@@4zri_gaming The game's base locations and Workshop UI could still use a shitload of said polish. Having to run around Astera and jumping menus to forge/upgrade your weapons is rather annoying.
Armor ability means that if you wear 3 to 5 pieces of one armor set then there’s a hidden bonus you unlock for the armor set your using. Like for (Kushala’s armor set if you where all 5 pieces then you unlock Kushala’s Blessing)
I actually gave up on the game back in 2018 because I had never played a MH before and the game did nothing to explain wtf was going on. I recently got back into it with another unlearned friend and a friend with a lot of experience helping explain wtf is going on. This vid actually makes some sense now.
I've been playing for a while and only just realised there's a hunt timer in the top left - I've been manually checking the time by running away to open the manuel
Small tip that's not shared enough- when the hourglass icon appears when you finish a quest before you see the end rewards press "Start" (the small button above A for Xbox or Triangle for PS) to start moving your character sooner to carve or gather before the time runs out.Sorry I don't play PC so I don't know what acts as the Start button on that (PC players please chime in 🤗)
Tip, bring stun resistance if you can. Also pay attention to your Elemental resistance. Increasing the Elemental resistance will lessen the application/time of a specific blight or even nullifying a blight entirely.
@@XylaaxAgreed, you don't think you need stun resistant and then you die lol. When you get stunned and you have 1hp and you will see your life flash before your eyes.
Something I've seen people not be aware of since the original release is that you can get monsters to break their own parts during a mount. You have to hang out on one part until they go over to a wall to bash you off then switch once the animation starts (they also flinch themselves). Do that 3 times and the part will usually break & since they flinched themselves each time you can end with a mount finisher. I would note that the parts I primarily see breaking from this are backs (like on Rathian, Rathalos, Pukei & Zinogre) and wings (Teostra, Lunastra, Kushala & Velkana) but even if the part doesn't outright break it still does some part damage, and if you're playing solo & want part break rewards but use a weapon with bad hitzones on/difficulty hitting a part you can soften them up/get them for free even in base world where you don't have tenderized wallbang shenanigans to break tougher parts quickly.
About utility skills: in my opinion, one of the best skills is „Free Meal“. Try getting it to max wich consults in 75% chance of not consuming most consumables. You can just stop using potions and megapotions and only use Maxpotions (also take the ingrediants to craft more with you) For example when i fight fatalis i can just heal with maxpotions the whole hunt… also saves you alot of materials with megademondrug etc.
Yeah. My main set is designed with comfort in mind. I have both divine blessing and free meal maxed out. I'll never have the reaction time to all attacks, so I prioritize enjoying the hunt with as much cushion as possible.
What about Mushroomancer? It let's you eat mushrooms to receive the same heal/buffs from potions. At level three, mandragoras function the same as max potions, and since they're an ingredient, you can carry *10* of them. Not only can you easily plant mushrooms at base, but they even have the same eating speed as rations, taking only a split second compared to regular potions. Other useful ones are Devil's Blight, which gives you the same buffs as Dash Juice, a 25% stamina decrease on any and every action. As a bonus, this skill can also be stacked with Free Meal.
Here's another very important tip for World/Iceborne: Unlike Gen Ult or Sunbreak monster pin attacks are un-blockable even with the guard up skill (an Uragaan set and end game deco exclusive that lets you block zeno/Saffi's beam attacks which can't normally be blocked) so watch out or make sure your defense is high enough to survive the attack
I mained Lance all through World and Iceborne the first time, then I mained Hunting Horn for Risebreak. And now I'm back to Lance. I love my pointy monster poker. Call me The Flying Lancer because I spend half my hunt mounted
700+ hours and i had no clue about firepods clearing effluvia, i allways just brought some mantle with long uptime with me... This game is truly amazing
Trying multiple weapon classes is soooo important, they each teach you different aspects of the game and once you learnt them all you are much closer to being a beast, my theory is that players like CantaPerMe's secret is that they play many different weapons all the time
One very important thing new players ignore is....The wake-up hits. Many times people just do a normal attack on sleeping monsters instead of letting the big Great Sword dude (me) do the thing. It happens even on master rank for me... But yeah, sleeping monsters take double the damage when you wake it up with an attack (just one hit, the first one to land will have double damage In case of a multi-hitting attack...Which you shouldn't do here) Some weapons have a powerfull attack to use in this situation like Great Sword with the True Charge or the Charge Blade with Amped Element Discharge, if your weapon doesn't have a strong hitting attack like that, you can use mega barrel bombs instead to do a ton of damage and potentially end the hunt there.
Hammer users please read this. Everyone else, until the tail is chopped, let the hammer attack the head when the monster is down. I know the hunting horn also does blunt, but you can do other things. KOing monsters is all hammers got. That and spinning. Look at what happened to hammer in Rise when stun was nerfed and there were less places you could slide.
@@randomdude4505 The head almost always has the highest hitzone value so everyone should be attacking it. Flinch free exists and will stop most flinching so there's no reason to not have everyone attacking the head.
As a vet. The slide jump attacks are a great way to obtain the mount. As a Swaxe main I can't stress enough you how useful this is against monsters that you're miss matched against.
I pretty much always save my mount for after the first time the monster is enraged after the initial wallbang, because I'm playing through pre iceborne right now and I'm not loaded up with agitator skills and such yet.
I have 1000 hours and didn't know about mount slinger attack, slide animation skip , torch pods clearing effluvia / watermoss clearing slime from monsters and part break damage from flinch shots
Brightmoss also sucks up water puddles from that one Elder dragon I forgot the name of…Namiel or something. I rarely, if ever, see anyone else using them.
