Do you have any tips to easily farm the drachen set? I tried the behemoth (extreme) fight for the first time tonight and I was so lost. But even if I learn the ropes like I did with AT Val Hazak, I'm sure it's still gonna be difficult with randoms :/You gotta break his hands to get the shearclaws which take forever, but fortunately I was able to get the final pieces last night (although I still wasn't able to kill Behemoth).
I finished the Drachen set but I don't think I can use anymore than the legs and the hands in my current set up. I'm a GS main but i have no Handicraft/Focus/MaxMight jewels and only one Tenderizer Jewel so I'm still missing out on alot of abilities by trying the popular setup of 4pc Drachen + head or waist piece of choice. These particular jewels seem very hard to farm so far.
Do you have any tips to easily farm the drachen set? I tried the behemoth (extreme) fight for the first time tonight and I was so lost. But even if I learn the ropes like I did with AT Val Hazak, I'm sure it's still gonna be difficult with randoms :/
Why wouldn't it? They said in a few days we'll hear about it.
I didn't do it myself, but if I had to fight her again I'd probably try and go for some form of wind resistance. The big problem with AT Lunastra's nova is the added wind pressure she causes that stops you from super man diving through the nova attack. As soon as she gets ready for the attack you super man dive, and you continue immediately super man diving until the attack is finished. Without the wind pressure troubling you I don't think you can be interrupted doing that.i returned to mhw after some time and lunastra is a really hard fight and at lunastra is currently impossible for me, is there any tip that might help me(i play insect glaive btw), like an essential skill to help me protect myself from its flames, because i can't get too close unless i'm wearing a mantle. The fire spin on the ground it does insta kill me.
i really have no idea how to proceed
I have been playing the game because I got maybe like a month ago, and I'm playing the campaing, do I miss any monster by only playing the campaing?
Yeah, I'm kind liking the game more, this has to do that at the beginning I wasn't sure what I was doing, Im around the part where I finished Hunting Diablos and I'm more comfortable with the game mechanics now, there still bunch of things here and there that still confused me, but overall it's getting better. I started with long sword then switch to Charge Blade (Probrably 95%of my gameplay its been with that weapon) and I might consider do again long sword just to switch things a little bit.A few yes but if you like the game enough to finish the campaign,there is a lot more to do after and you will eventually easily see them all.
i returned to mhw after some time and lunastra is a really hard fight and at lunastra is currently impossible for me, is there any tip that might help me(i play insect glaive btw), like an essential skill to help me protect myself from its flames, because i can't get too close unless i'm wearing a mantle. The fire spin on the ground it does insta kill me.
i really have no idea how to proceed
I'm in the same position as you and the AT monsters were kind of like a wake up call for me. The normal charge blade and dual blade builds I use just didn't cut it out for AT Luna so I looked online and the best thing I found was to stack as much fire resistance as possible. Three fire resistance decorations are a must for me, and you can look through armor pieces with fire defense to see what fits.i returned to mhw after some time and lunastra is a really hard fight and at lunastra is currently impossible for me, is there any tip that might help me(i play insect glaive btw), like an essential skill to help me protect myself from its flames, because i can't get too close unless i'm wearing a mantle. The fire spin on the ground it does insta kill me.
i really have no idea how to proceed
I didn't do it myself, but if I had to fight her again I'd probably try and go for some form of wind resistance. The big problem with AT Lunastra's nova is the added wind pressure she causes that stops you from super man diving through the nova attack. As soon as she gets ready for the attack you super man dive, and you continue immediately super man diving until the attack is finished. Without the wind pressure troubling you I don't think you can be interrupted doing that.
Other than that, you can try and trigger the super nova while you're out of range. Whenever you flash Lunastra and she is charged, she will usually do the super nova immediately. That way you can try and make her cast the nova when it's most convenient for you. I just found that normally she'd just charge again right away, so it wasn't always super helpful.
A member here mentioned a few pages back the Astra Jerky will help if you get caught in the super nova blast, it's certainly gotten me out of trouble. Also getting that HP to 200 !!
I'm in the same position as you and the AT monsters were kind of like a wake up call for me. The normal charge blade and dual blade builds I use just didn't cut it out for AT Luna so I looked online and the best thing I found was to stack as much fire resistance as possible. Three fire resistance decorations are a must for me, and you can look through armor pieces with fire defense to see what fits.
