Topic: Monster Hunter Rise

@JaxonH The styles are much better then the arts, In my opinion, Because I can change my play style, But the Arts are just, idk there? LOL.

Also I was trying to get into Swaxe but idk, I kinda feel like I'm cheating on my main if that makes any sense?

So, I've just hit a difficulty spike in Rise.

1 star hub quests all completed (solo, dual blades), all the 4 star Village quests completed with hardly a faint and now facing Magnamalo... who keeps kicking my bottom.
I know what to do to beat him, it's the doing that's the problem.

I fear I lack the patience for this game.

@Mii_duck If I may ask, How fast do you faint on the quest? and how long would you say it takes before you fail?

Adept axe attack has a choice between that sweet, sweet axe spin attack that has great motion values and the sword double swipe if I remember correctly. Depends on what mode you are in. I'd recommend adept Swaxe over brave, which is kind of underwhelming in my opinion.

Although, I personally always run guild Swaxe, for more of that classic MH experience.

@Mansa Well I'm already used to Adept with my CB so I was going to use that anyway, But is guild style just Classic monster hunter?

Meh. Not exactly admittedly, due to the hunter arts being present, but for the most part, guild style is just what a weapon's moveset been in mh4u. Plus, you can indeed just run guild style without the arts (...but come on now, I'm not going to give up my Tempest Axe. ;-;. )

@Mansa HMM, I might have to pick guild then. Its just Basics, with arts right?

@Snatcher - no worries about asking.

I'm usually on my way back to the village between 11-15 minutes, after failing the quest.
Generally the level four village quests were taking me a fairly chilled 20 minutes or so to beat, and I think I only fainted fighting... uh... the monster that rolls into a ball outside the lava caverns.

Magnamalo though - I can be doing alright, chipping away, getting the tail shard, having the odd wyvern ride to attack, old Mags running away a couple of times... but then it goes a bit frantic and that's where it goes wrong for me.
I keep getting caught and before I can wirebug out the way or have time to heal I get attacked again and wiped out.

Think my equipment is OK, I'm just not properly 'in tune' with this fight, or that stage of it. It's supposed to be hard-ish though?

I loved arts. They were fun to pop every so often when the bars filled up. EXCEPT for when I used the Striker Style S&S with deviant weapons. Deviant weapons charge their arts faster already as is, and Striker Style is all about popping arts as well so combining them meant I was unleashing arts constantly left, right and center. It was amazing.

@Snatcher Pretty much. Some tips. In guild style, you can morph from axe to sword after the lunging attack, the overhead attack, and the wild swing finisher attack.

Morph attacks in sword mode is the side swipe and I THINK the double swipe follow up. Many swaxers run the demon riot plus quick reload to spam empowered sword mode if that's your thing.

@TeeJay One weapon that is awful with striker style is the hunting horn. Oh my goodness, it's just so bad. I get nauseous just thinking about it. HH don't have a complex move set to begin with, so it does make sense that it's striker moveset is especially limited, but holy crap. It doesn't help that the hunter arts for hunting horn also stinks.

@TeeJay I think the arts are really fun, Just not really my thing? I guess.

@Mansa Hmm, I might use guild style for the Swaxe, or maybe just try both.

@Mii_duck It can be tough, Its a pretty annoying monster to say the least, (I love the hell out of it though)
What armor do you have currently? and maybe you should look into some charms to help with def if its hard hitting attacks are giving you a hard time.

But my main tips for mag is, Break everything, Breaking parts makes it have less control over it when it starts sbakugouing around, the parts you need to keep your attention on is the ones that glow, As it (I think?) blow up aver it takes enough hits, So if the tail is glowing, attack the tail, Teeth, and so on so forth.

I would be happy to help if you want, but if you don't want help I 100% understand, as I didn't want it much as well.

@Snatcher - the advice is appreciated, next attempt I'll try your tip of going for attacks on the glowy bits. Thank you.

Must admit, because it's been relatively easy so far I've not bothered with charms at all or used bombs much. I need to experiment, now I need to step up my game. It's me not good enough or using everything at my disposal, rather that the game being too hard.

Equipment wise? I'm stubbornly sticking with Dual Blades (sorry @JaxonH!)
Dual Daggers, 120 attack, just on the 'green' for sharpness and, um, 0% affinity. Can't seem to upgrade them just yet and they seem the best I can forge.
Armour is the full Remobra set, defense 18. I should update that actually, but I like the look of it!

@Mii_duck If looks are an issue you can use Layer it, So you can use whatever armor you want, but wont lose the look you want.

So the last tip I have for you is to look into your armor, If you can Avoid his attacks just fine them work on skill that fits how you play, But bombs should only be used when it goes to sleep, So you can do big damage.

Trust me, once you get better armor and such, you will look back and think, why the hell was that so hard? But from everything you told me, you sound great.

@Snatcher - just beat it! And yes, I am now thinking "why the hell was that so hard?" 🤣

This time I just hung back and bided my time a little. Fainted once, annoyingly, when Mag was dashing about full of glows, but all of a sudden it was defeated.

So... end credits, game over 😉

Thanks again for the advice, I'm sure I'll be back for more.

@Mii_duck Yess, Great job. Happy I could help! I hope you love the rest of the Monsters.

I absolutely love Magnamalo, one of the coolest designs MH has ever produced and such a cool fight, every time. Plus the set bonus with leaving the little bombs behind, especially in a game where they nerfed set bonuses to almost non existence a lot of the time, was really cool. He makes some great weapons too. I think Malo has been my banner pic on here since I joined.

@Pizzamorg I just love it when it Starts flying in the air using Bombs, Like what? Its such a fun fight!

Something about that tail strike too, just so damn cool.

Or when you wirebug right into his bombs in front of all your friends and have to tell them you do know what you are doing, honest!

@Pizzamorg " I mean't go get blown up!" FR tho I really hope he shows up in Other games, I know he was made around the wire bug but please, He is like one of the best looking, most fun monster to date!

Yeah there are a lot of very similar looking monsters in MH, but Malo is truly original (and fits with the Rise themes so well), I’d love for them to add him to Stories 2 so I could ride around on him.