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Monster Hunter World: Iceborne Expansion announced
- Thread starter tulpa
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I hope they bring in Lucent Nargacuga as well. I sure had fun fighting that!
Nergigante's a pretty good starting set; Drachen armour (the FF collab stuff) is the best set in the game for non-Shelling Gunlance melee weapons (maybe not so hot for Charge Blade either, I'm not sure), but you'd probably want another set before then to start getting it. Also grab the Dragonking Eyepatch to go with whatever you decide to farm, Weakness Exploit is a really, really good skill.
Well each build tends to be tailored to weapon specific needs, some need different skills than the generic stuff. A decent starting point would be, Dragonking helm(2weakness exploit), Dober chest(2atk), Teostra gloves beta(1weakness exploit), Nergi belt beta(2atk) and then maybe Death stench legs for 2 handicraft+charm for 3 to cap handicraft.
This is the basic set I used on many weapons early on, it's not very hard to farm(death stench is RNG based though, you need the palico hunting expedition thing to bring you back sinister cloth which is a random item from any options you select, so make sure to spam these every 5hunts) and fits most setups without any jewel requirements. As you get jewels however you can start refining the build more and more, and depending on the weapons you use, you can for example ignore handicraft which frees up a lot of points for other stuff.
But for example if using charge blade or gunlance, you'd want something different to add artillery and/or capacity boost in the build, if you use charge blade or greatsword, you might want to fit focus in, if you use ranged weapons you'll probably want free element 3(guns) or constition for bow. So it's better to first figure out the weapon(s) you want to use, then build around that.
If you're on console, or starting next week on PC, you could try to skip some early farming and go grind Behemoth for a bit to craft Drachen armor though since that thing is mostly overpowered. This can be done solo and without requiring you actually kill him, by using the Plunderblade palico tool(make sure to do the palico tools quests if you haven't, have to do them in order one per zone, so start in ancient forest and keep going until rotten vale for plunderblade) as well as Partbreaker(Uragaan armor is easiest for that) to break horns/claw and cut the tail. Basically you just start the hunt, break the stuff, get the palico to use the skills to steal basic materials, then leave when you're done, don't have to finish the hunt to get the items you break and after a few runs of that you'll have enough to craft Drachen armor.
Narga isn't that difficult because there are no stupid gimmicks / no sense hitboxes and it's very easy to predict his next move.
One of my favourite monster with Tigrex.
And yet the PC version is what helped them reach the 10 million goal and the graphic options are still broken.
I'll be surprised if we dont get Tigrex too. Narga is similar to Tigrex in a few ways so it makes sense to do them both. Barroth too. Barroth and Tigrex both were introduced in snowy areas too.
What's weird is that Barioth is the one that had about as straightforward localization as you can get, as Beriorosu->Barioth is pretty darn clean. Getting Barroth out of Boruborosu, not so much.
Yeah it feels like it should have been Bolboroth or Volvaroth or something.
...Kind of sad we didn't get to see youtube guys try and pronounce that original name.
Nice to see a 'traditional' expansion pack for a game like this. Wonder what price we'll be talking?
Okay so assuming the Iceborne Expansion is not G-Rank /MHW Ultimate, I'm thinking maybe Ultimate, or whatever will come a year after and be cross-gen on both current consoles and PS5/Scarlett in late 2020. Does that sound reasonable? Of course, a true MHW2 will take years more and be designed for next gen.
I think that is the plan all along, and why they gave it another name than Ultimate or G or whatever. Monster Hunter World Ultimate will probably be the PS5/Xbox Two version of the game. They should (and probably are) looking how a game like FFXIV handled console transitions. Keep the players in the same ecosystem, but ease them out of the older console with the next add on.
By that time they'll have developed and worked out a bunch of skeletons I think, a big expansion as ice born is already above my expectations, and I think they're learning and making foundations as they work on MHW so if and when MHW2 comes around they already have the ground work done and can release updates and monsters a bit quicker.
Yeah I guess that's how things will probably go. Any scenario where MHW2, if it happens, will be next-gen and PC only, leaving behind the PS4/XB1 gen, say in 2021/2022 ?
.......I had actually forgot about that lol
Now I hate that monster even more
IIRC I got 1 but needed 2 and said fuck this at some point
Okay I wasn't sure, because I read other posts saying that it wasn't.
Now that makes sense to me.
Same. Late 2021 or early 2022 would be roughly ~4 years after MHW released.
The vast majority of new players are probably not gonna immediatly realize that g rank is a "master rank mode".
Hence probably just easier and better for all to go lowrank>highrank>masterrank
The same reason the game isn't called Monster Hunter 5 and Iceborne is a classic expansion instead of being sold as World Ultimate: Westernization.
Not a bad thing at all imo.
Longtime fans know what G-Rank means. New players have no idea, so Master Rank makes more sense.
Who cares?
My love of G rank isnt attached to its name
Its the content baby!
Think it's Great Rank. I always viewed it as Guild Rank due to. It appearing when you maxed your Hunter Rank with the Guild.
IIRC, it's just a cool letter in Japanese culture.
Similar to X here.
I have to agree with this. It makes so much more sense the way they've done everything.
I'm so stupid excited for the expansion and thinking of firing up MHW again to play some of the end game content i havent attempted yet
MHW was my GOTY and still is even after all the heavy fall hitters
I'm really looking forward to what they come up with for this considering what they have achieved with MHW
MHW was my GOTY and still is even after all the heavy fall hitters
I'm really looking forward to what they come up with for this considering what they have achieved with MHW
This new naming convention is gonna have me thinking of that one pokemon opening everytime I go out on a Master Quest.
What I do wonder in regards to this DLC, considering the audience it's cultivated and that G rank generally involves brutal muggings that make high rank seem small time, is it just gonna be G rank content? or will they add to high rank as well for the people who didn't zoom all the way to World's endgame and kit themselves out like a mobile fortress.
What I do wonder in regards to this DLC, considering the audience it's cultivated and that G rank generally involves brutal muggings that make high rank seem small time, is it just gonna be G rank content? or will they add to high rank as well for the people who didn't zoom all the way to World's endgame and kit themselves out like a mobile fortress.
