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Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate |OT2| I'm Felyne Eggs-tatic!

Tom_Cody

Member
Tigrex also has stripes! Also, I hope you're having fun in the higher ranks (presumably). I'm taking a break until my new 3DS arrives.
Thanks for asking.

I finally finished everything I have available in 6-star (the end of low rank) and now I'm splitting my time between 7-star and trying to craft every bow available to me up through this point.

It will be interesting to hear your opinion on playing with the new system after having spend a fair amount of time with the old one. I personally waited until I had the new system before getting the game. I wanted to be able to dive in.
 

Beats

Member
Adjusted my HBG set slightly and now I have:

Reload Speed+1
Recoil Down+2
Evasion+1
Evade Extender
Pierce Up

Using Diablos Z Cap, Torso, Waist, Diablos X Leggings and Gravios Guards X with a +8 Pierce Up charm.

I know you only need Some recoil for pierce shots, but it's nice having Low recoil for some of the other ammo types that the Crimson Fatalis HBG can use. With those skills it has Fast reload speed and Low recoil now.
 
Goddamn Pink Rathian. Still stonewalled by this f'n bitch.

Last night I joined a room of HR4 looking to increase HR, and we all needed Pinkie. So the host goes first, and we defeat her on the first try. Great! Then it's my turn, and god bless them for helping me, but THEY triple carted on 3 separate attempts. I was able to not cart through those 3 attempts and still deal pretty good damage. After that I had to go to bed.

Made a solo attempt again this morning and triple carted. Might be time to get a new armor set. I'm currently around 260 armor. FML.
 

Shengar

Member
Holy crap, honing defense on gunner weapon make ton of difference. I was regularly one shotted by Apex monsters, but not anymore with that juicy +60 defense and Divine Protection.
But Silver Cataclyism Unkalos still too hardcore for Hermitaur Z ;__;

And that was a good hunting session! Got 4 Zenith Gems and 5 Large Zenith Gems.
 

Tom_Cody

Member
Can someone explain to me how damage type works? Or where can I learn about it?
I'm watching Gaijin Hunter's Weapon Tutorials and has laid out the attack damage (ie: 20, 15 stun, 10 exhaust). I suppose what I want to know is, do the monsters have a 'stun' and 'exhaust' gauge?
The way damage is calculated is extremely complicated. Gaijin Hunter has done a number of articles on this topic.
http://gaijinhunter.tumblr.com/post/93477147957/mh4-damage-and-calculation-articles

The numbers you mentioned from his videos are the "motion values". This is one of ~6 numbers that goes into calculating how much damage an individual hit does. The simplest way to explain them is that game directly offers more damage to attacks with slower animations.
http://gaijinhunter.tumblr.com/post/92814625497/mh4-understanding-motion-values
 

PrankT

Member
Holy crap, honing defense on gunner weapon make ton of difference. I was regularly one shotted by Apex monsters, but not anymore with that juicy +60 defense and Divine Protection.
But Silver Cataclyism Unkalos still too hardcore for Hermitaur Z ;__;

And that was a good hunting session! Got 4 Zenith Gems and 5 Large Zenith Gems.

Divine protection is the only reason I don't hone for offense on everything. It comes in very handy for projectile users and the clumsy blademaster like myself.
 
Goddamn Pink Rathian. Still stonewalled by this f'n bitch.

Last night I joined a room of HR4 looking to increase HR, and we all needed Pinkie. So the host goes first, and we defeat her on the first try. Great! Then it's my turn, and god bless them for helping me, but THEY triple carted on 3 separate attempts. I was able to not cart through those 3 attempts and still deal pretty good damage. After that I had to go to bed.

Made a solo attempt again this morning and triple carted. Might be time to get a new armor set. I'm currently around 260 armor. FML.
260? Yeah that's on the low side of things. Are you on now cause I wouldn't mind helping ya.
 

Shengar

Member
Divine protection is the only reason I don't hone for offense on everything. It comes in very handy for projectile users and the clumsy blademaster like myself.

Yeah, offense honing looks pathetic in number (it's different if the shown increased value is for true attack though).
 
