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Monster Hunter World: Iceborne |OT| Looking for love in Alatreon places
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I have a couple Guiding Lands questions:
- If a monster, say, spawns in the Coral area and then moves to the Forest area, do I still get Coral points for breaking their parts/capturing them? What about in the mixed Coral/Forest transition area?
- If I'm in the Guiding Lands trying to grind Coral research, and someone else comes into my session and fights/kills something in the Forest area, does that fuck anything up for me? Like, when I turn in after they kill something in the Forest area, does that have a chance of deleveling my Coral or something?
- If someone joins your session and runs off and starts fighting their own thing, do you think that's rude? I'm sure the answer has to do with the answers to the above part, but it feels like there's some pretty wildly variant etiquette. Most people seem down to do whatever I need to do, but not everyone.
- Right now I'm at, like, Forest 5, Rotten/Wildspire 1 or 2, Coral 5. Should I delevel Forest to increase Coral faster?
Alright guys. I bought Iceborne a while ago and beat the first like 2-3 monsters and dropped the game. I want to get back into it, but it feels like I'm so far behind with my rocket GS. Should I just jump back in and start killing again or do I need to grind attack gems and try to level up?
You need to make a weapon with Iceborne mats. That'll leave your old GS in the dust.
Welp, guess I'm going through the game then. What's the meta sword right now?
You're a long ways away from endgame, but I'd recommend upgrading to the Jagras GS
Wait you mean fat ol Jagras!? Aww man don't tell me even his sword is beefier than the Rocket GS!? 😭
You can upgrade that rocket GS at endgame, so don't trash it. But for now it's a pathetic waste of space that all the IB monsters laugh at.
yeah for the early MR jagras really good. You can upgrade your Rocket GS, but it's not as good/top tier as before.
i'll try to answer from what i know.
1. you'll get most exp from where the monster spawn (check map and look at what region that monster from)
2. yeah the exp applied to everyone on that sessions
3. i think that's rude, usually people hunt whatever the host is hunting
4. if you want fast exp just hunt solo the monster who's exclusive to that area. ex : kulu on Wildspire, tzizi on Coral, girros on rotten. To check where the monster will spawn go to menu then special tracks or check your lure. Another way is you find SOS level 1 you want and hunt exclusive moster.
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Alright thanks boys. Off to slap Fatgras!
I use Jagras GS till the final boss, it can use elementless too! (too bad it's 5% boost not 10% as the base game)
'well this is a hell of a post. Thanks for the info. HH sounds so helpful but I want to fully support. Heals galore. I ended going with SnS
Got lucky and got some great randos for behemoth extreme. Had one cart left for fail and one of the hunters wasn't getting behind a rock and figured it was over. Then saw "sco performs JUMP" and duty completed holy shit I didn't know that was a thing. Dragoon layered armor get
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If a monster is exclusive to a region then you barely get any points for the other regions, even if you fight them in the other region.
Example: I grinded a bunch of Namielles, and they constantly fled to various bits of the Forest region, and I never got enough Forest XP for it to actually matter.
that's interesting, but seems like a different thing?
Has anyone else felt like the weapon popularities have become way more stratified in Iceborne? In base game, like, Long Sword would be twice as popular as HH or whatever, but I was never surprised to see any weapon in particular—everything showed up. Today I realized that over the past few days of Guiding Lands, I've seen one Lance, one IG, maybe two SnS's, maybe two Hunting Horns, and zero Hammers. Basically everyone I see is HBG, LBG, Charge Blade, or DBs, with some switch axes and long swords and stuff filling in here and there. Am I having a private experience, or are other people getting this too?
Also, how's Insect Glaive doing right now? I saw one for the first time in a while today and it looked pretty fun. The guy was aerial way more than I remember IG's being in base game, but maybe he was just playing poorly or something
Has anyone else felt like the weapon popularities have become way more stratified in Iceborne? In base game, like, Long Sword would be twice as popular as HH or whatever, but I was never surprised to see any weapon in particular—everything showed up. Today I realized that over the past few days of Guiding Lands, I've seen one Lance, one IG, maybe two SnS's, maybe two Hunting Horns, and zero Hammers. Basically everyone I see is HBG, LBG, Charge Blade, or DBs, with some switch axes and long swords and stuff filling in here and there. Am I having a private experience, or are other people getting this too?