As someone who put a good amount of hours in I live or die by stun resistance cause unless your a god your gonna get hit And if you get stunned your probably dead
@@rikkucrowe For some reason i can never dodge correctly, either i react at the perfect time but i don't create enough distance, i dodge in the wrong direction or (what happens to me the most) im recovering from a shot and i can't dodge. But i mean, i could be doing smth wrong, i just recently discovered that you can run while drinking a potion, i never tried that before because the only other game i played was Dark Souls... Also, i run a purely offensive build.
If they're low to the ground and you're out of ammo, you can also give wingdrakes a little tickle with the clutch claw, then use them to travel. They generally go from point A to point B and back again, so they're more like shortcuts between two areas. Also, you don't kill monsters, you just carve them after they've fainted. They are then carted by endemic life to a monster base camp having failed their mission to beat up a hunter. They drink some green juice and heal up for another day.
MASSIVELY timely. I stopped playing a few years ago and just started a new playthrough with my friend yesterday. Literally forgot the MHW specific mechanics. Love it. THANK YOU! HAPPY HUNTING EVERYONE!
Yeah, I guess trying other weapons is the best advice - since I main SnS as I love paladin sword and shield aestethic I recently decided to try charge blade for Return to World and I gotta say, gather vials - charge shield - gather vials + sword charge - BOOOM flow of the hunt with extra defensive utility of side hop, evasive strike and shield is quite satisfying and serves as an extra way to keep the game fresh for me which is the most important thing, to have fun hunting.
I have 650 hours and had no idea you could skip the sliding animation lol Also, regarding weapons, I'm trying all of them. I'll be doing at least 100 hunts with every single weapon in this game, and I recommend that to everyone, I gave Great sword a chance after more than 1600 hunts between charge blade and long sword and I'm in love.
To tack on to the tip about using traps for purposes other than capture, in Master Rank depending on how much energy the monster has it will break free a lot faster than in Low/High Ranks. Plus utilize the poop, trying to hunt/carve/capture a specific monster without being interrupted or having your trap wasted can be difficult especially with a Tigrex or Bazelgeuse around.
I consider myself a great sword main, with probably around 80% of my time being on it, and the other being a mix of hammer and hunting horn. From those three, you can guess I like the slower, bigger numbered weapons that require you to dance with the monster. I never once considered using the lance, it just seemed boring to me. Then, about 20 in game hours ago, I decided to pick it up and mess around. Turns out, I enjoy the dance far more than I enjoy the big numbers. Knowing the right moment to block, parry, or power block, go for optimal damage, or keep it safe while waiting for a certain attack to come out. It's been an absolute blast, and honestly, might be a new choice for main. Seriously, try new stuff and see where you have the most fun, because at the end of the day, the best weapon is the one you have the most fun with
@SilverKnightXx I'm working on incorporating it. I found that I end up directly underneath the monster about 70% of the time, and I just charge to the monster when it gets away from me
Once you get a handle on the four directional shield dash it will be a very valuable asset! I personaly like to charge first and once I reached the monster I do a shield dash away from it and then start doing my combos@@zeusjuice8260
On tip #13 something to thing about. While a monster is not enraged I like to fight the monster normally. No traps just fight, don't mount. Now when a monster is enraged it gains speed, longer attack chains and you can no longer wall bounce. Now is the best time to get a mount or trap a monster down. Most monsters can only stay enraged about 90 seconds and if done correctly you can really cut that time down and you have less time of taking more damage. Kushala is great for this. You can usually get at least two mounts off during a hunt. When it falls asleep that part of the fight gets super annoying so if you can mount it and reduce all the wind tunnels you'll cut time off your hunts #15 another tip here, pierce pods are OP. Seriously shoot them at enraged monsters, shit will stop them dead in their tracks. Especially good on flying monsters, give you a chance to get close a get a hit in and maybe a knockdown. I never realized how good the different pods were. Crystal pods are also really good
About 19, I'm almost certain that you can generally get it from any Butterbur patch as a rare drop. Since I recently got it while collecting butterburs for that MR1 Quest. Obviously as a rare drop its not guaranteed (unlike the method shown shown by Cotton I'm guessing), but rare drops are much less rare in Master Rank as far as I have seen, so there's a good chance of getting that by just doing the Butterbur quest a few times.
All collectible nodes have 2 rare items, one you get by chance and another one you only get from a very specific patch, that only spawns during upsurge/flourishing. They were refering to the second one. Though usually both rare ones unlock a new ingredient the first time you get them, so it's best to get both, idk why they didn't say that
When I started world, I picked up the Charge Blade (though certin monsters I found easier to combat with certin wepon builds). Everything changed when I went up against Ragging Bracy Daddy. My normal ways of fighting did not work against him (as well as a whole bunch of other wepons I tried), and in a moment of desperation I turned to the one wepon that I could not get the hang of in the very begining. The Insect Glave. In that moment, everything just clicked, and it has been my main wepon ever since (although when it comes to Rajang, I will allways go with a S&S dodge build as that's the best way I have developed to fight it).
The number of players won't go above 160k imo... Sale is over. I think it'll be a gradual decline going forward. The hype is still there, but I think it's peaked. Regarding the item bar that you can toggle with the D-pad (on controller). I use a Razer Wolverine controller. It has an extra trigger button just above the traditional triggers, and I bound that to the left and right on the D-pad. It makes it really nice and easy to select items from the item bar. It's still worth customizing the radial menu, but this gives you the ability to use both, which can be nice since there are so many items.
Two things: 1 - when a monster is exhausted (it stands still kind of drooling), you can reset the duration of the exhaust by clutch clawing onto its face. This is SUPER helpful in multiplayer especially. 2 - about the defense / utility skills, I highly recommend speed eating. It's a cheap skill to put in with decos, and even one point will reduce the amount of time you spend healing by a considerable amount.
honestly my biggest tip is: Explore! the world has so many little secrets and cool things hidden in it! secondarily, is make friends with all of the grimalkyne tribes. aside from just the cool palico gadgets, having the secret tunnels to traverse alone and having grimalkyne friends to help you out can be fun, esp as a solo hunter! then you can have your palico, a random tribe member, and potentially a tail rider helping you! re: armor, i dont think i ahve any attack gems. im a movement based IG user, so ive got earplugs, anti-stun, flinch free, power prolonger... anythng that keeps me from getting stopped in midair lol.