The build I landed on uses Damascus beta chest and waist, dante's legs, Teo's beta gloves and wiggler's helmet which has 0 fire resistance but I really like playing with wide-range in AT hunts. It helps carry the team through the tough parts and it could be my luck, but most randoms I see take it too. Feels like I should do my part as well :P
I also use vitality and recovery up decorations. You won't be doing the highest damage, but I managed to survive without carting to the end of the fight and most of the potions I popped were to help my team more than anything.
I really regret not playing when Kulve Taroth was available though. The armor looks sick and I see it used in several builds. I hope people still do it when they bring it back.
If your problem is the constant damage you get by just being next to her, you have two options. The Clearmind Charm protects you from heat. If you cannot craft the charm, the other option is the Barnos Jacket beta that is cheap to augment (just a streamstone shard and a dragonbone relic) and can be upgraded until a defense of 86. Just Heat Guard and a single level 1 slot is a bit poor skillwise, though.other than the wind pressure resistance i was already trying the other stuff, i'm starting to think i'm just bad at the game. anyway, thanks for the responses, i will be sure to try protecting myself against wind.
focus on defense is another strategy i didn't try
this is the build i was trying kill it with, i think i can get rid of dragon boost and try some defensive skills like recovery up and wind resistance like you guys suggested.
i gotta step up my game
Still stuck on the 2 bazels quest like 7 months later lol, no matter what i do i wipe, if i sos everyone else wipes. Never known anything like it playing games.
Can't really answer the first one as I never played FFXIV, but as for the second question: It very much depends on the monster. You should be fine for AT Kushala Daora and AT Zorah Magdaros, where you can finish the quest rather regularly. It's going to be much more difficult for AT Lunastra and AT Xeno'jiiva. AT Lunastra I never successfully fought with a pug, AT Xeno'jiiva I think once. AT Kirin and AT Teostra fall somewhere in the middle. I managed them in pug play, but it might take a couple of tries. But I guess experiences will vary for all of them. In general with AT monsters, you're most likely going to be better off fighting them on your own.I'm back from a 7 months long break, gonna mop up some event quests and would like to tackle Behemoth soon. But I heard he is really hard. Do I have any advantages coming from FFXIV (I mean mechanic/tell wise)?
Also, how hard are the AT monsters in casual pug online play?
However, I'm trying new weapons (SA, CB, LS) and none of them are giving me the satisfaction that I get from landing a TCS on a monster's face. Anyone want to sell me on their non-GS weapon?
New weapon and armor trees will open up as you defeat more new monsters. Also if you're wondering why you're stuck with the same Hunting Rank for longer periods of time, it's progress is set via story missions (but your real HR, as in how much you really played, is counted in the background and applied once you've beaten all the main assignments. So expect a BIG jump after you beat the "main story").Started playing it today with the free trial! This game is cool but definitely confusing for someone who never played anything in the series before.
The amount of items, collectibles and slingshot things they throw at you constantly with minimal explanations just means that I'll remember none and not make use of it.
Also, I guess it's just because I'm at the beginning - but how do you progress your character? Is it all about just crafting better gear and upgrading it with spheres or later on the game provides you with equipment drops from big boss monsters? No skill trees, new attacks, level ups or anything?
The smithy just shows me like 7 different sets of equip that I can craft and that's it, and there's literally 2 weapons I can craft for my charge blade.
Definitely the CB. Landing the CB's SAED is just as satisfying as landing the GS TCB.
So I just got around to finishing the game had it since launch and need some help picking a good armor set, I have my eyes on the Rath Soul / Vaal hazak / nergigante what do you guys think?.
I was going to but the SAED is the only real thing I like about CB and the set up for it takes a bit too long for me. Plus it doesn't help that the best CB is not very pretty to me (Tyrannis II).
Barnos Jacket is easier to craft in case one does not have the required materials for Clearmind Charm.
Keep going at it. Don't give up! This is exactly how I felt when fighting Extremoth. I had to try almost 100x to finally get a random party can managed to defeat it. Used up all my meal vouchers.
You'll need to max out defense AND armor augments. If survivability is an issue, use Health Boost 3. That thing kept me alive in so many AT hunts. If elemental damage is an issue, eat veggies for max elemental resist.
Any specific mob you're referring to?