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Valentin posted:After two games of the most anime weapons possible (switch axe and charge blade), I've decided that MHG is finally going to be the game where I charge blindly forward into trying gunner stuff for the first time. Excited for the learning curve to make me to feel like horrible useless trash all over again. Gunner is very fun in this iteration.
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Jul 13, 2016 17:56
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Mortimer posted:its always been fun Dood, remember mh3, the parts THE PARTS! I miss them so....
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Jul 13, 2016 18:03
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It is always a gunner rite of passage to run for your life while combining. Or having friends carry combines for you and screaming for the hand off.
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Jul 13, 2016 18:08
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Wafflz posted:"... and then we'll give him an instant beak slam with a huge hitbox" That breaks lance tier blocks.
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Jul 14, 2016 00:06
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Ahh my old nemesis, how you returned. Fishing quests...
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Jul 17, 2016 02:13
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Tenzarin posted:In the old games, the only move that type of monster had was hip check. Or it would swim in the ocean for like 5 hours with no one to hit it with a melee weapon. And we loved it
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Jul 17, 2016 04:32
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Ciaphas posted:What do you all prefer for hammer time, aerial or adept? I still like guild a bunch but adept is fun. I just don't like the weird floaty dodge associated with aerial. Maybe you just get used to it?
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Jul 18, 2016 18:29
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Drythe posted:I like that the gamefaq posters still visit this thread. never change you crazy people you What defines the "gamefaq" poster? Never been there save to find numbers like motion values for FU.
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Jul 18, 2016 20:46
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TenWren posted:Doing a gathering quest as prowler + 2 cats once again, not thinking about anything in particular, when I'm suddenly and severely aware these cats never shut up. You get used to it.
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Jul 19, 2016 02:51
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You can hate the cats but one day, one of them is going to come back with the exact thing you need that very moment and you will be very grateful. Prowler is a cool and neat system.
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Jul 19, 2016 02:57
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Your Computer posted:If it's actually "okay" that's good enough for me, honestly. I'm a Fashion Hunter after all You suspect correctly. Damage caused by that is due to improper positioning.Be glad that it is only enough to be considered chip, it was once substantial in ye olde hunting days. It just comes with practice.
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Jul 20, 2016 09:16
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Your Computer posted:Figured as much. Since I'm still a beginner; where exactly is proper positioning on something like Rathian? On my Hammer I always stick to their face, but I was using Lance and figured that staying underneath it would be much safer (which in hindsight I guess it wasn't). Ideally for the raths, all weapons want to be hitting the head. The best spot for lance is no different. The advantage of lance over other weapons is even if Rathian is facing you, you don't have to respect many of her attacks and can keep hitting the head. So while being in front of the head isn't the best, lance is able to still mount an offense despite being in a poor position. Staying in good positions is the hard part. You can be be relatively safe under the belly of Rathian, you just need to watch the legs and use more back hops, side hops and counters. By no means make attacking the belly your sole objective, there are breaks to do and lance is a surgeon's knife in getting exactly the breaks you want. It can still be good practice here for Deviljho, who makes it a habit to try to step all over you.
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Jul 20, 2016 10:22
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Emalde posted:Aerial HBG basically turns you into a video game shotgunner. No need to worry about distance, recoil, or reload, just pack normal/pellet/crag and go HAM Does this mean I can pellet gun online without stunlocking all the blademasters?
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Jul 20, 2016 21:18
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Countblanc posted:My friend says he basically hates using HBG now because Aerial Pellet is stupidly good and really boring once you get over the initial hilarity, sorta like Aerial GS, but it's so potent that using anything else feels like a significant increase in hunt duration. If it was as strong as all that, it should dominate for speed run attempts in mhx. For gunner though, it looks like mostly adept and a bit of striker. On phone so can't post link but I can later if you want. Personally, I don't like aerial cause it needs your siege/ rapid ammo to feel right. After that it is just a single shot not on a significant weakpoint generally. Mounts are nice but gunners don't need that to kill fast. All my adept times are way stronger than aerial. It sure looks cool and feels powerful but I don't see it as heads and away better like striker is for lance, for example.
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Jul 20, 2016 22:29
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katkillad2 posted:Maybe I'm just explaining poorly. If my first attack of the combo bounces, then every attack afterwards when I'm trying to either continue that combo or immediately restart the combo will continue to bounce unless I wait a second or so inbetween inputs from when that first attack bounced. You still are hitting something too hard. Lance has no built in mind's eye like switch axe, so hitting armor is very disruptive. The combo will work properly if you return hitting something you can pierce. You just have to clean up what you are hitting. That or you are going for a hard break. You can touch evade lancing pretty quick, armor is available for it roughly the same as the crab. Lagombi has evade + you can gem into and unlocks at the same level as the crab. For a different take, nargacuga has evade extender but it is less forgiving. It does allow for some more aggressive plays though once you get used to it. The best to practice first is nargacuga, cause of its easy tells. Other monsters which works well with evade is the crabs. Agnanktor jump rope and plesioth hip check (yes, that hip check) are also good with evade, though they are much later. Both styles are totally viable though, with monsters being more weak to one over the other. Generally evade is better on a lot of fights but guard is stronger on others, like Brachydios. One of the reasons why I love the weapon is that you can play it in two very distinct ways.