I'm not a veteran in any shape or form, but one tip I heard and don't remeber where is to equip your palico with a Sleep (or paralysis) weapon, depending on the monster you will have 1 - 4 sleep procs in a hunt, giving you an extra moment to heal, sharpen and craft while also getting a free wake up bonus damage hit (wake up hits do double damage, so try to hit for strongest move). Paralysis might be less effective at giving you that break, but I noticed it stacks up faster and can even save you from some attacks if your palico clutches up as it stops monsters in their tracks
I started back up on my 750hr playthrough, now I need to finish all the extra quests the dlc added like raging brach, seething bazel, super rajang, and ruiner nergi
I've got a great simple tip: you can use tranquilizers before you trap a monster, the tranquilizer status stays on the monster for a while and if you tranq them then trap them they will be caught right away. This can be really helpful for situations where the monster is getting resistant to your traps and doesn't stay in them long enough for you to use 2 tranqs, or for monsters that naturally get out quickly.
10:55 capturing does give you more rewards because of double tails and double reward screens, what i mean is that maximums are different, sure the rewards screens are both minimally the same, but maximally different; slaying a monster; carve + tail + rewards screen capturing a monster; tail + rewards screen + arena quest arena quest; carve + tail + rewards screen hence it is always 100% without a shadow of a doubt, better to just capture the monster for maximal rewards, the only difference between the two is sometimes you wont get an arena quest for the monster you captured, but that only happens for a short period of time because you specifically killed that arena recently, so if you vary your hunts, you get a ton more maximal rewards than someone who just slays the monster
Someone in the comments said about stun resistence, I'd like to add this: To put both elemental and stun resistence is playing on "easy" mode, you'll only need to heal. Meaning you'll ignore blights, say a monster attacks with poison, if you bring lvl 3 poison resistence you'll ignore it. Adding the fact that your character won't be stunned, you'll only have to worry about doing damage, dodging, and healing, making the game way easier than you think. Just adding my experience before I optimised my build, when you reach a certain point, you just optimise for your play style. Hope this helps 😊
And please for your sanity bring proper equipment to Black Veil Hazak Fights. When I was a new hunter I thought carving near a specific monster part would give you specific parts. (Like I didn't know about tail chops and just stood by the tail and carved)
I bought the game years ago, but just now I picked it up cuz I got burnt out of bg3 and man, what a blast I’ve been having. So far I’ve tried most weapons with the exception of the insect glaive, horn, and the ranged weapons, and I’ve fallen in love with the charge blade, such a fun and complex weapon, waking the monsters up with the hardest slap of their lives gives me the biggest dopamine rush, and whenever I wanna turn off my brain I use the longsword or hammer
This is the third time I’m playing through the game and I fucking love it so much every time. I don’t often play games where I can keep coming back and absolutely love the hell out of it. Starting from scratch and crafting your first full set of armor and weapons gives you a special feeling.
I honestly should go back and give all the weapons a go. I grabbed Hunting Horn right at the start and didn't let go for a long while. I eventually picked up both Bowguns as well, Light being my go-to for B52 and Kushala hunting, but it's hard to give up bashing a monster's head and then playing some tunes.
Highly recommend. I was the same I went HH first. Always wanted to use CB with the cool big bang attack. I took some time and watched some guides and surprisingly it was very easy to learn even being the most complicated weapon.
Number 18 this is what I did and makes hunts not so frustrating, I'm happy I found a good build of defense I'm totalling on 1186 defs and I changed it up lil bit and put offensive stuff in it too like attack boost or artillery my build is more around 70/30, 70% defense and 30% offense I love the speed eating, divine blessing and tool specialist and such there so reliable
90% agree to this list. Last 10 is you didn't mention the Botanical Garden. Essentially free bonus materials per hunt from traps to ammo to heals to flash pods. Even if you don't get it up to "full efficiency", the only thing that gets you thousands of crafting mats better than the garden is specifically going after them yourself. (Even then I'd argue a completed yet unfertilized garden does it better)
You know, at the risk of sounding really dumb. Who is the pro and who is the noob? I can't really tell cause both are pretty well versed in monhun, or so it seems to me I say while watching a video with cotton splaining things. owo
Additional for number 6, moving on the mounted monster will also do damage depending on the weapon equipped. Example is IG, moving from part to part has damage numbers between 20-45 instead of the 1 from normal attacking.
I didn't know the superman dive counted as invulnerability time like your regular dodge... I just assumed it was a "last chance bail" maneuver... The things you learn from long time players omg thank you
Capture does net you more stuff though. It's just not from the mission end screen. After you capture something you get the mission rewards then an Arena mission appears and you can kill them again netting you double the rewards without the hassle of hunting twice.
It says on the wiki that capturing gives you more end of quest rewards and you get the same carving rewards as well as having the skill that allows you to get even more quest rewards from capturing
ok listen, i am a new player and still didnt get to the dlc but one of the things i should totally advise is use items loudout, when in the item box there is a button that opens the loadout and you can make multiple i have one that is the base that i can just go into the tent, load and bam everything i need and use is ready to go. its so time saving you dont imagine
Had this game for over a week now , was a sns main , now i prefer the greatsword. The tackles make me feel like a good player when im playing with someone and it gets a knockout .
On slaying vs capturing: I always capture if I think it saves time, unless I'm not sure I broke the monster part I needed to break or if I still need to sever the tail.
I've recently found this game and have been addicted. All of my days off have been poured into this game lol I love duel blades and my only fear so far are things that love to stay in the sky.
