Incline Monster Hunter World - G-rank edition. Now on PC.

[Blaine]

Guys, I got a Zorah Magdaros gem (dunno how rare it is but I remember someone bitching about it on the steam forums). Can I happily use it to produce an Awakening charm or is ther some better shit further on I should use it for?

I believe Zorah gems are more common than most, and all of his armor and weapons are optional/to taste, so yeah, sure. A lot of people would probably say you should make a Handicraft charm first, but Handicraft, to me, seems about as situational as Free Element/Ammo Up. The event's live right now anyway, so you can farm as much as you want, although I'd recommend trying to find at least one other person to farm with... if you can find any SOSes with CAPCOM's fucked netcode.

 

[Damned Registrations]

Yeah I haven't been using the handicraft charm since the second tier of it is too hard to make anyways. Guard/health up have been my go to options so far, and there's plenty of other decent stuff to go after as well.

 

[Matalarata]

Thx for the tips! Frankly, I want it just because it's something I can use rait nao and, for a newb just out of low rank like myself, that's a particularly interesting charm since it basically gives me two skills to play with, to test different builds and playstyles. Handycraft is situational at best (although situationally very powerful), I have other easily accessible sources. Wyvern Blade "Verde" is still one of my most useful weapons, I find it benefits a lot from Handycraft.

 

[Blaine]

Forget Nergigante and Kushala Daora. Vaal Hazak is giving me the most trouble lately. Between its wacky waving inflatable arm-flailing tubeman head and tail movements, the miasma smokescreen, and the fact that it flails and charges almost as much as Odoggo, breaking its parts is a huge pain. With a full group of hunters (provided CRAPCOM's trash netcode can serve up even 1-2 available SOS), it's much faster and easier, but it's a die roll then whether or not parts will get broken (they probably won't).

I've come up with a solution. The Karma LBG piece of shit has finally come in handy this one time. When Vaal Hazak does its fart breath, you can't melee its head effectively because it creeps forward as it does the attack; whenever its forelimb move forward, you get tapped out of any animation you're in, particularly combos. Ranged weapons suffer from no such issues. Probably the bow would be more effective at this too, but I figured I needed to justify the effort I put into making Karma somehow.

DragoFireheart I've love to see a video of you soloing this fartfuck with a LBG. As soon as its face breaks, I farcaster back to camp to switch over to a non-trash weapon.

On a slightly different tack, I'd say the difficulty of most fights depends strongly on the number of players. It's about like this, listed from easiest to most difficult:

three or four competent hunters
solo
three or four mixed-competence hunters
competent duo
three or four incompetent hunters
incompetent solo
incompetent duo

I've done a lot of fights with 3-4 people now, and when we're all competent it's easy as fuck. Duoing is overall the hardest (certainly most time-consuming) way to play, hands down.

 

[Damned Registrations]

I think you're using the wrong technique if you're trying to plink at his head while he's breathing at you.

Spoiler

There was a 4th sleep shot as well, didn't get a pic. Though I also didn't drop the fangs on his head, so I probably shouldn't have needed it.

Edit: To be clear, I mean the ceiling fangs. Obviously his face got busted wide open. Dropped a gem instead of a fang though. Fucker.

 

[DragoFireheart]

DragoFireheart I've love to see a video of you soloing this fartfuck with a LBG. As soon as its face breaks, I farcaster back to camp to switch over to a non-trash weapon.

I ain't got videos but I'll use my material farming set and give you a total time it took me. Give me a few minutes.

 

[Blaine]

I think you're using the wrong technique if you're trying to plink at his head while he's breathing at you.

I didn't mention this before (should I really have to?), but I mean shooting his face from the side while he's blasting out fart breath, not from the front.

Come to think of it, I now wonder if Flinch Free will counteract the "taps" that knock you out of combos when trying to melee his face during fart breath.

 

[Damned Registrations]

I run with a single point but it didn't seem to stop it, however, while charged with the hammer or in demon mode, I never have that problem, so level 2 or 3 would probably do the trick.

Seriously though, he's ludicrously vulnerable to sleep. My palico knocked him out 3 times for me. Between that, mounting him, and knockdowns from taking out his legs or dropping the fangs on him, I find getting damage in on his face pretty easy. Though breaking multiple parts never seems to happen.