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Jul 21, 2016 23:44
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Your Computer posted:What good are weapons when you can't hit the monster? Go solo the guild hall version. It has enough health to survive considering you are focusing a part. Alternatively, try gunning the wings off. I think captures also gives you chances on more wings, not sure.
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Jul 21, 2016 23:56
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Either way, I'm not gonna do that quest for a while because I finally got access to Gammoth. I'm gonna be busy killing him over and over for the next week until I get all his armor and weapons because drat if his stuff isn't my aesthetic.
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:Do you also get the additional carts from the Prowler Quests? Found the one that gave me the bug jelly which was nice but now i'm gonna be needing extra carts. Ya, knocking the frill off of Kut-Ku while a Prowler will give you an additional cart.
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Jul 22, 2016 09:07
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Pollyanna posted:Well yes, I know that. What I'm wondering is whether the supply box is offering clues as to how to defeat the monster. Everything in the box is relevant to that fight, so yeah. Items given will always be effective for that monster.
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Jul 22, 2016 23:41
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enojy posted:That ending should've been the games intro cinematic. Would've been perfect. Well now the DLC screen makes a lot more sense...
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Jul 24, 2016 08:08
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Your Computer posted:Yeah sorry, I'm not entirely awake. I was gonna say that I thought "pft, whatever" to the idea, but I totally love the flagship monsters the most just like people said I would Nargacuga was the flagship for Freedom Unite.
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Jul 25, 2016 01:14
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Your Computer posted:Which is funny because that's technically the first Monster Hunter I played (even if I never finished a single quest) I understand. Technically Tri was my first but I killed Lagiacrus in the village and that is as far as I got.
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Jul 25, 2016 01:19
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RossCo posted:Out of interest, what did people do when they hit HR re: armor? Roll on with their LR sets for a while, or go hunt Jaggis for that set? Depends on how attached you are to a set. Generally, a new rank means getting new armour all over again. In a way, you kinda start over. It really depends though how much of a shock going from low to high feels to you.
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Jul 25, 2016 01:33
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The Moon Monster posted:He's an ultrabitch to solo though. I had the best insect glaive attainable before beating him and every attack buff I could stack and I still finished with seconds to spare. It was kinda the same thing between Gore Magala and Seregios. Steve got some decent time in high rank but Gore Magala probably got more development than any monster before. Nargacuga got the same level of love as Brachydios did as the high rank scary thing. If anyone has gotten chumpier between games though, that award goes to Tigrex. The pain train goes off the rails now, instead of chugging on and on through you. Before, it kinda mattered for a decent shot at breaks to get him embedded in a wall. Now you just have to wait for him to tire out. Nargacuga is one of the better designed fights in the series. The problem is that after a few years, everyone knows the pattern like the back of their hand. He has gotten predictable after all this time. Zinogre suffers from the same problem.
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Jul 25, 2016 03:14
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Ciaphas posted:Worst monster in the game to fight, not on difficulty but on Lao-Shan Lung. God drat is he boring.
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Jul 25, 2016 07:05
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ChibiSoma posted:This whole 'the only way to get fish is doing it the old fashioned way or gimping your Meownster Hunter quests by aiming for fish instead of monsters' thing is really aggravating. It also makes Malfestio's gear worthless. You're not gonna take sleep weapons on normal hunts anyway, but even if you did you're just going to have Barrel Bomb Ls because who wants to god drat fish in the hopes of getting the right thing to make L+s. And anyone who just brings Ls to a sleep bombing run is a bad person. The Prowler quest to get 3 Goldenfish at village 4 unlocks fish trading from Neko.
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Jul 25, 2016 07:23
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Lemonpieman posted:All my dragonite ore problems have been solved after I figured out you can send the hunters for hire out to the volcano for the coal quest. Thank god. Thank you....
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Jul 25, 2016 07:44
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katkillad2 posted:Holy poo poo, new least favorite fight. I'll spoiler it just because maybe it's a village quest spoiler since I haven't seen people mention it before...and for whatever reason the quest disappeared after I finished it, Kirin. Never standing still for more than 5 seconds, worse than Blangonga... Lightning more annoying than Khezu and staying in that lightning form 80% of the time during which it's skin is the hardest of any monster I've seen. To top all of that off, it appears that you can't even trap it??? Pellet gun that goddamn horse.
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Jul 25, 2016 11:00
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Squidtentacle posted:What's weirder to me is that you can't continue to see what those upgrades are if you've already brought a weapon up to that point. Using your earlier example, if I've already upgraded one Iron Sword to level 3, shouldn't I be able to see that I can get the Buster Sword on the second Iron Sword I'm upgrading? I feel like it's fine to make it a secret at first, but after that it just becomes more of a hassle. "What does this upgrade into again? Come here, phone." Totally doable even with mid tier LR stuff. While he hits like a truck, the move set is still the bear. It just is not a cakewalk by yourself. Bring honey if you need extra healing coverage.