Originally I tried Great Sword and after I couldn't get past Low Rank Rajinoth, I quit until the expansion went on sale. Bought it (dunno, why, lol) and decided to look up a guide. When one of them made the comparison to Dynasty Warriors (Dual Blades?), I tried those and immediately found success and fun. It didn't hurt that I had the Defender gear to give me a lot of wiggle room for mistakes so I could learn but I've clocked in over 1000 hours in MHW so far since then. When Rise came out, I decided to swap main weapons and went for Insect Glaive... because it looked too confusing to switch to in World but I figured if I went in cold with a new weapon I could (and did) learn how to get the most out of it. Dying has a DPS value of 0. I'd rather win in 30 minute than lose in 10. It's a bit disappointing when you fight a clearly (element) heavy using monster and find people getting their blight. Even most so when it's one of those max difficulty fights. Seriously, who tries to fight Tempered Velkhana with less than 20 Ice Resist?
yea I got the game awhile ago put around 300 hours in the base game, quit playing a month after iceborne came out, recently got iceborne and made a new character immediately took off the defender gear and went straight back to the kinsect glaive
I’m replaying MHW again and it’s making me very happy, I still feel bad for bullying poor Great Jagras but I’m playing on my PS5 and so I’m beginning all over again.
Why exactly you did you miss it in rise? There was 0 point for it to be in rise, astera jerky heals bleed there is no bleeding in rise. The fish does the same thing for red health in rise .
Been playing monster hunter over 1000 hrs and never knew #6 or never thought about using it that way. Never used #7 either but that's way faster than using the rides but wingdrakes aren't everywhere. Same goes with #17 didn't know that
It's kinda crazy that he mentions trying different weapons because I started off with longsword then changed to greatsword then changed to sword n shield and finally settled on hammer and I've been rocking it since 2019
I started with Lance and gave it up for Hammer. Branched out and tried Switch Axe. I am starting a new playthrough and am stuck on picking my weapon. Try Lance again, or pick something completely different like Bow or Charge Blade 🤯
Recently bought game and man oh man i must say its really feels great, picked up long sword looks awesome currently 50hrs locked in now i am switching to other weapons just killed Kushala iron dragon and i was thinking about either mace or sword and shield well i do try to get materials to craft all weapons that seems juicy, in regards to an armor i went with Negrigante set due to partial life steal though yet i still miss 1 piece for full set we will see :D game is fun worth time 100% thanks for tips!
How should I go about trying new weapons? Obviously I can’t make a high tier set for each weapon. So probably defender gear, but then what level of quest and enemies should I go seek to try the lower leveled weapons at?
We've gone full circle back to tutorials of world lol
A content creator’s wet dream, especially for a game they loved
It’s crazy to see that surge, proof that an excellent polished game is a rare ocurrence in the industry right now
So when do we loop back to minecraft quickbuild challenges?
It’s because rise is a nice game to play once, but abysmal once you do that. World is a game that keeps on giving.
@@4zri_gaming The game's base locations and Workshop UI could still use a shitload of said polish.
Having to run around Astera and jumping menus to forge/upgrade your weapons is rather annoying.
A lot of people forget about the armor abilities that you get from having 3-5 pieces of said armor as well
I genuinely forgot about that until I was at Safi 😂😂
What does it mean armor abbilites?
I am using the Kuluaki armor set rn, it have usable spell or?
Armor ability means that if you wear 3 to 5 pieces of one armor set then there’s a hidden bonus you unlock for the armor set your using. Like for (Kushala’s armor set if you where all 5 pieces then you unlock Kushala’s Blessing)
@@mortyzgaming Ah I see now, thanks mate! So it is literally a set bonus, right? All of it only passive skills?
Who? 😂
I love how these MHW guides come back.
AND THAT THEYRE STILL HELPING ME DESPITE HAVING 500+ HOURS ON THIS GAME
learning something new is amazing despite how many hours we put in the game!
I actually gave up on the game back in 2018 because I had never played a MH before and the game did nothing to explain wtf was going on.
I recently got back into it with another unlearned friend and a friend with a lot of experience helping explain wtf is going on.
This vid actually makes some sense now.
@@ObservationofLimits hey, I understand why you were struggling. It’s a hard game. The older a monster hunter game is, the harder.
@@The-seele-simp man I was struggling back in 2018🤣
I've been playing for a while and only just realised there's a hunt timer in the top left - I've been manually checking the time by running away to open the manuel
Small tip that's not shared enough- when the hourglass icon appears when you finish a quest before you see the end rewards press "Start" (the small button above A for Xbox or Triangle for PS) to start moving your character sooner to carve or gather before the time runs out.Sorry I don't play PC so I don't know what acts as the Start button on that (PC players please chime in 🤗)
It's ESC
Tip, bring stun resistance if you can. Also pay attention to your Elemental resistance. Increasing the Elemental resistance will lessen the application/time of a specific blight or even nullifying a blight entirely.
not a bad idea tbh, I never even thought about that and majority of my faints are due to being stunned
@@XylaaxAgreed, you don't think you need stun resistant and then you die lol. When you get stunned and you have 1hp and you will see your life flash before your eyes.
20 res negates the blight
Wait, I have 200 hours of play time.
How do you get stun resistance ?
@@mrswag2866 On armor, decos, or charm.
Something I've seen people not be aware of since the original release is that you can get monsters to break their own parts during a mount. You have to hang out on one part until they go over to a wall to bash you off then switch once the animation starts (they also flinch themselves). Do that 3 times and the part will usually break & since they flinched themselves each time you can end with a mount finisher. I would note that the parts I primarily see breaking from this are backs (like on Rathian, Rathalos, Pukei & Zinogre) and wings (Teostra, Lunastra, Kushala & Velkana) but even if the part doesn't outright break it still does some part damage, and if you're playing solo & want part break rewards but use a weapon with bad hitzones on/difficulty hitting a part you can soften them up/get them for free even in base world where you don't have tenderized wallbang shenanigans to break tougher parts quickly.