Also, how's Insect Glaive doing right now? I saw one for the first time in a while today and it looked pretty fun. The guy was aerial way more than I remember IG's being in base game, but maybe he was just playing poorly or something
I love it, but there's a lot of micromanagement. You have to keep all your buffs up, plus feed the kinsect with slinger ammo, plus it's a light weapon so it's harder to weaken monster parts, and it's annoying to aim the clutch claw because you have to press R3 to switch from kinsect aim mode.
You shouldn't be aerial a lot, but it's still good for mounting plus they added a downwards smash move in IB that does a lot of damage and marks a target for the kinsect.
About the same. Unless I was hunting with era or friends I rarely saw another HH user but sure saw a lot of longsword and hbg, and that never changed for me. Last first wyverian stats I saw had longsword at like 15%, and HH/lance around 2% which sounds about right.
Yeah, I didn't mind it at first but it gets really annoying after a while.
Yeah, once you have a good deco collection, there's almost never a reason to choose alpha over beta.
The alpha sets seem to geared towards new players who don't have many decorations yet. For them the built-in skills gain in value.
The Chrome Deathscythe series of GS is also very good throughout the story, and easy to craft.
Agreed. Once I got my bow gem and then unlocked Guiding Lands, I have more fuel that I need. Kinda wish you could burn higher amounts to speed things up.
The steamworks is mostly useful for the silver tickets. They get some of the best level 1-3 gems, that you'd normally have to grind HR Elder Dragons for.
EDIT: Unless you've been grinding those dragons for 1000's of hours, there are probably some rare jewels from the base game that you'll still want - and many are very hard (impossible?) to find at master rank since they're not in the drop tables for the R9-12 jewel rewards (guard up, for example).
I've picked up a good selection of the rarer bow gems mighty/spread/normal and others. Still no "guard up" though.
I've been trying to get used to the new SnS moves. Slinger burst into perfect rush seems like a really good damage dealer. It's annoying that slinger resets to regular shot every time you sheath.
EDIT: Unless you've been grinding those dragons for 1000's of hours, there are probably some rare jewels from the base game that you'll still want - and many are very hard (impossible?) to find at master rank since they're not in the drop tables for the R9-12 jewel rewards (guard up, for example).
I've picked up a good selection of the rarer bow gems mighty/spread/normal and others. Still no "guard up" though.
I've been trying to get used to the new SnS moves. Slinger burst into perfect rush seems like a really good damage dealer. It's annoying that slinger resets to regular shot every time you sheath.
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it isn't unfortunately. Only the host can summon. If they drop, you might as well leave cause no one can pull monsters after that.
I've gotten used to it and enjoy making fun of their comments (since they're all sitting on the sidelines not doing a damn thing, lol).
I dunno, I grinded tempered elders for hundreds of hours in world and still find myself getting gems I've never gotten before from these melding tickets.
It doesn't matter where they go during the fight, only where they spawn and where they are initially from in the game world. For example: Legiana shows up in coral and hoarfrost, and therefore will spawn in either coral or tundra in the GL. Whichever it spawns from, you will get the most exp there. The other place you will get a tiny amount of exp for. For monsters like Namielle who only show up in the Coral region, you'll only get coral experience for (and a decent amount of it).
There are some exceptions. For instance the Narga head alpha has PP2 and two lvl 1 slots, while the beta has PP1 and a lvl 4 + 1 slots. Artillery is a lvl 1 skill and you're stacking attack on a sticky build so getting to PP3 (with the alpha legs) and slotting in artillery 3 and as much attack as you can is a good choice. Artillery+4 deco dropped for me but even then I would need to slop peak performance elsewhere. I do use it on some variations of my build.
Same here. It's rained focus decos for me when I meld, where previously I could hardly believe they existed.
I am hoping to get some more big decos for element resists. Got most of them apart from water. Nice just to add a little boost to sets when needed.
Currently I am not after anything in particular, once my mighty bow jewel dropped. Seem to do Steamworks after a good Guiding Lands farm and end up with 100s of random jewels I never use. Maybe melding them is best.
