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[BlitzDungeoneer]

Spoiler: HR Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Beat Nergigante a few days ago, been slowly progressing the investigations on the elder dragons since.

Vaal Hazak is an annoying shit. Managed to actually cart me with that HP-halving gimmick, the bastard.

Haven't unlocked the other 3 yet, though(although Kirin is optional so he's not that big of a deal). Been farming up a few weapons since then. I'm pretty close to the final boss now, I think.

[Nighthawk]

Despite being breakable and even having a carve point once broken, Barroth's head isn't actually weak. His arms and tail are in fact weakest; you can test that yourself. That doesn't stop every hammer bro I know from whacking him on the head, though.

As far as the different damage types, I think the number of stars will only be different when there's a LARGE disparity in damage. In most previous games, a head weak point would often be something like a 55 damage zone for cutting and 50 for blunt (or vice versa), which is different, but not by much. Since MHW only measures from 1* to 3* in terms of damage, there's no room for comparison for tiny differences.

It's also possible that they've changed the damage zones and there's actually no difference at all anymore, but that would require testing to figure out.

[Folly]

Just finished building my robokitty. It's sooo cute!

[Folly]

Spoiler: HR (click to show/hide)

Just had my first Pink Rathian fight.

First try, he spent the entire time quarreling with other monsters. At one point he was simultaneously fighting a Legiana, a Tzitsi, and a Paolumu. I waited patiently until he was finally alone, then moved in, knocked Rathian down, then as I was hammering his head Legiana swooped in and 1-shotted me before I even knew she was there. Then that happened two more times, game over.

Second try, not being familiar with Rathian movesets I basically just got poison-tailed and fireballed a bunch.

Third try, somehow I kept ending up underfoot and being trample-combo'd to death...not sure what was up with that attempt but it was just really messy.

Fourth try, I got in a lot of environmental damage and mounting attacks, managed to get him down to nearly-dead. I tried to pull out my shock trap to capture him, but he just went berserk and started attacking really fast. After dodging a few charges, he caught me with his poison tail; as I tried to run and drink some antidote he caught me in the back with a fireball, game over.

Fifth try, lots more mounting attacks, I got him down to the danger zone and let him run back to his nest and fall asleep. I dropped my shock trap next to him, it did not immediately go off. So I smacked him in the head with my hammer and tried to lure him onto my trap. Except he wasn't moving. I realized that he had triggered the shock trap the instant I woke him up. I ran over and started throwing tranq bombs, but the trap was already wearing off. I ran, dodging fireballs, barely managed to tether him, made my way back to camp and grabbed another shock trap, returned and successfully captured.

So...that was a fun morning.

[umiman]

Rathian's a girl.

Also this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT_c7q0zJ0c

[StagnantSoul]

Coming from only playing Tri and 3U (I'd say 700 hours combined between both) with maybe ten hours of 4U, World is amazing. Pretty much every little annoyance I had like the arm pump, not being able to change gear when I accept a quest, having no clue without the wiki what built out of what, being so stationary when I shot my bowguns, needing specific armor spheres to upgrade to the next level... Missing people like Zin and Narga and Lagi, but there's enough to do in World to keep me happy. Just wish the multiplayer was more family-like like it was before, what with everyone greeting you and taking turns on quests and not continuously hitting the sleeping monster and everyone eating together... Nope, just flares and the room being disbanded instantly.

Also, quick question: How do I tell what the bow does without making it and trying it out? Like it's arrow types and arc shot, I just had to go back a tab in the workshop before and I scoured it for information, can't find it.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

All bows have all arrow types now, mapped to seperate buttons IIRC.

Regular shots shoot rapid, Circle shoots out spread etc.

Dunno about the arc shot though.

[Folly]

Spent all day farming Legianas. Didn't get a single gem.

[askovdk]

Spent all day farming Legianas. Didn't get a single gem.

I can't remember, - can the mender create gems?
She seems to be intended for creating any very rare but desperately needed matrerial.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

Spent all day farming Legianas. Didn't get a single gem.

I can't remember, - can the mender create gems?
She seems to be intended for creating any very rare but desperately needed matrerial.

Yes, but only with Gold Wyverian Print.

One of the weekly bounties gives 1-2 of those right now, and I think Expedition NPC questlines can also give 1-2 per line completed as well.

Gems drop pretty commonly from gold box investigations, though, so its pretty weird that Folly doesn't have one yet.

[Folly]

My gold box investigations have only been giving scales and hides lately. Just bad luck perhaps.

The melder is gated by either optional or main quests...not sure which, but she hasn't yet unlocked the gem I need.


Edit:
I went back today and got Legiana's gem on the first kill. Thanks Kismet!
Immediately after finishing my Legiana armor set, I grabbed my best bow and went Diablos hunting. The set bonus made a massive difference, with kills taking roughly half as long.

[Folly]

After several frustrating losses to Nergigante when he was low on health and enraged, I finally decided to just cheese him with mega-barrel-bombs. It took 6 of them to finally bring him down. That guy is a beast when he enrages.

[Nighthawk]

After several frustrating losses to Nergigante when he was low on health and enraged, I finally decided to just cheese him with mega-barrel-bombs. It took 6 of them to finally bring him down. That guy is a beast when he enrages.

It seems like ol' Nergy gets particularly violent when he's on his last legs. I've seen him use his highest damage (typically insta-kill) attacks twice in succession after chasing him to his nest. If you have the good fortune to be able to hunt with bowgun friends, I suggest telling them to save some paralysis shots for the very end of the hunt, to mitigate his ability to attack you when he's at his most dangerous. You can also use flash pods and flashflies to help take the edge off.

He's a fun fight, though; he feels challenging in a satisfying way.

[StagnantSoul]

When Nergigante limps, his spikes instantly regrow and go black so he can smash open his door, meaning he'll do one smash when you're chasing, one to break the door, then an actual smash that'll break the spikes once he's home.

[inteuniso]

Anyone notice how amazing glider mantle is? Being able to grapple back onto monsters after they throw you, even when you're 30 feet away but-oh-look-still-two-cm-midair-youregood.jpg

Please don't change it.