Monster Hunter 4G [West 2015]

[Tokitoki]

Yay, G3. Feel like a real hunter now.

Also, damage calculations in MH are actually quite complicated, so making assumptions about them isn't very advisable when there is so much information out there on sites like the wikia and Kiranico.

Congrats, I'm going to work on my last G1 keys and getting G3 tomorrow morning. Hopefully can get it done before the fiancee decides we need to do something.

The damage calcs aren't so bad, actually. Take the attack power of the weapon, divide it by the true raw multiplier, multiply by the sharpness mod and account for affinity.

True Raw Mods:
Hammer/Horn: 5.2
Switch Axe: 5.4
Great Sword: 4.8
Charge Axe: 3.6
Long Sword: 3.3
Insect Staff: 3.1
Lance/Gunlance: 2.3
Heavy Bowgun: 1.5
SnS/Dual Swords: 1.4
Light Bowgun: 1.3
Bow 1.2

Sharpness Mods:
Red: 0.50x attack, 0.25x element
Orange: 0.75x attack, 0.50x element
Yellow: 1.00x attack, 0.75x element
Green: 1.05x attack, 1.00x element
Blue: 1.20x attack, 1.06x element
White: 1.32x attack, 1.12x element
Purple: 1.44x attack, 1.20x element

EX: My post up top.

Ruiner's Bane SA: 810 Attack, 420 Blast, 10% affinity, 2 slots, Elemental phial, Purple sharpness
Affinity: (810/5.4)*.90+(810/5.4)*1.25*.1 = 153.175
Sharpness = 153.175*1.45=222.10
Phial (1.20 for Power) = 222.10*1=222.10

Elemental damage is easy:

Elemental attack value/10 * % shown on chart for body part.
So with a 500 Lightning element on a Monster that shows a 5% on the head you'd do:
500/10*.05 = 2.5 damage.

Statuses are a little different, but based on the charts like the one above you can safely assume which elements and statuses to use and not use.

EDIT: Looks like Gaijin changed his sharpness mods since I made that post above. There had been some debate about if the mod was 1.45 or 1.44 and he seems to have gone the 1.44 route.

Also, am I crazy or was Ash Kecha Wacha somehow stronger than the Raths, M Tigrex, and everything else I've fought so far in C 10*? He was almost always enraged, I bounced off everything except his ass with White sharpness, and was only able to break one of his ears. I could attack his face when he wasn't enraged, but it took the entire fight just to break taht one ear.

[Cyn]

Yeah but when you take into account the fact that monsters take different amounts of impact, cut and elemental damage to different parts of their bodies, it gets a little more complicated.

And yeah, Ash Kecha was a little bit of a surprise, but not so bad with impact CB. Tigerstripe Z was the one that kind of got me. Then again, I was in Garuga S so my water resist was abysmal.

[Cyn]

Just finished my last wystone quest, ready to get my endgame on.

[Tokitoki]

I ran into several shitty players this morning. Still need double Cephadrome and urgent to finish up G1 keys.

Had an IG user who didn't use juices at all. A hammer user that only used the spinning attack and never went for the head, one player named erafinia used CB/IG and died at least twice each time I ran into them, bow user faints once and quits mid hunt. Everyoneve failed my quests in my lobby then have the balls to post their own urgents.

Now I see what everyone was complaining about. I had good luck up until this point.

[Not Kuno]

I ran into several shitty players this morning. Still need double Cephadrome and urgent to finish up G1 keys.

Had an IG user who didn't use juices at all. A hammer user that only used the spinning attack and never went for the head, one player named erafinia used CB/IG and died at least twice each time I ran into them, bow user faints once and quits mid hunt. Everyoneve failed my quests in my lobby then have the balls to post their own urgents.

Now I see what everyone was complaining about. I had good luck up until this point.

Real pros solo everything 8D

[Krandor]

Double Cephadrome is actually pretty easy to solo, I had done it right after I hit G1 to unlock the harvest tour.

[Tokitoki]

Real pros solo everything 8D

I did Dala and Uk solo, but the time I get to play is pretty dcarce. I try to get things done quickly with others, but it ends up taking more time..

[Rizil]

Rathian Rubies do not exist. Must've captured a good 30 Rathians with tail and head breaks and I've yet to see one. Man this is getting frustrating.

[Cyn]

Stop wanting it and it will show up. That's how the need filter works.

[Tokitoki]

Was watching various videos and found this quick scene that made me feel so gd happy. Sweet revenge.
https://youtu.be/nj8ucm3876I?t=400

[Cyn]

So far I've been able to somewhat negate the annoyances of bad players by using lifepowder and dust of life and trapping and knocking out the monster if there are a couple deaths, but I think all of that is about to change now that I'm at Gogma. All of these guys who could scrape through to G3 running full attack builds and not even carrying max potions and lifepowders are going to be a brick wall in a fight as long as this lol. And since they're all stuck on Gog then I feel like it's going to be damn near impossible to get a room with 3-4 guys going without at least one of them dying every five minutes.

[Cyn]

Any of you G crowns want to give me a hand with George? I'm in hall 29-3948-4002-5998.

[Ratatapa]

George?

Please don't say gogmazios

[Cyn]

Don't worry, he's dead and my urgent is done.

[Akiyama]

I'm gonna start working on my HR later on but wanna finish most of my caravan if possible. Need to get to 10* Caravan so I can farm this one elder dragon dude for my 7* Poison Dual Blades :<

Some of these guys solo are so annoying. ;w; nothing like hunting Black Gravios and the 2nd tier Zinogre with that spike shooting dragon asshole chasing you too.

[Tokitoki]

I'm gonna start working on my HR later on but wanna finish most of my caravan if possible. Need to get to 10* Caravan so I can farm this one elder dragon dude for my 7* Poison Dual Blades :<

Which 10* quest are you talking? A lot of them are locked behind progressing into G Rank online.

Make sure to have Dung Bombs always.

[Cyn]

Decided to make the Monodevil armor set. Killed him just now and realized that you have to get 8 kills with horn break minimum to make the set lol. Might take a while, bastard is more roided out than a Black Blos.

[Tokitoki]

Decided to make the Monodevil armor set. Killed him just now and realized that you have to get 8 kills with horn break minimum to make the set lol. Might take a while, bastard is more roided out than a Black Blos.

Is there a quest with him to break horn as the Subquest? Can do that and end via subquest if it's an option.

[Cyn]

Oh shit, didn't think of that. There's only 1 quest with a white blos, and yes it's horn subquest.

[Cyn]

Finished the set! Full Monodevil with:

Critical Eye +2
Adrenaline +2
Constitution +2
Sharpness +1
Marathon Runner

And the best part, the set has 10 dragon res and no negative fire res. About to go try it out with Cera Cediment.

Edit: I'll probably die a few times before it sinks in that I no longer have Guard Up. I may also swap runner out for sharpening, Cera C has decent purple but almost no white. I hate having to
fight in blue sharpness.