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09-04-2016 04:06PM#1I play a lot if it, but I don't want to fill anymore other thread about it. Hopefully more hunters join in and it won't be just my blog lol.
I have to admit I am enjoying 4 a lot more then 3. They removed those horrible underwater monsters and whole concept of it. In beginning I hated vertocal gameplay idea, but after playing it I love it. Mounting a monster is very satisfying and cool mechanic. I use a lot now.
I am 30h in and only scratching the service, doing only caravan quests, but I feel I will do solo some guild Hall quests to open higher level stuff and start online.
Caravan 5star quests finally starting to give nice challenge. Some monsters really making me work for it. Just have a minor gripe right now. Its not really spoiler, but I started getting frenzied monsters, which are a lot harder, but no extra benefit over killing normal ones, just more money.
So far choice of weapon is switch blade. I love it. Still need to learn ultra burst attack though. Another gripe is that I don't get much choice of those blades. Only can make life 5 different ones and upgrade paths are not there. For example o can do about 20 different dual blades and 10 switch axes etc. So rathian and zamtrios blades the only ones I can use. To upgrade zamtrios I need selta Queens extract. Killed her 3 times and no luck. Looked online amd it's 3% drop from quest. Looks like in quests carving is not working like in guild quests.
So anyone still playing it? Or planing on? It's addictive like crack. Pretty much bought 3ds twice just because of this franchise.
Would be cool if there are any limerick players. Would be good crack to go to some pub or coffee shop amd have some local coop.
Of anyone would want to try online could do that too. Not sure how it works though with friend lists.0
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Been trying the Gore Magala again today, and keep getting stomped into paste by him!
Guess your MH3 experience is standing to you in his you can tackle him much more effectively!
Edit - just took it down!
Haha, sweet. As I said, little bit of practice and it's easy to go down.
Makes yourself that tetsuchabra set. Its pretty much a noob jaggy armour from 3. High defence and health. I used it a lot, but I am trying not to use it anymore as it makes your skill worse in the long run.
I am using Nerscylla set right now. Let's you see when monsters are ready to be captured alive and sets up traps a lot faster. Very handy set, specially when I try 99% to catch monsters.
I am at the point now to what focus on, got few options:
1. Kill a few rathians and upgrade my weapon to +. Would love to upgrade to rathalos version as it has more Base damage and lower elemental, but it needs rathalos plate... Good luck with fecking that. I killed about 50 rathians amd rathalos in Mh3 amd it never droped, it's stupidly rare part.
2. Farm gore magala amd built that switch blade. Don't know how rare parts is, but I need more variety in weapons. Switch blades are stupidly rare. I guess it's mew weapon, but still, shocking. In Mh3 I always had element specific weapons as much as I could.
3. Current quest to move on is tigrex with frenzy... Not looking forward to that. I haven't tried it, but I am pretty sure he will wipe the floors with me. They are always *****.0 -
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Ah jaysus, now I'm jonsing to play it again. Curse you, shadowhearth! Might go with the staff and bug this time...
Go on, you know you want it.
So anyway, I decided to go for ****s and giggles and try frenzied tigrex. I actually bate the living jaysus out of fellow and captured his arse. It was story continuing quest and what's next is scary...
I did cooks quest where I needed to capture rathalos amd omfg he bate the **** out of me. Those rathalos are the most annoying bastards ever and issue is I have no weapon to use against it, only fire based rathian charge blade. I still captured him, but holy **** I am not in a hurry to go after him again. I will need to though as I need parts for trade routes.
Still got some time before bed, will try to kick gore magala arse and cut his tail off.0 -
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So they weren't trying to teach me to spend hours hacking at his front right ankle, the only one susceptible to harm, and then dance away to sharpen my long blade yet again?
Ah feck.
Omfg you actually killed him like that?! respect!
I noticed at the start that is is something funny about that fight. You don't posses amyweapons with enough sharpness. So after seeing that he is stuck only in that area I figured out the cliff is there for a reason. Quite clever "learn this **** boy" by mh4.
So I killed last night few more rathalos amd upgraded my trading and weapon. Won't be back in a rush to fight those again and can't wait for pink rathalos...
