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Theirs probably a few I haven't captured. but I was only following the quest descriptions (either hunt, capture or slay). so, do I go out on expeditions and start capturing or do I redo quests?
You can capture on any quest, such as optional or investigation. Not sure about expedition, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. For my situation, I had 3 blue completed levels and when I checked the ecologist I noticed I hadn't captured radobaan yet. I captured his tempered version and it unlocked the special arena optional quest for everything lower.
 

gamerguy2002

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Oct 25, 2017
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You can capture on any quest, such as optional or investigation. Not sure about expedition, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. For my situation, I had 3 blue completed levels and when I checked the ecologist I noticed I hadn't captured radobaan yet. I captured his tempered version and it unlocked the special arena optional quest for everything lower.

I see. Alright then, guess I know what I'm doing today. gotta catch 'em all...
 

Bessy67

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Oct 29, 2017
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Trying to decide between attack and affinity augment for my Pandemonium's Root hammer. Current build gives me attack boost 7, weakness exploit 3, handicraft 3 for some white sharpness, slugger 3, speed sharpening 2 and protective polish. Hammer attack is at 1227. Which augment would be better?
 

MechaX

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Oct 27, 2017
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You should be shooting for a full set of multiple bows

Get an Anja Box maxed! Its the ultimate Kirin killer

Legiana Snowfletcher (or Daora bow also) are great for Ice and ruin Diablos

Dragonbone bow with a Free element mixset gives you a powerful Rath killer setup and might be the best bow against Deviljho

Hunter Proudbow with Free Element is the most powerful Water bow and its really easy to make. Probably a great way to Farm Anjanath!

Outside of those you pretty much have everything covered and the rest is just for collection purposes. Once you start farming Augments thats where things get reallly interesting. I have yet to get one to drop though

Holy shit thanks for this, MHW has a hunter for a little bit longer.

Given that Diablos and Teo are pretty much my bane in this game, so the Legiana weapon would definitely work pretty well for Diablos (I do have a Shattercryst HBG, but yeah... I am not a fan of how that weapon operates outside of Gatling Gun fire; I probably should have just rolled the LBG as a ranged side).

Otherwise, I'll go for the Anja Bow next (and also just go ahead and get the Vaal Bow too), but man, I need a shit load of Anja fangs for that. I never really liked fighting Jyura, but for a good water bow, I'll likely still do it.
 

Liquor

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Oct 28, 2017
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The armor sets for the most part seem more reserved and dare I say "westernized", compared to previous game's sets.

I'm hoping we get something like the Chaos Gore Magala Blade Master set in this.
 

cowbanana

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Feb 2, 2018
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I'm living the Quality Life now :) I've had Earplugs 5 through two bazel pieces and a deco for a while, but I just crafted the Stun Charm III and those combined make life good indeed.
 

Jester37

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Oct 25, 2017
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So I have one tempered investigation for Bazel, one for Diablos and one for Black Diablos, but all three have the "Faint 1 time(s)" condition. When these guys are tempered they can easily one-shot me (given the circumstances), meaning I have to play damn near flawlessly if I want to win. Oh, and both of the Diablos ones are capture investigations... I swear this game has it out for me.
 

Tenjin

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Dec 3, 2017
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And there is another hero's streamstone for hammers -_-

Kind of funny though, that vaal hazak was the monster i hated most after I beat him the first time. I said to myself "oh I don't want to farm that guy". 200h later I killed 83 Vaal Hazak ... (2nd place is Rathian with 62 kills and 52 Diablos on 3rd). Lol.
 
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Zetta

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Oct 25, 2017
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And there is another hero's streamstone for hammers -_-

Kind of funny though, that vaal hazak was the monster i hated most after I beat him the first time. I said to myself "oh I don't want to farm that guy". 200h later I killed 83 Vaal Hazak ... (2nd place is Rathian with 62 kills and 52 Diablos on 3rd). Lol.

I'm hoping for a stone trade system at this point. I have for warrior 15 Lancestones, 8 Dualblades, 10 Hunting Horn and a couple of other misc with 1 for LBG and 1 for Charged Blade, guess what I use. Herostones is a bit different since I have one for everything but Bow, CB and Hammer, I really need a trade system.
 
