I hope they change how Defense Boost functions in the future.
Have it work like a permanent Divine Blessing where it provides a set damage reduction. Maybe like 3/5/7/10/15/20 for each level?
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Monster Hunter World: Iceborne |OT| Looking for love in Alatreon places
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I hope they change how Defense Boost functions in the future.
Have it work like a permanent Divine Blessing where it provides a set damage reduction. Maybe like 3/5/7/10/15/20 for each level?
Hopefully, non PS4 users are really missing out on the Stormslinger.
Health boost decorations are always level 1, or paired with another skill on a level 4 deco. You can only ever get 1 point of health boost from a deco.
The melder isn't a good place to get decos anyway. You can only meld a small selection of level 1 decos, or gamble on the ritual that I forgot the name of that gives feystones and shit.
Crafted the Shara SA yesterday and despite being not impressed by it when I saw the values, it shreds through monsters and is a direct upgrade from my velkhana axe. I guess the ice element wasn't that good. It doesn't quite reach purple sharpness but the raw damage is really good now.
Yeah getting the most out of an element focused switch axe takes a little build management compared to using a more powerful raw weapon
If you look at some of axes on the Tree the difference in Raw Rating between High Element axes and Raw focused ones can be as much as 100 points or more
Im not a motion values expert but I think if you want to bridge the gap and still have element tacking on the damage on Switch Axe you need to use some of the weapons that bridge the gap a little better and pick up boosts from Safi Gear/Velkhana/Silver Rath/Namielle.
I really should experiment with the different phials and how they work in this respect and what playstyle takes best advantage of the different builds
Three great spiritvein gems from a tempered Stygian Zinogre hunt. That's a pretty good haul, right?
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Certain armors have better base limits than others but I thought it was all tied to rarity... so im not sure
Some armor within the same rarity tier can have different base armor values.
Did you get them without Geologist 1? Then I'm impressed.
Did you get them without Geologist 1? Then I'm impressed.
Yeah, that I know. But it's the exact same armor piece. So I can only get it to 120, but in the video it goes to 132. Confusing. Does it depend on your rank or something?
oh yeah
I forgot about that. Suprised it still persists in Master rank but yeah you need to push further into the campaign to unlock how far the smithy can push upgrade levels
where are you in the story? think theres story gate for certain armor upgrades too.
Aha! Thanks so much for confirming.
About to face off with Barioth, which is the first rank 3 assigned mission. Early!
Not running geologist. Two shiny drops and one from the rewards.
Will definitely do that from now on. I have one protection jewel 1, so I'll add that to the armor. I wish I could meld these myself, but it's not in the list at the elder melder yet. Is this an unlockable later?
Was on expedition in Hoarfrost on my own, just gathering shit and then I saw a Fulgur Anjanath, decided to try it and I actually killed it. Feels good! So far with this game we've only been hunting these monsters together, me and my friends. But it's fun to try it alone too.
IMO, elemental is too much trouble with SA.
I tried to make elemental SA work, and to an extent it does (particularly for ZSD spam) but the sharpness management is so bad running Silverlos and I hate running Protective Polish. You can run Teostra Master's Touch + Velk Crit Ele for some better sharpness management but at that point, running raw is just better. Elemental unfortunately does not get Power Phial's 17% boost to raw in charge state.
Not sure, I've never melded decos tbh. It should be one of the lower rarity ones.
I tried to make elemental SA work, and to an extent it does (particularly for ZSD spam) but the sharpness management is so bad running Silverlos and I hate running Protective Polish. You can run Teostra Master's Touch + Velk Crit Ele for some better sharpness management but at that point, running raw is just better. Elemental unfortunately does not get Power Phial's 17% boost to raw in charge state.
Not sure, I've never melded decos tbh. It should be one of the lower rarity ones.
The legend is true, this deco exists
Lol I don't even need it anymore, but still nice to have.
I also completed the powerful Safi elemental bow build today.
Time to stop playing this baby until the next additional content(or when they add crossplay)
The difference in difficulty between OG World teostra and Iceborne is simply amazing to witness. He went from a piece of garbage that hardly touches anyone to a killing machine that will destroy everything left and right.
And I fucking love it.
Lol I don't even need it anymore, but still nice to have.
