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

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  • Dr. ChaosDr. Chaos Post nuclear nuisance Registered User regular
    Got my last ticket! I never have to do that goddamn fight again. God is real.

    Unless you guys need a third or fourth man to fill space, always up for that.

    Now to throw myself at AT Jeeves until the day is over.

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    got the set finished

    might just try to get the other two tickets later on i dunno

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  • Dr. ChaosDr. Chaos Post nuclear nuisance Registered User regular
    Oh man...yeah, fuck Jeeves.

    Did about ten rounds at it, couldn't beat it. Its going to be like AT Nerg where I just throw myself at it endlessly for weeks and I'm just emotionally and spiritually drained after Nerg.

    My one big problem with the endgame of World. The only monsters that are worth fighting anymore are the ridiculously juiced up elder dragons which are ball crushingly hard.

    Every time I come back to the game hyped to play more, it becomes just such a draining experience that it makes me want to take another break from the game again.

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    Dr. Chaos wrote: »
    Oh man...yeah, fuck Jeeves.

    Did about ten rounds at it, couldn't beat it. Its going to be like AT Nerg where I just throw myself at it endlessly for weeks and I'm just emotionally and spiritually drained after Nerg.

    My one big problem with the endgame of World. The only monsters that are worth fighting anymore are the ridiculously juiced up elder dragons which are ball crushingly hard.

    Every time I come back to the game hyped to play more, it becomes just such a draining experience that it makes me want to take another break from the game again.

    what strategy are you using for that fight? honestly, I just cheese it with a pierce HBG build. heat guard (kulve Y legs or clearmind charm) + guard up + one shield mod (not even guard) should be enough to survive the fight, assuming you avoid being in melee range

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  • Dr. ChaosDr. Chaos Post nuclear nuisance Registered User regular
    Naphtali wrote: »
    Dr. Chaos wrote: »
    Oh man...yeah, fuck Jeeves.

    Did about ten rounds at it, couldn't beat it. Its going to be like AT Nerg where I just throw myself at it endlessly for weeks and I'm just emotionally and spiritually drained after Nerg.

    My one big problem with the endgame of World. The only monsters that are worth fighting anymore are the ridiculously juiced up elder dragons which are ball crushingly hard.

    Every time I come back to the game hyped to play more, it becomes just such a draining experience that it makes me want to take another break from the game again.

    what strategy are you using for that fight? honestly, I just cheese it with a pierce HBG build. heat guard (kulve Y legs or clearmind charm) + guard up + one shield mod (not even guard) should be enough to survive the fight, assuming you avoid being in melee range
    About the exact same setup I'm using.

    Shield doesn't seem to work well against the beams which keep nailing me.

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    Dr. Chaos wrote: »
    Oh man...yeah, fuck Jeeves.

    Did about ten rounds at it, couldn't beat it. Its going to be like AT Nerg where I just throw myself at it endlessly for weeks and I'm just emotionally and spiritually drained after Nerg.

    My one big problem with the endgame of World. The only monsters that are worth fighting anymore are the ridiculously juiced up elder dragons which are ball crushingly hard.

    Every time I come back to the game hyped to play more, it becomes just such a draining experience that it makes me want to take another break from the game again.

    It's by far the biggest problem with World - they're completely up their own ass on elder dragons. One advantage to GU is that since they were able to easily port things forward it's a much flatter top end with just a shitload of elders and flagships. The challenge comes in learning each of them, instead of having to grind up a treadmill of increasingly silly armors to handle the next one.

    Well, that and the obligatory challenge quests, but those are for the challenge (and bragging rights).

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    Dr. Chaos wrote: »
    Naphtali wrote: »
    Dr. Chaos wrote: »
    Oh man...yeah, fuck Jeeves.

    Did about ten rounds at it, couldn't beat it. Its going to be like AT Nerg where I just throw myself at it endlessly for weeks and I'm just emotionally and spiritually drained after Nerg.

    My one big problem with the endgame of World. The only monsters that are worth fighting anymore are the ridiculously juiced up elder dragons which are ball crushingly hard.

