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Mortimer posted:I mentioned deviants specifically Wow, you're kind of a dick. And a liar; you didn't mention deviants specifically, you just said "thirty times", which I took as an arbitrarily large number to emphasize the normal grindiness of past games if you needed to harvest multiple plates/gems from something for a set. Also I was not aware of those; what I did was use Ping's Dex and put it "plate" and "gem" and see what all those are needed for. Outside of some things needing (Bird) Wyvern Gems, which are easy to accumulate, and one piece of DLC armor needing Teostra gems, no armor showed up as needing any of those things (besides stuff needing "plates" that aren't rare, like Alatreon Plates, which are not the rare drop from that fight). And most armor doesn't need extremely rare stuff still, even if apparently some do. Deviant stuff is different in terms of grindiness, but it's also dumb and something I've said I dislike, and have not been doing specifically because I don't feel the need to fight them that many times. I haven't said otherwise here. I'm sorry my saying that people told me Frontier is extra-grindy and frustrating even by MH standards pissed you off so much, but you're being an rear end in a top hat.
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Squidtentacle posted:It exists, yeah, but it definitely seems far less common than MH4U. The Alatreon armor doesn't require a gem from five different monsters for each piece of armor, for example. I kinda miss this tbh it made crafting the set feel like much more of an accomplishment
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Aug 10, 2016 16:28
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Mortimer posted:I mentioned deviants specifically Metal rath and Rajang armor doesn't seem representative. Compare Rathalos S between versions. In 4u, a set required a plate, a ruby, and two medulla. It now requires none of that, and is mostly low rank and meownster-huntable high rank parts.
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Aug 10, 2016 16:29
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Anyone going to the Capcom MH event in Chicago on Sunday? 400 people have RSVP''d for a bar that has like max capacity of 100.
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Aug 10, 2016 16:33
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Hey gunners what is cluster shot for? Besides supremely dicking around your team, I mean. I tried it on a dreadqueen yesterday and it just seemed to make a lovely rosette of explosions everywhere she wasn't
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Aug 10, 2016 16:39
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gigawhite posted:Anyone going to the Capcom MH event in Chicago on Sunday? 400 people have RSVP''d for a bar that has like max capacity of 100. Oh man I wish I weren't working during the entire thing. Nintendo or Capcom or whoever throwing a big nerd party in the middle of the day on Sunday at probably the second-most bro-ey arcade bar in the city sounds like a riot.
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Roland Jones posted:Wow, you're kind of a dick. And a liar; you didn't mention deviants specifically, you just said "thirty times", which I took as an arbitrarily large number to emphasize the normal grindiness of past games if you needed to harvest multiple plates/gems from something for a set. I mentioned deviants in my first post lmao, 30 times is how many it takes assuming 1-10 x3 for every ticket. It ends up being around 25 runs total because you get lower level tickets from higher ones but that's still pretty hilariously long. that's cool dude don't play frontier, it takes a certain kind of person (cool, honest, hardworking folks mostly) to play frontier. if you want to kill a monster twice and be done with your armor and have absolutely nothing to work towards beyond getting a higher HR and ????? then gen is fantastic. I am also playing gen but probably not for much longer lol
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CommunityEdition posted:Metal rath and Rajang armor doesn't seem representative. Compare Rathalos S between versions. In 4u, a set required a plate, a ruby, and two medulla. It now requires none of that, and is mostly low rank and meownster-huntable high rank parts. R Series pieces can get kind of brutal too. But S and regular is like whatever.
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Have any cunning schemes emerged for farming Hellblade Powder? I think I'm going to end up setting up a hunting party for a few hours and trying to stock up. (Stock in this case may be 3).
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Aug 10, 2016 17:43
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Far as I can tell, go aerial and focus on staggering the head when hes's enraged and pick up every shiny drop. I haven't found a reliable method beyond that. Doesn't seem to come from carves, breaks or captures
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Aug 10, 2016 18:08
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enojy posted:Two Rath assholes at the same time is the antithesis of fun. Have you tried using smoke bombs to beat up on one Rath while the other wanders around aimlessly? i never hear about anyone using them, but they're perfect for arenas with multiple monsters.
