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[Monster Hunter] Astera Fest: Catch 'em all.

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  • UncleSporkyUncleSporky Registered User regular
    Am I misunderstanding the game or something? I crafted armor with full +10 paralysis, it says it's active, and I'm still getting the little lightning icon debuff from Khezu...

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  • NEO|PhyteNEO|Phyte They follow the stars, bound together. Strands in a braid till the end.Registered User regular
    Satsumomo wrote: »
    NEO|Phyte wrote: »
    Had to put down a tempered vaal after it decided to aggro 15 minutes into sniffing its footprints in search of investigations. Not sure why it got feisty, it was in the middle of going through its off-map route between its lair and the connecting room. Did have two investigations pulled before it happened, so that's something at least.

    Vaal does go aggro on sight, as well as Lunastra and Nergi.
    Well either his sight is pretty bad or I somehow lucked into completely evading his LoS because I've done a full 50 minute tagalong with no aggro before.

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  • Mr KhanMr Khan Not Everyone WAHHHRegistered User regular
    Looking at Kiranico, and woo! They brought back Agnaktor as the Guard Up armor in G-rank.

    All is as it should be.

    Had good luck finding people for Royal Ludroth, and now I'm very close to having the parts for that armor, so soon G rank will begin in earnest.

  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User regular
    Am I misunderstanding the game or something? I crafted armor with full +10 paralysis, it says it's active, and I'm still getting the little lightning icon debuff from Khezu...

    That is thunderblight, likely. Makes you easy to stun.

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  • VyolynceVyolynce Registered User regular
    edited September 2018
    Attach different hilts to different blades for longsword, SnS, dual blades, stuff like that.

    They already have two-element (or element/status) duals.

    Hahnsoo1 wrote: »
    Am I misunderstanding the game or something? I crafted armor with full +10 paralysis, it says it's active, and I'm still getting the little lightning icon debuff from Khezu...

    That is thunderblight, likely. Makes you easy to stun.

    Yeah the Thunder(blight) icon is a lightning bolt with a big triangle. Paralysis is two thinner bolts side-by-side.

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  • UncleSporkyUncleSporky Registered User regular
    But the Paralysis skill still helped? Or did I craft that whole set for nothing.

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  • VyolynceVyolynce Registered User regular
    But the Paralysis skill still helped? Or did I craft that whole set for nothing.

    Probably? Khezu does have an attack that can paralyze if it hits IIRC.

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  • IceBurnerIceBurner It's cold and there are penguins.Registered User regular
    edited September 2018
    Khezu's lightning spit is a thunder attack which can inflict paralysis. All thunder element attacks can inflict thunderblight on hunters.
    All attacks deal some KO (aka "Stun") to hunters, and thunderblight doubles the amount taken.

    Positive element resistance lowers the chance of getting blighted. If I recall, 10 (or was it 15?) or more in a given elemental resistance prevents severe blight, while 20 or more grants blight immunity.

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  • SatsumomoSatsumomo Rated PG! Registered User regular
    Oops I ordered a Switch and MHGU by mistake and it arrives tomorrow, whoops.

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  • VyolynceVyolynce Registered User regular
    IceBurner wrote: »
    Khezu's lightning spit is a thunder attack which can inflict paralysis. All thunder element attacks can inflict thunderblight on hunters.
    All attacks deal some KO (aka "Stun") to hunters, and thunderblight doubles the amount taken.

    Positive element resistance lowers the chance of getting blighted. If I recall, 10 (or was it 15?) or more in a given elemental resistance prevents severe blight, while 20 or more grants blight immunity.

    Judging from my armor sets where I swap around the village Soul skills, you need +15 and +30.

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    Jaggi X set seems like a good starting point - mixing the alternate gloves/legs on gets you +14 attack, +12 expert, +8 health, +something fire attack and is trash monsters plus HR Iodrome if I'm reading it right. Gemming that to Attack+2, Critical Eye+2 is a decent amount of offense buffs while getting to G rank armor values.

