The Village 7 and 8 star monsters are a bit on the weak side, but the 9 star quests are more difficult and also have more promising candidates for worthwhile armor sets. You'll probably be able to hold off until then so long as you pump enough spheres into your low rank set.
S and R armor are high rank. X, GX, and XR armor are G rank.
R armor has its skill points distributed lopsidedly and is designed to be used in mixed sets. However, you will need to do a quest chain to unlock it if you haven't already.
Originally Generations only went up to 6 star Village quests, so some of the quests there were meant more as "endgame" content with high rank gear in mind. But now that Generations Ultimate has a proper high rank quest progression, the 7 star tier can often feel easier than 6.
does the high rank armor look the same as the low rank ones? for instance im using a gammoth helm. Will the Gammoth Helm S/R look the same. Or are there some noticeable differences in design?
It depends on the monster. Most low and high rank sets look the same (and Gammoth is no exception), but G rank often has a different design.
I always find it a bit silly that people get booted for carting once, everyone makes mistakes and in the endgame you're often only 1-2 hits away from death, an unlucky status effect/stun combined with a attack can finish you off easily. I've booted someone for shouting that another person should leave because they carted before.
Yeah weird that someone booted you after 1 cart. I cart all the time. Even in HR sometimes, since gunner G Rank gear still doesn't have great defense.
You need to place things in your pouch seperately as there is limited space for what you can carry, you can also set up item sets to auto-replace your pouch contents from the stock in your item box. Go to your item box, take out everything you want in your pouch, then use the menu options to mark it as a set.
I tend to make them on an ad-hoc basis if im going to be fighting the same thing for a while, like when I was working on my Dreadking armour. Otherwise, I just restock each time as I tend to leave a few spots open for tailored items, like sushifish vs seregios etc. The reason I do it is that I've found the habit of restocking after choosing a quest means Im more likely to remember tailored item picks like antidotes etc. It's cool that theres lot of approaches to this though.
This is exactly what I do! I have a "Standard" blademaster set and "Standard" sets for each bowgun, and they are all overpacked with stuff. It makes casual hunts so easy. Then on "serious mode" hunts I'll put stuff back in order to stock up on things like demondrug and armorskin and stuff.
Are you sure you're carrying tranq bombs (tranquilliser+bomb casing) and not just tranquilliser? Sorry, only thing I can think of!
No, you're not, it's a complex game, it's not explained well across the board and that mistake is so common that that's why it sprang to mind! :-)
its not as big of a fallback as you might think. I dont know if you ever played one of the older monster hunter games. But in comparison to tri the game has tighter controls, traps can be dismantled so you dont have to wait 10 minutes for it to deactivate bf placing a new one.
Yeah, I mainly play as a lancer with tank builds, although in gens I go aerial style and if I don't like the situation I'm in, I just go over the top to evade instead! Also I tend to pop dash juice to stop my stamina depleting in fights where I suspect I'm going to take multiple heavy hits in short order.
Yeah, buy all combo books and keep them in your item box, they increase chance of combo success. For paintballs (sap plant + paintberry) and other craftables, it's worth going to your combo list and just experimenting with what can be combined with what. I'd just make one of everything to fill out your combo book. It's worth prioritising any villager requests as that'll help increase your food and farming options, which will in turn give you more options to help beat quests (felyne lander is great for eggstraction quests as it stops you dropping eggs, felyne insurance is great for your online urgents as it ignores the first party faint) and let you mass produce sap plant, honey etc. Also you can always grab the paintballs from the item box at the start of a quest at low rank to stock up.
You need to carry them if you want their bonus in the field, for less chance of failure when making more traps and upgrading potions to mega potions on the fly (I think), but if you are mainly doing your combos at home just leave in the box.
Yeah, I keep mine in the box. I don't find myself needing to craft during quests that often and when I do it's stuff that's very prevalent like potions or mega potions that already have high % and materials readily available so it isn't a big deal if I fail the craft.
GU is absolutely packed with stuff to do. Between the low rank campaign, high rank campaign, online low/high/G, arena, deviants, prowler quests and mini games and more, there's easily hundreds of hours of content. My advice is, once you've picked up the basics and can take down a big monster alone, jump online and learn by doing. Even then, it's worth doing a bit of everything (by focusing on requests) to keep expanding your food/farm options.
That's alright, the low/high rank SP campaigns will keep you busy for a while, and you can access all the online content in offline single player anyway. It gets tougher to push forward alone once you reach G3, but having two cats that keep levelling up and that you can keep upgrading equipment for with your offcuts helps a lot in terms of aggro to allow you to focus on damage output.
It's ordinarily 60 seconds for carving, or only 20 seconds if you've captured the monster and don't need to carve.
