Monster Hunter X | Generations - Heading West Summer 2016

[Deejay]

I played the PSP version a lot and dabbled in 4... Messed around with the insect glaive and enjoyed it.. My main questions are on all the new stuff


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[Krandor]

The big new thing is styles and hunter arts. The game has training missions to cover those.

The rest of the core game is pretty similar to 4 outside of having Deviant Quests instead of Guild quests, but that gets explained when you come to it.

Just got a Blunt+5 000 charm, Akantor gear where you @

[Ratatapa]

If anyone wanna do HR2 key quests tonight send me a pm because ri won't be able to read thread often tonight

I can do from 6pm-10pm est today

[Krandor]

So yeah that Charm Farming quest I linked above...



That about every 5 or so minutes

Quest chain is a pain, but soooo worth it

[Icarian]

I'm up to HR 3, how many HR are there? Do they what do they unlock besides new quests?

[Krandor]

"Hey I should go fight Joe to get a pair of talons, hopefully the drop rate is nice"

First fight gives me 6.

[Taim Meich]

RNG is an unforgiving mistress, you'll pay for this sooner or later. I still remember the 20+ lagiacrus I had to hunt in 3U just to make its set, which was worth it since I was using GS in it.

[Icarian]

What skills should I look for if I'm using hammer and SA? There's so many

[Krandor]

RNG is an unforgiving mistress, you'll pay for this sooner or later. I still remember the 20+ lagiacrus I had to hunt in 3U just to make its set, which was worth it since I was using GS in it.

At least there's effectively zero RNG for Deviant farming since the 2 tickets are guaranteed per fight.

I realized the build I want to make for SA is l one gem slot short, so I now have to pray hard to the RNG gods for some variety of talisman that can offer +10 Blunt (since my current Blunt+5 000 is one short). Which I think exists, but since kiranico apparently removed their table of charm values I'm actually short sure.

[Icarian]

Made a new Hammer and decided to play a bit with it since it's been many mission since I've used it... You're not going to hit the monster head unless you know its moveset like the palm of your hand, I was going the 3* one that wants you to slay a Gore Magala and holy shit, if you go for the head you're fucked unless it's toppled, I'm seeing this a lot lately, unless you know the monster pattern and do some hit and run with charged attacks, you're not going to stun anything, even then, the 10 second window is so damn tight, if you miss a shot you lose all the stun damage buildup.

EDIT: Trying to get to HR5, damn, that is a HUGE difficulty spike, that thing two (one) shots me, it sends me flying with its tail and if I get hit again while getting up I'm dead.

[Krandor]

Man, as if this game wasn't broken enough I got Demon Riot and Energy Charge (SA Hunter Arts) both to level III.

Infinite Sword mode + a 20% damage boost + a 30% affinity boost?

[Icarian]

Up to HR 6, the hunts are starting to get quite long, I don't know if it's because I suck or if it's normal but they're in the 20-30 min. range (low 20's when I'm on SA and high 20's when wielding a Hammer). I'm using Seregio's SA and Hammer, both upgraded to lvl 2.

By the way, How do I unlock new HA? I still have Energy Charge and Riot at level 1...

SA seems to be kind of broken, I just spam the vault attack to topple the monster and then just spam the X combo, it gets kinda stale though. Did both HR5>HR6 Urgent quests with the hammer.

Also, Cephadrome-like monsters can go die in a fire.

[Krandor]

By the way, How do I unlock new HA? I still have Energy Charge and Riot at level 1...

http://monsterhunter.wikia.com/wiki/MHGen:_Hunter_Arts

Most of the tier 3 unlocks are giant pains in the ass (SA is relatively easy though, depending on your feelings about Furious Rajang), but it's possible to get them down in Round-Robin quest rooms.

Managed to find an Akantor room and got the SA crafted because I've really wanted to try blunt, but after testing it out on a hunt I'm now disappointed and back to the Seregios SA. The damage is definitely higher but not worth it for having to find time to sharpen every minute or two because of how fast it goes.

[Icarian]

I'll get to it tomorrow, someone on reddit posted a list of which quests unlock Hunters Arts today, pretty neat. https://www.reddit.com/r/MonsterHunt...unlock_quests/

I did the 6* Heaven and Earth (Kill Rathian and Rathalos) and this is looking to be kind of... not viable to solo anymore in a timely fashion, took 38 minutes to kill them both. Rathalos took quite a long time with all the flying it does trying to burn/poison you. spent a lot of time running in circles to wait for it to land D:

Haven't played online yet, might check tomorrow.

[Ratatapa]

I'll get to it tomorrow, someone on reddit posted a list of which quests unlock Hunters Arts today, pretty neat. https://www.reddit.com/r/MonsterHunt...unlock_quests/

I did the 6* Heaven and Earth (Kill Rathian and Rathalos) and this is looking to be kind of... not viable to solo anymore in a timely fashion, took 38 minutes to kill them both. Rathalos took quite a long time with all the flying it does trying to burn/poison you. spent a lot of time running in circles to wait for it to land D:

Haven't played online yet, might check tomorrow.

Then you're hr1 and not 6

Hr refers to online rank, offline is called village

[Krandor]

You can solo hub. It's not the best idea for most people if you're not overgearing the content, but it's doable.

[tenkiki]

It's what I've been doing since my friend is currently mia for some reason. Hunt times were still pretty short since I got lucky with an attack+4 talisman, so I upgraded from bujabujabu to full Rathalos and gained weakness exploit along with atk up (L) and a nice chunck of defense + Fire res. I just started doing online to farm Plesioth since this is my first time hunting it, and that hip check is brutal against aerial. It's much more manageable as a group and since it's an urgent quest, the rooms fill up quickly.

[Krandor]

F
U
C
K

PLESIOTH

AND CEPHALOS

AND LAVASIOTH

I've learned how to deal with that shit over the years, but I still fucking despise that goddamn hipcheck

[Ayn]

Soo.

Never played a MonHun game before.

Should I start here or with 4?

[Ratatapa]

They pretty much the same imo difficulty wise

But 4u can be harder due to G ranks that gen doesn't have