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  • biscuitbutt81biscuitbutt81 Registered User regular
    I beat the stupid ass rocket dragon. Do you guys have a recommendation as to what I should do next? Should I jump into multiplayer?

  • SLyMSLyM Registered User regular
    I finally beat nergigante after too many attempts.

    Got the final screenshot in the same way I spent most of the battle.

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    on my belly

    My friend is working on a roguelike game you can play if you want to. (It has free demo)
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  • WyvernWyvern Registered User regular
    Kay wrote: »
    How does Odogaron compare to Diablos? Charge Blade, specifically.

    I dislike negative affinity and think the Diablos Charge Blade looks really dull, so I'd rather use Odo if I can boost it up to parity.
    I don't get why so many people harp on negative affinity so much. It's just math. High raw/negative affinity almost always averages out better than the competition; there's really no functional downside to it.

    People should base their weapon choices on more important factors, like the fact that Diablos weapons are boring and also ugly.

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  • KayKay What we need... Is a little bit of PANIC.Registered User regular
    I don't like blue stars and lower numbers!

    It's honestly that I kinda find the high raw, negative affinity but don't care about affinity because phial damage can't crit to be kinda ugh. So now I'm looking at the possibility of elemental charge blades and elemental crit. Because I'm dumb.

    Also this mixed nerg/rathalos set with Attack Up 7 and Nerg Hunger is rather neat. Nothing looks better than Odogaron armour with the dragonking eyepatch, though.

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    Whichever designer at Capcom thought that "shitty axe with some monster bits around the handle" was a good look for multiple end game GSs should be fired. Into the sun. It looks so lame.

  • SeidkonaSeidkona Had an upgrade Registered User regular
    edited September 2018
    Uninspired weapon designs are a weakness of world.

    Especially when compared to the rest of the series

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    apparently deviljho is about to drop on PC

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  • KlatuKlatu Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi OiRegistered User regular
    Finally got around to getting this the other day. Finished story mode and now working on post game stuff slowly. I'm of two minds about it all, do I just rush to get some end game gear and then go back and clean things up and steamroll stuff, ie 6 star and below, or work myself through all the things I have to do slowly and methodically.

    Because that all seems like too much to think about now, I decided to go and collect some of the rarer pets. Still working on the fish and the bird creature that spawns near said fish. The black and blue one in Rotten Core. Got myself most (all?) of the other trophy related pets.

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  • NEO|PhyteNEO|Phyte They follow the stars, bound together. Strands in a braid till the end.Registered User regular
    Elendil wrote: »
    apparently deviljho is about to drop on PC

    Is it? Last I looked at the event schedule all we had coming up was a set of shades and the coral highlands version of the 'hunt everything with an improved chance of gold crown spawns'

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    NEO|Phyte wrote: »
    Elendil wrote: »
    apparently deviljho is about to drop on PC

    Is it? Last I looked at the event schedule all we had coming up was a set of shades and the coral highlands version of the 'hunt everything with an improved chance of gold crown spawns'
    it's not an event!

    this is how capcom do

    new monster in 12 hours *drops mic*

  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    Kay wrote: »
    I don't like blue stars and lower numbers!

    It's honestly that I kinda find the high raw, negative affinity but don't care about affinity because phial damage can't crit to be kinda ugh. So now I'm looking at the possibility of elemental charge blades and elemental crit. Because I'm dumb
    nah it's fine

    Diablos is always going to be the most optimal thing to do so at some point you need to decide if you're gonna do the optimal thing or the non-optimal thing

    nothing really wrong with the latter as long as you don't have a hard-on for getting the fastest clear times

  • RakeethRakeeth Registered User regular
    Elendil wrote: »
    NEO|Phyte wrote: »
    Elendil wrote: »
    apparently deviljho is about to drop on PC

    Is it? Last I looked at the event schedule all we had coming up was a set of shades and the coral highlands version of the 'hunt everything with an improved chance of gold crown spawns'
    it's not an event!

    this is how capcom do

    new monster in 12 hours *drops mic*

    Welp, I guess it's time to build a Lance set.

