Bollockoff wrote:

Xeno's arena is way too big imo. Also little niggles like he's unmountable and unflashable.

Dragon pods bring him down. At least I think that's what happened.

Hnnggg I made a pretty awesome looking set for my new dual blades (sorry if I was tripping you with them this morning Jon, only used them a couple times). Main goal was to look cool with the sunglasses from last week's event quest.

So it's sunglasses, Nergigante, dober, bazel en dober, head to toe. Looks very rock, has stamina surge or something which might be useful for the db's. Has quite a few slots so that's nice, think I had two 3 point slots (so I have earplugs level 3 too I think).

I just can't try it out yet as B is playing TLG right now.

Ready to rock them blades! (and shades)

I got most of the swords and shields, there's 1 more left I want to make. Think I only miss 3 by then. Nothing wrong with that. At some point I want to make armour sets that go well with all the elements /status effects.

I switched to a bow for Bazel, cleared the quest the same way as you. It's definitely doable with melee weapons, I watched some of Maestro Nox's Bazel runs with the sns, he has no trouble with them.

Played around a bit with the dual blades last night, lot of fun. Made the workshop ones as they look good, and I don't have the materials for the fire and ice ones. Only did about 5 Odagoran's, single player and online. A lot of fun, I'm just a bit unsure which moves trip other people.

Deviljho in two days people. Hope they'll release him with the event quests, that means I should get them same time as the rest. (bounties are always late).

Try playing it with randoms and not abandon the quest because someone called "ASS" is in there, who has a "ride it, faygot" shootout when someone mounts, "I'll ra3p this monster" shootout when he is the one mounting and his greeting on the guild card is "Let's murder". Then a 4th person joins called iGodxNemziss, who also had some questionable shootouts, but not too offensive.
That nearly killed a bit of the game for me, I've so far always played with Japanese people, so can't read the shout outs, people that made some genuinely funny ones and the standard shout outs. There would always be a "thumbs up" sticker or "good game" shootout.
I couldn't find a way to block or report players, which would be a shame.

At least no one carted, and seeing randoms die to Vaal all the time, that was a surprise. I don't think he should be a really tough monster (he's not an elder dragon) but more a really aggressive one, that shows up whenever it feels like it. I had it in a pitfall trap and it keep biting at me. I just wanted to get some damage in. When I went for the actual capture and watched it back in Astera, you can see it twitching in it's sleep the whole time, nice touch.

All the Deviljho weapons seem to be great, I've made the first sword and shield, need to upgrade. Thinking of making the charge blade too, that just looks too good. Not sure about the armour, the skills aren't too bad (apart from latent power), handicraft and part breaker, but the beta version is a bit meh. Base defense is also under 300.

For carving, you could try changing one of your shootouts to "can we carve the monster?" or something. I've seen people asking for tails and that seemed to work.

There's a spring update coming, which is gonna change the gathering hall and could be fun (all the event quests are supposed to come back, new poogie costume). Think that'll start April 2nd.
At the end of the Deviljho/weapon balance stream they hinted at another bigger update in April, and I think that has been confirmed by now.
As long as they keep that up, I'll see me playing this once or twice every week. Still having a weekly session in Generations and that's a lot of fun too. This game does feel easier but that doesn't take away the solid mechanics.

Felt slower for me too yesterday, seemed better today.

Tempered elder dragon event quest is life, start gathering those tracks!

Have been hunting odagoron on my own tonight, finally got my gem after 5 hunts (not the first night I was trying to get one). I love that fight, was using a paralyze sns and my palico made friends with a Girros. Paralyze all the time. Also got bothered by bazel while carving 3 out of 5 times. Why...

So the horn basically got a +15% damage buff. Not bad.

Gunlance changes weren't as serious as feared. Business as usual.

He can give both Warrior and Hero streamstones, too, possibly at a higher rate than normal given that people are getting multiples.  I just want it to stop giving me ranged ones, I have like 10 Warrior and 5 Hero for ranged and still lack a Hero stone for Hammer.

edit: ok it's definitely a high chance.  Two hunts, five streamstones, two of them hero.  No hammer though...

Pickle horn is pretty great but the sound gets lost in the mix.

Ugh, that tempered Jho kicked my ass, tried twice with the sns, failed. Tried once with the lance, failed. Didn't dare to try with randoms.

Spend the rest of my night doing Xeno and Nergi (wanted to get rid of some investigations for that one, I need 3 gems, got 1 luckily). The amount of failed quests is probably more than the total I had before. Very frustrating.

No worries, I got caught up making dinner and had to come and go a bit. Was just jumping in when I had the chance and then had to go.

Always up for joining in if I see you (or anyone) about though. It hasn't happened much this week.

Nina wrote:

Ugh, that tempered Jho kicked my ass, tried twice with the sns, failed. Tried once with the lance, failed. Didn't dare to try with randoms.

Just dropped in on Dubs doing that quest and nearly screwed it up for him. Got carted 3 times and just about scraped through. Don't even think I really made major mistakes either, except maybe the last one - it hits really hard.

Its been confirmed that Tempered Jho will be back for the entire duration of the upcoming Spring Event.

Loading times are starting to annoy me. Decided to take it a bit easier until spring fest, and just relax with expeditions and try to go for the 4 rare creatures. Have just finished the bounties leading up to that, but the whole loading before and after an expedition is taking the speed out of it a bit.

Doesn't seem too bad on the Xbox One X - But again, an SSD equipped PC is going to rain all over it.

New event quests are up, just had a quick go at the egg lovers one, I need that new hat! Got it, also got a couple of steel and silver eggs as rewards, might do this a few more times.

There's also one with the Rotten Vale monsters, hopefully that's a crown quest as that's where I've started to focus last few days. Want to save money for the Zenny trophy so not making much new stuff right now.