Search results

  1. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    I mean it offers 2 different systems to grind for rather than just the one like vanilla. Guiding Lands is kinda "quick" though. Once you have a fair bit of materials there's no need to go there much anymore, it's not like augments are temporary, or even locked to a weapon. If you find a better...
  2. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    Mantles in general are around 2%. It's 2% for the tail carve, 2% for the body carve or capture, 2 or 3% for breaking various parts(head and back for rathian), 1% if using plunderblade(on each item it steals). It all adds up but it's still a low%. As usual for farming rare materials what you want...
  3. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    The meta reddit thread seems to say IG is better with high raw+some ele rather than full ele, so it seems better to stack attack(or some sharpness) rather than try to scale the element. That said as usual you can do whatever especially if you already have the right set bonuses. On the HH why do...
  4. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    I thought some of them looked nice but yeah I get it running the same fight over and over is boring, sucks every best weapon is basically Safi so you have to run it a billion times.
  5. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    I guess you drop in white before the monster changes areas but that seems like a lot of purple then a lot of white so probably not a big deal. Isn't that way too much affinity though? You have wex3 and crit eye 7 so that's already 90%, attack IV is another 5% and then you add 25% on the weapon...
  6. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    Also story time, finished gathering the various mats for my SnS build, shit's pretty fun to play. The weapon takes a bit getting used to, the inputs are way more complex than it looks like and you get stupid shit out too often imo(fucking guard slash which is it even a thing) but it surprisingly...
  7. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    Only 8? Do you not run Geology? If you have Geology 1 slotted in(make a separate GL set where you just copy your normal set and replace a healthboost or attack or whatever with one), you can loot each shiny twice. Also break parts for more shinies, and do flinch shots into walls everytime the...
  8. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    Any Namielle will be tempered so you can lure one if you have a lure, or just wait it's not really that rare. And yeah the other mats are either gathering stuff if you haven't done this(gather enough to fill the red bar and spawn the big clusters of bone+ore in each area and you'll have every...
  9. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    A lot of older MH players are split on MHW because on one hand, it is a lot easier, a lot stuff is less punishing and like you said being able to refill your inventory mid quest makes a huge difference, some strategies involve switching weapons or sets between phases, you never run out of...
  10. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    Only on consoles for now and Nergi was just added today, but yeah once you get to endgame you can actually use all the LR/HR armors as layered. Still can't use MR but they've been adding them steadily so probably the next big update in a couple of months they'll have the early MR stuff and...
  11. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    I think motion value is extrapolated from the true raw and the damage that pops up when you hit. Also once the PC version released a lot of stuff could be datamined/confirmed better. I believe they were waiting for the PC version of Iceborne to do a lot of the serious math they couldn't do on...
  12. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    Well the math is complicated but some people bother doing it and generally high raw+some element with no element support skills beats out low raw+high element weapons with true crit element(silver rathalos 4pc) or normal crit element(2pc) with 5/5 element skill. That said it does depend on the...
  13. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    While there's definitely some point in doing elemental builds, a lot of elemental builds don't actually benefit from stacking the elemental damage skill or even running critical element. Basically the damage from a high raw weapon with side elemental is better than a pure elemental weapon with...
  14. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    You can only have 2 atm, the amount expands when they add more areas but on PC for now it's 19 total or so I hear(so 7/7/4/1). That's why I'm switching which I have at 7 to farm the monsters. It doesn't take too long to switch so it's not a big problem and once you have the materials you can use...
  15. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    I have the set, I got a bunch of tickets joining other people but running the solo event works well enough too, it's quick runs(35-40secs), gives 2-3 of the basic IB decorations and tickets every 4runs or so. I'm just gonna keep running groups until I have the "help 10 ppl" achievement and then...
  16. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    Works the same way as any other elders you'll find him randomly in elder recess or wildspire in expeditions(check map between missions), or just join any SOS with him and you should unlock the optional to kill him and you'll be able to get tracks for investigations. Man current events involve A...
  17. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    I mean if it's just the def down you can use 3points in def down immunity or the charm, but I'm not sure it's that. Maybe I'll try it out next time I fight Jho but unlike vanilla where I had to fight him several times to get a bunch of the weapons, in IB his weapons are just pretty much all shit...
  18. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    I do think it's a fun fight, has some really cool attacks, the rapid fire fireball shit is hilarious and many of his moves are really unique but he's definitely pretty high on the monster that will randomly kill me even when using lance. Which isn't that many realistically, most elders are a...
  19. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    As a side note Kushala is still a big flying fuck so I made a HBG Sticky build to kill him a few times now that my forest is leveled, ironically I just upgraded the Zorah cluster HBG I had made in vanilla specifically to farm him(before Jho was added since his HBG was just all around better)...
  20. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    Yeah I hate Jho, even on Lance he's annoying as fuck cause he grabs you through Guard Up so he constantly fucks you up and his hit zones are really high while he wiggles around like a fucking asshole constantly. And then he randomly decides to do fucking crazy jumping shit, vomit some dragon...
  21. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    Depends, monsters like to spam charges and shit if you're at range and you need to dodge a bunch too and sometimes it's easier to dodge when you're close(dodging into the monster/behind it) versus having to dodge from mid distance. Also HBG doesn't really dodge stuff, they more like slow motion...
  22. Pyros

