Monster Hunter Tri

[dainbramage]

Yeah shield dash can save you tonnes of stamina (the dash takes stamina, the block itself depletes reduced stamina - usually zero - BUT if you have low stamina at the time of the block then you take the hit). It ***** most projectiles - shield dash through raths' fireballs/barioth's ice twister thingies/lagi's thunderbolts. Some other things like lagi/agna body slam it also *****. Also lots of attacks which usually deal slight damage when you block them will deal none when you block with a shield dash. Really useful if you have a bunch of temp damage and don't want to lose the hp.


Killing generally nets you more body pieces, while capture gets you charms/rustshards. I got 5 charms and 1 rustshard (all useless, naturally. I'm still using the autogard charm lols. Also MH3, give me the god **** rust lance already. Christ.) from capturing los + lagi. I generally kill (me being a heartless *******) unless it's a capture quest or I'm short on time.


Also, that guy on Barroth+Barioth could have done that so much faster (maybe under 10 mins) if he countered after the triple thrust rather than back hop and punished Barioth's tail swipe correctly (for the record, shield dash in and shield bash --> get stabbing. The tail swipe doesn't hit close in). Though apart from that. it was... pretty flawless play.

Just curious; how have the people with long play times controllers held up? The left-analogue stick mashing worries me a bit.

 

[Rad]

Have you got any lance advice for Rathian?

 

[dainbramage]

Hit it in the head.

Kinda sounds obvious, but the head is incredibly weak (rathian's head I think takes the most cutting damage out of any hurtbox in the game) and staggers fairly easily. Dunno what poking utensils you can use by rathian (rampart? gobulu muruka?) but 6 or so hits to her head should stagger it. Which generally means you have enough time to re-stagger before it can do anything about it.

When it's hovering, get slightly to its side and upwards poke at its feet/wings/tail. Don't put yourself in a position where her aerial backflip can **** you. However the lance isn't very good against hovering wyverns in general.

 

[Sieg]

I've got 110 hours on mine and my controller is doing fine.

 

[Bsrk_]

So noone else here uses bowgun_? Want some higher end feedback_

 

[dainbramage]

I've hardly gone online yet, and the bowgun really seems mostly suited to having multiple people. And using one would requre me making a whole new armour set, and.. yeah.

Finished all the offline quests now. I somehow managed to do both Four Horns (my second and third diablos kills lol) and A Burnt Offering first go (for the latter; dung bombs ftw. 2 of 'em make uragaan run). So yeah. HR 4 now and trying to figure out what the fastest way to grind HRs is.

 

[Sieg]

I think grinding Rathian's will probably be your best bet.

 

[Rad]

That's what I did. HR 18 now. ^_^

From HR 0 to 8 I'd use Quropeco or R. Ludroth. Both give very similar HR points. Remember that to unlock the urgent quest for each set of stars you need to do the key quests. They're listed on this page.

Shouldn't take long if you have nice gear.

 

[Aussierob123]

man seig you're crazy with your HR grinding.

I don't get to play enough i'm low HR and still working up to make a good bowgun. I want to be a bowgunner .

 

[Sieg]

I played for like 4 days straight aye. Nothing to do.

I need a job lol.

 

[Bsrk_]

Finally got Rhenoplos armor for my melee set, Jaggi for bowgun atm_ Only a few more weeks before i get to hit up online_

 

[Aussierob123]

I'm gonna try and solo barroth with a bowgun now. Need one more piece for full set of barroth gunner armour.

 

[Sieg]

Well if you guys do need any help farming **** online just give us a heads up. If I'm not doing something I'll come help.

 

[dainbramage]

HR16.

Alternating between playing solo and with groups. Mostly depends on how long it's been since I've seen someone take a triple rath fireball to the face 3 times* and how bored I'm getting solo.

*This came depressingly close to actually happening. He died 2 times that way (he was using switch axe; unbreakable = no invuln after taking damage), the third was taking a hit from rath's GG tail and then took the poison ticks until he died. Apparently bringing antidotes was beneath him.


On another note, barroth solo with bowgun just sounds painful.

 

[Sieg]

Try Barroth solo with Switch Axe lol.

After Giggi I made a note to always carry 10 antidotes lol.