Currently I am not after anything in particular, once my mighty bow jewel dropped. Seem to do Steamworks after a good Guiding Lands farm and end up with 100s of random jewels I never use. Maybe melding them is best.
I played 800 hours of vanilla and all I got was one for normal shots, zero for pierce and zero for spread. In two events by simply doing the daily steam tickets I've got another one for normal, three pierce and two spread.
It's nice not to have your charm locked into those when playing ranged.
It's nice not to have your charm locked into those when playing ranged.
You might see way more HBG than before because Loyal Thunder (the Zinogre one) is absolutely busted. Like "a lot of people consider it the best weapon in the game by far" busted.
Spread ammo probably needs to get nerfed, and normal shots could use a buff. Loyal Thunder itself could probably use some needs also.
I wish they'd do something to buff the Guild Palace one since it's not great at anything and seems to have way higher recoil/reload in addition to lower ammo count for no real reason. I still use it because it looks great and I'm having fun trying to build to make it work, but dang.
In Guiding Lands on PC - my my progress bars are silver instead of gold/yellow. Is this how it always was at low region levels?
I'm assuming it goes silver -> gold -> red but it's been a while since I hit Guiding Lands on PS4. I only recall gold on PS4.
Also, Dragonvein Coal starts showing at level 4, right?
I'm assuming it goes silver -> gold -> red but it's been a while since I hit Guiding Lands on PS4. I only recall gold on PS4.
Also, Dragonvein Coal starts showing at level 4, right?
That quest in particular is tough to pick out, because it doesn't show as one of the
The one of those that bugs me is on Floor 3 the Serious Handler says something like "Maybe you can use those crags for cover!" You undoubtedly have done this already to survive a nuke on the previous floor or even on that same floor based on when she usually says that.
The one of those that bugs me is on Floor 3 the Serious Handler says something like "Maybe you can use those crags for cover!" You undoubtedly have done this already to survive a nuke on the previous floor or even on that same floor based on when she usually says that.
So I knocked out ??? from the Original release and ended up doing some extremely awful Witcher Leshen hunt thing...
What do I need to wrap up actually get to the Expansion content, I would like to completely avoid anything that resembles whatever they though that was.
What do I need to wrap up actually get to the Expansion content, I would like to completely avoid anything that resembles whatever they though that was.
Once you've finished Xeno'jiva and the credits roll, you're done with MHW and can move directly onto iceborne. The old collaboration stuff will be there if you ever want to go back to that.
The actual place they spawn on the map doesn't matter, just the region, which is shown on your map next to the monster icon at the bottom left. If a monster shows Coral, then it gives most points for coral(if it's exclusive to coral, like tzitzi, coral pukei, legiana until hoarfrost region on PC, namielle, silver rathalos and so on, it gives only points to coral, more of it too).
There have definitely been a few where i was like... what is that? And have to press the touchpad to see what it does
You can go straight to Iceborne, but you'll want to go back to high-rank to finish the optional quests that unlock various mantles, boosters and meal/tree upgrades, if you haven't done them already.
Get a master weapon and armour from the early iceborne quests, then go back for the high-rank optionals. It'll make them a lot easier.
There's no need to bother with any high-rank event quests, since all the special rewards are worse than the new weapons/armour in iceborne.
My favorite weapon right now on PC while going through the early MR quests.
I´m also using the Light Pillars Mod and found another one a few days ago that I think is quite nice. It´s called "Change the color after destroy the parts", and it gives the monsters red scars when you break a part. Here is the link on nexusmods for it
Change the color after destroy the parts
I find them pretty equal in terms of difficulty. Is Silver Rath supposed to be much stronger?
No they are about the same on paper but they have drastically different combat styles which can make either of them harder or easier depending on your playstyle
Him being in the air more often than Goldian alone makes him tougher for me. I also find his triple fire attacks while airborne harder to dodge than Goldian's big fire bomb.
Over all versions of Rathalos are harder than all versions of Rathians for me.
If I wear a maxed out thunder resistance charm, will that mean thunder doesn't harm me at all or reduced damage?