Topic: Monster Hunter 3

its 6

pretty sure its the max which is 6

It'll show as a urgent after you clear most of the Rank 5s.

Offline only goes to 5. When you clear 5s you get a set of Urgent quests though which is just a bunch of dual monster quests.

Ohh ive only done up to 3 in like 2hrs in offline and im at 4 in online cause Online is ftw

Yeah, Online is pretty fun... plus, that's where all the good stuff is!

I've almost got the urgent for rank 5, myself. Finished all the Rank 4s and helped some friends with the rank 5 urgent. Should be rank 5 tonight

Thanks everyone! May have to go for different upgrade for now then. To much work offline right now. Enjoying online to much.

I just got this game today, and have never played a Monster Hunter before. So, is it a good idea to start in offline mode if you're a newbie?

Yes. You need to learn the basics first and you can only learn them offline.

Thanks. Also, is your avatar that Irate Gamer? Hilarious.

5* quests are quite a jump from 4*. Barioth can do major pwnage if you aren't careful. I guess it's like the step up from 1* to 2*.

Deviljho is lol though.
Deviljho: RAWR HAI GUYZ IMMA EAT CHU.
Everyone: ruuuuuunnnn

Whee! Finished all the one-star quests this weekend, got my keister handed to me by that massive underwater dragon b**tard...I had a heck of a time keeping away from him while gutting those swimming herbivore dudes.

I also did one of the two-star quests...where I had to kill the Big Jiggli or whatever. (The thing that looks like the spitting dinosaur from Jurassic Park.) I had to chase that SOB from screen to screen so many times I thought I was going to scream. Also, I kept pressing the darned button I had my whetstone mapped to instead of swinging my blade. So I'd run right up to his face, get ready to swing at him...and then sit down peacefully in front of him, leisurely sharpening my sword, not a care in the world.

I died of course.

Rathian Plate, how do you get this thing?! XD
I took down two Rathians and got some rare stuff, but no plate! Gah! (need armor)

I laughed so hard to this!!!
Have fun with the rest of the game.

I think it's really rare. I think it may be easier to get if you capture it. X3

Thats the game for you, and guess what it gets much, much worse at 3 stars, I just beat Barroth today, I lost all my lives while using a Switch-Axe, TWICE, and used a Medium Bowgun and killed him with 5 minutes to go, Whoo The lady told me I had Gobul to fight next, and I said screw that. You couldn't torture me enough in hell to fight another big b@#tard after Barroth pushed me through every boulder in the game, threw me and Cha-Cha 50 ft. in the air, killed Cha-Cha about 20 times, killed me 6 times, fazed through a F&*$ING Boulder and killed me, knocked me into confusion every time I was about to die and proceeded to kick my ass, ran away like a little B$&ch, and guess what my Cha-Cha got me killed, I was trying to sharpen my sword in the corner while Cha-Cha was on the other and ran towards me with Barroth hot on his tail and before and as soon as my sword was done I did that damn heroic pose and got ran over by the freight train of Barroth, THANKS CHA-CHA! My blood pressure was so high I could cook all my raw meat in 2 seconds ( ) While I love this game it will be the end of me! I'll see you in the after life Chicken

I've finally got a USB keyboard for online. Offline I'm against Gobul. Online I'm just constantly killing or capturing Lagi trying to get Lagi Horns. But in the capture (I believe is the only way to get Lagi Horns) my teammates keep dying and not aiming for the head! I have every Lagi piece of armour and a Lagi Switch-axe and Great Sword but no helmet! Grrrr.

I know right. I was like, crap I have to enter the water. Oh hey, Monster Guts, (casually swims to area 11)

SH******************************T!!!!

And then, every time I did a 180 with the camera I saw him and jumped. Still shaking. I hate him.

I am curious about something...this is an action RPG, right? With an optional online component. Is it in any way similar to stuff like FFXI, but less convoluted? That's the vibe MH3 gives me.

LOL. The same thing happened to me,only I kept whipping out my BBQ spit, so I was like 'should I kill this big mother thats attacking the hell out of me, nah ,its nice weather, time for a BBQ ' I died of course

Ugh, yeah...that darned "heroic pose." Every time I drink a potion or something I run off to the side, which usually gives me enough time for a swig before the monsters catch me. But because my idiot hunter needs to throw his hands up to the sky and do his little victory stance, all the while ignoring the monsters closing in and me telling him to KILL THEM, I nearly always get bitten or thrown down right afterward.

Regarding that stupid whetstone/BBQ/whatever button, I usually try to keep nothing mapped to it at all, that way if I hit it accidentally (which I always seem to), it doesn't lock my moronic hunter into some ridiculous, inescapable sequence. But it seems as though every time you start a quest (or maybe just every time you leave town) it automatically maps something there.

Good game, of course...I'm definitely blaming my stupid fingers more than I'm blaming the designers...but man I wish there was some way to cancel the blade sharpening without getting hit.