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Tenjin

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Dec 3, 2017
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I'm hoping for a stone trade system at this point. I have for warrior 15 Lancestones, 8 Dualblades, 10 Hunting Horn and a couple of other misc with 1 for Hammer and 1 for Charged Blade, guess what I use. Herostones is a bit different since I have one for everything but Bow, CB and Hammer, I really need a trade system.

The Problem with a trade system: the carrot that keeps us playing is missing ... With the elder melder there is a system to get gems (I mean gems ... not jewels :P), maybe that would work for streamstones too, but there has to be a ticket that is not as easy obtained as gold wyverian tickets (sitting on 6 atm) ...

I will use the hammer stones for hunting horns or maybe I'll try to hammer for real O_O
 

Vic_Viper

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How do you make custom shoutouts in the radial menu?

Also, is there a way to see what your affinity is at after decos and armor skills?
 
Oct 27, 2017
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Trying to decide between attack and affinity augment for my Pandemonium's Root hammer. Current build gives me attack boost 7, weakness exploit 3, handicraft 3 for some white sharpness, slugger 3, speed sharpening 2 and protective polish. Hammer attack is at 1227. Which augment would be better?
I think affinity is the way to go, though I've seen a lot use health regen. Why use pandemonium instead of diablos or nerg? I know it has style points, so I'm going to make it, just wondering if there's anything special I should focus on for that hammer.
 

cowbanana

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I think affinity is the way to go, though I've seen a lot use health regen. Why use pandemonium instead of diablos or nerg? I know it has style points, so I'm going to make it, just wondering if there's anything special I should focus on for that hammer.

Pandemonium's Root has more dragon damage, but only average elderseal. The Nerg hammer has slightly higher base damage and high elderseal, but lower dragon damage.

I made both of them, but opted to augment the Nerg hammer with affinity. I honestly think both hammers are great and that there's no wrong choice. Choose what seems best for your build and play style.
 

gamerguy2002

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The armor sets for the most part seem more reserved and dare I say "westernized", compared to previous game's sets.

I'm hoping we get something like the Chaos Gore Magala Blade Master set in this.

I'm kind of glad they didn't anime the whole armor sets too much, I've seen some crazy armor sets from past MH float around and I was concerned for a bit. all these armor sets are very grounded and I like it.

Deviljho on the other hand, fuck.

So I have one tempered investigation for Bazel, one for Diablos and one for Black Diablos, but all three have the "Faint 1 time(s)" condition. When these guys are tempered they can easily one-shot me (given the circumstances), meaning I have to play damn near flawlessly if I want to win. Oh, and both of the Diablos ones are capture investigations... I swear this game has it out for me.

God damn, this game really pushes the team aspect after the story huh? because theirs no way that can be solo'd.
 

Bessy67

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I think affinity is the way to go, though I've seen a lot use health regen. Why use pandemonium instead of diablos or nerg? I know it has style points, so I'm going to make it, just wondering if there's anything special I should focus on for that hammer.
Honestly I just like the look. I have diablos too and use it quite often as well.

How do you make custom shoutouts in the radial menu?

Also, is there a way to see what your affinity is at after decos and armor skills?
If you hit start it should bring up a page showing what your current attack and affinity are
 

cowbanana

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Tempered Black Diablos isn't too hard to solo with no faints at that point in the game. I'm probably an average player and I find it fairly easy with hammer or lance, but I can still have a bad run and get mauled if I'm stunned (Now I have Stun Charm III, so come at me!). Wreck its face for black spiral horns in the process. Definitely far from impossible to solo without fainting. It's also easier to break the horns solo, but I've managed to hammer them off in the two latest multiplayer games I played.
 
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Tempered Black Diablos isn't too hard to solo with no faints at that point in the game. I'm probably an average player and I find it fairly easy with hammer or lance, but I can still have a bad run and get mauled if I'm stunned (Now I have Stun Charm III, so come at me!). Wreck its face for black spiral horns in the process. Definitely far from impossible to solo without fainting. It's also easier to break the horns solo, but I've managed to hammer them off in the two latest multiplayer games I played.
I fit stun 3 on almost all my builds, it's so good in this game...at least for people who get slapped around a bit like me.
 

