan meets Pukei-Pukei? It's a ...
Quadrupedal fish cat
elder tusk
catfish with gobul's rig...
rapid lion
...I wonder if there should be a button to shutter the scoutfly lantern specifically for stealh purposes specifically specifically in the Darkwood.
They also have a specialized organ in their mouth for imitating the buzz of a vigorwasp.
I'm honestly kind of surprised there aren't any monsters in World that can use Vigorwasps, what with the whole "interaction between monsters and the environment" theme. Logically, it seems like some smarter monsters (mostly raptorial bird wyverns) would figure it out. And if that was the case, a vigorwasp mimic would lure in not just any prey, but especially often prey that's already injured...
...do screamers do anything besides aggroing/stunning Exactly Diablos?
I guess they get monster's attention?
mystic cape
Do you mean Screamer pods or the flying wyverns you can piss off in the Wildspire Wastes?
rapid lion
Screamer pods, which are made from the wildspire wastes wyverns.
mystic cape
If a monster is borrowing underground they force the monster to surface and leaves them vulnerable for a few seconds
rapid lion
The obvious thing to do would be to have a blind monster that ignores flashbombs but is stunned by screamers instead, but that just feels kind of lazy to have screamers be "the alternate flashbombs which you have to use for a few special monsters". But currently they're that for one monster...
rapid lion
If a monster is borrowing underground they force the monster to surface and leav...
Are there any burrowing monsters other than Diablos that you can do this to?
mystic cape
In World? Admittedly blanking on more than Diablos
rapid lion
Can you screamer pod Jyuratodus? I had no idea. I usually waited for it to surface. (And that's another one which I disliked just due to having to farm it a lot, but it's objectively a fine fight.)
mystic cape
You may be able to
final hedge
yeah you can
you can knock all the swimmy bois out of their swimmy mode
although some of them might be flash bombs
wanton scroll
Just used all of our good luck for the rest of our life
IT HAPPENED AGAIN?!
Also best girl
teal halo
hey so is wilds failing to launch for anyone else orrrrr
elder tusk
did you ever have REframework installed
elder tusk
mod framework that's guaranteed to make the game crash on launch if the game updates without it also updating
test
lost connection lol
If it's on Steam, the first step should be verifying your game files
Console, probably start with reinstalling
hollow comet
mizu lance is quite nice
very poky
already at 18 lance hunts 😌
i like it quite a bit
especially with instablock
but the followup isn't always the best to use, I really like measuring what windows you have for attacking
although Instablock is kinda like absorbing an attack with Valor Sheathe, in that you're invincible until the animation ends or you interrupt it by attacking/moving
so if you instablock Malzeno's wing thrust and try to press, you'll get hit by the sweep since attacking will end your invincibility
but if you ride out the post-instablock animation, you'll i-frame the sweep and then can do guard dash > leaping thrust or whatever
rustic dove
lance in rise is very fun wish i had the time to play more rise
teal halo
i quite enjoy the aesthetic of the artian stuff
wanton scroll
Gonna HRT then fight Shogun Cenataur
final hedge
gl
wanton scroll
Ceanataur was fun
near bane
Can wait to see the pendants for the arch tempered arkveld free challenge
Im going to get a A rank
With all my might
Might try to duo, it 50% more hp by double the damage
final hedge
oh you actually get stuff for doing free challenges?
near bane
All the challenges that are temporary, free or not
final hedge
I don't think I've ever been active while there has been a free challenge on
near bane
You get 1 pendant for participating, another for getting B rank and another for A, all looking different and cooler than the one before, but this is subject to personal preference
There have been challenges that weren't free that gave them
They gave you a loadout and told you good luck
Only the challenges where you have to fight a arch tempered monster where free challenges in fact
I missed like 3 challenges and i regret not participating
I have A rank of every other
final hedge
I haven't done any of the limited time stuff that hasnt come back this past few weeks
final hedge
I played a bit on launch and then picked it back up once the performance got fixed
near bane
The next temp free challenge is coming in like 2 weeks
final hedge
is that the arkveld one
near bane
Yup, arch tempered at that
final hedge
oh dont worry I'm at 200 something
near bane
Im 209 or something lol
hollow comet
i remember getting carried through the AT Rey Dau and Nu Udra ones 😭
near bane
In love uth duna with lance
final hedge
we did at rey dau together
hollow comet
this is true!
but back when the time attack first released i was in quite mediocre gear
final hedge
icic
hollow comet
i soloed it in about 25 mins but you need sub 13? for A rank
wanton scroll
Got around to doing Aurora Sommacanth
elder tusk
Auroracanth :)
wanton scroll
Other than that and Shogun, no new monsters today
elder tusk
Shogun!!!
