Topic: Monster Hunter Rise

@Joeynator3000 I personally found Rajang a lot more manageable here than in previous games.

Could be because I had evade extender +2 though. It's pretty much all you need to get away from those quick jumping and lunging attacks where you don't have time to put your weapon away.

I dunno, in past games he wasn't all that bad...only other time I had issues was in 4U's g-rank as well as Furious (and Apex Rajang, lol). But other than that, yeah...but people told me he was super easy in this generations. Didn't seem like it to me. >.<

I have not got to rajing but I just saw the due walking around so I had him attack the Rathain and My god he was crazy LOL He went super sayian on her.
I have been busy with other thing so I have yet to get on and play mhr today, but I think I will have lots of time in the next three hours.

I faced some of the Level 4 monster quests, and it's definitely getting a bit harder. The world monsters so far still feel like pushovers though. It's also weird how now, you're able to cut off tails, but you aren't in the earlier quests. At first I thought they didn't have the blood effect in World because you could cut off the monster's body parts, and it would've upped the age rating, but Rise does the same thing with the blood effects.

Yeah a lot of the monsters in World kinda just...I dunno it felt like I just used the Gunlance to poke them a few times and they die. lol

Like I said earlier about Diablos, in World it felt like I was fighting his grandma or something. xD

@Northwind Well you were doing fine with HBG compared to me; that first quest against Barroth was absolutely abysmal! I failed every time I tried to practice tanking his hits with silkbind. Just when I thought using the wirebug was getting close to becoming muscle memory, Barroth's quick charges and brand new combos proved otherwise.

Yeah even Nergigante was a pushover to me, like, the fight only lasted about 10-15 minutes and nothing interesting happened during the hunt. It was over before I knew it...

Then there's Magnamalo, yeah I still didn't fail the quest, but it was a village quest, and low rank, yet he was constantly taking out my health and I was wasting all of my potions. Took me about....uhhhh....checks youtube video, lol about 20 minutes. xD

_{I did try to record my first Nergigante hunt but the recording screwed up for some reason, I blame Geforce's stupid software. lol}

Idk, to me Rajang has some pretty obvious tells in this game and any hits that I took were just me not paying attention, at least when fighting it alone. In multiplayer it was chaos.

Meanwhile in World fighting Rajang was a freaking nightmare, it felt like no matter what I did it was unavoidable that I would get close to death or cart at least once.

I heard that World's Rajang had a bs move or two, I dunno, never fought him there, but Rise's Rajang kicked my butt. lol

Something I did (after already being 50 hrs in) to help my HBG usage, was I made my controls so I aimed with ZL and fired with ZR, so I could now keep my thumbs on the sticks, and fire accurately while moving (yes, I know about gyro controls, but it constantly loses calibration for me while playing handheld).

I had to re-train my brain again, but once I started getting used to it, I was glad I made the switch. (>^_^)>

OMG I almost ran out of time only ten min left. I was doing the quest learning the long sword so I can get the new switch skill and man, I don't normally catch monsters but I knew I was going to run out of time, bc some of the monsters are a little hard to kill and I want to get the tails, I was going to kill the 2nd one but I had only ten left so I caught it, but my god I hope its worth it.

@Northwind you do two palmutes? I do two Palico's I know it takes a little longer to get to place to place but its worth it to me.

I guess thanks to World I'm used to wandering around without a doggo...but also Rise's maps are smaller than World's so there's that. lol

Yeah hopefully with the expansion or something they'll do more with the dogs because right now they're just used to get around faster. I'd rather have support anyways.

Dunno why they don't have their own special moves, or types. All they have are skills, and weapon types I guess, but I haven't really messed with them much.

When do you unlock switch skills?

@VoidofLight At a point in the story at the gathering hub That ninja dude (Sorry I can't remember his name) but he teaches you how to play the game, you find him in the gathering hub and he asks of you to do quest were you have to hunt two monsters, after the quest he will give you the skill. (The quest name tells you which one you will get)

@Joeynator3000 Ya Me to so I use two palicos.

I started out doing a Palico and Palamute but I go double Palico now as well. Once you know the areas (like where there are slopes to slide on because sliding is faster than Palamute riding) and can wirebug fall well enough, you're pretty much as fast as the Palamutes anyway.

I've gone back to my old love the Switchaxe. And almost as if to spite my decision to main the Hammer until now, the Switchaxe feels immediately and noticeably better. I can be so much more aggressive with the thing and the new overhead slash is absolutely incredible. And axe mode ALSO getting supercharged after unloading an elemental discharge is so cool!

Alright, about to go to bed (my sleeping schedule is all off, lol)...let's see if I have a nightmare involving that Rakna-Kadaki. xD

@Joeynator3000 Same here LOL.

Wanna save 5 seconds each hunt? Hang on to your wirebug before the countdown ends and you'll skip the ending of the quest animation. Very important those 5 seconds!