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I agree with Shadowhearth and Banjo, definitely warm up first. Nothing crazy ridiculous. Don't go on a pilgrimage to the Holy Lands like Banjo did. Just fight 2 or 3 monsters you find difficult with your preferred weapon, then take on the big GM. I think Gore Magala is the hardest fight in low rank, and that includes the "last boss" of the low rank story, and all the "post-last-boss" low rank quests I've been doing since.

SH I hear a lot of people complaining about failing fire drill in groups, but I never had any problem solo or duoing it. I think I solo farmed it for a while because I needed something from the quest rewards. No idea what though.

For my progress, as I mentioned, I fought Dah'ran Mohran twice on my file in the gathering hall because I wanted his parts, firstly with Gore LBG and second with Gore Bow. Then I did some caravan quests that unlocked caravan DM.

This was marked as an urgent, so I thought it would be hard, but it wasn't

I went out to fight him and brought my Gravios HBG which can siege fire pierce 2; but I went about the fight in a really sub optimal way. Rather than sieging pierce for mad damage in his face, I just regularly fired normal 2 into his arms and blow hole to get all the break rewards, while also firing Ballista shots at his nose. I think the subquest here was to break his blow hole which I find kinda difficult because it's hard to get to, whereas the gathering hall once is to break his nose, which is very easy.

Long story short, in the final showdown, while on his back firing into his blowhole, he died before I got that break. It was a little surreal to fall through his dead body from his back, since he becomes clippable immediately upon death.

Final quest time was 22 minutes, so I can only assume the caravan one is significantly weaker if he died without me getting all the breaks, while playing in a stupid manner (If I was just going to be shooting Normal 2 all the time and not using pierce until I had all my breaks, I have way better Normal 2 guns).

I got a Earthdragon gem in the quest rewards, which made me very happy. That's exactly what I wanted. Now I just need a Rathalos and Rathian plate. I'm not going to make his gearset until I can run it through the ASS and see if there's a better mixed set with all of the skills and none of the negative skills.

Then when I got back to town the Wycoon had a speech bubble for me.

"Alright, someone has a new quest for me that's not Dah'ren Mohran!"

"Hey hunter, I have a new quest to unlock tradable parts, you just need to kill a Dah'ren Mohran"

"SONOFABITCH!"

So yeah, this one was called "Advanced: Shipping Out" I think, and was a regular advanced 6* rather than an urgent advanced 6*, which I found puzzling because this bastard was HARD.

If a regular DM makes say, 5 or 6 attempts to attack the boat before the final showdown, this one made about 15, two of which I was able to prevent, all the rest connected and I was worried I might fail due to boat durability.

He also never did the attack where he gets stuck beside the boat and lets you get on his back (thereby enabling you to mine and break his blowhole), so I was just perpetually firing ballistas at his nose (which was back to being the subquest) and then sieging pierce 2 into his arms or mouth because I have my Earth Dragongem and I didn't care about getting extra parts.

During the final showdown I did manage to flip him over onto his back for a delicious mouth carve. Only got useless parts from it (Monster guts I think) but I haven't got any mouth carves on any previous runs, so I thought this was notable.

I killed this one in the same way as the last. On his back during the final showdown, trying and failing to break his blowhole. Forgot to check time unfortunately.

This unlock Lao Shen Lung tradable parts, which I haven't looked at yet.

Next on my chopping list is to mop up all unfinished quests that require fighting monsters, and then I suppose I should do the stupid ones that involve fish and egg delivery.

When I loaded up my monster hunter file the last time I played I was a little confused.

I told you guys I killed DM with a Pierce 2 HBG, but on my file I was brandishing my Plesioth HBG, my best Normal 2 gun.

I checked my items to see if I had any DM carves on me, if perhaps I was incorrect in my stories. No no DM carves on me.

Maybe I was prepared to depart on a quest I had forgotten about?

Better talk to the Guildmarn and see what she has for me.

Ahhh, I understand now.

Kirin.