Vic_Viper

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Is the only way to get Nourishing Extract fighting Odogaron and Dodogama? Theres no way to craft or harvest it?
 

Tenjin

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How do you make custom shoutouts in the radial menu?

Open the menu, go to "shoutouts", then "custom" edit or add a shoutout. Go back to "customize radial item wheel" (or sth like that), choose the spot, go to the shoutout you want to have in the wheel and done.

Like other changes to the wheel, it is connected to item loadouts, so don't be too messy :D
 

ClearMetal

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Oct 25, 2017
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Is there an efficient way to unlock tempered tier two investigations? I'm only getting three or so tempered tier 2 tracks per expedition (and only one tier 3 track). I want to get some level 2/3 decos but I'm not getting anywhere at this pace.

Is the only way to get Nourishing Extract fighting Odogaron and Dodogama? Theres no way to craft or harvest it?
I think I've looted it from Paolumu as well and you can get it from Tailraider Safaris, though the latter is uncommon as far as I know.

I'm not sure you can meld them.
 

cowbanana

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Sometimes this game is kind. We were talking about hammers here and this Tempered Teostra I just fought dropped my second Hero's stone for hammers, so now I've added 10% affinity to Pandemonium's Root as well.

Edit: I'm actually using the Cocytus hammer to bash Teostra, combined with 5 ice attack decos, this hammer is a real Teo smasher and I think it looks awesome. Too bad I haven't found a single Warrior's stone for hammers yet. But with two Hero stones I guess I shouldn't complain.
 
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Jester37

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Oct 25, 2017
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I understand, I'm lucky enough to have all my capture quests be successful. hell some of my hunt quests turned into capture quests!
I've noticed it happens a lot with tempered monster quests. Instead of hitting the monster who knows how many more times and running the risk of carts, capping is a much safer and easier win. That being said, it probably wouldn't hurt to do them with others more often.

Also, just did my tempered Bazel investigation and it have me one with tempered A. Rathalos, tempered Bazel, and tempered Anja. Wowee.
 

H3rTz DoNuT

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Oct 30, 2017
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Is there an efficient way to unlock tempered tier two investigations? I'm only getting three or so tempered tier 2 tracks per expedition (and only one tier 3 track). I want to get some level 2/3 decos but I'm not getting anywhere at this pace.


I think I've looted it from Paolumu as well and you can get it from Tailraider Safaris, though the latter is uncommon as far as I know.

I'm not sure you can meld them.

If you have that quest (can't remember the name) with tempered Hazak and Odogaron then you can just fallow Odo cause he leaves tons of tracks. This is where I farm all my T2 investigations.
 

cowbanana

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Feb 2, 2018
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I think flash pods could use some kind of nerf, they really trivialize hunting tempered elder dragons. When you have four experienced hunters constantly flashing them and bashing their skulls in, it feels like stomping on defenseless kittens :/

Making flash pods a % chance to flash an elder dragon successfully might bring a little balance, instead of being 100% surefire disable.
 

Heromanz

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Oct 25, 2017
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I think flash pods could use some kind of nerf, they really trivialize hunting tempered elder dragons. When you have four experienced hunters constantly flashing them and bashing their skulls in, it feels like stomping on defenseless kittens :/

Making flash pods a % chance to flash an elder dragon successfully might bring a little balance, instead of being 100% surefire disable.
Naw Flash pods makes them less annoying.
 

Morrigan

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Oct 24, 2017
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Someone should try hunting Kushala Daora w/o Flash Pods.... xD

I woudn't try even if you paid me
 

ClearMetal

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Oct 25, 2017
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If you have that quest (can't remember the name) with tempered Hazak and Odogaron then you can just fallow Odo cause he leaves tons of tracks. This is where I farm all my T2 investigations.
That quest unlocks after you hunt five (?) tempered elder dragons, right? Haven't hunted any yet, but I do have a tempered Vaal Hazak investigation so that seems like a good starting point.
 
