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Monster Hunter Boardsie Caravan Ultimate Generations X G

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,120 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    ...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.
    I remember telling you guys while I was doing that quest! I thought "Right, I know the rocks are going to block the paths after I go through them, so I'll take the longest route first."

    The b*****ds still blocked the shortest path first... :mad:

    And I got sniped by a feckin remobras while mid-air with an egg!

    [edit]Yup, was here! http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=99775222
    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.
    Yeah, it's brilliant! Love it! Hate when you do that and it dies in your pocket before you can get home to charge it though!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,911 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    So while misses at work i managed to play a bit.

    Found a room with a few lads in they had colourful feast quest on. Well my luck. I bet we will cart like skittles left right amd centre.
    To my surprise we did amd on first run I got 2 Seregios lenses and 1 zinogre sky emerald. I think I used out all my good luck tokens for the year. :pac:
    Our party was really damn good. We did quest 7 times and actually completed it 5 times! Both wipes were instant and very funny. Amd when we on the ball we just steam rolled quest.
    It was enough for me to have all special tickets, all parts needed for full set to make star knight, the only thing that's left is 5 damn immemsiness tickets... After 5 apex Diablos I got only one ffs... Nerd rage intensifies!!!
    Looks like the hardest part only begins. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,911 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Played a bit more last night, would have played more, but got died from awesome group. :(
    They were Al very chatty and good crack. We killed chamelios ( I think it is called), then did one more apex Diablos and he droped two tickets! So 2 more left for full star knight. Did gogmio or what's it's called. And that mother fecker is damn damage sponge! Love it's design and looks, but God he has some one shot hits. Makes even harder when fight is so long.
    They wanted to do white fatalis, but I could not due to low g rank. :( So I said I will leave and they cam get someone else, I did not wanted to hold them back. Instead they just told me not to leave and stay, our team had great hunts. After that they just said that will do key quests for me, but I got dced for some reason. It was already late, I decided to go sleep. :(

    Highlight is for me from last night ( outside of great friendly hunting party) was chamelios. I don't know why, but I just love the monster. It looks cool, it's mechanics cool. I kind of felt sad taking him down. :(

    Going to party with misses tonight, so no hinting for most of weekend.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,239 ✭✭✭UberPrinny_Baal


    So I beat the Frenzied Zinogre which unlocked nothing, then beat the Brachydios which unlocked a Frenzied Brachydios Tradable parts quest.

    Killing Brachy as expected made a bunch of fantastic armour and weapons appear in my shop. I'm going to be fighting this bollocks for a while to make his Bow, LBG and HBG. Not gonna mess around with multiple armoursets though.

    I beat the tradable parts Frenzied Brachydios which unlocked LR Diablos gear in my shop.

    Anybody who's played any MH game knows that Diablos gear is generally always the best for Greatswords and Pierce HBGing, and this stuff looks no different.

    Pierce Up, Loading and Quick Sheath is really good, but I already had my heart set on the ridiculous gimmick of using the Dah'ran Mohran unscathed set, so I'm gonna stick with that and just make the Diablos HBG. But that means I need to kill EVEN MORE Brachydios.

    This means I'll technically be making 4 weapons out of Brachydios parts. That's a record for this character.

    From a quest perspective beating the Frenzied Brachydios unlocked........ NOTHING.

    That's it. I did it. I beat all the LR caravan quests without touching high rank! :D

    I put up a bucketload of Miiverse screenshots to mark the occasion (I might post some later), went and did a bunch of the other LR DLC Events for fun (Kill many Felynes, Kill Tiny Kut Ku etc etc) and then got back to the serious business of trying to farm Rathalos and Rathian plates.

    I did "Two Live Crew" (Los and Ian together) a bunch of times with zero luck. In between I was obviously maintaining my Wycoon, Sunsnug Island, Maximeld talismans and Hunters for Hire.

    Then to my surprise, my nephew's character returned from HIS hunter for hire mission to fight a Rathalos and Rathian, and just handed me a goddamn Rathian Plate.

    Yo, thanks.

    The student has become the master.