I had unlocked Kirin after the DM tradable parts quest but didn't have time for the quest on my lunch, so I just prepped my character to fight him with a more appropriate gun (Piercing Kirin would be a mad fool's errand). Then saved and quit.

This is a monster I've never liked fighting and always thought was lazy. From the days when Velicidromes were "bosses" that were just bigger Veliciprey models, and Bulldromes were "bosses" that were just bigger Bullfango models, here we have the Bossification of the goddamn Kelbi.

And then they pee on their own lore by calling it an Elder Dragon...

On my main file, if I ever have to fight this idiot, I actually try and gun him; so I was pretty comfortable.

It just makes it so much easier to always hit him in his stupid horn, which iirc is both his only weak point and his only breakable part.

Since he isn't really weak to any element, the raw power of normal 2 more than does the job.

During my attempt at him, I was sloppy enough to get hit by his rage AOE lighning attack while I was lightningblighted, which took 75% of my HP in a single hit AND dizzied me. While I was stunned and trying to mash our, he sauntered through me with his inoffensive kelbi prance and killed me.

That was my only death though, he died soon enough afterwards and his parts unlocked new things in the armoury. I'll get to that later.

Anyway the last quest I did was 4* double Gyperceros, which I'd been putting off until I could rapid fire fire shots, which I now can do.

So I brought the Kut Ku LBG and made hilariously short of the whole thing.

Then that's it as far as large boss monster kill quests on my file goes. Everthing that's left is to kill X amount of tiny monsters, deliver eggs, delivery fish, do harvest tours or collect herbs.

I'm gonna have to put away my combat armour, wear full leather, and chip away until all the boring quests are done.

But I am now faced with a logistical issue.

This character was supposed to be Low Rank Solo Only gunner, which has worked out so far, but I also had wanted to make all the low rank weapons IN low rank, without going back and cheesing it with HR weapons and gear.

But it seems like I can't make Yian Garuga nor Kirin weapons without increasing my multiplayer Hunter Rank, because I have to farm them in guild quests, and I can't join my own posted guild quests with my low multiplayer rank.

There's only really two solutions:

(1) Say "Fck it", and ignore these specific weapons. Then polish off the other LR rank weapons and quests, then move onto high rank

(2) Beat all the key and urgent multiplayer gathering hall quests until my rank is high enough to farm Kirin and Garuga.

What do you guys think?


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ShadowHearth wrote: »

I miss my Mallow gamestop.

That is a pretty unfortunate customer experience. You're far enough down the MH rabbit hole now that your average member of shop staff are basically useless to you for info.

Did the Mallow gamestop close or did you move away from it?

Andrew76 wrote: »

Feels a little strange how slow you move when in axe mode but it made short work of a Lagombi though (I was normally a sword & shield man).

Star Lord wrote: »

This never really made much sense to me! I mean it's not like it's a cumbersome weapon, or heavier than its sword and shield mode!

I feel like the in-universe explanation for the slower walk speeds isn't necessarily that the weapons are heavy (because our characters are clearly superhuman) but moreso that they're unbalanced.

Putting all the weight of a CB onto (functionally) the end of a pole is a lot more cumbersome than neatly spreading the weight across two hands in Sword mode.

Andrew76 wrote: »

I'm just on 50 hours played to date, not a patch on you chaps, but a lot for me. The misses was sitting beside and said 'I remember that sound' while I was mining. :pac:

Anyway, will continue with some more quests before going for Gore again.

Sounds like you're doing well. For reference the alt character I'm playing has hit 50 hours, so we're around the same point of invested time.

Andrew76 wrote: »

Ugh Khezu, annoying fecker. Thought I'd be able to kill him relatively quickly before the F1 started earlier today, nope. Quit the mission via the sub-quest so not a total waste of time. Will try him again.

Hopefully I'll warm to the charge blade more as the slow movement is really off-putting.

I'm not sure what Khezu tips to give without knowing what gave your problems.

