Tender Bender posted:

Yeah this. Exhaustion has a lot of very visible tells like the monster panting, drooling, stumbling a lot and sometimes completely failing to execute its attacks (like trying to breath fire but just coughing). At first I thought this meant it was capturable but it's just exhausted. Limping is when the monster is capturable and it means it walks with a limp and makes retarded sounds. But it'll only limp when not actively attacking, usually you won't even be able to notice it limp until it flees to a new area. Try making Nerscylla armor or crafting perception gems to get the skill that flashes on your minimap when a monster can be captured, that'll save you from a big headache.

Really monster hunter clicks when you get to the point that there's a couple different weapons or armor you want to make so you're like " Ok I'll kill jaggi for this, kill zamtrios for this, kill tetuscabra for this, etc". It's more fun when you have a lot of stuff to aim for so you aren't grinding the same thing over and over.