    With Rathian down, I looked up what the best quest was for Rathalos-only plate farming, and Kironico pointed to the last LR DLC event quest, which looks like Double Frenzied Rathalos, but is actually one frenzied and one regular.

    I beat this a bunch of times with various weapons and had no success.

    Then I fell into the logic trap of blindly following %s without considering the other factors

    "I'm only breaking these Rathaloses faces, backs, getting shines and capping. Every time I do this quest and don't bother to cut their tails I am LEAVING Rathalos plates on the table. I have no problems killing them with whatever weapon, I'll just bring the Grenade Launcher+ and cut their tales plus everything I've already been doing, that way I'm swimming in % chances."

    What I failed to consider though, was that there's some maths behind the fact that if I can beat a quest repeatedly quickly and easily; I have a good chance of eventually getting a plate; rather than purposefully pursuing a slower course of action that extra 4% tail carve.

    I was already slumming it damage wise by bringing an Autotracker, Capture Guru, Attack UP S set (courtesy of a Psychic +7 talisman I recently got from Maximeld).

    That's a big damage drop from my AuXL set, but I felt like it was worth it, since I save time with Autotracker finding the monsters and not messing around with paintballs, and I want Cap Guru since you can't carve plates from dead bodies.

    Worst again is the fact that this is a gathering hall quest, so I do less damage to the monsters anyway.

    But then to make that worse again the Grenade Launcher+ is a pretty weak LBG that can ONLY rapid fire Slicing shots.

    So I was missing out on second-to-second damage by taking my time lining up my shots and being careful to hit the tail, rather than just relentlessly attacking. And then when I got the tail off I had to switch to a different bullet, but that LBG doesn't rapid fire anything else, so nothing did good damage.

    On this run it seemed to take me a ridiculously long time to cut the first Rathalos tail (had to combine extra slicing shots to even manage that), and even longer to kill him. Then when I engaged the second rathlos I saw a message pop up on my screen that I don't think I've ever seen on this character before.

    "10 minute remaining"

    I tried my best to cut his tail or break ANYTHING; but I didn't manage any of that, and pathetically slinked away via subquest when it got to the final minute of the quest.

    It's a lesson learned though.

    From now on, rather than trying to get every optimised part of the Rathalos, I'm just going to do what I SHOULD have done, and combine my Autotracker/Cap Guru set with my single most powerful weapon and go for the fastest kill I can.

    If I can manage some face and back breaks along the way, great.

    If not, it's no biggie, I'm putting my faith in speed and quest rewards.

    Hopefully others can learn from my folly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,120 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    Didn't get any hunting time over the weekend, but gonna try for the last inferno sacs at lunch time.
    C'mere lil' pinky, you know you like the taste of my tranq bombs!!!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,120 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    Pinky didn't like my tranq bombs, let her rest up twice, and both times she awoke rather narked to see me approaching to lay my trap! Ended up just killing her instead, but I did get a carve of an inferno sac, and two more in the rewards, so now I'm looking pretty in pink Rathian charge blade!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,911 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Almost though it finally became my blog. :D

    I had a good hangover bed time on Sunday with my 3ds. Managed to actually build a star knight set. Thing is, I don't really have much use for it yet and my Lance Seregios build is damn good.

    I did a nice set off that star knight:

    Evade +2 ( lost Evade 3 :( )
    Handicraft
    Edge lore
    Mounting
    spirit aka challenger +2

    It's very decent Lance set, but I have no elemental Lances. Stupidly I finally discovered how the greyed out element looks like by making t. Zamtrios Lance and after first fight seeing that I don't do any paralysis damage. So paralysis was actually greyed out.
    So yeah, feel like a complete idiot after playing 170h and seeing that lol. Turns out there are so damn many weapon s with hidden element! Actually annoying! Free element skill is kind of important for some weapons builds.

    I started from scratch dios Lance at lever 3, i got needed low rank qs amd mamaged to get it up to rank 7. I just need few non rare parts from g rank Brachydios and I will have rank 9 dios Lance! Can't wait!