Oct 27, 2017
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The keyboard no longer shows up for me when I try to chat, anyone know what I did and how to fix it?

Edit: had to glance my finger over the pad for the keyboard to pop up
 
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ClearMetal

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Oct 25, 2017
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Did my first tempered elder dragon investigation, Vaal Hazak. Carted once all the way in the beginning. I guess I underestimated him a bit. After that it was smooth sailing.

Finally got some decos that aren't Fortitude or Antidote. Poison Coating, Peak Performace and Blight Resistance. Very nice.

Also the Vaal hammer looks kick-ass, but I wish the handle didn't look like a toothpick.

Someone should try hunting Kushala Daora w/o Flash Pods.... xD

I woudn't try even if you paid me
I did that. Twice. I'm not sure what I was thinking.
 

NSESN

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Oct 25, 2017
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Finally beat teostra, it is so good to have a team that doesn't get hit by every single supernova.
 

SunhiLegend

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What is your base affinity without weakness exploit?

For build like that to really shine you need 40 to 45% base affinity before weakness exploit. I can tell you don't have much, 5% from attack boost and maybe 10% from weapon aug.

Critical boost and critical element ( bonus from 2 pieces of rath set) will only work when you crit and you want to crit 90% of the time otherwise those perks go to waste. With crit element and white sharpness you don't need that much crit boost anyway. Also make sure your ice attack is level 4 if you want this to be as effective against ice weakness as possible cause Legianas SnS will take up to Ice Attack up to lvl 4.

Here is a suggestion for your build.

Legiana Rimespire with 10% affinity aug + Attack jewel
Kushala Glare beta + 2x Attack jewel and 1x Frost jewel
Rathalos Mail beta + Frost jewel
Rath Soul Braces beta + Tenderizer jewel
Nergigante Coil beta + Critical jewel
Nergigante Graves beta + Sharp jewel
Mighty charm lvl II

If you don't have Sharp jewel and you preffer speed sharpening than replace Nergigante Graves with Death Stench Heel beta and put 2x speed sharpening jewels and replace Critical Jewel in Nergigante Coil beta with Mighty jewel.

All this will give you 95% affinity against weak spots and now Critical element and your Ice Attack will do the work.

You don't need evade extender for SnS. I'm more than happy to help you with anything you might need to make this build work ;)

I'll give it a try. I have gotten one attack decoration in over 200 hours though. I really hate decorations dropping instead of being craftable.
 

H3rTz DoNuT

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Oct 30, 2017
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I'll give it a try. I have gotten one attack decoration in over 200 hours though. I really hate decorations dropping instead of being craftable.

I'm pretty sure you know this but try not to use shield bash too much with elemental build cause your shield does't apply elemental damage. It's really great and powerfull for raw builds tho.
 
Oct 26, 2017
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Made the Barroth breaker III since it was cheap and i wanted to give the hammer a whirl. It's not my favorite weapon by any means but it is cool to try something new. Even cooler is the paralysis kicks in at least twice every fight. Going to wait and see what the Jho weapons look like but with 3 augment slots I may end up sticking with this hammer.
 

ClearMetal

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Oct 25, 2017
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I love hunting Teostra if only for its theme. So good.

I do sorta dislike you can't capture elder dragons. From what I understand these elder dragons are, in lore terms, very powerful and potentially destructive monsters. Nergigante and Xeno, which attacks on sight, are a good examples of that. But Teostra, Kushala Daora and Vaal Hazak are perfectly happy to chill with you before you bash their heads in and that kind of stings. I'd rather had seen them as hostile to create that "kill or be killed" vibe. Now I feel like a douchebag for killing them when they haven't actually done anything wrong.
 

KushalaDaora

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Oct 27, 2017
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I think affinity is the way to go, though I've seen a lot use health regen. Why use pandemonium instead of diablos or nerg? I know it has style points, so I'm going to make it, just wondering if there's anything special I should focus on for that hammer.

Pandemonium can get big chunk of White Sharpness (don't need protective polish or speed sharpening) with Handicraft 5.
 
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