As a SnS main, this is very useful and works
As a glaive main, I exploit this whenever possible :p
About utility skills: in my opinion, one of the best skills is „Free Meal“.
Try getting it to max wich consults in 75% chance of not consuming most consumables.
You can just stop using potions and megapotions and only use Maxpotions (also take the ingrediants to craft more with you)
For example when i fight fatalis i can just heal with maxpotions the whole hunt… also saves you alot of materials with megademondrug etc.
Yeah. My main set is designed with comfort in mind. I have both divine blessing and free meal maxed out. I'll never have the reaction time to all attacks, so I prioritize enjoying the hunt with as much cushion as possible.
What about Mushroomancer? It let's you eat mushrooms to receive the same heal/buffs from potions. At level three, mandragoras function the same as max potions, and since they're an ingredient, you can carry *10* of them. Not only can you easily plant mushrooms at base, but they even have the same eating speed as rations, taking only a split second compared to regular potions. Other useful ones are Devil's Blight, which gives you the same buffs as Dash Juice, a 25% stamina decrease on any and every action. As a bonus, this skill can also be stacked with Free Meal.
Here's another very important tip for World/Iceborne: Unlike Gen Ult or Sunbreak monster pin attacks are un-blockable even with the guard up skill (an Uragaan set and end game deco exclusive that lets you block zeno/Saffi's beam attacks which can't normally be blocked) so watch out or make sure your defense is high enough to survive the attack
I mained Lance all through World and Iceborne the first time, then I mained Hunting Horn for Risebreak. And now I'm back to Lance. I love my pointy monster poker. Call me The Flying Lancer because I spend half my hunt mounted
700+ hours and i had no clue about firepods clearing effluvia, i allways just brought some mantle with long uptime with me... This game is truly amazing
I’ve always just accepted that “alright, if I stay here I will die” and never bothered to try anything 😂
Trying multiple weapon classes is soooo important, they each teach you different aspects of the game and once you learnt them all you are much closer to being a beast, my theory is that players like CantaPerMe's secret is that they play many different weapons all the time
One very important thing new players ignore is....The wake-up hits. Many times people just do a normal attack on sleeping monsters instead of letting the big Great Sword dude (me) do the thing. It happens even on master rank for me...
But yeah, sleeping monsters take double the damage when you wake it up with an attack (just one hit, the first one to land will have double damage In case of a multi-hitting attack...Which you shouldn't do here) Some weapons have a powerfull attack to use in this situation like Great Sword with the True Charge or the Charge Blade with Amped Element Discharge, if your weapon doesn't have a strong hitting attack like that, you can use mega barrel bombs instead to do a ton of damage and potentially end the hunt there.
Hammer users please read this. Everyone else, until the tail is chopped, let the hammer attack the head when the monster is down. I know the hunting horn also does blunt, but you can do other things. KOing monsters is all hammers got. That and spinning. Look at what happened to hammer in Rise when stun was nerfed and there were less places you could slide.
@@randomdude4505 The head almost always has the highest hitzone value so everyone should be attacking it. Flinch free exists and will stop most flinching so there's no reason to not have everyone attacking the head.
@@RepublicofODLUM clearly you missed the sarcasm.
Trying out different weapons can also make the game feel fresher if you're starting to get burn out. That's what happened when I played MH3U
I love how there are lots of videos coming out about world/iceborne like the game just got released. Keep them coming, I love this game
As a vet. The slide jump attacks are a great way to obtain the mount. As a Swaxe main I can't stress enough you how useful this is against monsters that you're miss matched against.
That’s how the mechanic was introduced back in 4U. You take the higher ground or jump off a ledge and attack the monster to get a mount
I pretty much always save my mount for after the first time the monster is enraged after the initial wallbang, because I'm playing through pre iceborne right now and I'm not loaded up with agitator skills and such yet.
I have 1000 hours and didn't know about mount slinger attack, slide animation skip , torch pods clearing effluvia / watermoss clearing slime from monsters and part break damage from flinch shots
Brightmoss also sucks up water puddles from that one Elder dragon I forgot the name of…Namiel or something. I rarely, if ever, see anyone else using them.
@@megawaffle612 yooo... that's actually very useful! thanks
As someone who put a good amount of hours in I live or die by stun resistance cause unless your a god your gonna get hit And if you get stunned your probably dead
*Facts Was so glad to see It on the Fatalis armor piece
As a bow main, i felt like a god when i tried stun resistence for the first time.
@@lucasfelipe8349 bow is weird your at mid range so you can get stunned very easy my friend just ran stamina skills to dash out of the way
@@rikkucrowe For some reason i can never dodge correctly, either i react at the perfect time but i don't create enough distance, i dodge in the wrong direction or (what happens to me the most) im recovering from a shot and i can't dodge.
But i mean, i could be doing smth wrong, i just recently discovered that you can run while drinking a potion, i never tried that before because the only other game i played was Dark Souls...
Also, i run a purely offensive build.
Im playing again on console after a couple of years and im fully addicted again. This game has aged so well. Such a good game.
If they're low to the ground and you're out of ammo, you can also give wingdrakes a little tickle with the clutch claw, then use them to travel. They generally go from point A to point B and back again, so they're more like shortcuts between two areas.
Also, you don't kill monsters, you just carve them after they've fainted. They are then carted by endemic life to a monster base camp having failed their mission to beat up a hunter. They drink some green juice and heal up for another day.
Wrong after you kill a monster on right side of screen it says slayed. Unless slayed means fainted all of a sudden then it's dead.
MASSIVELY timely. I stopped playing a few years ago and just started a new playthrough with my friend yesterday. Literally forgot the MHW specific mechanics. Love it. THANK YOU! HAPPY HUNTING EVERYONE!
