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Tenzarin posted:I'm getting the feeling that 5 supports in my palico's forte are not worth it. Sometimes they put the worse traps down. Support palicos are just terrible. They always set the trap seconds after the monster leaves to another area. I went with all stamina palicos and monsters being exhausted all the time is great.
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If you're going to kill the monster anyway, use your drat traps I dunno why, but players online seem to rarely use traps - they're free damage, and you can either use them when the monster is exhausted for extra beatdown time, or use them when the monster is enraged to buy yourself some safe damage time. When soloing against monsters with dangerous enrages, I also like to delay the first mount until they enrage, so they haven't built up any resistance to it. Some combination of traps/mounts/sonic/flash bombs can incapacitate a monster for a good long time, and really cut down your hunt times. Plus it's satisfying as hell to really pound the poo poo out of a helpless monster with huge combos. Very often you'll finish a big combo as a monster breaks out of a trap or stands up, and promptly stagger/stun/trip it again immediately, letting you lay on even more punishment.
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Mar 14, 2015 08:53
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The players who never use lifepowder are even worse. Edit: But the biggest pet peeve I have when playing this game online are the players who hit sleeping monsters when there's a greatsword user. Let me do my charge attack you idiot. Celery Face fucked around with this message at 09:02 on Mar 14, 2015 |
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Mar 14, 2015 08:58
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Went and looked at when JP got the quests to unlock the DLC-exclusive G rank monsters, and... you might not like this Base MH4G released October 11, 2014 Gold Rathian released December 12, 2014 Silver Rathalos released January 9, 2015 Dalamadur released March 6, 2015 Fatalis released March 13, 2015 we might be waiting a while
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Mar 14, 2015 09:03
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I got two questions!! I know there's a learning curve and all that but does Monster Hunter work as a good "chill by myself and grind as I listen to podcasts" game or am I gonna have to play online and also, is the game okay without the New 3ds or am I definitely gonna want that second nub/quicker loading times?
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Mar 14, 2015 09:18
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Hat Thoughts posted:I got two questions!! I know there's a learning curve and all that but does Monster Hunter work as a good "chill by myself and grind as I listen to podcasts" game or am I gonna have to play online and also, is the game okay without the New 3ds or am I definitely gonna want that second nub/quicker loading times? It can be both and people play the game with both (I'm an advocate of the N3DS but old 3DSs with a control pad pro work just as well).
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Mar 14, 2015 09:21
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I have almost 80 hours in the game and haven't played online yet. I'm sure I will eventually but there's so much poo poo to do, the game is never-ending. There are some pretty intense parts that will probably require your full concentration but there's almost always the option to go chill out and grind something less challenging Also I've only played it on a New 3DS but the extra camera control with the nub is really nice. Many earlier installments didn't even have that option and people still got way into the game, but for what it's worth I can't imagine going back
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Mar 14, 2015 09:23
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Old 3DS with no CPP works fine.
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Mar 14, 2015 09:24
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I picked this game and a New 3DS up on a whim and by god I barely remember anything from MH3U. What should I hunt for a starter armor/weapon as someone who favors lances or hammers?
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Mar 14, 2015 09:35
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i hate kushala daora I loving hate that motherfucker so loving much
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Mar 14, 2015 09:59
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Hat Thoughts posted:I got two questions!! I know there's a learning curve and all that but does Monster Hunter work as a good "chill by myself and grind as I listen to podcasts" game It's THE "chill by yourself and grind" game because there's so many boring/bullshit quests in it that aren't hunts, and a bunch of the hunts become rote once you start grinding them for parts quote:or am I gonna have to play online I mean, you probably are at some point, technically most/all of the gathering hall quests are soloable but multi makes them both much easier and way more fun quote:and also, is the game okay without the New 3ds or am I definitely gonna want that second nub/quicker loading times? GET A CIRCLE PAD PRO Everyone who tells you that you can play it "just fine" without a CPP are technically correct but the difference between playing MH without a second stick and with one is fuckin' massive
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Mar 14, 2015 10:03
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So is GRank non-crimson Fatalis not in the game yet? My weapon tour moved on to hammers and I kinda wanted to make his. I've got the Gog hammer right now since I had a billion spare parts but I'm not crazy about the sleep and the tiny sliver of purple on it, and I just made a S+1 set that I want to take advantage of. What are the best end-game hammers that don't involve farming Rajang or Savage Jho?Toxxupation posted:i hate kushala daora He loving sucks if you aren't using an IG/don't have an IG user to bring him down so you can hit him more than once every 100 years. And even with an IG it's a pain in the balls to get the red buff from him since he's flying almost all the time and his head bobs like crazy while he's in the air.