  • SeidkonaSeidkona Had an upgrade Registered User regular
    Even I, the anti-meta guy, ran jho's Lance. It's that good.

    Mostly just huntin' monsters.
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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    it is the drill that will pierce the heavens

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    i couldn't do it

    fashion was too bad

  • SeidkonaSeidkona Had an upgrade Registered User regular
    edited September 2018
    It spins. It is the pinnicle of fashion

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  • KayKay What we need... Is a little bit of PANIC.Registered User regular
    The greatsword looks like a dick pickle.

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  • RamiRami Registered User regular
    edited September 2018
    If you get disconnected in multi and it goes back to single and your palico reappears, does it remove the inflated hp monsters have in multi too? Because it usually seems like it takes me way too long to finish them off.

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  • SatsumomoSatsumomo Rated PG! Registered User regular
    No, their HP stays the same unfortunately.

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  • UncleSporkyUncleSporky Registered User regular
    edited September 2018
    In MHGU if you play online 3 player, does one person have their palico with them randomly, or perhaps quest host?

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited September 2018
    Kay wrote: »
    The greatsword looks like a dick pickle.

    It's the best GS until perhaps Wyvern Ignition comes out on PC

    edit: Jho LS is also very good, on par with Divine Slasher but doesn't require arenas.

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  • UncleSporkyUncleSporky Registered User regular
    Also last night doing some hunts my friend and I had awful lag and we're not sure why. Discord didn't seem any worse than usual (that is to say for me it tends to always cut off the first .2-.5 seconds of anything said), but the person who hosted the quest had generally smooth gameplay and the other person had terrible lag. I'm talking it takes 1 second to acknowledge that you took something from the supply chest before it gives it to you, and the monster would appear to freeze and do nothing a lot and then quickly complete whatever move it was probably doing for the other person. We didn't have these problems the other times we played, and nothing really changed with either of our internet.

    Possibly that the game servers were having trouble? Or is it peer to peer?

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  • SeidkonaSeidkona Had an upgrade Registered User regular
    In MHGU if you play online 3 player, does one person have their palico with them randomly, or perhaps quest host?

    No. Palicoes are gone if there are more than 2 people.

    Mostly just huntin' monsters.
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  • VyolynceVyolynce Registered User regular
    Also last night doing some hunts my friend and I had awful lag and we're not sure why. Discord didn't seem any worse than usual (that is to say for me it tends to always cut off the first .2-.5 seconds of anything said), but the person who hosted the quest had generally smooth gameplay and the other person had terrible lag. I'm talking it takes 1 second to acknowledge that you took something from the supply chest before it gives it to you, and the monster would appear to freeze and do nothing a lot and then quickly complete whatever move it was probably doing for the other person. We didn't have these problems the other times we played, and nothing really changed with either of our internet.

    Possibly that the game servers were having trouble? Or is it peer to peer?

    I encounter item box lag frequently, just from the mad scrum of four people accessing it at once. Monster lag is much less common and probably a server thing, I would guess.

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  • RamiRami Registered User regular
    Satsumomo wrote: »
    No, their HP stays the same unfortunately.

    Well that would explain it then.

    I got d/c 2 minutes into a 4 player Val Hazak fight, killed him with about 7 minutes to spare.

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    edited September 2018


    that feels like a respectable ass fucking around time

    come at me arch temp kush

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  • KayKay What we need... Is a little bit of PANIC.Registered User regular
    Naphtali wrote: »
    Kay wrote: »
    The greatsword looks like a dick pickle.

    It's the best GS until perhaps Wyvern Ignition comes out on PC

    edit: Jho LS is also very good, on par with Divine Slasher but doesn't require arenas.

    Oh right, arenas. I need to do some arena stuff and see what weapons are available.

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited September 2018
    i'm not sure there's much in the arena worth getting except divine slasher; everything else more or less is equaled or surpassed but later content.

    edit: brigade chest has two 2slot decorations, which is pretty much tops until kulve taroth and later

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    guild cross head is super good

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