Yeah, I guess trying other weapons is the best advice - since I main SnS as I love paladin sword and shield aestethic I recently decided to try charge blade for Return to World and I gotta say, gather vials - charge shield - gather vials + sword charge - BOOOM flow of the hunt with extra defensive utility of side hop, evasive strike and shield is quite satisfying and serves as an extra way to keep the game fresh for me which is the most important thing, to have fun hunting.
I have 650 hours and had no idea you could skip the sliding animation lol
Also, regarding weapons, I'm trying all of them.
I'll be doing at least 100 hunts with every single weapon in this game, and I recommend that to everyone, I gave Great sword a chance after more than 1600 hunts between charge blade and long sword and I'm in love.
Me n my dad got sad cuz we seen ppl quitting mhw but now I gotta tell him ppl coming back😭
To tack on to the tip about using traps for purposes other than capture, in Master Rank depending on how much energy the monster has it will break free a lot faster than in Low/High Ranks. Plus utilize the poop, trying to hunt/carve/capture a specific monster without being interrupted or having your trap wasted can be difficult especially with a Tigrex or Bazelgeuse around.
I'm not changing my weapon!;You can pry my Hunting Horn from my cold dead hands!
I consider myself a great sword main, with probably around 80% of my time being on it, and the other being a mix of hammer and hunting horn. From those three, you can guess I like the slower, bigger numbered weapons that require you to dance with the monster. I never once considered using the lance, it just seemed boring to me. Then, about 20 in game hours ago, I decided to pick it up and mess around. Turns out, I enjoy the dance far more than I enjoy the big numbers. Knowing the right moment to block, parry, or power block, go for optimal damage, or keep it safe while waiting for a certain attack to come out. It's been an absolute blast, and honestly, might be a new choice for main. Seriously, try new stuff and see where you have the most fun, because at the end of the day, the best weapon is the one you have the most fun with
As a lance main myself I absolutely love the shield dash, it gives you great mobility and safety, just beautiful!
@SilverKnightXx I'm working on incorporating it. I found that I end up directly underneath the monster about 70% of the time, and I just charge to the monster when it gets away from me
Once you get a handle on the four directional shield dash it will be a very valuable asset! I personaly like to charge first and once I reached the monster I do a shield dash away from it and then start doing my combos@@zeusjuice8260
On tip #13 something to thing about. While a monster is not enraged I like to fight the monster normally. No traps just fight, don't mount. Now when a monster is enraged it gains speed, longer attack chains and you can no longer wall bounce. Now is the best time to get a mount or trap a monster down. Most monsters can only stay enraged about 90 seconds and if done correctly you can really cut that time down and you have less time of taking more damage. Kushala is great for this. You can usually get at least two mounts off during a hunt. When it falls asleep that part of the fight gets super annoying so if you can mount it and reduce all the wind tunnels you'll cut time off your hunts
#15 another tip here, pierce pods are OP. Seriously shoot them at enraged monsters, shit will stop them dead in their tracks. Especially good on flying monsters, give you a chance to get close a get a hit in and maybe a knockdown. I never realized how good the different pods were. Crystal pods are also really good
About 19, I'm almost certain that you can generally get it from any Butterbur patch as a rare drop. Since I recently got it while collecting butterburs for that MR1 Quest. Obviously as a rare drop its not guaranteed (unlike the method shown shown by Cotton I'm guessing), but rare drops are much less rare in Master Rank as far as I have seen, so there's a good chance of getting that by just doing the Butterbur quest a few times.
All collectible nodes have 2 rare items, one you get by chance and another one you only get from a very specific patch, that only spawns during upsurge/flourishing. They were refering to the second one.
Though usually both rare ones unlock a new ingredient the first time you get them, so it's best to get both, idk why they didn't say that
@@big00oooff21 I didn't know that, thanks... 6 years old game, you still learn something everyday 😂😂
6:10 Nothing like getting launced into the ground by a Glavenus and ending up totally fine after it bisects you with its greatsword-tail.
When I started world, I picked up the Charge Blade (though certin monsters I found easier to combat with certin wepon builds). Everything changed when I went up against Ragging Bracy Daddy. My normal ways of fighting did not work against him (as well as a whole bunch of other wepons I tried), and in a moment of desperation I turned to the one wepon that I could not get the hang of in the very begining. The Insect Glave. In that moment, everything just clicked, and it has been my main wepon ever since (although when it comes to Rajang, I will allways go with a S&S dodge build as that's the best way I have developed to fight it).
I can only recommend a sword only charge blade build, it's a fun different playstyle for those monster where SAED & stuff don´t work as well.
Also as a vet I can't agree with 18 enough. Switch Axe newbie. Evade Extender and Evade Window are your best friends don't slouch on these skills.
Never knew you could use fire pods to scare away Vespoids. 700+ hours in this game and you still learn a thing or two.
I've played Dual Blades, Hammer, Both Bowguns, Lance but I always have come back to my first love of being on Dooty Duty with the Hunting Horn.
I appreciate you dude. Buffs over heals any day, even against Alatreon
doing a fresh run of world to progress alongside a newbie friend and its been great!
For end game with Fatalis set i always run full free meal, helps me to not worry about potion stocks when grinding
Same. Free meal helps a ton and can be slotted in without getting rid of essential skills(for most weapons)
I'd like to add that trapping monsters also has a chance to give optional arena quest for that monster.
The number of players won't go above 160k imo... Sale is over. I think it'll be a gradual decline going forward. The hype is still there, but I think it's peaked.
Regarding the item bar that you can toggle with the D-pad (on controller). I use a Razer Wolverine controller. It has an extra trigger button just above the traditional triggers, and I bound that to the left and right on the D-pad. It makes it really nice and easy to select items from the item bar. It's still worth customizing the radial menu, but this gives you the ability to use both, which can be nice since there are so many items.