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Jul 28, 2016 20:13
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scaterry posted:Did they remove maestro as a charm skill? I haven't seen a charm drop with Maestro is a long time It is still there.
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Jul 29, 2016 02:26
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SilverGryphon posted:*dodges Glavenus tail slam by scooting like an inch to the left* To get difficult tails, you need trips, mounts or traps. Shock traps can cause a monster's tail to conviently kink, making it easy to hit. Try to trap them when exhausted for a longer duration. Pitfalls do nothing for you though. Mounts are something you can definitely spam with IG, other aerial styles will also work. Mounts don't give you enough time as they used to but they still are good. For Glavenus, you can be hitting the bottom 3rd of his tail and still have it count. Otherwise focus on the legs a bunch to get the monster to fall over. Things like flash bombs or sonic can also work depending. That should get off any tail eventually with anything that can cut.
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Jul 30, 2016 00:12
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SilverGryphon posted:By bottom third, do you mean the third near his butt or the third near the tip? Near the butt.
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Jul 30, 2016 01:07
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Zedsdeadbaby posted:I actually found pubbies in this game to be generally nicer and more cooperative than any other. Everytime somebody says they're setting a trap, the entire group hauls butt to it, everybody uses their preset greetings, that kind of thing. Normally it's a wild west of selfishness out there, but MH seems unique. It is out there though. I have been in rooms in 4u where I got kicked cause I was a gunner. "Your defense is half mine, go back to high rank." Nevermind that gunner is always half the defense value. Same thing is happening with prowlers now. There is a "tier" list but it never matters, though people have their own ideas. The good players though can carry just about anyone though. The guy with hunter rank 700 will sit through 2 carts on a basic monster just to see it through. Almost fun to do, see if you can beat the monster before your team dies. There are jerks who do abandon at the first sign of trouble though. Compared to a lot of games, it is quite a bit better. I have only met one player who cussed me out in 3u cause I was using a "bad" weapon.
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Meldonox posted:Let's say I wanna try getting pokey or blasty. Assuming lances/gunlances are in good shape in Gen, can someone give me a quick and dirty basic "make this, take this style and art(s), kill this and see how you like it"? Kinda hard to do cause lance/ gunlance can be divided into two different schools, guard or evade. Additionally, gunlance comes in 3 different flavours of normal, long and wide shot types. These shot types are specialized in certain attacks and do better in different styles. I'll try though for a quick and dirty look. Evade lance: Style = striker Defining skills = evade + and/or evade up Lance = brachydios (slime goes well with lance) Arts = guard enrage, rest to taste but an evasion one is nice. Monster = Nargacuga (easy timings), Zinogre works too. Plesioth if you are ballsy. Guard lance: Style = adept Defining skills = guard + and/or guard up Lance = brachydios Arts = guard enrage Monster: Nargacuga, Tigrex is another option. Brachydios if you are ballsy. Gunlance: Style = adept (aerial with a normal gun is fun though) Defining skill = guard + and/or guard up Gunlance: something with long shots like Brachydios (no penalties, forgiving range). Arts = dragon blast but totally negotiable. Monster = Nargacuga, Tigrex, Agnanktor is another option. You can totally run evade gunlance, just change skills accordingly. Striker may be a better style for this. What defines evade lance also works for gunlance. Gunlance is less forgiving on positioning though.
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Rascyc posted:Why is evade distance a lovely perk? I usually like it on some weapons. And yeah naracuga armor is always lower than average defense cause you are supposed to dodge more in it. Evade distance is one of my favourite skills. Frames are and feel amazing but sometimes the best way to dodge an attack is just to not be there at all.
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Jul 31, 2016 20:05
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Pierson posted:On the one hand having an MMO-style wardrobe feature would be cool but on the other I do appreciate every set (outside of minmax clownsuits) has a different purpose and I know more or less exactly how my party members are gonna play based on what they're wearing. Plus the dick-swinging rep of being in full Alatreon R or whatever. I know the sheer amount of stuff Gens has was a selling point but realistically most of the armor will never ever be worn. I'd be fine with half the armours or skills of Gens if all of them were worth using for different situations. Ya, I would agree that many of the monsters require a re-design to combat the power creep.
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Neo_Crimson posted:Deviants in general really push the envelope, since not only do you have to fight them over and over again, some Deviants are dangerous enough where leaving it to attrition greatly increases their chances to cart you. Ya, the Deviants are easily my favourite thing that Gen introduced. The varied and different movesets were very refreshing.
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Elman posted:I'm surprised nobody recommended buying MH4U just because there's no reason to buy MHGen now that MHXX is coming. Umm, I heard that you will be able to port over your save file from MHGen to XX when it hits. Has that changed?
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