 

[Echo Mirage]

Why are all of the 60+ defence armour sets weaker than the Odogaron set? I was thinking of upgrading to something like the Nergigante set but it's weaker by 4 points and treated as if its aready max level.

 

[Damned Registrations]

It probably has shittier elemental values? All I'd be concerned with are the skills anyways.

 

[DragoFireheart]

Blaine

Using my farming set (2 piece Legiana, 3 Piece Kirin) and using the Empress Shell "Blaze" (Rathbuster II would be the same exact damage) along with two Mega Bomb Barrels and one of the ceiling spikes, I beat a Tempered Vaal Hazak in:

Spoiler

10 minutes 42.10 seconds

 

[mogwaimon]

Why are all of the 60+ defence armour sets weaker than the Odogaron set? I was thinking of upgrading to something like the Nergigante set but it's weaker by 4 points and treated as if its aready max level.

Odogaron has amazing skills for HR but some of the mixed sets you can put together from the elder dragons outstrip it in terms of defense and skills. Once you beat the story, you'll also be able to upgrade their armor as well, it's only treated as max level when you're first able to access it. You can also supposedly augment armor with drops from tempered monsters in the post-game, but I've only recently fought my first tempered monster so I haven't dealt with any augments yet to know the specifics.

 

[Perkel]

I swear to Christ, I might quit the game over this. Why the FUCK does the Armorer exist? Even after you've beaten the story, that cunt sells not a single one of the weapons made from low-rank monster materials. Every time I want to make a new weapon, I have to go farm low-rank shit again.

One of my rare complains with MHW.

Generally speaking i hate UI and weapons in MHW I liked previous no bullshit list and it kind of worked as "surprise" when you upgraded weapon and you didn't know what you will get int the end. So you kind of had few weapons and you tried to upgrade few and always having that "oh boy oh boy what kickass weapon i will be upgrade into next" attitude. And when you could generally make some weapons but at way higher material cost if you didn't want to upgrade much.

I even disliked preview we got from 3rd gen.

 

[Damned Registrations]

The solution to this problem is to take a low rank SOS call, swoop in with your tier 7 bullshit loadout and utterly fucking murder something a noob needed help with. Then throw some dungpods at him and laugh. Or hell, murder everything in the area except the target first.

I liked previous no bullshit list and it kind of worked as "surprise" when you upgraded weapon and you didn't know what you will get int the end. So you kind of had few weapons and you tried to upgrade few and always having that "oh boy oh boy what kickass weapon i will be upgrade into next" attitude.

This part I agree with, except you forgot the part where you upgrade a weapon and it's utter shit and you have to try like 4 times just to get a decent longsword so you never even try another weapon type because fuck that. It's not so bad with a larger weapon variety since weapons get more branches and you're less likely to get trapped with some shitty weapon branch. I still remember being mad after farming that fucking Plesioth in the first game and making a lance, it upgraded into a shitty sleep weapon.

 

[Perkel]

This part I agree with, except you forgot the part where you upgrade a weapon and it's utter shit and you have to try like 4 times just to get a decent longsword so you never even try another weapon type because fuck that. It's not so bad with a larger weapon variety since weapons get more branches and you're less likely to get trapped with some shitty weapon branch. I still remember being mad after farming that fucking Plesioth in the first game and making a lance, it upgraded into a shitty sleep weapon.

Imho MHGU system is the best. You can look when you can get new upgrade but not what it is until you actually unlock parts and you can go back at a price.

Still i think they will rework that tree either way. It is already unwieldy at current amount of weapons which is not a lot but when they hit G-rank or mhw2G you will need to scroll like shitload of time at current weapon tech ui.

 

[DragoFireheart]

For those that want to know the speed-runner setups for Extreme Behemoth, someone made a infographic of each.

Spoilers: Drachen armor lol

https://imgur.com/a/Pwh5Kmf

 

[toro]

When is the G-rank coming to the PC?

 

[Blaine]

Blaine

Using my farming set (2 piece Legiana, 3 Piece Kirin) and using the Empress Shell "Blaze" (Rathbuster II would be the same exact damage) along with two Mega Bomb Barrels and one of the ceiling spikes, I beat a Tempered Vaal Hazak in:

Spoiler

10 minutes 42.10 seconds

Rapid-fire Fire ammo, eh? Well, I just finished up an Anja III bow the other day, might give that a whirl against Vaal Hazak.