14:09 ??? What do you mean there are weapons other than ROCKET-POWERED GREATSWORDS!?
Two things:
1 - when a monster is exhausted (it stands still kind of drooling), you can reset the duration of the exhaust by clutch clawing onto its face. This is SUPER helpful in multiplayer especially.
2 - about the defense / utility skills, I highly recommend speed eating. It's a cheap skill to put in with decos, and even one point will reduce the amount of time you spend healing by a considerable amount.
As someone who's played since base Worlds launch, I had NO idea you could disperse effluvium with torch pods so thanks for that
honestly my biggest tip is: Explore! the world has so many little secrets and cool things hidden in it!
secondarily, is make friends with all of the grimalkyne tribes. aside from just the cool palico gadgets, having the secret tunnels to traverse alone and having grimalkyne friends to help you out can be fun, esp as a solo hunter! then you can have your palico, a random tribe member, and potentially a tail rider helping you!
re: armor, i dont think i ahve any attack gems. im a movement based IG user, so ive got earplugs, anti-stun, flinch free, power prolonger... anythng that keeps me from getting stopped in midair lol.
Ah, the nostalgia, like eating ice cream on a hot summer’s day.
I'm not a veteran in any shape or form, but one tip I heard and don't remeber where is to equip your palico with a Sleep (or paralysis) weapon, depending on the monster you will have 1 - 4 sleep procs in a hunt, giving you an extra moment to heal, sharpen and craft while also getting a free wake up bonus damage hit (wake up hits do double damage, so try to hit for strongest move). Paralysis might be less effective at giving you that break, but I noticed it stacks up faster and can even save you from some attacks if your palico clutches up as it stops monsters in their tracks
I started back up on my 750hr playthrough, now I need to finish all the extra quests the dlc added like raging brach, seething bazel, super rajang, and ruiner nergi
I've got a great simple tip: you can use tranquilizers before you trap a monster, the tranquilizer status stays on the monster for a while and if you tranq them then trap them they will be caught right away.
This can be really helpful for situations where the monster is getting resistant to your traps and doesn't stay in them long enough for you to use 2 tranqs, or for monsters that naturally get out quickly.
New hunter here. Thanks for the video. Monster Hunter can sometimes feel like such a daunting task to get into the game.
The Superman dive was something I normally used, never thought it had those invincibility frames 😅
10:55 capturing does give you more rewards because of double tails and double reward screens, what i mean is that maximums are different, sure the rewards screens are both minimally the same, but maximally different;
slaying a monster;
carve + tail + rewards screen
capturing a monster;
tail + rewards screen + arena quest
arena quest;
carve + tail + rewards screen
hence it is always 100% without a shadow of a doubt, better to just capture the monster for maximal rewards, the only difference between the two is sometimes you wont get an arena quest for the monster you captured, but that only happens for a short period of time because you specifically killed that arena recently, so if you vary your hunts, you get a ton more maximal rewards than someone who just slays the monster
after 500h in MHW Iceborne i just learned that flame pods clear out efluvia
Someone in the comments said about stun resistence, I'd like to add this: To put both elemental and stun resistence is playing on "easy" mode, you'll only need to heal.
Meaning you'll ignore blights, say a monster attacks with poison, if you bring lvl 3 poison resistence you'll ignore it. Adding the fact that your character won't be stunned, you'll only have to worry about doing damage, dodging, and healing, making the game way easier than you think. Just adding my experience before I optimised my build, when you reach a certain point, you just optimise for your play style. Hope this helps 😊
And please for your sanity bring proper equipment to Black Veil Hazak Fights.
When I was a new hunter I thought carving near a specific monster part would give you specific parts. (Like I didn't know about tail chops and just stood by the tail and carved)
This, please do this
I’m playing with the defender set till I get to iceborn which is where I left off.
I bought the game years ago, but just now I picked it up cuz I got burnt out of bg3 and man, what a blast I’ve been having. So far I’ve tried most weapons with the exception of the insect glaive, horn, and the ranged weapons, and I’ve fallen in love with the charge blade, such a fun and complex weapon, waking the monsters up with the hardest slap of their lives gives me the biggest dopamine rush, and whenever I wanna turn off my brain I use the longsword or hammer
This is the third time I’m playing through the game and I fucking love it so much every time. I don’t often play games where I can keep coming back and absolutely love the hell out of it. Starting from scratch and crafting your first full set of armor and weapons gives you a special feeling.
Whoever edited this definitely hit the nail on the head with their proper timing on #20!
I honestly should go back and give all the weapons a go. I grabbed Hunting Horn right at the start and didn't let go for a long while. I eventually picked up both Bowguns as well, Light being my go-to for B52 and Kushala hunting, but it's hard to give up bashing a monster's head and then playing some tunes.
Highly recommend. I was the same I went HH first. Always wanted to use CB with the cool big bang attack. I took some time and watched some guides and surprisingly it was very easy to learn even being the most complicated weapon.
Number 18 this is what I did and makes hunts not so frustrating, I'm happy I found a good build of defense I'm totalling on 1186 defs and I changed it up lil bit and put offensive stuff in it too like attack boost or artillery my build is more around 70/30, 70% defense and 30% offense
I love the speed eating, divine blessing and tool specialist and such there so reliable
bring at least HP/VIT +3 at all times, if you can also bring Divine protection +2 or +3 for like the 1st 1000hrs
90% agree to this list. Last 10 is you didn't mention the Botanical Garden. Essentially free bonus materials per hunt from traps to ammo to heals to flash pods. Even if you don't get it up to "full efficiency", the only thing that gets you thousands of crafting mats better than the garden is specifically going after them yourself. (Even then I'd argue a completed yet unfertilized garden does it better)
I am about to play through World again and then start as a new player in Iceborne. Looking forward to it! This was timely guys! Thanks!