elder tusk
I love the crabs a lot
wanton scroll
Need to get working on a mass upgrades
wanton scroll
Gonna hop back on and get working on follower quests
oh yeah, also hit HR69
nice
final hedge
nice
wanton scroll
Why does Basarios suck so much
final hedge
hes stinky
elder tusk
he's trying his best, he's only baby
final hedge
thats true it is literally a baby gravios
hollow comet
i look forward to skyward thrusting basarios
hollow comet
my SHARPNESS
final hedge
googbye sharp
hollow comet
astalos has kinda poopy hitzones if it's not charged so my master's touch isn't always working
i suppose I should hit the head more
very good hunt though (other than dying once), I was doing consistent damage
final hedge
gj
hollow comet
12:26 astalos, a couple mins faster than last time and at a higher anomaly level
not dying probably helped with the time
the absolute time is a bit deflated because I have a mod to spawn a rainbow bird at the beginning, but the improvement is there
final hedge
rainbow bird mod my beloved
idk what they thought they were cooking with spiribirds but they are not it
hollow comet
yeah... not my favourite mechanic
it's like if Health Boost was scattered around the map instead of being a skill, and also for the other stats
and then idk what state of birdedness is being balanced for, probably somewhere in the middle
elder tusk
I can tell what they thought they were cooking (deferring the ability to buff yourself to map characteristics and allowing for players to more easily divert from, adapt for, and return to a hunt that proved too challenging), but unfortunately they weren't even in the same ballpark with their execution
I wouldn't be surprised if it eventually pans out to the ability to acquire food skills or even temporary armor skills in the field, if the fact that everyone Fucking Despises Spiritbirds doesn't turn them off from the entire concept
final hedge
I feel like it's probably not gonna be a thing in mainline games at least
maybe the next portable but who knows
elder tusk
I really think they need to stop experimenting with deferring preparation to any point of the gameplay loop other than "before the hunt"
but I'm also one of those freaks who thinks that so much as Having Access To Your Box On A Hunt should require a manual expenditure of resources at the start of any hunt you want it for (and imo you should need to spend the resources and then deposit a selection of items you want possible future access to that will be lost if you cart out)
final hedge
I agree I think the delineation of prep and then hunting is good
I dont mind the tracking in world because it ties in well to hunting the monster instead of being a side thing you go do for buffs or whatever
elder tusk
Tracking my beloved
final hedge
like its part of navigating the environment and heading towards the monster which you would be doing anyway. they just made it more engaging
I'm a little sad wilds doesnt have tracking but I think a decent amount of people disliked it
elder tusk
what's surprising to me is that people who started with World are some of the strongest proponents I've seen
final hedge
as someone who started with world. I love it
I've played world rise and wilds for quite a few hours each and I like all of them for different reasons
I think it's cool that they're all fairly distinct
while still being very like, mutually intelligible
to make an obvious comparison, its like the dark souls series
the only thing stopping me from playing older games is I play on keyboard and mouse and I'm a bit scared of the older game clunk + being no good with controller
I wish they'd port some of them but japanese publishers arent big on pc gaming
elder tusk
if you have a controller with two analog sticks you're genuinely better off than most of the games on their original consoles
Oh I misread
final hedge
yeah I have 4U on my 3DS but I haven't played it
elder tusk
Good news on the ports front: Capcom recently announced that they're going to start giving a shit about PC because it now makes up half of their sales!
final hedge
haha finally
japan has been super slow to get on the pc gaming train but I'm glad they're finally coming around to it
rise wasn't originally planned to get a pc port but they saw such demand for it that they changed their minds late in development
part of why it came out like a year after the base game
elder tusk
They've been very good at listening to and responding to demand, and it's part of the reason why we kept getting western releases at all
hollow comet
I think it's cool that they're all fairly distinct
hollow comet
today i learned the VE stands for Veggie Elder
I remember hearing about trading in a youtube video, but didn't realize it was still in GU
😭
and ofc I didn't bother searching through the 1700 items in my box to read the description
it's quite cool that the monster rares you can trade for are monsters that are associated with the map you trade in!
like the maps where the fated four first appear in their village quests, seregios for the Dunes, valstrax for the Ruined Pinnacle
also wow there are 15 maps in this game
I never really thought about counting em
wanton scroll
final hedge
veggie elder in wilds dlc
final hedge
I want as many weird lil guys in my monster hunter as possible
elder tusk
More weird little guys!!!
final hedge
I loved the baby tetsucabra in rise
and obviously you have poogie and all the palicos with various kinds of goblin energy
elder tusk
Tetsucabra please come back to us
final hedge
they should just put all the monsters in
balmy swan
That would be the ultimate monster hunter game
Covering all the generations
A sort of Generations Ult--[gunshot]
hollow comet
😭
hollow comet
I loved the baby tetsucabra in rise
the What
final hedge
in the village hub
wanton scroll
A sort of Generations Ult--[gunshot]
say that again?
final hedge
big boi on a big boi
balmy swan
say that again?
i said it would be Monster Hunter Generations Ultima--[Wilhelm scream]
elder tusk
I do wonder if another Generations-style entry is even feasible given their increased scope
hollow comet
hmm i think the mod that messes with guiding lands gathering node drop rates messed up something with fuel items
that zinogre event quest is giving me monster bone S lol
but eh, I'll stick to rise for now
trying to make builds in World is gonna take time..,. and there's not too much variety in vanilla endgame sets
hollow comet
yeah
I don't think it scales earlier MR monsters up either
they're kinda pushovers
elder tusk
Honestly I'm really hoping the Wilds expansion brings some kind of system to incentivize long endurance hunts in the field, especially with environment link
maybe also bring back Guild Quests
hollow comet
i've still got it! :D
the tenderizer rebalance mod is quite nice
i tenderized 1 or 2 times that fight
but not much different from normal tbh, the head goes from 85 > 88 and arms go from 60 > 70, and you're always hitting there anyways
16% is still a lot of damage but you at least get wex even on vanilla without tenderizing
very satisfying fight without clagger and clutch claw to interrupt the flow 😌
night prairie
the spiribird thing at least got me to memorize maps
i cannot navigate Wilds maps to save my life
night prairie
idk what they thought they were cooking with spiribirds but they are not it
still was bad for the game imo (replying to this thread)
elder tusk
I turned off my minimap and my seikret's ability to auto-path without my direct input and started learning the maps way better 🫡
night prairie
i should just do that
hollow comet
the spiribird thing at least got me to memorize maps
this is true, I know some routes and nooks decently well
wirebugs are also a big part of it, you get to move around quickly while still having to do it yourself
balmy swan
I turned off my minimap and my seikret's ability to auto-path without my direct ...
Oh, you can turn off the autopilot? I should do that xP
rustic dove
the real reason to not use autopilot is so you can drift on your bird