Monster Hunter Rise

Leviothan said:

Been enjoying the mobility of Insect Glaive a lot. I am hoping to unlock my super stab wirebug switch skill soon but I've been wondering if I should switch to something more direct like the Hammer. Why would someone do Hammer over Hunting Horn for example.

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I switched twice already and probably will switch some more later on, really up to you what you play I'd say.

I'm on IG atm too, love the small changes, those new Kinsects that suck up 2 buffs at the same time make it so much better(even if they're slow as fucking molasses goddamn are they shit I'd kill myself if I had to use such slow kinsects in MHW). Can get full buff with just 2 hits and using the attack one usually makes it easy since white is usually wings/legs and orange is like belly/legs/back so fairly big targets, versus having to hit the head for red. I switched when I got to the HR needed for the skill though, the baseline silkbind skills for IG are absolute ass, but the switch one(wyvern dive or whatever) is really nice, although I miss about 3/4 of the time cause the hitbox isn't particularly big and it's hard to make sure you're right over the monster without like camera tracking and shit(which is annoying when jumping, maybe I should use the target lock thing).

But otherwise it's great, full earplugs and flinch free for free with the buffs is cool, high mobility, can do aerial shit which is actually not ass anymore unlike MHW, can also get decent KOs when attacking the head(it was more of a pain to do in MHW).

As for Hammer vs HH, personally I never liked Hammer, but the idea is Hammer has big combos for big dmg and all that, while HH is more simple moves but you get a lot of free utility and shit on top. Honestly the way HH is in Rise, I'd say Hammer is kinda fucking useless, but some people still like spinning and smashing and it does that.

I'm gonna do a bit more IG and probably try SnS or Long Sword next. Maybe Lance. LBG later I need to figure out what I need to farm for the right LBG, unlike other weapons where I just kinda pick random shit like Kamura weaps and fuck around with, guns need the right choice for ammo type. I want to go stickies most likely so I think it's Magnamos or whatever his name is, and haven't found him in HR yet(I guess next HR/urgent quest at the end of this).

I find the game is a lot more fun if you switch weapons every now and then rather than stick to a single one. Although some weapons I still don't care about(Hammer/Gunlance/Bow/HBG).

Oh the baseline recover move is great, I meant specifically the 2 IG ones, one is literally just a jump for some reason, I guess you can use it mid jump to extend aerial chains(you're limited to 3 bounces in the air but the silkbind lets you get more) but I don't stay in the air that long so it's feels like a waste, and the other is a shitty evade+small heal which is the one that gets replaced and that one is possibly one of the worst silkbind skill in the game. The dive is nice on the other hand, does high dmg, can use it to cut tails really fast if you get a good opening and it's good to mount fast too to do the whole musical chairs of mounts shit for additional materials/dmg.

Yeah I got 2 like that too, no go fight win though(probably will look into recruiting one), 2nd one has just spinning top or whatever, and mine. Both with status and knockout, didn't take too long to find.

I'd assume if you're purely going for fast clears, attack or bombardier would be better though, but it's just a waste if you're not going for speedruns, running double gathering palicos adds so many materials every hunts(including chances for the rare shit). It's like in World I largely used the stealing tool cause it just added so many materials it just made grinding a lot faster, even if it wasn't the best for actually killing fast or safely. Now that you can get buffs/heals on the stealing palicos it doesn't even matter really. It's especially true now that even the basic shit materials like carapace/claw/fang/hide etc are still very useful to make talismans.

Dog is nice for leveling though, I used mine until I got to higher HR and wasn't running around gathering shit as much and started knowing the maps. You can move pretty fast with Wirebug only once you know where you're going and stuff so the whole running becomes redundant(it's nice to polish your weap while moving but you can get grinder decos to just make it super fast anyway) and combat-wise they're only barely better than palicos.

Thing about status is you rarely will get 2 procs on the same hunt with just buddies from what I've seen so far, I think even if it's dog with status attack and umbrella unless the monster is weak to that type of status, and if that's not the case, it makes no difference if it comes a bit earlier or not. You can get more stuns though if you have knockout king and use the umbrella and get them to spin it in the head of monsters, but it's kinda hard sometimes.

Even with a status weapon and status attack the palicos don't really get that many status to stick anyway. It's largely when they use the first gathering skill that they get them, since they fire the equivalent of a toad, so you 100% get sleep/para/poison when they do that shit but it also makes their weapon/status attack irrelevant if they had the same weapon type. This is also what makes gathering so good, the first skill is actually really good too since you'll get a para or sleep(or both) every hunt regardless of them hitting shit properly.

But yeah stealing like 5-8mats every hunt on top of the usual stuff is just too good to pass up. A few mats weren't in the table in world iirc, not sure about this(tails and such), but even then it's still very worth it for talisman crafting or just raw money(in world I made a bunch of money clearing out materials every now and then, like you'd end up with 50 teostra carapace or whatever, sell 40 and you'd be able to fully upgrade a piece of armor and such).

Also I need to start using Felvine. I forgot about it after looking into it originally. Does it consume the actual felvine items or is it just the same name but not related gameplay wise?