    Every time I come back to the game hyped to play more, it becomes just such a draining experience that it makes me want to take another break from the game again.

    what strategy are you using for that fight? honestly, I just cheese it with a pierce HBG build. heat guard (kulve Y legs or clearmind charm) + guard up + one shield mod (not even guard) should be enough to survive the fight, assuming you avoid being in melee range
    About the exact same setup I'm using.

    Shield doesn't seem to work well against the beams which keep nailing me.

    do you have guard up? you need that for the lasers

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  • Dr. ChaosDr. Chaos Post nuclear nuisance Registered User regular
    Naphtali wrote: »
    Dr. Chaos wrote: »
    Naphtali wrote: »
    Dr. Chaos wrote: »
    Oh man...yeah, fuck Jeeves.

    Did about ten rounds at it, couldn't beat it. Its going to be like AT Nerg where I just throw myself at it endlessly for weeks and I'm just emotionally and spiritually drained after Nerg.

    My one big problem with the endgame of World. The only monsters that are worth fighting anymore are the ridiculously juiced up elder dragons which are ball crushingly hard.

    Every time I come back to the game hyped to play more, it becomes just such a draining experience that it makes me want to take another break from the game again.

    what strategy are you using for that fight? honestly, I just cheese it with a pierce HBG build. heat guard (kulve Y legs or clearmind charm) + guard up + one shield mod (not even guard) should be enough to survive the fight, assuming you avoid being in melee range
    About the exact same setup I'm using.

    Shield doesn't seem to work well against the beams which keep nailing me.

    do you have guard up? you need that for the lasers
    Ah.

    I only have copious amounts of "guard". Always assumed people are are talking about the same skill when they're talking about two different ones since it seems bulwark charm gives that and I haven't used it before now.

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    Dr. Chaos wrote: »
    Naphtali wrote: »
    Dr. Chaos wrote: »
    Naphtali wrote: »
    Dr. Chaos wrote: »
    Oh man...yeah, fuck Jeeves.

    Did about ten rounds at it, couldn't beat it. Its going to be like AT Nerg where I just throw myself at it endlessly for weeks and I'm just emotionally and spiritually drained after Nerg.

    My one big problem with the endgame of World. The only monsters that are worth fighting anymore are the ridiculously juiced up elder dragons which are ball crushingly hard.

    Every time I come back to the game hyped to play more, it becomes just such a draining experience that it makes me want to take another break from the game again.

    what strategy are you using for that fight? honestly, I just cheese it with a pierce HBG build. heat guard (kulve Y legs or clearmind charm) + guard up + one shield mod (not even guard) should be enough to survive the fight, assuming you avoid being in melee range
    About the exact same setup I'm using.

    Shield doesn't seem to work well against the beams which keep nailing me.

    do you have guard up? you need that for the lasers
    Ah.

    I only have copious amounts of "guard". Always assumed people are are talking about the same skill when they're talking about two different ones since it seems bulwark charm gives that and I haven't used it before now.

    Yeah, I wish they'd come up with a different name for it, but there's always been two different skills. One to reduce the costs of it, one to improve what you can block overall (I think it also works to make SnS/GS blocks go closer to lance/charged CB blocks, but can't I remember).

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    yeah the laser counts as an "unblockable" attack, so you need the guard up skill to block it.

    Xeno lasers, Teo supernova, Kulve lava breath into aoe attack, Vaal vomit breath, uragaan/radobaan fart attacks (explosion and sleep gas), deviljho leg slam into prone are the big ones I can think of

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  • VyolynceVyolynce Registered User regular
    Polaritie wrote: »
    Dr. Chaos wrote: »
    Naphtali wrote: »
    Dr. Chaos wrote: »
    Naphtali wrote: »
    Dr. Chaos wrote: »
    Oh man...yeah, fuck Jeeves.

    Did about ten rounds at it, couldn't beat it. Its going to be like AT Nerg where I just throw myself at it endlessly for weeks and I'm just emotionally and spiritually drained after Nerg.

    My one big problem with the endgame of World. The only monsters that are worth fighting anymore are the ridiculously juiced up elder dragons which are ball crushingly hard.