IIRC he's pretty weak to fire, and you can block his body electricity attacks, but CANNOT block his projectile attacks. This is my memory from MH2, I don't think I've tried blocking his projectiles in 4U.

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Another thing about CB. Axe mode is not the mode to be in full time. Its situational. In fact, the way I play it, I use it only on downed monsters. So in nut shell my fighting with CB: Use sword mode all the fight until I got full phials. After that I try to get red shield charge and get full phials again. Whens that done I am looking for openings to mount monster and down it. Then its just about unloading super burst attacks. As soon as monster gets up, I got to sword and shield mode.

I really like CB's Sword mode, I'd stay it in all the time if I could; but I can't due to overcharging.

This is more aimed at Andrew than you SH, but just for an alternate weapon take: When I play CB, I tend to get the red shield charged as quick as possible (extra axe damage and better blocking), then I usually do CB Axe mode X->A->X->A etc.

This is a vertical axe swing, then a double horizontal axe swing plus phial discharge, then back into the vertical swing and so on.

I keep doing this until I run out of phials, then transition back to sword mode to build up more.

If it seems like I'm going to get a longer than usual damage opportunity, rather then pressing the A button once only I'll mash it to combo into the big discharge.

While it is fun to just sit on your full phials and wait for an opportunity to get that super mega ultra explosion elemental phial spirit bomb finisher; I prefer constant guaranteed damage over potential huge future damage.

Struggling with the Kezhu again myself too, I've always struggled with them! Hate the horrible, stretchy necked, leechy looking weirdos! Guess I am just terrible at reading their 'tells', constantly getting shocked or whipped. And it doesn't help that his scarlet sibling shows up to creep up on me when I finally get a chance to wail on him for a bit!

On the seaway, the frozen seaway, the khezu sleeps tonight...

Tackled the Pink Rathian last night, so that I could upgrade my Dear Lutemia into a Dear Hecatel.

I've hunted and taken down plenty Rathians, and have never struggled with one like I did with this! It really, really, really loves to spam it's poison tail whip (which seems to have got an exponential potency and damage increase, and in increased hit box for it too)! I got failed the mission and sent home with my tail between my legs twice before a successful hunt! For example one time, I was doing alright, then suddenly she took to the air, tried to have a swing at me with the poisonous tail swing (which I'd dodge), only to have her fly after me, nail me with a second swipe of the tail, land while I was getting up, and I get up dizzy, spamming the buttons to try to get out of it, but she finished me off while I was unable to do anything!

Third time was the charm, managed to send her limping back to her nest, planted my shock trap right by her ugly noggin... and while I was planting it, one of my palicos decided it'd be a good time to give her a smack! Thankfully the trap set in time, and two tranq bombs to the nostrils later, she was mine! I got enough P.Rathian carapaces to upgrade to Dear Hecatel, but just shy of the required number of P.Rathian scale+ and inferno sacs, so I'll have to go pink hunting again today!

Pinky... it's the perfect name for that angry ball of rage and flame and poison!

Tried to grab a few minutes at the end of lunch to at least start the quest again... but I forgot to dine at the cooks table beforehand... and got carted pretty quickly because of that. Closed the 3DS in annoyance at myself and will resume later!

SH, congrats on G3. Now stop putting it off and make your Star Knight set lol!

Regarding Chaos Gore weapons. They're a fun gimmick. Less fun and less useful than the Seregios gimmick but whatever. I can get into the affinty aspect of them at another point if you want to know more, but my super summarised opinion of them is:

Even though they're dragon element weapons, you should treat them just as high pure raw, because their element is SO small it might as well not be there. So they're good to bring on any Frenzy/Apex quest where element isn't a big deal.

I also generally recommend people make the Charge Blade, Dual Blades and Hunting Horn, because only these three weapons can be made with regular common parts and don't need the rare Contrary scales. You might as well make them to have fun with because they are unbelievably badass looking.

Continuing my thread of not-at-all-badass but incredibly boring quests, I did the 6* Misentoe delivery quest, and nothing interesting happened.

