Agreed, that's why I want to start using guard points. It's so hard to position correctly for longer animation moves for faster monsters. At least with Guard Points I will know exactly where the monster is when it's hitting me. Ironically, my fastest clear time with Nargacuga was with a Lance user that was just counter poking his face over and over again.
Yea a lot of them are canteen/harvesting quests, and then you get the slew of mantles/boosters. There are entire sets of Iceborne quests for the tools to improve each of them, so it probably makes sense to do what you can now.
I was like "where have I heard this before?" Then I realized you posted almost the same thing a few posts above, haha. Are you doing heavy or light? I watched this speedrun video last night and it was the most fun I had watching a MH video. The bowguns can do some really ridiculous things.
I saw some of those LBGs. Rapid fire sticky 2s and that new evade reload mod sound great. I want to try it but I can't let go of HBG shield. It's teaching me so many bad habits since I rely on it so much. I feel like HBG got the short end on mods though. Yeah, the scope is a huge upgrade in terms of damage but it's so unwieldy to use.
I'm hoping for Gore Magala, but I doubt they'd do one single monster that uses the "Frenzy" mechanic. Also, Qurupeco for the memes, though everyone is already trained into carrying dung pods thanks to Bazel from the base game.Not getting a new monster until May so I'm not playing until May.
I pray for Fatalis.
Everybody got the major update when IB released, you just can't access the new content without the expansion.
It's a good time to get in again, there are a ton of event quests active right now for limited time stuff. Also, they added "Defender" armor and weapons to the base game to get people into the expansion quickly, so it's super easy to get through story now, even solo. Right now higher ranked players are incentivized to help new players to get tickets they need to make event items, so good chances are you'll get some HR100+ player join your quests and dunk on monsters in 2-3 minutes.
What weapon(s) do you like? I spent like 150+ hours using long sword and then 150+ using the hammer. I guess I don't like change
I've used almost everything in the series by now. I'll probably go LBG (which I've used a fair amount) or Gunlance (which I've barely used). Longsword would also be a fun choice since I really like the bursty "charge up" gameplay style and I haven't used it since MHG on 3DS.What weapon(s) do you like? I spent like 150+ hours using long sword and then 150+ using the hammer. I guess I don't like change
Longsword added a bunch of moves that make it a weeb dream machine now. You have various counters, a sheath Iai attack, etc. It's a lot of fun in Iceborne. Gunlance's only real addition is a monster buttplug, but they bumped the damage up at least.
I liked how they added the ability to build up a meter which grants damage bonus and a powerful finisher. Gives the weapon some much-needed DPS options to "dump all your phials" (to steal a CB term) into a downed enemy. I haven't played the LS since MH4U/MHG so I'm sure the weapon is even more versatile now.
Personally I love the LBG, especially in team play. Keeping a monster locked down for most of the match with status shots while also breaking all their parts, shooting them out of the air, and randomly staggering them is immensely satisfying. HBG is okay but the extra damage isn't worth the loss of mobility, imo. In fairness, I haven't sunk much time into MHW's version of the weapon.
Spread HBG damage is great but chasing after weakpoints can be a real pain in multiplayer. Depending on your build, rolling around to move faster is actually a bad idea since it means your shield isn't up. But when that shield is up, you're near invincible. Really, really slow but really, really tough. Three shield mods give the equivalent of the base lance shield, then you can bump that up with Guard 5 and Guard Up. And you really don't need much in terms of damage skills to get a workable build either, the only ones I have are Weakness Exploit 3, Crit Eye 7 and Crit Boost 3. The build I have now even has Divine Blessing 5 though I plan to ditch it once Rajang hits to make a more flexible build that can use the charm slot for utility such as Effluvial Resist for Vaal or relevant elemental resists or just the Spare Shot charm for general use. I did have a build that also ran Offensive Guard but I had to use Glider/Elemental mantles to keep Weakness Exploit up and it was annoying needing to constantly micromanage mantles so I dropped it. I'd much rather have Rocksteady/Temporal for easy clutch claw tenderizing anyway.
Thanks for the info! This is the kind of sexy damage I saw that made me want to try out HBG. I'll see what I can do with the guard set. Do you try to slot in any recoil mods too or just triple guard all the way?Spread HBG damage is great but chasing after weakpoints can be a real pain in multiplayer. Depending on your build, rolling around to move faster is actually a bad idea since it means your shield isn't up. But when that shield is up, you're near invincible. Really, really slow but really, really tough. Three shield mods give the equivalent of the base lance shield, then you can bump that up with Guard 5 and Guard Up. And you really don't need much in terms of damage skills to get a workable build either, the only ones I have are Weakness Exploit 3, Crit Eye 7 and Crit Boost 3. The build I have now even has Divine Blessing 5 though I plan to ditch it once Rajang hits to make a more flexible build that can use the charm slot for utility such as Effluvial Resist for Vaal or relevant elemental resists or just the Spare Shot charm for general use. I did have a build that also ran Offensive Guard but I had to use Glider/Elemental mantles to keep Weakness Exploit up and it was annoying needing to constantly micromanage mantles so I dropped it. I'd much rather have Rocksteady/Temporal for easy clutch claw tenderizing anyway.
Here's a pic for damage reference for one shot of Spread 3. The previous combo was from using all 8 rounds. Without the Demon Powder and Might Seed but with the Mega Demon Drug, it's 39 per pellet which is still respectable. No food buffs too. Putting on Special Scope bumps the damage way up but I hate using it.
Though honestly I probably play pierce more cause all the range is a nice quality of life boost. I made a sticky/cluster build but I made the mistake of testing it out on Barioth and I got traumatized, haha.
I run 3 shield mods, 1 recoil (which brings down Spread 3 to +1 recoil), and 1 close range. Try playing around with Special Scope if you like, if I ditch the guard charm for an attack charm and switch the mods to 3 close range, 1 recoil, 1 scope I hit around 60 per pellet which is just insane. Good luck playing scoped in multiplayer though.
No, all the high rank armors are worthless now, just focus on getting the layered cosmetics instead of the actual armor for LR/HR armors now. On the other hand, there is now event tickets to let you upgrade the crossover weapons to a MR version, but not the armors
Yea while not absolutely "required" i would never fight him without poison immunity, it's just too big of a QoL difference on his fight particularly. The para isn't nearly as bad to deal with.
Funny thing is his design is pretty cool.
I think it's a bit unfair that monsters gain massively increasing resistance to status but the player can get hit with them back to back. I always try to make variants of my main builds where I can switch the charm or a few decos around to gain immunity from a specific element or status to get around it.
I don't even have a specific goal like an event, I burned myself out just plain grinding for the sake of grinding. I only started on PC when Iceborne released and I already have nearly 300 hours in the game. Now I'm just relaxing by catching endemics and fishing instead of hunting. There's a spot in Iceborne that has 100% spawn for Great Sushifish so I guess I'm still kinda grinding but easy Great Sushifish scales are just such a great item to have.
I almost always do poison weapons in early game. It's very strong and since you go through story monsters so fast, you don't have to worry about elemental weaknesses/resistances. I feel like it's not worth the trade off in damage at endgame though. Maybe for faster/flying enemies that you can't always hit, but even then it's probably better to bring poison knives or bombs or something. Poison used to be almost required for monsters like Kushala Daora, but now Elderseal does what Poison used to do.
