Ok had a big post typed up but timed out before I could post it. Let's see:
Thanks for the Evade+2 set. As far as I've seen, AuL does work the same in MH3. That tidbit is correct, I came up with a few of those numbers myself a couple of nights ago. However, in MHFU the affinity boosting skill boosts more for sharper weapons, but you'd still need a +50-70% boost to equal AuL, iirc. Hitting Jhen with nator early is 0_o
The AuL/Sharpness/Adren+2 should be faster than the speed sharpening lance set. The adrenaline boosted lance in white sharpness does more damage than the non-boosted purple sharpness (according to the 1.32 damage multiplier on white and 1.5 on purple from the wiki.) Unless there's some kind of other special boost purple gets that I'm not aware of, even when you lose sharpness, you'll still be killing the monster faster than before. Either way, having two weapons with the adren boost should drastically lower the time spent out of the initial purple sharpness bar anyway--so you may not even lose sharpness at all.
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The lowest defense that set can get is 271 (which is significant because the bombs will do more damage and activate the adren skill faster.) However, I'm not sure this is something we even need to worry about.
I did some playing around this morning as far as activating the skill, and so far the best I've found is to grab the HP-30/stamina-50 boost from the chef (AuL from food boosts only adds 6 to your attack,) and spam the following order of items as quickly as possible once the quest starts:
- Toadstool
- Toadstool
- Mega nutrients
- Mega nutrients
- Small barrel bomb
- Mega nutrients
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- The last mega nutrients may be interchangeable with just a regular nutrients, but occasionally the first toadstool will boost your health as well; the two times I tried with Nutrients I got the extra toadstool boost too. Either way the difference between Nutrients and Mega is another honey, so it's not a huge deal.
- The small barrel bomb's fuse will last long enough to use the last nutrients before it blows. The boost from the nutrients will still occur even if you're flying because you've been blasted--as long as your character put it into his mouth. This also cancels the end lag of the last nutrients.
- Done as quickly as possible, after the bomb blows, you will still take about 4 more blips of poison. Even after that red heals back, you should still be in adren range.
- All in all my estimates currently put this strategy as taking ~30 seconds to put you into adren range (once you stand up from the bomb explosion you're good to go.) Testing offline includes running out of the base so you can set the bomb down, so I don't have the best method to test with.
- Your defense stat doesn't matter since you are using poison to lower your health--so you can still max your defenses and carry that armortalon.
- Not having to use Barrel bombs L or L+ is superior because you can still bring the proper amount to sleepbomb with and not have to use it for activating adrenaline.
- Doing this in the volcano is going to require a different strategy, probably no more complicated than run along the edge until you're in range and drop your small barrel bomb.
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The set requires a minimum of an Attack+5 2 slot talisman, because all Ala and Jho weapons have at least 1 slot. It's doable without using weapon slots with Attack +6 or 7 2 slot talisman.
I managed to boost a 1026 sa's attack to 1755 today.
Graped.
