I hit that plateau where you can't progress easily by yourself without ridiculous grinding for specific armors or actually putting effort into my equipment. Which I suck at because I'll forget to reequip my polished gauntlets that have that damn box around them that makes me think I have them shits equipped. Just unlocked the second half of the HR5 guild quests, and cleared all but 6 and 10 so far in the Caravan. Using a heavily upgraded Gore Helm, Brach armor, the aforementioned polished Hunter Gauntlets, and Brach armor to fill it out. I'm set up with Challenger +1 and Bombardier or whatever that is. I use a talisman to get the blast points the lack of full brach leaves me, but in a pinch I switch it out with a Thunder Res +6 with necessary gemming to give me that edge against my most hated element. All electrical enemies are assbutts. My armor is lacking in the update department, but I got a massive collection of Long Swords and most need higher rank drops/carves/rewards to upgrade any further.
I've gotten this far and managed to avoid most of the MH Grind (Kecha and Great Jaggi are the only ones at 20+ kills), but as some very wise NPCs once said, "It was inevitable."
Currently working on a full Artian gunner set, but those damn firecell stones. Used all of the ones I had on my Dios Katana+.
What really blows is my overall lack of internet capability pretty much restricts me to solo hunting. Makes everything a good bit harder, and the grind slightly more unbearable. However the plus side is I've gotten really, really friggin good at evasion. Still getting used to homing Rathalos claws though. Most of his other attacks are familiar enough, I tend to forget that a perpendicular run isn't good enough to get away from that anymore.
I'll just warn you all that an older (in terms of playtime and dedication to the series) is about to rant a whole assload about things he likes and doesn't like.
my god I love my splodey sword. Since the moment I made it I haven't switched out. You're telling me I don't have to worry about swapping my sword out between hunts AND it does an excellent job busting shit up? Why would I use anything else? I mean, up until the point I'm at now, anyways. Back to the good old checking armor to see what sword to use [Protip for Novices: Check an armor's elemental weaknesses to figure out what the monster is weak against]. While I have a fondness for all the weapon types, I heavily favor the LS. I noticed that LS users tend to get hated on for their broad interrupting attacks. I've fought alongside a fellow LSer and two French dudes with other stuff and except for me being Great Sworded into the air that turned into a mount anyways, we all managed to keep out of one another's attack arcs. This does come with a lot of practice, but each weapon also has roles to fill in combat. Dear fellow Long Swordsmen: Get dat fukken tail. Obviously you need to adapt to the hunt, but I've been in plenty of hunts where the tail was just within reach of the LS vertical strike. And since the tail can give some great carves (plates and rubies for everyone!) it should be priority in most cases. Also, I see/saw a lot of complaint about killing instead of catching monsters. My numbers are terrible, but that's because I don't really care when I hunt solo. It can be easy to overkill sometimes (Mount -> Spirit Combo being my primary downfall) but with the ability to multiply a majority of the items, if not all, that are used to make Tranq Bombs, at least one member of the party should be able to provide them. Set one of your chat jawns to "Imma catch this bitch" or something vaguely similar to let the others know what you intend to do as well.
The Armor/Power Charms/Talons are throwing a little wrench into my hunt prep as always, but I always bring along a full array of pitfall traps and one shock, tranqs, potions, mega potions, honey, 3 combo books, steak, paintballs, barrels, gunpowder, small, large, and large+ bombs, scatterfish, whetstones, and the ever-underestimated exciteshroom. Every hunter I've met never experienced the glory of the exciteshroom until I come barrelling into battle with improved defense and attack, unlimited stamina, and a full bar of health (though the kitty tends to cook that up for me). While there are negative effects, all of those can easily be countered and nullified.
Now that I'm done with hunters, time to move onto the monsters.
What the actual fuck is with like no armor being resistant to water? At least in my experience, most of the armor I can make is less than satisfactory in regards to Water Res. The only good thing about this is my eternal enemy, mofuggin Plesioth, is now a casting net target. I thoroughly enjoy watching that bastard flop helplessly onto dry land. Which it somehow doesn't like anymore, but who am I to complain? Fuck that guy.
And what's with the old pushovers now being the opposite of that? Cephadrome actually being a fight? Whaaaaaat? I mean, I understand you introduce new stuff earlier so the older things naturally become tougher, but the Monoblos was at one point described as an elder dragon. It's not a legit ED, but holy balls those words hold some sort of meaning to me. I do like that poison spit flows downhill now, no matter how much that's assisted in dicking me over. And speaking of poison and dicks, that damn massive Scylla bite is a crap and a quarter. I detest the erratic movement and rapid quickfire attacks that put me on my ass for enough time for the sumbitch to poison me and get me carted right as I go to eat a mega pot/antidote. And the cats never come through in the clutch moments like that (3 Healing, 2 Defense gives me all I need for now. Except good support timing). The lagombi's circular slide was also a hell of a shocker for me. I was not expecting that at all, but like anything else it gets easy to evade once you know what to look for. And I'm certain I could kill more shit if I went back to Gunlances, but I love my Long Swords. I haven't done much gunning either, but that's due to hold-over from past games where gunning was fairly expensive unless you wanted to do a jillion gathering quests in between, and it wasn't much good alone anyhow. But that Gunner's Pouch is a Bowgunner's filthy, dirty, sloppy wet dream. I used to load up on rounds and materials for rounds and had shit else for room. Now I can actually bring stuff on the quest with me!
Well that was a tangent, but like I said, rant. I probably have a lot more I'd like to say, but I got sponsibilities. Maybe I'll rant some more at a later date.
TL;DR? FUCK YEAH MONSTER HUNTER
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