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Aug 10, 2016 18:35
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From what I understand Frontier takes the grindy nature of the regular series and ups it like no one's business.
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Are all the items in frontier Katakana? gigawhite posted:Anyone going to the Capcom MH event in Chicago on Sunday? 400 people have RSVP''d for a bar that has like max capacity of 100. I'm going to go, but I dunno what to expect. CuddlyZombie fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Aug 10, 2016 |
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CuddlyZombie posted:Are all the items in frontier Katakana? pretty much. Some have some kanji but thankfully the pictures are identical from MH. You see a green jar it's a potion. A green jar with the katakana for "ga-rei-to" it's a "great potion" aka mega potion. Pickaxe is pikaru, mega pickaxe is 'ga-rei-to pi-ka-ru'. Net is "ne-to". Fangs/hides have pictures with the monster name next to them, same for the armor. emalde gave me a run through to HR4 (the free part) in about 2 hours? and I can probably play the core gameplay loop without help at this point. I learned katakana to play monster hunter frontier 
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Here's another end game armor gently caress you: to go from level 4 to 5 silver sol defense you need a Rathalos ruby for each piece.
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Mortimer posted:pretty much. Some have some kanji but thankfully the pictures are identical from MH. You see a green jar it's a potion. A green jar with the katakana for "ga-rei-to" it's a "great potion" aka mega potion. Pickaxe is pikaru, mega pickaxe is 'ga-rei-to pi-ka-ru'. Net is "ne-to". Fangs/hides have pictures with the monster name next to them, same for the armor. You'll still probably run into hiragana and words that you can't figure out phonetically when it comes to story and dialogue, but yeah you could probably get by on game mechanics with just katakana. What about the quest objectives though? Can you tell when you have to gather eggs or some poo poo? I guess there's icons...
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Zaphod42 posted:You'll still probably run into hiragana and words that you can't figure out phonetically when it comes to story and dialogue, but yeah you could probably get by on game mechanics with just katakana. I don't know if frontier has gather egg quests, not for urgents or keys at least through all of pre-g rank. I can't imagine they would throw you against fatalis, then gather some eggs  Rascyc posted:Here's another end game armor gently caress you: to go from level 4 to 5 silver sol defense you need a Rathalos ruby for each piece. upgrading silver los to the highest defense levels takes hyper silver los scales which don't exist yet. It owns super hard actually.
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Mortimer posted:I learned katakana to play monster hunter frontier  
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Mortimer posted:pretty much. Some have some kanji but thankfully the pictures are identical from MH. You see a green jar it's a potion. A green jar with the katakana for "ga-rei-to" it's a "great potion" aka mega potion. Pickaxe is pikaru, mega pickaxe is 'ga-rei-to pi-ka-ru'. Net is "ne-to". Fangs/hides have pictures with the monster name next to them, same for the armor. Also the Trader is Neko (means Cat). 
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Looks like it took Japan ~3 months to get hypers for Goldie/Silvie/Jho/Rajang. glhf
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Kashuno posted:Yeah I mean Monster Hunter is the epitome of repeated grinding It really isn't. Ever played a Korean MMO back in the 00s?
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I played Survival Project which wasn't an MMO in the traditional way but drat was it good Edit; also I get every single possible gunlance the second it is available regardless of drop rates so I guess I create my own grind Kashuno fucked around with this message at 22:33 on Aug 10, 2016 |
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Skippy Granola posted:Hey gunners what is cluster shot for? Cluster sticks to wherever it hits and explodes for a decent amount of damage. It's also able to knock out damage if you can stick it to a monsters head and hit it enough.
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So it's a less online friendly crag shot then? Oh man I played some pubbie games and there was one prowler player who got really in character with their shoutouts. "I'll purr-pare a mewsful trap!" Etc It was great and I don't care what you say. I want to be that guy's friend. Skippy Granola fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Aug 10, 2016 |
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:Cluster sticks to wherever it hits and explodes for a decent amount of damage. It's also able to knock out damage if you can stick it to a monsters head and hit it enough. That's Crag. Cluster is the shot that breaks into smaller, scattered booms.