    With Nintendo online down all day, I could not hunt for Brachydios parts. :( ah maybe tonight.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,239 ✭✭✭UberPrinny_Baal


    Sorry I've been quiet, mostly just unsucessfully farming Rathalos plates, and when that's done I'll need to kill Dah'ran Mohran a few more times just for common parts. Not very exciting.

    My missus has gotten back into Pokemon X, so that has inclinded me towards replaying my copy of Y.

    There is a thing I like to do with completed Pokemon games I call "Planned Playthoughs", this is where I decide in advance who my 6 Pokemon will be, get them as eggs or below level 5, trade them over to a fresh file, and only use those for the run. I've done some brokenly fun runs in the past where I've used Legendaries like Lv.1 Manaphy (from Pokemon Ranger) or Lv.5 Jirachi (from Pokemon Channel) who I've had lying around for literally years.

    One time I used a Poison Heal (recovers 1/8th max heal each turn while poisoned) Breloom who was mostly holding a Toxic Orb (to poison himself) but otherwise held a leftovers (more healing) who also knew Leech Seed (More healing), Giga Drain (More healing), Spore (100% Sleep chance) and Facade (140 base power if inflicted with a status, which he always was). He'd have been a completely unkillable monster if not from the fact he took quadruple damage from flying attacks, and everyone and his mother can learn Aerial Ace. Nonsense like that amuses me, so I've thrown together a team of 6 gimmicky pokemon to see how I get on. It's a little easier to play on my lunch than Monster Hunter, since it's turn based, but it's not even remotely as much fun.

    Also Miiverse screenshots are disabled in Pokemon. That's really stupid.

    I did however play my main Monster Hunter character briefly for the first time in months. I saw someone posting on Reddit saying that when capturing monsters you always need a trap, UNLESS you can put a monster into a "trap like state", like with when you Sonic Bomb a Diablos. In THOSE situations, they claim, you do not need a trap.

    "WTF is this?" I said to myself "I've been hunting Diablos for literally 4 games now, and I never knew this. By god though, I am not taking some random's word for it on the internet."

    Grabbed my cap set (Capture God, Partbreaker, Auto Tracker, Divine Blessing), ate for Felyne specialist and set out to Capture HR Caravan Monoblos.

    4 minutes in he was flashing on the map, so I stopped attacking to wait for him to burrow while not enraged.

    Three minute later, he did so, I threw a sonic bomb. He popped up flailing in a "trap-like-state". I threw two tranqs. Nothing.

    Third Tranq. Nothing.

    He left to the hole, I dropped a shock trap. He landed in it. Nothing.

    Fourth tranq. Captured.

    Final analysis: Capping Diablos and Monoblos with only Sonic Bombs is a big pile of crap, and don't believe anything anyone tells you about monster hunter unless you test it yourself.
    Unless that person is me. :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,120 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    I'd realized that I never got a non-urgent mission with Shagaru Magala, so I went looking, and found I'd never done the one open mission I had left on 6* caravan, which was to take down a Frenzied Zamtrios and a Frenzied Tetsucabra. Took them both out with ease, and went back to report in to the cowardly Felyne, who had another mission for me, Frenzied Iodrome and Gore Magala. The Iodrome was nuts, moving like it'd taken a load of red bull combined with application of deep heat to it's nether regions... I've never seen a monster move like it did! Took it down easily enough, and broke it's head with a nice shield shot (can't remember what you call that move...) and the Gore Magala took a little bit more effort, but also fell with ease (after I abandoned it half way through to go look for more whetstones!)

    Still no shagaru, or other missions. I'll have to check what the triggers for those are!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,239 ✭✭✭UberPrinny_Baal


    Star Lord wrote: »
    Still no shagaru, or other missions. I'll have to check what the triggers for those are!

    At my level, I think there was just one Shaggy mission. So I'm not sure what you would need for another to appear.

    The urgent itself is called "Advanced: Heaven's Wheel" I think, and since it's Advanced it just cycles in and out randomly once you've completed it.

    If you're just after LR Shaggy parts, quiting and reloading your file cycles advanced quests, so you can find it that way.

