Topic: Monster Hunter Rise

@JaxonH I've definitely noticed a huge difference with Master's Touch. Remember when I was trying to get some Handicraft to increase my white sharpness time? Ha! Forget that. With my current 86% affinity I very rarely lose sharpness at all with Master's Touch. Now my tiny sliver of white sharpness lasts about as long as it takes to fight a monster until it runs away. It's great.

@TeeJay
Better than Razor Sharp 3? I think razor sharp is 45% longer lasting. Does it only work when hitting crits?

@JaxonH Level 3 Master's Touch gives you an 80% chance not to lose sharpness per crit hit. And yeah it only applies to the crits you land, so if you're not running a crit build it's more worth getting razor sharp.

For me however this perfectly compliments what I'm doing.

@JaxonH For me It just matter's what I lose and what I gain, Say if I got more damage and skill that work for the weapon I use, and the other has lower damage but better affinity and sharpness along with good gem slots, then I would go for the lower damage as I think I can fix the bad damage with gems and rampage skills.

OMG I just had the craziest hunt. I joined a Chameleos hunt in progress, and it was already about to die when I joined. It was running from the hunters so I went to where it was headed and helped finish it off which took like less them a minute.

Then I carved a GEM off of it, and then proceeded to get TWO MORE GEMS in the reward screen.

??????????

@Ulysses Oh! Interesting! I'll give that set a go right now!

@Ulysses
Magnamalo is tough. Gotta be on your toes the entire time. He doesn't relent. I love Magnamalo. Easily one of my favorite monsters.

As for triple carting, maybe its needed practice like you say, but I don't question your skills. I think it just came down to having 300 defense for one of the tougher late high rank Quests in the game. No matter how good you are, if your defense is low enough you're in jeopardy of a one way ticket on the kitty cart. I try to stick to the 400-450 range. I'm absolutely amazed you made it all the way through Teostra with such low defense tbh.

Are the monsters in Utushi quests buffed? Because it definitely feels like they got buffed.

I found this funny meme on reddit and just wanted to share it with yall.

@Ulysses
Oh ya, we crushed em. I also gemmed up my Wide Range from Level 3 to Level 5 after the failed quest, to ensure I keep everyone healed as much as possible. Moving forward I'm making sure all my online hunts have Wide Range 5. It's such a crucial skill because life powders are kept in my 2nd radial menu loadout and takes longer to use. Whereas with mega Potion and speed eating I can react pretty fast (albeit, not always with enough health to save someone, but the steady heals overtime drastically reduces risk of someone carting- I also am bringing dust of life now too just in case, and have assigned them a spot in the radial menu loadout #2 next to lifepowders). Working as a team means I'm just as responsible for keeping you guys alive as you are. If one fails, we all fail.

I'm not sure if the monsters are buffed. They might be. Then again, High Rank Magnamalo is just a machine.

Question for some of the veterans: how important is blue sharpness on weapons as I start out in High Rank, specifically for 5, 6, and 7-star quests? Asking as an IG and Hammer user.

I know the multipliers for additional damage, so I guess I'm asking from your experience... does green sharpness start bouncing a lot in these quests? Does that extra damage multiplier from blue sharpness give a noticeable enough DPS bump to ditch green sharpness completely yet?

Thank you! =]

(P.S.: Thank you to everyone who recommended ditching the lobby system for the SOS feature to me about a week ago. Now finding hunts super easily :])

@Ulysses
That's the set I'm running. The good luck really helps get a couple extra mats per hunt, on average.

You can always hide the headpiece, or, make layered armor for the hidden headpiece and wear that. I just wear my Bazel layered armor, Kamura layered armor or Magnamalo Layered Armor over it.

So.......for the first time since MH4U....I'm trying the Insect Glaive again. And... I'm having a blast with it! MH4U TeeJay is back baybeeeee

@TeeJay
Uh oh.

Is it time for Jax to bust out the glaive as well? Return to the glory days of the dual glaive duo?

@JaxonH Do it! Let us return to the glory days.

I really love the improvements the Glaive has gotten up til now. Kinsects are just purchased now, no seperate confusing upgrade system. I went for the Dual Color (Attack) Severing Kinsect. Using it, I don't have to worry about getting red essence at all, I just automatically get it when going for the other ones. It makes getting to triple buff basically painless.

The Diving Wyvern Switch skill is pretty awesome as a combo finisher! You just stab straight downward, pretty straightforward. But the more jumps you've done before using it, the stronger it is when you do it.

I really like the Switch Skill that's basically the Glaive's equivalent of the Switchaxe's forward overhead slash. Basically it's an attack that functions to close distance quickly as your draw your weapon.

Or you can just wire jump and start attacking from there.

The Jump Jewel is basically a must have. It's a level three gem and for good reason, it prevents you from getting knocked out of the air at all. An amazing perk.

Also I just now remembered triple buff gives you earplugs. I'm pretty sure it always did but I totally forgot about that until a monster roared just now and I was unfazed. I freaking love this.

Gah it's so fun.

@TeeJay
I'll have to see what I can put together. I definitely want a kinsect with triple uptime, or at least, that's the one that seems best, since I only truly started loving glaive after getting the double uptime kinsect in MH4U. But maybe double buff makes it easier to stay in triple buff more of the fight.

@JaxonH Triple Uptime looked appealing to me too, until I looked into it and found out it only increased your triple buff time by 20%.

It only takes two seconds to get to triple buff with a dual color Kinsect. Also there's a jewel for increasing triple buff time now, Power Prolonger. I'd suggest investing into that of you want more triple buff time.

The combination of trivializing the process of getting to triple buff (seriously I don't even have to aim I just spam it and get what I want within a second or two) and keeping triple buff active for longer with power Prolonger should appeal to you.

@TeeJay
Ya that sounds perfect

@Northwind great to know, appreciate the insights ☺️

Ok I want to ask you guys somthing, I have been going around the internet, and I was wondering, is
elemental def better then def? and if I should focus on def or armor skills, (I'm in G rank) when I was looking around for answers most people said def and that elemental doesn't matter, and most people said that armor
skills is better then def.

Now I saw some stupid stuff in some of the stuff (One dude) was saying is that you can
forget about def bc just fix it by not getting hit. Now wile it may be true that learning to doge is good, a lot of the time in the monster hunter game's S**** happens.

Sorry got off topic there, but anyway I wanted to know what you guys think bc I would like to always up my mh game, and At the time of writing i'm on 719 def, and i'm on the quest "A tale of ice and fire"

I still need to go and grind out the armor sets in rise, I just been so busy with world, I really want to get better at the mh games, so would you guys also suggest that after I'm done with G rank and world, and maybe some stuff in rise, should I go and get mh Gen? I mean Its not just bc I want to up my game (LOL) but I also want to fight some of the monster's in there to, and yes I played the demo and I able to do the two out of three hunt's.

Oh yeah, meant to bring this up....am I the only one who thought Chameleos looked like a puppy wanting to play whenever he did that weird animation before doing that huge poison cloud attack? xD