I checked low rank guild quests and God they will ne tough. One and two star ones are the ones you meet at 4-5 stars in caravan quests.
I think I will try some online on day off as caravan drop rates are horrible! Farming those is just really inefficient. I got my food and trading upgraded a bit so will do for now.
First, will give a spin to 5 star urgent one, which is gore magala on steroids. That will suck.0 -
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Well, I hadn't chance to play yesterday, so i only killed pimped out gore magala that time.
From the looks of it, I am now at high rank caravan quests at 7stars. Did my very first high rank quests. Killing a crab looking monster. Can't remember name and oh boy it was a roll coaster...
At start I though it was pretty easy going. Not mm uch damage taken. Then he did an attack which took more then half of my health and I had +50 plus full bar!!! Then some other attack and I am dead... I still managed to capture it in the end, but God, it was a bit stressful after that eye opener. To make it harder you don't get supplies at start. So looks like I will need to start bringing more and farm some meat.
All in all, it's looking great. My arse will be kicked in to oblivion.
Still no proper upgrades for charge blade even now... Really annoyed. Kind of thinking of going switch axe at this point.0 -
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Try watching this Banjo, really helped it click with me!
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ShadowHearth wrote: »In a nut shell: use sword and shield until your vials glow red, then do reload. All vials turn white and it's fully charged. Then when you got a chance drop on monster go straight to axe and whole on it with A button until you do finisher. After it it will use out 3 vials and go back to sword shield. Then you can whale on it again.
If you want to do real damage, cancel out during the third/finisher A move by holding R and tapping A, and the character will switch back to sword and shield, but the shield will be glowing, as it's charged, switch to axe, and do super damage with the axe! 0 -
If you want to do real damage, cancel out during the third/finisher A move by holding R and tapping A, and the character will switch back to sword and shield, but the shield will be glowing, as it's charged, switch to axe, and do super damage with the axe!
Yeah, I finally nailed that biting point. I am doing it now depending on situation. Though I prefer smaller version of it. Better more small hits on then taking a gamble on one big one.
So I had off today and I tried online. Joined one room and got pinned with some French people.
And you can call me racist, but I hate playing with French people since wc3 battle.net times.
Never use English even when I asked them a few times. I just sucked it up and did few quests they did. I just wanted a taste of it and see how it works in lobby.
All in all online is kind of awesome! I think I will start hosting my own on some evenings and do solo meanwhile someone joins. I already did 3 quests solo and wasn't too bad. Just monsters have bigger hp pool, but rewards are way better then caravan.
I am kind of having a dilemma now. Do I continue caravan high rank quests or focus online.
Edit: fixed a lot of miss spellings and complete random words. My auto correct on phone is so rubbish. I didn't notice how bad it was. Sorry.0 -
I chickened out of online for n MH3 and my first go of 4, mainly because I never got terribly far in the solo quests (maybe rank 4 or 5 village / caravan?) and my crappy internet connections random drop outs. But the dropouts are fixed and its time to grow a pair of Gobuls :
at what point is Online feasible,
what would be a minimum equipment level,
what's the etiquette if I refuse to use any voice chat facility,
do I need to be proficient in multiple weapons or is it OK to be mediocre at just the one?
Do I need to bring along potions and whetstones or is foraging encouraged?
Do I need to know how to use the cook? (I never normally bother)
Can a ****e hunter bring anything to a team by acting as bait, clearing minions, accidentally fainting and not being able to find their way back to the right area etc etc?
I'm pretty sure its racist of your spell checker to fix it to "resist" while speaking of the French you're in the clear! 0 -
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I chickened out of online for n MH3 and my first go of 4, mainly because I never got terribly far in the solo quests (maybe rank 4 or 5 village / caravan?) and my crappy internet connections random drop outs. But the dropouts are fixed and its time to grow a pair of Gobuls :
at what point is Online feasible,
what would be a minimum equipment level,
what's the etiquette if I refuse to use any voice chat facility,
do I need to be proficient in multiple weapons or is it OK to be mediocre at just the one?
Do I need to bring along potions and whetstones or is foraging encouraged?