    If you specifically want a different quest, I dunno what you need (other than being a higher HR than me).


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,120 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    I wanted to try farm it for some of those tasty parts to upgrade my Gore weapon! :D

    Didn't know that about the Advanced missions, so I'll have to check that, and on looking I remember the green lady mentioning the "Whole Lava Love" mission, but never did it, perhaps I just needed to check the Urgent missions!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,239 ✭✭✭UberPrinny_Baal


    Star Lord wrote: »
    I wanted to try farm it for some of those tasty parts to upgrade my Gore weapon! :D

    Didn't know that about the Advanced missions, so I'll have to check that, and on looking I remember the green lady mentioning the "Whole Lava Love" mission, but never did it, perhaps I just needed to check the Urgent missions!!!

    Since that was very recent in my file i can tell you that Whole Lava Love unlocks a Frenzied Brachydios tradable parts quest to get LR Diablos stuff. Nothing else.

    Yeah, how advanced quests populate is truly random, you just need to load your file, check it's there, and if it's not, quit (whether you save or not doesn't matter), reload again, and different quests will be there.

    This is distinct from kitchen food bonuses which are predetermined: If you are aiming for a specific fixed kitchen skill and don't get it, you will never get it no matter how many times you reload.

    What you need to do in that situation is depart on a quest, complete or abandon it, then eat at the kitchen once you're back in town.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,120 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    Since that was very recent in my file i can tell you that Whole Lava Love unlocks a Frenzied Brachydios tradable parts quest to get LR Diablos stuff. Nothing else.

    Looking at the MH Wikia, looks like we've the following:
    Whole Lava Love - Brachydios
    -[HR4] Hammer it out (Tetsucabra)
    --
    [HR5] Hammer it home (Gravios)
    ---
    [HR6] Advanced: Tigrex Challenge (Brute Tigrex)
    ---[HR7] URGENT: Advanced: Deep Trouble (Teostra)
    -Advanced: Dragon's Din (Frenzied Brachydios)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,239 ✭✭✭UberPrinny_Baal


    Oh cool, I guess those middle quests will appear if/when I advance my multiplayer rank.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,239 ✭✭✭UberPrinny_Baal


    Doublepost because: Rebel.

    Rathalos plate farming is getting me down. I had a bad run earlier where I grabbed what I thought was the correct itemset for the job, but then realised into the quest that it was one of my stupid old ones that had "Dung" instead of "Dung Bombs", as well as no antidotes or Herbal meds, which is frustrating on a double Rathalos quest.

    After capping the first Rathalos, and making the second limp away, I had a very annoying moment where in the area right before the nest I was thinking

    "Hmm, better make sure I have my shock trap selected and my tranq shots loaded in my gun ready to go"

    Then I notice my character rummaging around on the ground instead of reloading his gun.

    "Oh that's weird. Did I press a wrong button? What's my character doing? Is he gathering?"

    *Character places shock trap*

    "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

    What followed for the next 10 minutes was me gently kicking the sleeping Frenzied Rathalos awake and trying to get it to follow me back to the previous area for the cap. I even tried hitting it with paintballs to wake it and then furiously steal a Wyvern egg and try to run away with it before it roars and I drop the egg; so that it follows me out of area.

    During all this nonsense I even got killed, and dropped to below 10 minute of quest time.

    Eventually I did manage to coax it back to the same area with the shock trap, but it wasn't touching the ground.

    Then right before it landed where I wanted it to, the trap self destructed.

    "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

    I let it leave and sleep, and thought a volley of siege fired Pierce 2 would be enough to kill it, but it woke up, attacked and nearly killed me a second time.

    Final quest time was something stupid like 46 minutes, and the quest rewards?

    Not a single plate.

    It's moments like these that make me want to stop playing this alt altogether and just relax with bloody Pokemon until Generations drops.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,911 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Doublepost because: Rebel.

    Rathalos plate farming is getting me down. I had a bad run earlier where I grabbed what I thought was the correct itemset for the job, but then realised into the quest that it was one of my stupid old ones that had "Dung" instead of "Dung Bombs", as well as no antidotes or Herbal meds, which is frustrating on a double Rathalos quest.