I also completed the powerful Safi elemental bow build today.
Time to stop playing this baby until the next additional content(or when they add crossplay)
The difference in difficulty between OG World teostra and Iceborne is simply amazing to witness. He went from a piece of garbage that hardly touches anyone to a killing machine that will destroy everything left and right.
And I fucking love it.
It's impressive how much harder they were able to make Teo just by putting him in blast powder mode almost all the time.
Did anything else get more of a glo up than Uragaan though? Its tempered version is OBNOXIOUS in Iceborne lol.
Wonder how Layer armour is going to work on PC. Will they just release everything up to ED Gamma sets?
Wonder how Layer armour is going to work on PC. Will they just release everything up to ED Gamma sets?
Haha true.
and that move where he target underneath him to kill those naive folks who think they are safe there(it also ignores temporal mantle). Just so beautiful.
I don't think he's that bad until the blast power gets that blue electric spark to it. Then you gotta look out.
on console safi is scheduled to come back during the anniversary event, so i imagine PC players will get the quest then too
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Early March.
Not how it works.
For most weapon classes, Safi makes every other weapon redundant. They won't unleash him on PC so soon after release.
Damn what to do.
Do I go for a full A armor of Legiana and have all the extra skills it offers, but not any jewel 4 slots?
Or go for full B armor, but missing out on some of those skills but several level 4 slots for jewels? I could pick one B piece and have the rest be A armor pieces, but won't I miss out on the legiana ambition bonus skill?
Do I go for a full A armor of Legiana and have all the extra skills it offers, but not any jewel 4 slots?
Or go for full B armor, but missing out on some of those skills but several level 4 slots for jewels? I could pick one B piece and have the rest be A armor pieces, but won't I miss out on the legiana ambition bonus skill?
Bonus skills apply even when using mixed A/B pieces. They even apply to monster variants if they share the same bonus.
Really I thought it was fairly similar to tempered teostra or so. The new moves aren't so bad and overall it's fairly similar in the sense that if you don't get chain flinches and knock downs, he can get pretty feisty, but fire mantle still makes the fight a ton easier. The biggest "buff" he got is that I didn't have health augments yet so healing the constant shitty damage was a pain.
The one I was pretty surprised about was Kirin. He got a lot of buffs on his normal moves, actually carted me 3 times before I stopped trying to counter lightnings like an idiot and just held block/power guard because everything is multihits now almost, that or he does a long cast with a short cast randomly happening just before(so you counter the short and get hit by long). Once I got used to the new stuff though he was just as easy as before, low hp and high chance to knock down.
Lunastra is also in theory real stupid but haven't fought her yet.
No matter what you think about Lunastra, I can assure you she's worse that that.
I can see PC getting parity on things like layered armor. I doubt they'll go for Safi so soon after release.
Whenever I have big amounts, I take a break from the game by pressing R2 while reading a couple of threads on Era. Hold until cut-scene, then ignore steam-works until next week's bonus.
Change frequency from weekly to daily during fests.
Why the hell did they make Kushala so damn awful? Even with the Kushala set bonus and wind resist 5 I still get tossed around like a ragdoll from all the damn tornadoes.
She's still better than Kushala
As someone who still thinks Tempered Teostra is STILL a pushover, Lunastra is hell on earth.
Solo I'd put behemoth neck and neck with Kushala.
It's dumb because it's basically a toss up whether or not the fight is going to end up being a big tornado shitfest.
Lunastra's unplayable without Windproof 5 or Fireproof Mantle. Kushala's unplayable without Sticky ammo.
It's two different flavors of bullshit.
Monsters that fill the area with hazards are default the worst. I like the monster to be the challenge, not the environment. Kushala can eat shit. Also monsters who never stop moving are shit as well. Lunastra is not fun, even if you have the proper setup. I hear Rajang never stops moving either so yipeeeee /s
It's really disappointing to me too that breaking parts does very little to change attack patterns. Break the wings of a flying monster and it'll still fly all the time. Break the head and it'll still target you with the same accuracy. Cut the tail and it'll still tail swipe (hell, Velkhana grows it back with ice). It's stupid. Breaking the arms is really the only thing that seems worth it.
This is a fair point. But really it also depends on your weapon during the fight.