    Every time I come back to the game hyped to play more, it becomes just such a draining experience that it makes me want to take another break from the game again.

    what strategy are you using for that fight? honestly, I just cheese it with a pierce HBG build. heat guard (kulve Y legs or clearmind charm) + guard up + one shield mod (not even guard) should be enough to survive the fight, assuming you avoid being in melee range
    About the exact same setup I'm using.

    Shield doesn't seem to work well against the beams which keep nailing me.

    do you have guard up? you need that for the lasers
    Ah.

    I only have copious amounts of "guard". Always assumed people are are talking about the same skill when they're talking about two different ones since it seems bulwark charm gives that and I haven't used it before now.

    Yeah, I wish they'd come up with a different name for it, but there's always been two different skills. One to reduce the costs of it, one to improve what you can block overall (I think it also works to make SnS/GS blocks go closer to lance/charged CB blocks, but can't I remember).

    I'm still flummoxed that the Gen localization team thought that having both "Deadeye" and "Dead Eye" skills was a good idea. Fortunately they're both worthless for my purposes and I just ignore them but still.

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  • SatsumomoSatsumomo Rated PG! Registered User regular
    GU has quests that are way worse than AT Nerg, that's for sure.

  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    i used aerial insect glaive on xeno jesus

    slot in some heat guard and you are wildly safe with that build

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  • NEO|PhyteNEO|Phyte They follow the stars, bound together. Strands in a braid till the end.Registered User regular
    I did my AT xeno with styx LBG and a metric ton of pierce 2 ammo. Did the job well enough.

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  • Dr. ChaosDr. Chaos Post nuclear nuisance Registered User regular
    How important is it for HBG to have both guard and guard up?

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    Dr. Chaos wrote: »
    How important is it for HBG to have both guard and guard up?

    depends on the monster. Something like AT Nergi, you want points in guard to reduce damage. guard up unblockable attacks, guard will help reduce chip as well but isn't 100% needed. guard up is really only needed if you're going to try to block unblockable attacks

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  • mtsmts Dr. Robot King Registered User regular
    for xeno you definitely want guard up and don't really need guard (or so ive read). still can't manage him.
    i think guard lowers chip damage the higher you have it.

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  • SatsumomoSatsumomo Rated PG! Registered User regular
    edited May 2019
    That's correct. You need to have guard 3 to block all normal attacks without them pushing you back, 4 and 5 are just to reduce chip damage.

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5PDgLLNu8c

    this is a great video and explanation of how bowguns work in MHW

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    oh neat kulve is back on console

    kind of regretted not doing some runs during the festival now that I'm back in a little. it'll be chill now that my white whales have mostly been slain

  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    kulve keeps giving me the same weapons over and over

    and the worst puggers over and over

    ffffffffffrig

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    @Elendil lemme know when you're down to kulve

    so many bad puggers. oh my geez

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  • AretèAretè infiltrating neo zeed compoundRegistered User regular
    Kulve gave me the LBG Blitz shot last night which was nice but still refuses to give me claw/glutton which is rude af

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    i'm surprised anyone is still bad at kulve at this point but i believe it based on what I've seen

    is there a good way to pair up

    i usually surf lobbies

  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    need four more crowns

    one is radobaan which, whatever, next time effluvial opera shows up i'll just put in the time and probably get it eventually. only reason i don't have it is because i've been picking up other crowns that way

    the other three

    the other three are kushala daora, black diablos, and kirin

    fuck everything

  • TamerBillTamerBill Registered User regular
    I got Black Diablos this morning. You can enjoy the slight consolation that she's shock-trappable for an easier measurement, I guess. All I need now are big Nerg and big Vaal.

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited May 2019
    Elendil wrote: »
    i'm surprised anyone is still bad at kulve at this point but i believe it based on what I've seen

    is there a good way to pair up

    i usually surf lobbies

    there's a lot of people who just spam attacks only on her horns, even after they're chipped (you can't do more damage to the horn HP until area 4 after the chip) and don't try to break mantle parts (really important for AT KT) and just poor weapon choices (I'm not saying everyone has to run thunder lbg/db/bow, but at least bring partbreaker, yknow). I get that everyone who knew what they were doing spammed her to hell in december and got everything or stopped playing until iceborne but its just frustrating.

    it's hard going from premade P1 runs on PC to this. :rotate:

    edit: oh my glob that dude using dante's CB even during area 4. you see what I mean?