    After capping the first Rathalos, and making the second limp away, I had a very annoying moment where in the area right before the nest I was thinking

    "Hmm, better make sure I have my shock trap selected and my tranq shots loaded in my gun ready to go"

    Then I notice my character rummaging around on the ground instead of reloading his gun.

    "Oh that's weird. Did I press a wrong button? What's my character doing? Is he gathering?"

    *Character places shock trap*

    "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

    What followed for the next 10 minutes was me gently kicking the sleeping Frenzied Rathalos awake and trying to get it to follow me back to the previous area for the cap. I even tried hitting it with paintballs to wake it and then furiously steal a Wyvern egg and try to run away with it before it roars and I drop the egg; so that it follows me out of area.

    During all this nonsense I even got killed, and dropped to below 10 minute of quest time.

    Eventually I did manage to coax it back to the same area with the shock trap, but it wasn't touching the ground.

    Then right before it landed where I wanted it to, the trap self destructed.

    "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

    I let it leave and sleep, and thought a volley of siege fired Pierce 2 would be enough to kill it, but it woke up, attacked and nearly killed me a second time.

    Final quest time was something stupid like 46 minutes, and the quest rewards?

    Not a single plate.

    It's moments like these that make me want to stop playing this alt altogether and just relax with bloody Pokemon until Generations drops.

    Oh the irony.i told you before: I don't even thing such thing as rathalos or rathian plate exist. I now just check upgrade paths of weapons and if I see it mentioned it just gets scrapped.
    I killed my share of those flying bastards in 3u and 4u. Its still a myth. I got like 5 Seregios lenses, 4 zinogre emeralds. I got even elder dragon gem already...

    My story kind of similar to yours. I got pissed off with g rank Brachydios. Killed 3 and not a single one droped pounder+, which is 59% chance if you break front legs. Finding Brachydios groups is another **** story. Fighting it as lancers is hard too.
    I kind of got really pissed off with it so last night I took out pokemon ruby or wtf it's called and fired it up. Poked my pokemon virginity amd I have no clue wtf am I doing after 3 hours in. Checked noob guides online amd feck all. Only super duper competitive stuff. I Want to learn wall before run lol.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,485 ✭✭✭✭Banjo


    I....uh.... I got a Rathian plate off my first Rathian.....


    Sorry...


    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,239 ✭✭✭UberPrinny_Baal


    Oh the irony.i told you before: I don't even thing such thing as rathalos or rathian plate exist. I now just check upgrade paths of weapons and if I see it mentioned it just gets scrapped.
    I killed my share of those flying bastards in 3u and 4u. Its still a myth. I got like 5 Seregios lenses, 4 zinogre emeralds. I got even elder dragon gem already...

    My story kind of similar to yours. I got pissed off with g rank Brachydios. Killed 3 and not a single one droped pounder+, which is 59% chance if you break front legs. Finding Brachydios groups is another **** story. Fighting it as lancers is hard too.
    I kind of got really pissed off with it so last night I took out pokemon ruby or wtf it's called and fired it up. Poked my pokemon virginity amd I have no clue wtf am I doing after 3 hours in. Checked noob guides online amd feck all. Only super duper competitive stuff. I Want to learn wall before run lol.

    If I checked all the Rathalos and Rathian upgrades for gun weapons, I may have already used one or two. It's just this ONE I need to make the Dayspring armour is what's eluding me.

    The one monster carve that haunted my dreams was the Gobul Latern+ in Tri. I needed two to finish an upgrade to a hammer, and I was only ever able to get one, despite doing the quest over and over and over.

    It was a 14% drop chance if you broke his Latern (which wasn't easy in that game).

    I farmed everything else in that game, but just eventually had to give up on this one. Then the servers went down, so I could never finish that weapon.

    Banjo wrote: »
    I....uh.... I got a Rathian plate off my first Rathian.....


    Sorry...


    :D

    I got a Rathian plate from hunters for hire :P

    That's not the one I'm after now though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,911 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    So after work I haven't played MH4 and played a bit more pokemon, though I Already miss monster hunting. :D
    Might play a bit today after work and try Brachydios again. I need to get that star knight set to damn work! Grief elemental or status Lance!