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Cluster shot has higher damage potential than crag but is hard to hit with consistently unless the monster is enormous. Might be useful if you're soloing Alatreon or Kakarkos or something, otherwise I'd skip it.Kashuno posted:I played Survival Project which wasn't an MMO in the traditional way but drat was it good That's not really what I was talking about. I think maxing out every gunlance in the game would still be less of a grind than something like oldschool Ragnarok or Lineage.
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The Moon Monster posted:It really isn't. Ever played a Korean MMO back in the 00s? Oh man for some inexplicable reason I played Maplestory back in 04-05. Talk about grinding. I really don't mind the grind in MH games. I feel like it's just right. Sure you might not get that rare drop on your first hunt, but I enjoy seeing how much faster I can kill that monster in each subsequent hunt. Then you take your new skills and upgraded equipment to go soon how much faster you can go kill other monsters and make hats out of them. The problem is when the RNG decides to hate you and it takes 20 hunts to get a Rath Plate. Or like that time I carved 130 Seregios scales before I got a lens. Goddamn that SUCKED. But now I'm pretty good at fighting him, so hey.
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Skippy Granola posted:So it's a less online friendly crag shot then? No, it's lovely troll ammo in MP and you should pretty much never use it if the hunt is even remotely challenging because it'll interrupt every melee person and will even knock aerial people out of the air.
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CommunityEdition posted:Metal rath and Rajang armor doesn't seem representative. Compare Rathalos S between versions. In 4u, a set required a plate, a ruby, and two medulla. It now requires none of that, and is mostly low rank and meownster-huntable high rank parts. The cost of crafting Rathalos S is less in gen, but to upgrade it to max you need 1 ruby per piece which is way worse than 4u.
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Aerial Horn. Aerial horn. That's all really, I just wanted to show my appreciation for Aerial horn.
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lenoon posted:Aerial Horn. Aerial horn. That's all really, I just wanted to show my appreciation for Aerial horn.
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dragon enthusiast posted:Looks like it took Japan ~3 months to get hypers for Goldie/Silvie/Jho/Rajang. glhf That's still way better than taking 9 months to get G-rank Black Fatalis back in 4U.
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Arbitrary Number posted:The cost of crafting Rathalos S is less in gen, but to upgrade it to max you need 1 ruby per piece which is way worse than 4u. I'm kind of okay with needing the rare parts for the capstone def upgrade as opposed to needing them to craft the piece in the first place. That said I'm not thrilled at needing four more Nark Orbs, having only acquired one in about half a dozen kills.
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I mean, it's amazing right? Mount, topple, stun, head break, repeat.
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Devlan Mud posted:I'm kind of okay with needing the rare parts for the capstone def upgrade as opposed to needing them to craft the piece in the first place. Are you mining his rainbow blowhole when he collapses? That's about a 15% chance times three chances.
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I've hired so many cats. When I went to see who to train in my roster I discovered I had almost hit the 60 limit of hired cats. Boomerang cats, cats to support a group, shenanigans cats, cats for every situation. I realize I may have a problem.
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Dreamy Souffle posted:I've hired so many cats. When I went to see who to train in my roster I discovered I had almost hit the 60 limit of hired cats. Boomerang cats, cats to support a group, shenanigans cats, cats for every situation. Yes. They didn't give us enough cat slots.
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Do HR monsters have a higher stun tolerance or something? It's taking way more knocks on the head to KO them.
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I'm running out of names for my cats :/ I'm doing a gimmick where they're all named after Marvel Asgardians (except Loki, who is obviously not Asgardian).
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SilverGryphon posted:I'm running out of names for my cats :/ I'm doing a gimmick where they're all named after Marvel Asgardians (except Loki, who is obviously not Asgardian). I brought back the cat pun list I made in the 4U thread. Still classic.
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