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I'm pretty bad at consistently breaking monster parts. I primarily use dual swords or hammer. Talk me into another weapon class, goons.
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Apr 5, 2013 22:26
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^^ Lance, or Greatsword.Machai posted:First, slime is not an element, it is a status. In the case of the Dios SA, you deal slime in both modes and in sword mode you get +25% raw power. For status damage, imagine the monster has a separate health bar for each status. Once you deplete this separate health bar, they are afflicted with the status. Kiggles fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Apr 5, 2013 |
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Apr 5, 2013 22:27
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mcpringles posted:If you only want to use hammers then your best bet is to play online and let others worry about the tail. Yeah, that's why I'm trying to find a cutting weapon I like. Hammer's a loving boss, but not being able to cut tails in single player (not doing multi until I have a full farm and fishery, damnit!) makes my OCD twitch. I never really gave dual swords a fair go after Great Jaggi, so I'll try them again tonight. (edit) gently caress ranged weapons though, I'm not playing this game to hunt from a distance! 
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Apr 5, 2013 22:36
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Lizard Wizard posted:I'm pretty bad at consistently breaking monster parts. I primarily use dual swords or hammer. Talk me into another weapon class, goons. I like the longsword. It's maneuverable and has good reach, plus the thrashing around with spirit combo breaks all sorts of stuff.
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Apr 5, 2013 22:43
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i am tim! posted:I like the longsword. It's maneuverable and has good reach, plus the thrashing around with spirit combo breaks all sorts of stuff. Honestly. If you want a solo weapon that's not a lance, I'd say Long Swords are a good candidate. They don't require the timing other weapons do, have great damage and reach too.
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Apr 5, 2013 22:45
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Had a helluva time soloing Alatreon, in all the videos people show he never seemed to stay in the air quite like he did with me. Bastard was flying around for like 90% of the fight. He'd land long enough to yell at me then fly again got old real fast.
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Apr 5, 2013 22:52
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Lizard Wizard posted:I'm pretty bad at consistently breaking monster parts. I primarily use dual swords or hammer. Talk me into another weapon class, goons. Long Sword.
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Apr 5, 2013 22:53
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Plank posted:I've never sat and attacked nothing but the tail until the monster died, but I've done a few fights where I've tried to prioritise the tail over any other part. Is the problem that I'm shelling it or hitting it with Wyvern Fire rather than stabs and slashes? I find no matter what I do I seem to kill most things before I get a break, unless they're super loving tough like a Duramboros. Yeah, you need to hit it with stabs and slashes. By the way, don't use shelling as your primary form of attack, use it when you have an opprutunity to shoot where you wouldn't be able to attack normally, or to chain combos together.
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Apr 5, 2013 22:55
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Speaking of longsword, how much of a damage buff are the spirit auras actually worth?
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Apr 5, 2013 22:58
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Lizard Wizard posted:It's not such a big deal. After a while you'll learn what you need - and what you DON'T need - for a quest. No need for those tranq bombs and traps if you're just mining poo poo. Oh, I've got my head wrapped around preparation. It's largely just that I love farming the everloving poo poo out of a zone. Doesn't matter what kind of quest it is. I want more space so I can just take home more arbitrary harvest loot.
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Apr 5, 2013 23:06
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Okay I know this has been argued into the ground in previous threads, but I never saw it brought up. It's generally accepted that you should go for attack up L over affinity, but when I was using certain armor/weapon combos, it's possible to get your affinity to %70. Here's the math .70 x 1.25 = .875 <- represents number of hits that are crits + .30 x 1 = .30 <- represents non-crits = %100 strikes even out to 1.175 multiplier Now,the only way to get affinity this high in MHP3 (I don't have a Wii U or 3ds) is to use an armor with Reckless abandon and use talismans/gems to get up to to +3, then use a Narga weapon. Unless my math is wrong, this would set Shadow of the Moon's average damage at 229 and change. Is there some sort of diminishing returns for affinity beyond a certain percent? Am I doing my math wrong? I'm assuming I am. I only bring this up because I've never seen someone address affinity math over %30, even after some moderate googling and reading several SA Monster Hunter threads.
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Apr 5, 2013 23:10
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Question about talismans. I've only just opened up the Flooded Forest, and I'm getting these rinkydink talismans for rewards. Right now they're all only adding +1 or +2 to various attributes. Should I be hanging on to these for any reason or just selling them outright, as they seem to have somewhat pointless modifiers?
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Apr 5, 2013 23:17
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If it's a skill that's good,or fits into some armor skill it's worth keeping until you get can something better. If it has a slot it can come in handy if you're setting decorations at all.
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Apr 5, 2013 23:19
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Nothing I've gotten has slots so far and the only one that I think has any value is a +2 slime. The only reason I suspect it has any value is because of how much I've seen it venerated in this thread. I was wondering if they could be hung on to, and then be used in crafting somehow to be improved or used to improve the modifiers of better talismans, but I'm guessing that's not an option. So, if a talisman is genuinely poo poo, I should probably just sell it.