Do I need to know how to use the cook? (I never normally bother)
Can a ****e hunter bring anything to a team by acting as bait, clearing minions, accidentally fainting and not being able to find their way back to the right area etc etc?
I'm pretty sure its racist of your spell checker to fix it to "resist" while speaking of the French you're in the clear!
I didn't do much online myself even in 3, but I know basics.
Gear wise, it's hard to say. Game is very mature now so not many people do low rank. I think best bet now is to solo 1-2 star quests. I think it's still possible to find games. If you want we can do it together. Will be a lot easier to focus quests needed, then try 3 randomers to do quests you need to progress. Its still has basic chat type option. Enough to communicate.
You will need to be on the ball with your own gear and items. Not so much important in low rank, but you need to be in habit of always having your own :
20 Wheatstone
10 potions+
10 potions
10 honey
10 well done meat
5 hot drinks
5 cold drinks
10 paint balls
That's my 101 setup. I always have pick axes, bug nets, trap and tranquilliser bombs too.
You must learn And use cook. Its like bringing potions with you. Its a massive free boost. I never leave on quest without eating. Its very easy. Combine all possible foods amd see what buffs they give. Just always try to use fresh food and the one that has most stars.
Upgrading your kitchen is very very important!0 -
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Was very happy yesterday, completing that mission where you've to take down both the Rathalos and the Zinogre first try, and same with the Tigrex. The Shagaru Magala brought me back down to earth though! Think I almost had it in the end, but it's fairly fierce and relentless, and got the better of me! Nowhere to hide in order to recover in that area either! So times when I was trying to heal/sharpen, it'd stomp me into a paste...
Yeah, those two quests actually were easier then I expected. Tigrex can be a dick sometimes though, In HR quests I can already see it being a massive DICK!
Yup, that Shagaru Magala is nasty. When it transforms its pretty much becomes a dance to avoid death, I dont even try throw in any punches. In few seconds it will just drain you of all HP you got. I think he managed to get me fainted once, but it was still a very hard fight. Normal Mogala is a kitty compared to this bastard.
I played a bit more last night and did a few HR caravan quests. Focused on Monsters that were in low, but now HR for now. So you fight same monsters as in LR quests, but they are a lot nastier with higher hp and a lot more damage. More aggresive too. They drop HR rank parts, so you can make a lot better gear. So far there are already few sets that I want to build. I pretty much skimmed all low rank sets as they were not giving me much, but now almost every single new set I unlock has very Tasty skills and stats.
I am working next 2 days 11-13 hours shifts so wont have much time to play. Then off Sunday and Monday, but we planned a Sunday just for two of us so I doubt I will have time to play MH4. Unless I will sneak out somewhere, when she falls a sleep!
Looks like I already hit 40h+ mark on MH4 and still the only game that was in current 3DS. 0 -
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Well, I Had a heavy hangover today. So evening was in bed with monster hunter.
Got few things done now. Made myself almost full set of velociprey S set with g. Jaggy S gloves. Can't make gloves as I miss parts that you can get only from hr gravios. All in all turned out a nice set. Attack (L) and Stun+ with **** loads of defence. Was worth grinding hr caravan quests for a bit.
While at it did few more 7star hr quests and did all key quests for 1star gathering Hall quests. Need to do urgent quest and will be at 2 stars.
Still using charge blade, but I got myself black guard instead and loving it. Need to do more gathering Hall quests as those drop parts that don't drop in caravan quests amd the reason such a low charge blade selection.0 -
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When do the HR quests kick in?
I mean, I'm miles off but it's nice to have something to look forward to
Went through the Basarios and Nercylla last night. I couldn't help myself doing a bit of an ankle-hack-a-thon on the former, but mounted him a few times and it was a lot quicker than my last play through. I remember Nercylla being a lot tougher to kill last time, took me a good few tries. Maybe it's the Charge Blade and Tetsucabra armour, or maybe I'm a better hunter than I used to be but that spindly motherfather was limping from VERY early on and I barely needed any additional supplies on top of the chest freebies. Christ it's fast though...
Looking forward to upgrading my blade - is it worth building a couple of Defenders Blades so I can take the charge blade down a few paths, or do I need to diversify my arsenal a little? If so, What's a good complimentary weapon?0
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