During the quest I did however recruit my third (finally) stealing cat, meaning that I have enough to make my Ace Palico and sidekick both Stealing Forte (rather than running a bombing ace with a stealing sidekick). Looking forward to the extra carves from this very much, especially as I have a lot of Rath plate farming in my future.

Then with much resistance and hesitation on my part I posted an Egg delivery quest. Main quest was 2 eggs, subquest was to cut Rathian's tail. Even though I could theoretically get a plate from the tail, much like my Zamtrios fishing quest, I prefer to farm monster parts when the main AND subquests are both monster related; so I just grabbed my Gore Magala bow, my Autotracker set and some dash juices. Ate for Felyne lander, and with no intention to cut the tail, I headed out.

The quest was on the A.Steppes, and I could see that Rathian started in the nest, so I circled around and mined a bit to see if she'd leave.

She didn't.

"Fair enough" I thought "There's probably a cut-scene waiting for me then."

And there was. Jaggi's mess around with some eggs, Rathian scares them off. Rathian goes to sleep.

"Wait" I exclaim "They're surely not going to just giftwrap a sleeping Rathian for me are they? Good lord. Does my Gore Magala Bow Item Set have LBB+'s in it?"

It did.

So I applied Power coating to my bow, plonked those bombs down, set them off with a paintball and started shredding Rathian with Dragon Element arrows. She died almost immediately.

Quest time at this point was under 6 minutes, and I'd spent ages mining, so I have no idea how long killing the Rathian took.

I drank my first dash juice, picked up the first egg and set off.

At the speed of smell.

As much as I feel like all you REALLY need for an Egg Delivery quest is Autotracker, Dash Juice and Felyne Lander, I had clearly forgotten how slow the "Heavy carry" walkspeed is without the Transporter armourskill.

At one point while I was trying to pathetically baby-step away from danger, a regular jaggi sauntered slowly up behind me, did a little spin and knocked the egg clearn out of my arms.

At that point I resolved to make a transporter set as soon as I got back to town.

Once the quest was done, I had a look at some gear. With a +5 Transporter Talisman, I could make a set with either 3 Transport decorations on my regular set, OR swap out my trousers for the Loc Lac ones (which also give +5), but ultimately decided to keep the full Vel set so I wouldn't lose out on secondary skills and defense.

New set is (I think): Attack Up M, Transporter, Detect, Half Stun. This is with no item slots as I'm trying to inflate my bow usage numbers, and bows overwhelmingly seem to have no slots.

I was out of quests at this point, so I ran around to all the towns to look for NPC speech bubbles and got THREE new quests:

Kill a Frenzied Zinogre
Kill a Frenzied Nerscylla and Gyperceros
Deliver three Frenzied Wyvern eggs, while a Frenzied Rathalos Frenzies some Frenzy

I am okay with this, as I actually need parts from all four of those monsters. Hope to get nicely stuck into these on my next lunch break.

Star Lord wrote: »

There's a nice recipe for flambéed frenzied omlettes that could be satisfying ager such exertion!

I thought I had gotten lucky at the start of the quest and that the Rathalos hadn't even spawned yet because I wasn't seeing his little shape on my map. Then I realised that I actually DIDN'T have detect on this set. The choice was Detect and AuS or just AuM, and I guess I choose the damage.

I ran around happily mining until I got to area 4 and recruited my 4th stealing catch which unlocks "Stealth" which makes Monsters target my cats less. I actually DON'T want this as a gunner so I'm gonna keep running 3 stealing cats until I can run the full 5 for increased stealing chance.

In area 4 I also got some Psychoserum from the veggie elder. I took a little drink and saw a dot appear on my map. Along with a second dot in a different area.

Two dots....

I was wrong about the quest, it was not to "Deliver three Frenzied Wyvern eggs, while a Frenzied Rathalos Frenzies some Frenzy" it was infact "Deliver three Frenzied Wyvern eggs, while a Frenzied Rathalos and a Frenzied Rathian frenzily frenzy my face(y)"

Rathalos was the only thing in the subquest, but I was foolish to assume that meant he would be the only monster I'd fight.