    Cyberpunk 2077

    I've read a rumor saying they'd be cheaper than 2080TIs at launch because the new architecture is cheaper to make or whatever some stupid shit. I guess we'll see.
  23. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    I'm almost at 99 for Nergi and while I did craft ele lances I haven't been using them. Instead I'm still using my shitty pukei pukei lance all the way. The big advantrage it has over other shit is it's rank 10, so I got the healing augment on it pretty early since it's a shit ton easier to get...
  24. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    These events tend to be easier than they look because monsters have lower health when you do a quest with multiple, which leads to lower tresholds to knockdown/stun/flinch so if you're aggressive you can basically get them into CC loops where they don't get to do anything(especially with flinch...
  25. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    He meant for leveling though I think, endgame there's a bunch of options but leveling it's a bit so so. You can get a good pierce HBG with tobi > viper tobi(actually better than Nargacuga with custom upgrades too although for lvling narga might be better but comes later). For sticky I think you...
  26. Pyros

    Path of Exile

    I played Viper Strike and it was very strong BUT the mapping isn't as fast as some other stuff(it's reasonable with splash+hunter gloves with +1target though). It melted everything boss wise however, which is good for a league that had so much focus on bossing. I did 36/40 in a week and a half...
  27. Pyros

    Cyberpunk 2077

    Oh good march/april looked fucking retarded this year, so that's cool with me.
  28. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Yeah tanks are very well balanced overall, there's some downsides here and there but they're generally compensated(Living Dead but also The Blackest Night). Gunbreaker is also fun to play so that helps, although it's quite button bloated I feel they could have used switching keys and shit...
  29. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    I feel like one of the very first quests they tell you you can go in the tent? Don't remember for sure.
  30. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    I did gloam grass for a bit but now that I have like 700 of them and I have yet to use one I switched back to standard stuff, atm might seeds since I dipped to like 400 after using a bunch every hunt, but it's really whatever you need at the time.
  31. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    It got a shit ton of nerfs and... is still probably one of the best weapons in the game. They buffed elemental damage a ton and bow is basically king of that with DB, so yeah. It didn't get much new stuff though, only the claw shit I think, so it's one of the "more of the same" weapons. 10 mega...
  32. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    Man I didn't expect Kirin changes, loaded up a tasty 4gold 1silver investigation and got carted 3times in a row like an idiot, on Lance no less. Had to slap in a bunch of defensive shit(stun immunity and some thunder resist, as well as actually putting maintenance jewel in lightning mantle) and...
  33. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    Iceborne does provide things, mostly weapon changes and the new claw, but you can just play the base game fine since it wasn't balanced around the new shit anyway(and with the defender catch up gear it kinda doesn't matter either way). So find the game on sale and try just that, there's plenty...
  34. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    They might have higher base for smaller monsters, I guess? I didn't really notice Jagras being particularily different than MR Jagras, but MR Jagras is a lot tankier than HR jagras was(even with relevant gear) so maybe that's that. I did Kulu and Tzitzi and they kinda exploded as you'd expect...
  35. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    They don't, they have scaling hp like everywhere else. Might bug out if people leave and join not too sure but I've been doing it solo and the fights take the normal amount of time(about 10mins, some longer due to bullshit, some shorter when there's shit going down with multiple monsters beating...
  36. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    Well currently the best speedrun weapon I think is the weird as fuck PS4 only LBG from Horizon Zero Dawn, it puts you at 1hp but does ridiculous damage if you keep the right timing. But that's really just speed running though. Even in the original HBG wasn't necessary, it made farming Kushala a...
  37. Pyros

    Path of Exile

    For like a few hours on the first day, uber hillock spawned in the act 6 beach, so you could constantly reset spawn him by entering the zone and back to town over and over. I think it was fixed in like 8hours or whatever but ppl who lvled quickly got to exploit that a bunch I'm sure.
  38. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Every job being good is for the most part true. Obviously not every job is equal but no job is so bad that they can't get content done, especially casual content, the differences between the top tier of a given category and the lower tier is generally within 5%, with a few outliers that...
  39. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    As pointed out not really, and animations often have a "backswing" like in dota where if you don't input anything else they take longer but if you do input another command that part of the animation is removed to combo into the other, making it more annoying to try to wait. There are skills...
  40. Pyros

    Monster Hunter: World

    Eh not really, hitting the monster's ass until it stops moving will get the job done. You can however capture them at low hp, which saves you like 20% of the boss fight but doesn't work on everything(elder dragons can't be captured although that only starts late into the story). Sleeping...