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Apr 5, 2013 23:24
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Bought the Wii U version yesterday, enjoying it a lot. However, I decided to just chance the charm table thing because changing system settings looked like too much work. I thoroughly regret that now, starting the game and going through the starter quests took ages for me, on top of waiting for the fish voyages. And I think I ended up with one of the worst tables anyways. But I'm way too tired and invested now to start over ._.
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Apr 5, 2013 23:34
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5er posted:Nothing I've gotten has slots so far and the only one that I think has any value is a +2 slime. The only reason I suspect it has any value is because of how much I've seen it venerated in this thread. I was wondering if they could be hung on to, and then be used in crafting somehow to be improved or used to improve the modifiers of better talismans, but I'm guessing that's not an option. So, if a talisman is genuinely poo poo, I should probably just sell it. Having a page or 2 for just charms in your box. Kept away from cluttering your other pages can be worthwhile. When you ever want to change your charms, goto the box option for View Talismans and it's easier to see them.
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Apr 5, 2013 23:34
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Ciaphas posted:Speaking of longsword, how much of a damage buff are the spirit auras actually worth? Red is ~1.2x damage, yellow ~1.1x, and white 1.05~. These stack with the spirit buff you get for a few moments after filling the meter, which is ~1.13x. Numbers are from portable3rd. They may have changed slightly, but the bonuses are substantial. Even yellow and maintaining your full meter buff is very good. SubliminalTomato posted:Okay I know this has been argued into the ground in previous threads, but I never saw it brought up. It's generally accepted that you should go for attack up L over affinity I'm not doing the math myself, but make sure that when figure the absolute damage bonus when using Atk Up Lg on the lucent narga weapon you don't forget to apply that 50% affinity it already has. That is, 20x1.125x(weapon modifier)=average damage bonus. Then and compare that to the average bonus from stacking affinity. Remember, affinity ALSO benefits attack up large, so a high affinity weapon will benefit more from Atk Up Lg than it will from more affinity. You may be right, but I'm just saying that there have never been a case where affinity was better than more raw damage, whether it was already on the weapon, or activated through armor skills. I should mention that a lot of calculations may not figure things like demondrugs, might seeds, horn buffs, or better yet, Power Pills. Since all but the horn buff is a flat damage bonus (modified by weapon class), they will all be proportionally larger with higher affinity, and the Lucent Narga weapon may already have such a high raw and affinity that all of these stacked can edge out a bit more attack. We're talking about a single solitary example, which might only work for the duration of a Power Pill, which is like 20 seconds. Not something to ignore, since 20 seconds of the highest damage possible, is a LOT of damage when you're talking about something like a paralyzed/trapped monster (it is fixed in place, and takes bonus damage for duration of the status effect). vvv and temporary. Kiggles fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Apr 5, 2013 |
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Apr 5, 2013 23:39
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Challenger+2 is better than both attack up large and affinity, because it's both. 
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Apr 5, 2013 23:41
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Excepting for how often you have to use a whetstone, does a long green sharpness bar have any different effect from a shorter one?
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Apr 5, 2013 23:46
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Ciaphas posted:Excepting for how often you have to use a whetstone, does a long green sharpness bar have any different effect from a shorter one? That is about it as far as I understand. Edit: Maybe allows you to get to a higher sharpness class if you have sharp +1.
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Apr 5, 2013 23:47
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Lizard Wizard posted:I'm pretty bad at consistently breaking monster parts. I primarily use dual swords or hammer. Talk me into another weapon class, goons. Greatswords. They're swords that are great. That's all you need to know.
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Apr 5, 2013 23:47
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Kiggles posted:Red is ~1.2x damage, yellow ~1.1x, and white 1.05~. These stack with the spirit buff you get for a few moments after filling the meter, which is ~1.13x. Numbers are from portable3rd. They may have changed slightly, but the bonuses are substantial. Even yellow and maintaining your full meter buff is very good. That makes perfect sense! That's what I couldn't figure out. Thanks!
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Apr 5, 2013 23:50
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So I just bought all the Dire Miralis weapons for blademaster because I couldn't decide which one was the best. I'm now broke and back to selling nulberries.
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Apr 5, 2013 23:59
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and hats. Don't forget to sell hats. Speaking of which, I saw Shepard recommend doing a certain combination of the crowns and gems, and crests, but that seems wrong. Does it not yield better results to just combine the red and yellow items, to sell the orange 6000z crown, and then sell the blue alone for 2000z. All of the odd combos with the red and blue to make green, then white, which only sell for 7000z. Anyway I slice it, it seems like you're missing out on AT LEAST 1000z by combining to the white crown item, and the green is only like 2000z anyway, so you're throwing away 1000z there, and another 1000z when you combine with the orange completed crowns.