    In other news: monster hunter generations is on smyths website. 45eu! Won't be going to gamestop paying 70eu so. :)
    Problem is it works out Friday release date. I don't know if I can get day off. :( I need that day off!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,120 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    I tried my first Brachydios fight the other day (Whole Lava Love)...

    I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't to have such a difficult fight! Failed out fairly hard to be perfectly honest! I'll have to try a bit more over the weekend, gotta learn those movement/attack patterns, and learn to predict it a little better!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,239 ✭✭✭UberPrinny_Baal


    More dead Los, not more plates. Ho-hum.

    I thought this quest was best numerically because my chances for breaks worked out like this

    Face Break 1
    Face Break 2
    Back Break 1
    Back Break 2
    Capture 1
    Capture 2
    Shiny 1
    Shiny 2
    Shiny 3
    Shiny 4
    Quest Reward 1
    Quest Reward 2
    Quest Reward 3 (Yeah three, that's why I picked this quest, these are the highest % in a quest too)

    So ignoring percentages, that's 13 opportunities for me to get a plate per quest.

    But it is a multiplayer quest. It's the most difficult special DLC quest I can do in the low rank gathering hall, and it takes me a solid 30 minutes to beat every time. So that is, if I am doing the maths correctly here and stop me if I'm not: 15 minutes per Los.

    Maybe it's time for me to pick a super easy caravan quest with one only Los, where I can beat it in less than 15 minutes while ALSO getting the tail carve with a crappy gun. If I can get 7 or 8 plate opportunities in less than 15 minutes, then it makes more sense to do more quicker runs in lunch window.

    Or I could fk it off and just play Pokemon.
    So after work I haven't played MH4 and played a bit more pokemon, though I Already miss monster hunting. :D
    Might play a bit today after work and try Brachydios again. I need to get that star knight set to damn work! Grief elemental or status Lance!

    In other news: monster hunter generations is on smyths website. 45eu! Won't be going to gamestop paying 70eu so. :)
    Problem is it works out Friday release date. I don't know if I can get day off. :( I need that day off!!!

    How are you liking the Star Knight so far? It's an obscenely versitale set imo. If you have a Handicraft +6 charm with slots you have a lot of freedom to add in 2 or 3 other skills of your choosing.

    Or if you want to drop handicraft altogher and double-down on extra skills you can do that too.

    The incredibly defense and all-around elemental resistance don't hurt either.
    Star Lord wrote: »
    I tried my first Brachydios fight the other day (Whole Lava Love)...

    I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't to have such a difficult fight! Failed out fairly hard to be perfectly honest! I'll have to try a bit more over the weekend, gotta learn those movement/attack patterns, and learn to predict it a little better!

    There's no shame in dying to Brachydios. My first time fighting him was my first triple cart in MH3U.

    Also blocking/countering is really poor against him, so for the famous "Sticky Situation" urgent in MH3U where you had to fight two at once, I ended up just dropping my beloved Lance altogether to use the Water Longsword gifted to me by the Argosy Captain. I managed to overcome the quest that way, but it was the only time in my memory of any monster hunter games where I felt like I HAD to switch away from my best weapon.

    One thing I used to do regularly in my early MH3U days was flash bomb him when he enrages, just to ease up the pressure on myself a little.

    I haven't done that in 4U, so I'm uncertain of it would help much, but there's no harm in trying it.

    Also roll three times or use a deoderant to get rid of the blastblight. Don't get hit by another blast enducing attack while you have the blight, or you'll take massive doubel damage.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,120 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    Also roll three times or use a deoderant to get rid of the blastblight. Don't get hit by another blast enducing attack while you have the blight, or you'll take massive doubel damage.

