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[Nighthawk]

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

Actually, I'm pretty sure you can grapple back onto a monster without any mantle at all, provided you have the stamina.

[StagnantSoul]

Aye I grapple back onto Teo when he lobs me off, and I've never used the Glider mantle aside from fighting Legiana.

[Folly]

The online community is kinda going crazy for the new event quest 'Triple Threat Throwdown'. I'm regularly seeing 10+ SOS's at once, and every time I join I find everyone wearing bandit mantles and fanged monsters shedding parts like pinata candy. 2-4 decorations after each run is also nice.

[StagnantSoul]

It's the perfect farming quest, for Zenny mostly.

[Folly]

Spoiler: HR (click to show/hide)

Took down my first Tempered Kirin. And probably my last. It took the better part of 2 days to find a group of random strangers who actually came prepared with resistances and knew how to play it safe. I'm not eager to do that again. I guess I could solo...but meh.

The successful attempt went surprisingly smoothly. Poked him a few times in the first area until he moved. In the second area, I got a quick mount and brought him to the ground, at which point everyone just unloaded on him; by the time he stood up he was skulled and started limping back to his nest. In addition to my 2 mega barrels, my allies dropped 2 more mega's and 2 large, and everyone grabbed my affinity booster just before we attacked. One random death as he enraged, but otherwise everyone patiently poked him between his nukes and he went down after a few more minutes.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

Spoiler: HR (click to show/hide)

Took down my first Tempered Kirin. And probably my last. It took the better part of 2 days to find a group of random strangers who actually came prepared with resistances and knew how to play it safe. I'm not eager to do that again. I guess I could solo...but meh.

Spoiler: HR (click to show/hide)

Man, I really should progress further as far as HR goes. I know there's all this stuff like Tempered Kirin, and more Tempered monsters in general waiting for me, but...

Eww, effort. I've grinded a lot of the sets that interest me and grinding for the sake of getting more Rank doesn't appeal as much in World as it did in previous games for some reason :/

[Folly]

The new set of event quests is here.
One involves fighting 5 monsters, and seems to have an increased rate of large/small monster crowns; good for getting those trophies.

There's also a PS4 exclusive Street Fighter quest to get some unique armor, but only if you have a save file on your system.

[Zangi]

Whelp, picked this up on the PS4.  Using the Charge Blade.  Havn't actually figured out how to charge it yet, but I reckon swinging muh blade around in large sword mode has worked so far.
Just recently beat that fish type monster in the questline.

Also had a +100 HR friend help beat up that T-Rex way too early.  I died to it twice.  It is pretty much a 2-shot.  First hit brings me down to sliver of health.

[umiman]

Whelp, picked this up on the PS4.  Using the Charge Blade.  Havn't actually figured out how to charge it yet, but I reckon swinging muh blade around in large sword mode has worked so far.
Just recently beat that fish type monster in the questline.

Also had a +100 HR friend help beat up that T-Rex way too early.  I died to it twice.  It is pretty much a 2-shot.  First hit brings me down to sliver of health.

Charge Blade is a weapon you can't actually use properly unless you watch a guide video or two.

To put it simply, every attack you do in small sword mode charges the weapon. When it starts glowing yellow or red, you use a button combo to charge it into the phials on the top left. Then you use the axe to make explosions.

There's a billion other things you can do with it including charging the shield, charging the sword, what kind of damage it does, dodging, rolls, guard points, etc. etc. etc. It's easily the most complicated weapon in the game. This doesn't mean it's the best or highest damage weapon in the game mind you. It's just the most complicated.

Once you kinda know what buttons you're pressing, watch these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvlVtfSzO2Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggcyYKXapWk

[Zangi]

Reckon highest damage means jack-all if you can't reasonably land hits anyways. 

I'll take a look sooner or later, thanks.

[StagnantSoul]

The chargeblade's great, and a very good mix of mobility, defense, speed, and offense, not to mention being so fun to slam a massive axe down on things heads with. I actually went through most of low rank not knowing about the ultra discharge, I did it by accident floundering about chasing Rathian down. Sure the GS puts out bigger boops, SNS may be more mobile, Lance more defensive and stickier, etc, but it does a lot of things meaning if you get the patterns down and remember the comboes you can do whatever you want- even KO the monster pretty well, not hammer fast but hey better than SNS shield bashing.

[Folly]

Also had a +100 HR friend help beat up that T-Rex way too early.  I died to it twice.  It is pretty much a 2-shot.  First hit brings me down to sliver of health.

Always eat food when hunting wyverns. It doesn't actually consume any food resources from your inventory, just a small amount of currency. I spend research points, as I earn them far faster than I can spend them.

T-Rex has a mean fireball that has long range and goes through walls, and trying to run or heal makes you a high priority target. This goes for most any wyvern: if you find yourself low on health, don't run away, instead run circles around the monster, just outside of their melee range. Any long range attacks should miss you this way. Wait until the monster starts targeting another player or your cat, or until it does a lengthy attack that you know will give you a few seconds of freedom, that is when you chug a potion.

For large wyverns, it also helps a lot if you learn to mount, and exploit flash pods and environmental traps. Each of these give you a big window to attack.

[StagnantSoul]

Aye flash pods help a lot against most wyverns, they'll often sit there doing things like stamping the ground or blasting fireballs randomly and giving you 5-15 seconds to attack. Don't do it against Dibbles, he'll just run away from you, least that's my experience.

[Folly]

Got my first warrior streamstone, sword. I was looking forward to putting it on my poison longsword, only to find out that rank 7 weapons need 2 streamstones at a time.
Got my second warrior streamstone, bow. I was looking forward to putting it on my rank 6 dragon bow, only to find out that regular bows use 'shaft' streamstones.

Someday...

[StagnantSoul]

Fought the tempered Bazelgeuse quest today... Was my first time, and did it solo... Is pain an emotion?