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I loving defy you all to name a worse fight, not only in this game but in monster hunter history than kushala daora Dalamadur and Dah'ren Mohran are at least fun once Kirin is stupid but at least the fight is short Khezu is a loving breeze MHFU plesioth was lovely but it's tense and feels like an accomplishment once completed Ceadeus gets a pass because it's the literal final boss of maingame MH Tri and does have a massive sense of scale There's nothing good about kushala daora, it's a terribly designed piece of poo poo fight made to be as intentionally aggravating as possible, and every time you hit it's a literal loving dice roll on whether or not the hit lands because of how goddamn stupid and terrible kushala's dumb fuckin wind aura is You don't feel good when you beat kushala daora, you're just all "Well that piece of poo poo's over" gently caress kushala daora
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Mar 14, 2015 10:12
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Toxxupation posted:I loving defy you all to name a worse fight, not only in this game but in monster hunter history than kushala daora I defy you and your kushala hate-ora
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Mar 14, 2015 10:21
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I think Kushala Daora isn't very hard and is pretty fun.
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Mar 14, 2015 10:25
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Hat Thoughts posted:I got two questions!! I know there's a learning curve and all that but does Monster Hunter work as a good "chill by myself and grind as I listen to podcasts" game or am I gonna have to play online Yes, but it is a certain kind of grind. Think Pokemon Collect-em-all, rather than a stat based inflate-the-numbers grind. Most of your time spend grinding will contribute next to nothing toward your progressing. Likewise, when you're actually trying to progress on to new content it can often be anything but chill. That also means it can take a minute before you breach enough content that you actually have anything that you can 'chill' and just grind out. BUT, I've dropped like 150 hours into this thing already, and most of that time was spent doing exactly what you're talking about : repeating easier content a bunch while listening to podcasts. Just note, that again it won't be very chill at the start, especially if you're new. These games are probably some of the most frustrating games around until something 'clicks', and even then, you will likely want to progress a good bit, just so you have gear that can outclass some of the things you want to grind. If you're willing to put that initial 'investment' in, the game is a fantastic grinder.
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Mar 14, 2015 10:26
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Elysiume posted:I think Kushala Daora isn't very hard and is pretty fun. That's the thing, it's NOT hard, it's just unbearably annoying, carting to it doesn't feel earned
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Mar 14, 2015 10:30
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Hey Toxx you wanna Monhun today? I found the light, 3 Charge blades dog piling a monster leads to hilarious combo stuns/knockdowns/exhausts.
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Mar 14, 2015 10:38
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I enjoy killing Kushala Daora and he has great weapons and armour.
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Mar 14, 2015 10:44
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Stormgale posted:Hey Toxx you wanna Monhun today? I found the light, 3 Charge blades dog piling a monster leads to hilarious combo stuns/knockdowns/exhausts. Yeah but later, it's three in the morning my time
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Decided to go for the Crimson Fatalis hammer since it has super high raw and a decent amount of purple and farming up all the parts took around 20 minutes. First kill went ok, then I got into a group with 3 charge bladers and I was using an IG so I mounted that poor thing 3 times and they annihilated his skull and he died in under 6 minutes  e: Also the hammer looks metal as hell!
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Mar 14, 2015 10:51
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Took me like 20 fights but gunlances finally click and i feel the zen of shelling things.
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Toxxupation posted:Khezu is a loving rear end This gently caress wasted so much of my time last hunt. The paintball runs out while he's zoning but ok, I saw where he went, just run there and paintball him again, but as I run up to him and throw he flies away. Then it's run-around-a-bunch time to find him again and when I find him, the second the paintball hits he zones again and then once more STOP RUNNING YOU STUPID gently caress
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Stygian Zinogre just clicked for me, every fight before now was a frantic mess, but I needed tails to upgrade my IG. Mostly just reading the thread and paying attention to his movements more than trying to be super dodgy all the time, since he can move quickly enough to just swat me. Went through the fight relying on a Health palico entirely for healing, that plus Seregios IG means you can spent almost the entire fight without sheathing. Now I'm actually considering grinding out his armor, since it looks interesting and I'm a sucker for collecting armor sets. Edit; Questions I had that I forgot - Can you only get Deviljho Saliva from quest rewards, and not carves or breaks? And is there any tips or preferred methods of dodging for avoiding Rathalos' homing dive, because that is so much bullshit and the double-hit nature of it is throwing off my rolls.
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megalodong posted:Took me like 20 fights but gunlances finally click and i feel the zen of shelling things. I used GL a ton in Portable3rd, not even using the auto-guard charm, but I could never quite get a feel for it. I'm even carrying a group of friends with the thing and kill times in the guild are solid. Is there anything in particular you're doing?