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Apr 6, 2013 00:07
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Machai posted:First, slime is not an element, it is a status. Yeah I just misspoke. I didn't mean to suggest it was an "element" in the same sense of fire/ice/water/lightning. Type would have been a more accurate noun. I avoid calling it status as well due to the fact that it's unaffected by status skills/buffs
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Apr 6, 2013 00:09
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I wish I understood how the minds of people playing this game online worked. I open a room with the name "Agnaktor" and the target "Agnaktor" and 3 people in a row join my game, check the quest board, see that I picked the Agnaktor quest, and then leave immediately.
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Apr 6, 2013 00:14
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Plank posted:Any pro tips for Gunlance? I've done almost everything up to Fell the Lagiacrus (gently caress the Gigginoth in it's slimy leech rear end), and I love the X+A while holding R explosion that overheats your lance, but I can't seem to get a feel for its range/aoe. It's point blank, right? Sometimes Lagiacrus doesn't even flinch when I nail him in the face with it. I did this for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DslNWk45noo
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Apr 6, 2013 00:20
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Bland posted:I wish I understood how the minds of people playing this game online worked. I open a room with the name "Agnaktor" and the target "Agnaktor" and 3 people in a row join my game, check the quest board, see that I picked the Agnaktor quest, and then leave immediately. 1. Pubbies are incredibly stupid. 2. They probably entered the room without seeing the target. 3. They also might have been Low Rank or High Rank or G Rank hunters who saw the Agnaktor target, but didn't see that you are in a lower / higher rank because you need to press a whole button to check the hunter rank of the person who created the room and that's too much effort. 4. Pubbies are incredibly lazy. I've been in a room, just got back from a quest when a pubbie joined while we were still on quest, and have them not say anything but put up a quest then get pissy when no-one joins their urgent that they want you to carry them through.
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Apr 6, 2013 00:49
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Kiggles posted:^^ Lance, or Greatsword. SA guide quote:Element Phial (also known as Elemental Enhance): Adds a x1.25 boost to raw
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Apr 6, 2013 00:55
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Original Damage Formula Guide My guess is Hexecho incorrectly reproduced, or misunderstood the information derived from LG's guide, since earlier in that guide, the information is vague quote:| Note 2: For weapons with elemental vial: | However this is cleared up later when it explains when to plug in the 1.25 modifier into what part of the equation quote:VI: Switch Axe [VAR] = 1.25 Kiggles fucked around with this message at 02:04 on Apr 6, 2013 |
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Apr 6, 2013 02:01
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Can items be dropped off in your item box somehow mid-quest? Someone online implied that you could, which would be great for dumping all these sodding crystal bones which aren't machalite argh argh 
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Apr 6, 2013 03:48
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Ciaphas posted:Can items be dropped off in your item box somehow mid-quest? Someone online implied that you could, which would be great for dumping all these sodding crystal bones which aren't machalite argh argh Regular items, no. Luckily for you, crystal bones are account items, so you can drop them off at the red box in the campsite at any time.
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Apr 6, 2013 03:51
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Thanks, better than a swift kick in the rear end, I suppose. loving ores. At least killing giant monsters is interesting.
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Apr 6, 2013 03:53
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In p3rd you had a one-time-per-quest service (via felyne rolling around on a barrel lumberjack style) who'd deliver items you got during a quest back to the village. So if you got a ruby and you wanted to abandon quest, you could send it off and still abandon. Shame they took it out from 3U. But any item with "account" in brackets in the item description can be dumped into the red box back at base for a small amount of zenni after the quest ends.
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Apr 6, 2013 03:54
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Social Dissonance posted:I did this for you. You doing these for all the weapons like you did for Portable 3RD?
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Apr 6, 2013 03:57
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Ignimbrite posted:In p3rd you had a one-time-per-quest service (via felyne rolling around on a barrel lumberjack style) who'd deliver items you got during a quest back to the village. So if you got a ruby and you wanted to abandon quest, you could send it off and still abandon. Shame they took it out from 3U. But any item with "account" in brackets in the item description can be dumped into the red box back at base for a small amount of zenni after the quest ends. Or if you need space in your pouch, you can do it at any time to free up some room.
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Apr 6, 2013 04:34
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I meant that as "you'll get money after the quest ends from any items that you put in the red box during the quest", sorry if my wording made it seem like "deposit things in the red box only after the quest ends and you'll get money from it".
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Apr 6, 2013 04:43
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Social Dissonance posted:I did this for you. That was awesome, thanks very much!
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Apr 6, 2013 05:05
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Trying to get two Nargacuga mantles will literally, literally kill me.
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I just wiped 48 minutes into Dire Mirialis. He just constantly snags me at weird angles with his movement and does too much damage for walking around so I can't hit any level 3 charges.
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