Monster Hunter Boardsie Caravan Ultimate Generations X G

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!

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.

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!

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.

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).

Star Lord wrote: »

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

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.

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

ShadowHearth wrote: »

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...

I got a Rathian plate from hunters for hire :P

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

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!

UberPrinny_Baal wrote: »

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:

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!!!

UberPrinny_Baal wrote: »

LR quest screenshot:

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