Forgot what a pain Giggi can be.  Rocked up in a set of Wroggi gear with Capture Guru on it.  Fearsome Maw get!

I'm thinking Wroggi wasn't in Tri?  Nice addition if so.  Damn my ageing memory if not.

The best thing about gemming is that you can remove them. Flexibility.

No, the village is the main 'story' the port stuff is just scaled slightly higher, and mixed up a little.

ayns wrote:

Forgot what a pain Giggi can be.  Rocked up in a set of Wroggi gear with Capture Guru on it.  Fearsome Maw get! I'm thinking Wroggi wasn't in Tri?  Nice addition if so.  Damn my ageing memory if not.

Wroggi started in P3rd (where it was called Froggi).  Annoying poison gassing things.

SnS is great for Gigi, or lance (with guard up) for making it the most boring (easy) fight ever.

Well there is always tomorrow for DIY.  Had a good few hours online today.  Really need to start farming this higher end kit rather than just jumping around doing any old hunt.  Due to room selections I did more HR5's today than 4's, not really what I logged on for as I only had 4 outstanding 4's left to do in the first place.  Gotta try.....&.......stay......on.....point when I boot up rather than just get sucked into doing whatever, but I find it hard when there is so much choice....

i just remembered this useful little tool for putting together armour and decoration strategies http://mhag.info/mhtriu/main.htm

Yeah I came across that vid the other week & inturn I went on to check a fair few of Icemans vids.

If I came across the vid's below when I first started playing I reckon I could have at least 20 of hours of my life back.  Not one's for vets but greenhorn's for sure.

Don't spend them, they run out fast.

The off TV Gamepad update is launched today.

Tonight I finally begin hunting monsters!

Long Sword has a soul combo, activated by tapping the R trigger multiple times when the bar under your stamina is full. You fill that up by hitting enemies, when it's full you can do the combo an if the last blow hits (the circular sweep before he holsters it) the sword will level up to a new bar (white background around the original bar) which you can fill up again. Same thing applies, hit them to fill bar, when its full do the combo and it levels up to yellow, once more and it goes to red. Each tier does more damage, but this only happens with the long sword.

Important thing about armour effects, they only work if they are +10 or more, some have a second level at +20, pay attention to this when you've got armour skills, a having 7 skills all between +1/+9 is useless as it confers no bonus.

Don't just stick with one weapon, try and get a few of each element in each class a it allows flexibility of approach ad there is no point specialising anyway as the resources required early on are pretty simple, and after 2/3 weapons of each element on the tree you start needing high rank materials. Case in point, Flint Hammer is the first fire hammer, it's easy to get, and the second one needs a high rank Rathios carve, which I haven't got 60 hours in, but I do also have an Ice Hammer and a Water Hammer, variety!

Early game too I'd focus on weapons with green level sharpness of raw damage, as sharpening is a bitch, and green breaks most monster parts.

Best thing: try all the weapons, try all the buttons (x+a for the long sword does a fade slash, basically an evade step attack) try blocking and attacking? Try tapping directions and attacking, there is a lot of hidden depth in each weapon, even the hammer!

I used Long Sword through to Barroth, swapped to Switch Axe, then a Lance when I got to Rathian, then a hammer for farming Qurupeco (big green sharpness, high damage, ideal for breaking parts and killing them quickly) then a mix of everything. I'm now farming for bow parts, because fuck waiting for a Rathios to land whilst farming them.

Also there is something immensely satisfying about clobbering a dragon in the face with a fuck off hammer that you don't get elsewhere.

Need to traquilise something - what's the best way to get materials that do it, can you buy them?

Ahhhhhh I see. Thanks Temps. I always forget about the supply box.

When you set out to you leave with the absolute bare minimum? I usually have:

Whetstones
Mega Potion
Meat
BBQ

if I could take sauce i would

AndCallMeCharlie wrote:

@cindemon cheers for the videos, even though I am 25 hrs in they were still useful.

The sad thing is I watched part 3 again the other day & still learned.  I did not know charms had slots.  WHY the FECK did I not spot that earlier after giving up a week of my life to play this game.