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    for months i've been using my modified standard hammer set with the guild cross waist swapped out for the vaal waist to squeeze in a final rank of partbreaker and two health boosts

    literally just occurred to me to swap in empress gamma, slot in partbreaker, and get two free ranks of evade window

    for free

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    I got a couple new weapons during our kulve runs. nothing like super great, but i did pick up the kjarr thunder lance and glaive, both of which i was hoping to pick up to fuck around with elements. the glaive is a direct upgrade on my first phase kt insect glaive build, so i may play around with that.

    been trying to go over all my sets and see if i can incorporate the new nerg stuff and it like, never actually works.

    i still don't have a switch axe build that does everything i want it to.

  • mtsmts Dr. Robot King Registered User regular
    Aretè wrote: »
    Kulve gave me the LBG Blitz shot last night which was nice but still refuses to give me claw/glutton which is rude af

    I have the blitz claw. It's nice. Supposedly the shot is better since you can use the non-element jewel

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    For Rapid Normal 2s, you want Taroth Blitz 'Support'. Larger clip turns it into a bullet hose.

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  • EnigmedicEnigmedic Registered User regular
    Polaritie wrote: »
    Dr. Chaos wrote: »
    Oh man...yeah, fuck Jeeves.

    Did about ten rounds at it, couldn't beat it. Its going to be like AT Nerg where I just throw myself at it endlessly for weeks and I'm just emotionally and spiritually drained after Nerg.

    My one big problem with the endgame of World. The only monsters that are worth fighting anymore are the ridiculously juiced up elder dragons which are ball crushingly hard.

    Every time I come back to the game hyped to play more, it becomes just such a draining experience that it makes me want to take another break from the game again.

    It's by far the biggest problem with World - they're completely up their own ass on elder dragons. One advantage to GU is that since they were able to easily port things forward it's a much flatter top end with just a shitload of elders and flagships. The challenge comes in learning each of them, instead of having to grind up a treadmill of increasingly silly armors to handle the next one.

    Well, that and the obligatory challenge quests, but those are for the challenge (and bragging rights).

    This is always my problem with MH games. i literally do not find elders to be fun to fight. kirin, everything bounces and runs around like a crack addict. Kushala, flies around making tornadoes everywhere jsut devolves into flashing the whole fight. Teostra, blast blight just being near it, likes to just charge halfway across the map. Nerg, you just randomly die to spikes. The giant monsters are just huge hp sponges that also like to just jump across the map. The AT versions are just even bigger hp sponges.

  • SatsumomoSatsumomo Rated PG! Registered User regular
    I haven't had issues finding good lobbies for Kulve in PS4, I do check how many are actually doing them though, sometimes people are fucking around in investigations while in the KT lobby.

    Last night I was in a lobby where we had 3 groups running her, and all three groups were doing the whole "Just let her leave at pursuit 1" thing, and then waiting for all other groups to finish in order to get a pursuit level 4-6 and then everyone just goes for the horn break.

    Was doing full runs in 20-25 minutes, it was pretty nice.

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  • TalithTalith 変態という名の紳士 Miami, FLRegistered User regular
    Wonder what the charge blade can get.

    Is that a fancy new Odogaron set? I guess a super upgraded draw attack bonus meant to be paired with iai attacks.

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    they're going to be revealing two weapons a day going forward, so I assume they're paring them together by streamstone assignment given gs/ls go together

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    switch axe: you can discharge from slightly further away but if the monster moves you get knocked off and your grappling hook gets wrapped around your legs and you have to do a qte to untangle it
    charged blade: super amped super amped elemental discharge

    NaphtaliSatsumomo
  • TamerBillTamerBill Registered User regular
    Elendil wrote: »
    charged blade: super amped super amped elemental discharge

    Super amped elemental discharge super amped, or elemental discharge blue for short.

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  • fRAWRstfRAWRst The Seas Call The Mad AnswerRegistered User regular
    edited May 2019
    you mean my terrible true charged second hit only % is now no longer necessary?!

    fRAWRst on
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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    sword and shield: poke the monster
    dual blades: GIGA DRILL BREAK

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