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Kiggles posted:I used GL a ton in Portable3rd, not even using the auto-guard charm, but I could never quite get a feel for it. I'm even carrying a group of friends with the thing and kill times in the guild are solid. Is there anything in particular you're doing? Remember that each shell type has its own gameplay style. Normal shells benefit Shotgun blasts. Long shells benefit treating it like a lance that has an operable cannon every couple of minutes. Wide shells are completely about using charged shot after charged shot. Figure out which of the three are more to your taste and go from there.
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Kiggles posted:I used GL a ton in Portable3rd, not even using the auto-guard charm, but I could never quite get a feel for it. I'm even carrying a group of friends with the thing and kill times in the guild are solid. Is there anything in particular you're doing? For me, it clicked when i started to get used to the whole cycle of poke, shell, reload, poke, evade, poke, shell, reload, slam, burst. That sort of thing. I was trying to use it like i'd use a weapon with a roll and a decent sheath speed and kept getting owned for it. Now my normal shot lance is just me getting into a slam+burst as much as possible. The pokes are just to evade off to move around, shots are for me to reload and slam off. That and the lance attacks being really, really slow to recover from unless you evade, since you can't use guard to cancel recovery frames like you can with a roll. Despite the name, the long GL is actually the most "normal" of the three - normal and wide are the more specialised ones.
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This scroll unlocked Ukanlos is absurd. He's perma-enraged so all of his attacks do devastating amounts of damage and fling those giant ice balls around. Going on 10 tries now with various pubbie groups and still haven't killed him once. Everyone just dies all the time.
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megalodong posted:For me, it clicked when i started to get used to the whole cycle of poke, shell, reload, poke, evade, poke, ... Anyway, enjoy the weapon. Wish I could get more into it, because loving explosions.
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Thanks to RCN, Marogareh and Fuxxo for helping me get to G rank tonight 
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Hunting Horn was the surprise winner for me, that thing is loving bonkers. Built in minds eye and fastest unsheathed movement speed, crazy good buffs, ko damage, and hilarious weapon models and sounds. People who play it as a 'support' weapon with Wide Range are dumb, Wide Range is for SnS, you don't want to resheathe with the HH, you can just run around with your sweet dragon guitar out the entire time and run rings around things while you play music via concussive smashes anywhere you please on the monster. The fact that it gives absurd party buffs is a nice perk on the side, not the main reason to use it at all.
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Where do I find Accolade G? I have one and I forget where it comes from, Kiranico says 1% drop from certain quests but there's no way that's correct. I assume it's a reward from a certain kind of quest like Commendations etc, but which? Edit: And while I'm at it does this game have any no-poo poo weeaboo ninja-swords to match the Sky Ninja set? Pierson fucked around with this message at 13:43 on Mar 14, 2015 |
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Pierson posted:Where do I find Accolade G? I have one and I forget where it comes from, Kiranico says 1% drop from certain quests but there's no way that's correct. I assume it's a reward from a certain kind of quest like Commendations etc, but which? Any quest you've found on Kiranico that says it has 1% chance to drop it actually has 100% chance to drop it, with 1% chance to drop an extra one.
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Elysiume posted:In theory it's the test behind ranking up, and everyone has to take their own test. I think the worst part is that you can't label the room as being for that specific monster type. If you were able to make a Seregios rooms you'd probably have plenty of people who just want Seregios parts come in, but since all you can say is [HR level] looking to rank up, no one who wants Seregios parts is even going to see it. dragon enthusiast posted:Went and looked at when JP got the quests to unlock the DLC-exclusive G rank monsters, and... you might not like this Be pretty lovely for Glaive users if they kept that order, considering you need silver rathalos parts before gold rathian parts. The Moon Monster fucked around with this message at 14:01 on Mar 14, 2015 |
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I just now realized why the Guildmarm calls you 'Doodle'  She draws you! I am not so smart.
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Wait I have to fight 2 Jhos in the arena completely naked before I can unlock Ceadeus parts?  Even a whole game later that stupid whale laughs at me.
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Neo_Crimson posted:Wait I have to fight 2 Jhos in the arena completely naked before I can unlock Ceadeus parts? It's not bad at all, they have very little hp. Bring smoke bombs.
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Are there single player arena quests? It looks like I can only take them at the guild.
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Switch Axe or Charge Blade?
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StarkRavingMad posted:Switch Axe or Charge Blade? If you want to kill poo poo with an Axe, get the Charge Blade, if you want to kill poo poo with a Sword, use the Switch Axe. 
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