    Pretty sure that's what happened to me twice, and I was left totally dumbfounded at how I just took so much damage from an apparent single hit...
    :eek: :confused::o:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,239 ✭✭✭UberPrinny_Baal


    Star Lord wrote: »
    Pretty sure that's what happened to me twice, and I was left totally dumbfounded at how I just took so much damage from an apparent single hit...
    :eek: :confused::o:(

    Yeah that's it. I think he's even a little nerfed since 3U. I believe he used to be able to either inflict and/or detonate an existing blastblight THROUGH a blocking shield, so you can imagine my shock as a dedicated counter-lancer being functionally helpless and very very dead.

    Best thing to get you through the hard times Star Lord: 1 Biology jewel = 2 points in the Bio skill.

    10 points in the Bio skill = Immunity from blastblight (and 100% dung bomb combine rate and increased dung bomb effectiveness).

    It's easy to gem into any set, and makes blast blighting monsters a lot less stressful to fight.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,120 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    Finding my AUL and Autotracker too convenient I guess, may have to go without them for a while, and just bring some psychoserums and attack booster consumables instead!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,239 ✭✭✭UberPrinny_Baal


    Star Lord wrote: »
    Finding my AUL and Autotracker too convenient I guess, may have to go without them for a while, and just bring some psychoserums and attack booster consumables instead!!!


    Maybe yeah, for just this quest you can priortising killing Brachydios and not being killed by Brachydios over FINDING Brachydios.

    I don't want to seem like I am repeating myself thousands of times over, but the attack buffs of the drugs/kitchen are very inferior to the one you get from armourskills, but do stack with them. Ideally you should always have both.

    So dropping an attack skill for a bio skill but supplementing them with attack booster consumables will still result in a considerable attack drop.

    If you need to drop anything, leave off the points in Psychic and be liberal with throwing paintballs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,911 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Maybe yeah, for just this quest you can priortising killing Brachydios and not being killed by Brachydios over FINDING Brachydios.

    I don't want to seem like I am repeating myself thousands of times over, but the attack buffs of the drugs/kitchen are very inferior to the one you get from armourskills, but do stack with them. Ideally you should always have both.

    So dropping an attack skill for a bio skill but supplementing them with attack booster consumables will still result in a considerable attack drop.

    If you need to drop anything, leave off the points in Psychic and be liberal with throwing paintballs.

    From good old wow days:

    High dps is great, but no matter how much dps you can do, you **** all good dead.

    If having issues with Brachydios, then sacrificing dps for bio is a must. What's the point of higher damage if you get one shoted.

    Wait for g rank Brachydios guys, that's a shot storm all together.
    My very first meet with Brachydios was high rank frenzied caravan. I skipped low rank one. He just does not have any openings at all. Slow hitting weapons amd Lances are just useless. I was chipping away at him with sword mode CB and killed him only by luck with no potions left on me.

    Looks like I booked off 15th now. Will have to do baby sit too, but I will bribe a child with lots of chocolate to leave me alone upstairs surrounded by red bulls, snacks and 3ds in my hand. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 429 ✭✭Linoud


    Everything I lurk onto boards, I see this thread, and it makes me wanna play MH4U again >.> Only rank 3 though or something online, I best get playing before Generations comes out.. :L


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,911 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Haven't played in few days and tried a bit last night after work, but it all ended without a single hunt.
    Spent a lot of time looking for Brachydios hunts, then gave up and just looked for anything to hunt before bed. It all ended up crapy as by the looks of it not many people playing right now so close to mhx and those who play are just pure elitist. I got kicked as soon as connected. My G3 72hr rank is not good enough. I gave up as I just was too tired and had to wake up for work in 4 hours again.

    15th can't get any faster now. It really damn drags. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,239 ✭✭✭UberPrinny_Baal


    Here is the long promised picture spam of Miiverse screenshots from when I beat every LR quest on my gun alt.

    Weapon use stats:
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    Palico usage screenshot:
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    Award Stats:
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    Quest stats:
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    LR quest screenshot:
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    Urgent quest screenshot:
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    lol @ 1% G-Rank progress for some reason. I'll be sure to bombard you guys with words tomorrow when I have a bit more time :P


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,120 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    LR quest screenshot:
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    The grey tick on 6* really annoyed me, hate that they've quests hidden in there that only open up at specified HR levels!


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