I found Rathian first and got caught unluckily early by two tail flips in a row, leaving me dead.

At this point I realised I should really put Max Potions in my item set, because I woke up in base camp with pathetically low max HP.

I combined together more power coatings and set back out to find my Wyverns.

Even though Rathalos was the subquest reward and would provide valuable supply items upon his death, I stubbornly kept going after the Rathian.

They kept trying to pair up and fight me as a team, but I had fortunately solved my item set problem of bringing dung to a quest instead of dung bombs, and was able to keep them se-poo-rated.

Rathian limped away with a broken back (not face unfortunately) and I followed and capped her.

I had only brought one trap though, so Rathalos would have to die.

While fighting Rathalos I took a poison claw to the face and lost half my health.

I took an antidote, then took an immuniser to regen the red health faster.

"Rathalos is about to shoot a fireball to my left" I thought "As soon as he misses and I know it's safe, I'll take a potion".

Instead I took the fireball, died, and ended up back in base camp. On my final life.

"Well this is going unexpectedly badly"

I dusted myself off at basecamp, was a little disappointed to see there was still no extra supply items in the blue box, just the torch and mini-whetstones I almost never take (but sometimes accidentally do like an idiot ffs).

I battered Rathalos around a bit more and ran out of power coatings. At least he offset this and dropped some shinies. Actually, here's another grievence: I got these bastards to drop two shines each, and here were my rewards:

Shiny 1: Wyvern Tear
Shiny 2: Wyvern Tear
Shiny 3: Wyvern Tear
Shiny 4: Rathalos Scale

Anyway, he limped off to his nest, and I, without any traps, scrolled through my inventory for any useful supply items, and found I had two Supply BBL.

Granted they weren't as powerful as my regular LBB+, but they were a lot more free, and I'm trying to save up money now that Powercharm and Armorcharm have randomly appeared in my shop (Priced at 36k and 24k respectively).

I felt a little like maybe I was taking an unnecessary risk by not going for the more damaging expensive bombs, especially with 2 carts under my belt but what the hell.

I dropped the supply bombs by his sleeping head, chucked a tranq bomb at them (because I wanted to quickly attempt a mount if it didn't kill), they exploded and he died.

Quest complete!

....or not...

...why isn't the quest complete....?

That's when I remembered that this whole bloody thing was an egg delivery quest, and I had delivered exactly zero eggs.

This is also when I realised that I had eaten for Felyne Temper. For damage.

Not Felyne Lander, for jumping safely around with eggs.

Goddamn it all.

So what followed was three fairly uneventful trips of me running back to basecamp with eggs, gingerly climbing down walls, weaving in and out of tiny monsters, and all the while wondering where these giant damn rocks are coming from.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34-_IhDrnbE

Finishing the quest did net me upgraded dairy in the kitchen, giving blessed access to three star ingredients, which my health badly needed.

After that I did the Frenzied Nerscylla/Gypceros, where I opted for RF fire LBG to not run out of primary ammo, but still ran out of primary ammo anyway, and ended up finish the quest with Normal 2s. Luckily at the kitchen I got a rare felyne temper WITH sharpshooter, so my damage was fine.

Beating this quest unlocked caravan low rank Brachydios, which on the one hand is kind of exciting, on the other hand means I still have a lot of weapon farming in my future, cos brachy's stuff is always awesome.

Star Lord wrote: »

Got about halfway through taking the Pink Rathalos down one more time on my morning break without any major problems. Hopefully meet my quota of Inferno sacs after this one!

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Put her to sleep in a nice comfy shock trap, but only got one of the two Inferno sacs that I needed.

Nice Star Lord. Kinda off topic, but isn't it great to be able to partially do long quests across multiple breaks due to the incredible convenience offered by the 3DS's sleep mode.

This is why I've been a giant fan of portable gaming since I got my first Gameboy as a young lad, and why I nowadays get virtually all of my gaming done portably.