You know, at the risk of sounding really dumb. Who is the pro and who is the noob? I can't really tell cause both are pretty well versed in monhun, or so it seems to me
I say while watching a video with cotton splaining things. owo
Additional for number 6, moving on the mounted monster will also do damage depending on the weapon equipped. Example is IG, moving from part to part has damage numbers between 20-45 instead of the 1 from normal attacking.
I didn't know the superman dive counted as invulnerability time like your regular dodge... I just assumed it was a "last chance bail" maneuver... The things you learn from long time players omg thank you
"when you zoom oot" 😂😂😂
"Keyboard and moose" 😂😂😂
I started with insect glaive then moved on to charge blade. I also dabble with the hammer
As someone who recently started playing Worlds, my first MH experience at that, this has been very helpful ^^
Great information, Bro! subscribed!
not true about the same rewards from killing or capturing, i always get 6-9 bonus items from capping
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My guy it sounds like your sweating ya balls off . How many redbulls you had. Jeez
Capture does net you more stuff though. It's just not from the mission end screen. After you capture something you get the mission rewards then an Arena mission appears and you can kill them again netting you double the rewards without the hassle of hunting twice.
15:10 How do you get a palico gadget that is like a musical instrument?
Had 300 hours into base World but never touched Iceborne. I used this as an excuse to play it an im like 100 hours into it already 😂
It says on the wiki that capturing gives you more end of quest rewards and you get the same carving rewards as well as having the skill that allows you to get even more quest rewards from capturing
ok listen, i am a new player and still didnt get to the dlc but one of the things i should totally advise is use items loudout, when in the item box there is a button that opens the loadout and you can make multiple i have one that is the base that i can just go into the tent, load and bam everything i need and use is ready to go. its so time saving you dont imagine
Had this game for over a week now , was a sns main , now i prefer the greatsword.
The tackles make me feel like a good player when im playing with someone and it gets a knockout .
Ok the part break from wall bangs is great info!
No 20 seems somewhat pointed
i didnt know about the slinger interaction, very cool!
On slaying vs capturing: I always capture if I think it saves time, unless I'm not sure I broke the monster part I needed to break or if I still need to sever the tail.
I've recently found this game and have been addicted. All of my days off have been poured into this game lol I love duel blades and my only fear so far are things that love to stay in the sky.
Originally I tried Great Sword and after I couldn't get past Low Rank Rajinoth, I quit until the expansion went on sale. Bought it (dunno, why, lol) and decided to look up a guide. When one of them made the comparison to Dynasty Warriors (Dual Blades?), I tried those and immediately found success and fun. It didn't hurt that I had the Defender gear to give me a lot of wiggle room for mistakes so I could learn but I've clocked in over 1000 hours in MHW so far since then.
When Rise came out, I decided to swap main weapons and went for Insect Glaive... because it looked too confusing to switch to in World but I figured if I went in cold with a new weapon I could (and did) learn how to get the most out of it.
Dying has a DPS value of 0. I'd rather win in 30 minute than lose in 10. It's a bit disappointing when you fight a clearly (element) heavy using monster and find people getting their blight. Even most so when it's one of those max difficulty fights.
Seriously, who tries to fight Tempered Velkhana with less than 20 Ice Resist?
Patience, those crowns will take a while.
Number 6 and 17 I didn't know about, so thanks for the advice Cotton
As a newcomer, thanks a lot, your vids are very educational and very well paced!
New MHW player here and this was very helpful, thanks!
yea I got the game awhile ago put around 300 hours in the base game, quit playing a month after iceborne came out, recently got iceborne and made a new character immediately took off the defender gear and went straight back to the kinsect glaive
Additionally, pressing R1 when talking to the quest-giver speeds up the door/zoom animation
I really hope you guys are gonna play pal world game looks wild
So much nostalgia waiting for new tutorials on mhw. a game i dont really need a tutorial for xD
I’m replaying MHW again and it’s making me very happy, I still feel bad for bullying poor Great Jagras but I’m playing on my PS5 and so I’m beginning all over again.
I really hope Astera Jerkey or something similar is in Wilds I missed it so much in rise. I abuse the hell out of that jerkey
Why exactly you did you miss it in rise? There was 0 point for it to be in rise, astera jerky heals bleed there is no bleeding in rise. The fish does the same thing for red health in rise .
@@hoopla5502 Theirs fish that heals red health in Rise?!?
Been playing monster hunter over 1000 hrs and never knew #6 or never thought about using it that way. Never used #7 either but that's way faster than using the rides but wingdrakes aren't everywhere.
Same goes with #17 didn't know that
It's kinda crazy that he mentions trying different weapons because I started off with longsword then changed to greatsword then changed to sword n shield and finally settled on hammer and I've been rocking it since 2019
I started with Lance and gave it up for Hammer. Branched out and tried Switch Axe.
I am starting a new playthrough and am stuck on picking my weapon. Try Lance again, or pick something completely different like Bow or Charge Blade 🤯
Recently bought game and man oh man i must say its really feels great, picked up long sword looks awesome currently 50hrs locked in now i am switching to other weapons just killed Kushala iron dragon and i was thinking about either mace or sword and shield well i do try to get materials to craft all weapons that seems juicy, in regards to an armor i went with Negrigante set due to partial life steal though yet i still miss 1 piece for full set we will see :D game is fun worth time 100% thanks for tips!
Monster Hunter World tutorials in 2024 is insane and I love it 😂
How should I go about trying new weapons? Obviously I can’t make a high tier set for each weapon. So probably defender gear, but then what level of quest and enemies should I go seek to try the lower leveled weapons at?
I have been playing MHW since around the PC release but never was able to figure out what the moss slinger ammo is for, thanks a lot~
One reason I prefer capture is because I like fighting monsters in the arena when trying to get more familiar with them.