 

[Blaine]

Finally gave in to using Transmog, since Dober armor is the objectively most prestigious armor in the game. My rule for myself is that I have to own the armor in question before transmogrifying it.

Sadly, my bestest friendo buddy and sidekick Lazing Dirk has more-or-less thrown in the towel, on the basis that most of the content from here on out will consist of fighting the same handful of monsters 20+ times each and hoping for the best with RNG. Can't say he's wrong about that, and they've been awfully slow releasing new content considering it already exists for consoles. Hopefully he'll return to enjoy Pickle and some of the event bosses.

Realistically, I may end up throwing in the towel, too. Soloing is okay but not nearly as much fun. Like many people, I too am affected by an extreme lack of available SOS, which is absurd when there are usually 100,000-170,000 people online. I'm usually lucky to find 1-2 investigations for a given monster, even the higher-tier monsters that are popular for farming. Thank you, CRAPCOM, for being painfully slow and incompetent at fixing basic functionality.

 

[Hyperion]

I just got done trying out HBG* (ton of fun btw), and every SOS I searched for had no less than 8 Tempered Investigations, and usually in the double digits. I would say 80% of them were Tier 2 and 3 as well. If there's a shortage of investigations, I'll pop one of my own good ones (currently saving a 5 purple Legiana for when my bros log in) and SOS flare that sucker. If it's an Elder Dragon it fills in <10 seconds.

* - made the Nergigante HBG that basically functions as a sawed off shotgun with Guard 5, Guard Up, 2x Shield Mods, Spread Shots, 3 Weakness Exploit, Elementless, and 2 Ranks in Peak Performance. Decorations willing I'll cap out PP eventually. So fucking cool.

 

[Blaine]

I just got done trying out HBG* (ton of fun btw), and every SOS I searched for had no less than 8 Tempered Investigations, and usually in the double digits.

Since the last patch I've never gotten that for any monster, at any time of the day, ever. Not even close. Furthermore, my SOS aren't always answered.

If CRAPFUCK doesn't fix its broken shitty garbage by the 6th, I'm most definitely taking a long hiatus. That'll be a month gone by with 0 actual fixes—or if we're being generous, half a fix, since at least you don't constantly get disconnected from multiplayer sessions now.

* - made the Nergigante HBG that basically functions as a sawed off shotgun with Guard 5, Guard Up, 2x Shield Mods, Spread Shots, 3 Weakness Exploit, Elementless, and 2 Ranks in Peak Performance. Decorations willing I'll cap out PP eventually. So fucking cool.

The HBG is great, except that I feel like I'm handling a cinderblock suspended in cold molasses when using it, while at the same time I myself am also swimming through cold molasses.

The HBG needs a fun new mechanic: Drop it on the ground. You're then free to roll and superman as desired. However, you have to go back and pick it up again. Actually, this could apply to all weapons and would in my view be a fun and interesting mechanic.

 

[Hyperion]

Since the last patch I've never gotten that for any monster

I never search for a particular monster, except for when I need Xeno'Jiva materials. Filter for 9* Investigations only. I guess it's where the bulk of people are now, so it's where all of the fights are. I suppose for regular High Rank versions the demand is lower. Even when I need Gems, I either play with RL friends, or solo the monsters, since breaking body parts is so much easier. 2.6x more life for multiplayer my ass.

 

[Lazing Dirk]

Hopefully he'll return to enjoy Pickle and some of the event bosses

Well, "enjoy" will depend on how much gimmicky bullshit and endless flailing they throw in I guess. Still, 167 hours of mostly good fun sure beats a lot of other games.

 

[Blaine]

I never search for a particular monster, except for when I need Xeno'Jiva materials. Filter for 9* Investigations only. I guess it's where the bulk of people are now, so it's where all of the fights are.

Fuck that. I'm endlessly forging and upgrading new weapons, so I usually need specific monsters. With over a hundred thousand fucking people online, and often closer to two hundred thousand, there should be at least a dozen SOSes available for every single monster at every tier... and that's the way it USED to be before the previous connectivity patch. Tons of people noticed that their SOSes flatlined after the last patch.

What's more, the console versions have been out for six months, and current console players say that they have tons of SOSes and that their SOSes fill up immediately. This is with a much, much smaller and more aged player base.

Then again, achievement data suggests that a lot of people are still playing in the shallow end of the pool.

 

[Blaine]