 

[Bsrk_]

Heh yeah bowgun alone for soloing is awkward at times_ Doable but that's why I keep a melée set and lance on backup at all times_ Its amusing to see people still fail in online games_ Seriously how hard is it to understand a fight and it's mechanics_

 

[Aussierob123]

Barroth solo with bowgun was easy. Except it took me about 20 minutes lol. Could prob do it in 10 if I didn't screw up sleep bombing, or if I could use poison shots with my set.

Now to figure out how I'm gonna do rathian solo... Think I'll have to stick to pellet shots to avoid fireballs...

 

[Sieg]

Fireballs YUM.

Basically nowadays if you see someone with a SHIELD get hit by Rath tail, you rage quit. Lol.

And when will people learn that when a Rathalos is about to scream, DON'T STAND IN ****ING FRONT OF IT. lol.

 

[dainbramage]

I'm the guy standing in front of rathalos when he roars


















...countering the roar, poking his face 3 times, then back hopping before the fireball comes out, that is.

 

[xXArrowXx]

i want this game but i dont have a job.. well i do but i dont start til later.

how does sieg do it =P

 

[toki]

yay a MH thread.

I think i was HR91 ish, havent played in a while.
I want to kill ala with someone <3 i need horns, Skypiecers <3

lol anyone still play online?

 

[Aussierob123]

did you play this game 18 hours a day?

 

[Sieg]

I played this game basically 18 hours a day for quite a bit and I'm still only 37.

 

[dainbramage]

I've got 130 hours since launch, which is...

I dunno. Too much.

*calculates*

2.7 hours/day.

Also HR 28

 

[Sieg]

I've done about the same, but I bought mine WAY after launch lol.

 

[Aussierob123]

uni takes up most of my time im only HR 18 lol.

 

[toki]

I played it alot but i pretty much finished everything online so im just helping friends ranking up <3
Offline is so lol after you have + armours/weapons you can kill the great jaggi in under 20 sec lol

 

[Sieg]

Well Rad and I play online sometimes so if you feel like coming along lol.

 

[Aussierob123]

I'll play with u one time sieg. Just let me get some better itamz first after uni.

 

[Rad]

Totally missed out :<

HR 32 now. Still under 100 hours. (close though)

 

[toki]

Im going online now if anyone is interested, online name is "Toki"

 

[Rad]

Still online?

10char

 

[dainbramage]

You guys still playing this?

I just ran into some guy who was HR40, fighting agna. He:

a) was using gear, the skills of which totaled to health -10. Yep. I've seen some ******** assortments of gear, but he takes the cake.
b) forgot to bring cool drinks, and so begged one and then ran down to camp to grab more
c) died the first time agna used its sweeping heat beam
d) ran back in and died immediately to agna's jumping around the place attack thingy
e) ran around harvesting and not fighting
f) had agna turn up in the same area as him and kill him again


And I don't think he was griefing, I'm pretty sure he was just that terrible. I'm not entirely sure how it's physically possible to be that bad and get to HR40. I mean I ran into some dude who was nearly as bad at HR18 fighting a barioth (he was a bowgunner, hit the barioth with recov/armor/demon shot more times than he hit me, and died 3 times in rather quick succession), but he didn't have any particularly difficult urgents to get through.

 

[Sieg]

HR56 now.

Farm trolling.

All the Euro's are bad lol.

 

[Aussierob123]

I dunno wtf people complain about bowgunning anything for. Even lagi was doable with a low rank bowgun (I'll admit, it took me about 25 minutes first try looool, still good considering most people get timed out trying to KO him low rank).

Gunning is so much fun!

 

[toki]

Havent played MH for awhile....
We need bowgunners, once you get up to HR50 to do your final urgent, that urgent will make you rage and will make you want to play with gunners.

Guess ill start playing soon, last time i was online i was HR108 so ill help someone if you need help <3

I like my armour skillz, health 50+, cap guru, great luck, punish draw and whatever from a charm.

 

[Sieg]

I'm like HR63 now.

Have Ala's fully upgraded hammer.

I'm prolly gonna start a bowgun soon.

 

[Rad]

HR 60

Sieg look out lol

 

[dainbramage]

Oh noes, Rad's overtaken me.

HR57 I think. Trying to get Uragaan rubies atm. Argh.

 

[toki]

Have any of you guys got skypiecers from ala before? ive killed him like 30+ times (both horn broken on most runs) and no skypiecers, not even one. Only bkrn skypiecers, and i have like 60 of em.... rage