Topic: Monster Hunter Generations (Our Toothy Lord and Savior)

Are you sure you're not playing the original Monster Hunter by mistake? I honestly feel as though that game's bad first impression forever left the Sword & Shield known as the terrible beginner weapon to be discarded as soon as humanly possible.

In every other game though, the SnS should be bouncing less than other weapons at the same sharpness. Context for your example would be nice: are you sure the particular SnS you used wasn't just underpowered for that point in the game, or an elemental mismatch? It's true that it dulls faster due to it's rapid hits, but that's even more true for dual blades and nobody complains about those.

Either way, the Mind's Eye oil in Generations means you never have to bounce again.

starts fighting Chameleos
...Oh come on! They seriously removed the muffled music effect when he goes into rage? T.T

Hello all! I am a newbie (but long time fan of Nintendolife), and really love the Monster Hunter series

I was actually kind of wondering how active the MH community is? I am looking for a steady group of people to play with instead of relying on random strangers all the time....

HR5 btw! Moving relatively slow, but that's because I want to clear all quests before ranking up

@Cosima Tsurii, FattyWhale, Morpheel, OutCold, and I hunt fairly frequently. Unfortunately I don't know that any of us are near your rank: Morpheel is HR 1 and I believe the rest of us are 8+.

Edit: Morpheel is now HR 2. He wished I make that very clear. In related news, I am now 6 foot 4 and a half inches tall.

HR2*

Big difference.

Hopefully I'll reach High Rank before you guys lose interest in the game

Yeah, but once you're HR 4 you can join the vast majority of quests. So it's basically a non-issue.

"Oh the first egg mission so far, it can't be that bad"

<some minutes later>

"Oh god oh god oh god this was a huge mistake"

I only stayed around until I could mark it with a paint bomb.

Then I hid and waited for it to go away as the brave Hunter I am.

Apparently it can be killed, but has multiple times the normal amount of health.

Prepare to repeat the scenario three more times in the other villages.

Also, unless there's a subquest pertaining to it, hunting monsters not part of the main objective is generally a waste of time unless they die very quickly anyhow.

I wanted to cut the tail with the hunting horn... But instead ended up poking his butt to death.

It looks like a horrible way to go.

Ah, I see! Well, if you guys are ever up for some mindless questing, let me know! Otherwise, hopefully soon I will catch up with you guys!

Anyways, I have a different question. I am a Dual Blade user, and I have been switching between Striker and Aerial styles. Just out of curiosity, what type of style do you guys use if you use DB's?

At least in 4U, the hilt stab (aka poke) attack is supposed to do cutting damage.

Not sure why would it be different here. But it may be.

Ludroth is such a fun monster. Just a feel-good hunt, especially now that it can't dive underwater.

When asking if Striker is good, it always revolves around the arts of the weapon, and in the case of Dual Blades, outside Blood Wind they're rather situational. That said it can still be very potent, if you don't mind chugging lots of dash juices.

Aerial's all right, cool-looking but otherwise pretty standard. Kind of awkward not having Demon Dance for toppled monsters, though... My favourites are just Guild for taking Blood Wind + another DB art that fits the quest, and adept for it's very slick counterattacks and repositioning.

@Meowpheel The quickest way to know if something does impact damage naturally is to bash something in the head with it. Get a yellow circle, it's impact.

Landing a full blood wind combo with wolf's maw active is an obscene amount of damage.

I can't imagine DS without Wolf's Maw anymore....whenever a beast is down, it just feels so awesome to deal all those hits using Wolf's Maw + Blood Wind.

What makes blood wind so OP is that each new rank adds a whole spin rotation. I think it's just really fun to combo, like sakura slash.

@Tsurii Does taking Blood Wind remove your demon X+A approach? No it doesn't, so why not use both?
That's like telling a Hammer not to use the fast-charging, KO-dealing Typhoon Trigger because they can already sort of do it with a moving level 3.

A lot of hunter arts are kind of bigger versions of existing attacks, really.

You mean Demon Dance? Sure, that works as well! Added benefit of Blood Wind is that - if necessary - you can always change direction between each spin, making sure you're out of the way of someone charging their attack I suppose.