The way damage is calculated is extremely complicated. Gaijin Hunter has done a number of articles on this topic.
http://gaijinhunter.tumblr.com/post/93477147957/mh4-damage-and-calculation-articles

The numbers you mentioned from his videos are the "motion values". This is one of ~6 numbers that goes into calculating how much damage an individual hit does. The simplest way to explain them is that game directly offers more damage to attacks with slower animations.
http://gaijinhunter.tumblr.com/post/92814625497/mh4-understanding-motion-values

Oh wow. Guess I'll be looking at this throughout the weekend. Link is blocked at work x_x
 

cHaotix8

Member
Hi guys. What's the most efficient way to acquire Elder Dragon Bones? I'm hoarding Insect Glaives at the moment and need a ton of them to level up my kinsects.
 

tuffy

Member
Hi guys. What's the most efficient way to acquire Elder Dragon Bones? I'm hoarding Insect Glaives at the moment and need a ton of them to level up my kinsects.
The 6 star Caravan quest "Wicked Wings" against Kushala Daora drops them frequently.
 

upandaway

Member
Just did the Kecha Wacha huntathon with the Nerscylla glaive, I thought it was level appropriate but they kept dying within 1:30 minutes, not even enough time for the golden boost (that I got off the previous Kecha Wacha's corpse) to end. Kecha Wachas dropping left and right.

I ended up accomplishing my lifelong dream of hunting 10 monsters in the same quest. Judging by my whetstones I think I did around 15 of them.
 

Rawk Hawk

Member
Just made a room for the advanced kushala fight for wycoon trade upgrade. If anyone wants to join in, 31-2373-7941-2498. No password or anything.

After that one more akantor fight and I should have the parts I need for new armor.
 

Shengar

Member
Just did the Kecha Wacha huntathon with the Nerscylla glaive, I thought it was level appropriate but they kept dying within 1:30 minutes, not even enough time for the golden boost (that I got off the previous Kecha Wacha's corpse) to end. Kecha Wachas dropping left and right.

I ended up accomplishing my lifelong dream of hunting 10 monsters in the same quest. Judging by my whetstones I think I did around 15 of them.

Panda, you're doing a genocide you know?
 

Ken

Member
Imagine if MonHun had a persistent online world with actual population count and respawn cycles for monsters.

No one would be able to make Kecha armor for weeks.
 

Poyunch

Member
So I've completed the 6-star Urgent,
Whole Lava Love
, multiple times yet I can't get to 7-star Village quests. What's going on?
 

Rawk Hawk

Member
Just made a room for the advanced kushala fight for wycoon trade upgrade. If anyone wants to join in, 31-2373-7941-2498. No password or anything.

After that one more akantor fight and I should have the parts I need for new armor.

Thanks to those who came to help, unfortunately for my armor right now my only three slot charm with something close to 10 was thunder resistance.

So with mizuha cap and akantor everything else I end up with: sharpness +1, hg earplugs, crit eye +1 and Thunder resist +1. Have one free slot, so if another three slot charm roles around I will have two slots to use on what it has.

Hoping this holds me to seregios.
 

Anteo

Member
So I've completed the 6-star Urgent,
Whole Lava Love
, multiple times yet I can't get to 7-star Village quests. What's going on?

You dont need to do that quest to unlock 7-star.
After you beat Shagaru Malaga go to Dundorma to start the high rank quest
 

tuffy

Member
16 Distorted Fragments later:
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Not sure what else to mix with it since my LBG arsenal is still a work-in-progress. But Artian X or its pieces were the core of a lot of my LBG sets and I'd missed it.
 

ys45

Member
Anyone want to help me and my 2 other friends with HR6 urgent quest ?
That shagaru magala is a pain -_-


51-1230-7804-5513

EDIT: password : 1256
 

PrankT

Member
Anyone want to do one or two high rank brute tigrex arena runs for coins? 63-2177-0596-3491

Had to leave after one. Going to do deviljo and gravios later.
 
Hello. I'm using Duel Blades and I was wondering what would the best armor set for it at my tier? I am currently using Dual Cleavers+ with full set of Tetsucabra armor. I'm currently at Tier 5 (I haven't done any online quests).
 

robox

Member
Pink Rathian is a betch.
too fast. too deadly. always gotta be on your toes since because anytime you're under it and anytime it has finished cooldown, it's backflip time. and that's near instant death
trying to work on it with low rank gear; it's not going well
 
Do you guys think the ace gear is worth making for dual blades? I'm looking at it and it looks like it's worth it with all the slots and the only downside is bleeding (lol)
 

Shengar

Member
There should be room now. For whatever reason as soon as the quest starts I get a "Sassy has exited/left the gathering hall" and then disconnect/connection error myself.

Full again :(
You think there is enough people for a second room?
 

Neki

Member
So I want to try Hunting Horn because I never see anyone use it and I'd like to be awesome like that, so does anyone have tips? Gameplay, armor sets or weapons? I think everyone likes the Seregios hunting horn because of the auto sharpen?
 
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