Plua is excellent for burst building. It basically feeds your ability to spam Iris' Diemia + Blessed Weapon summon for ludicrous damage in burst mode.

This is pretty much why I stopped playing. It just became what felt like a huge grind fest with nothing waiting at the end, only small upgrades along the way. Like grinding for the sake of grinding. After I got the armor, weaps, gems and layered armor I wanted, I was like what's the point. The follower quests were more interesting anyway. Especially when someone ran off, then came back with a monster lol

Those anomaly monsters are insanely aggressive and the anomaly level goes all the way up to 300 You really only need to do those investigations for equipment upgrades mats, but it's not especially worth the time sink.

Yeah, I noticed that the iframes were seriously underwhelming, and Evade Window didn't really give me the leeway I was hoping for to stay right up in the monster's grill. I had a lot of trouble learning "precision dodging", so I just started zipping around the monster like a fly & laid into it when I wasn't right in front of it. I probably should have put more effort into learning how to counter like a pro, but a skillbind attack to the face as a counter when it tried to whack me was good enough.

Fortunately, I was able to milk my builds long enough so that when I upgraded my gear, I was able to keep it on, but the few times I had to drop Evade Extender was a quick lesson in get good now! lol Earplugs is a good skill, but it is not worth hogging that many slots, nope. It's best to get it from armor, but the armors with the best slottage don't have it, so there's a trade off to be made to get it. The skill that pretty much makes you immune to dragon's (wind/roars/ground shaking, that kind of stuff) effects was better for end game in sunbreak anyway.

I can see that. They want to make it more personal with the flagship monster, so you care about that interaction more than the others. Ah, so that's an easter egg, the Zinogre in the Amatsu fight, that's cool. I think Utsushi was wearing Zinogre armor, too. I like how the monsters fight each other, it makes it feel more "real" I guess, like they're out in the wild protecting their land. I used that to my advantage when an Astalos showed up in the Gold Rathian event quest fight.

Nah, it was an apex zinogre for the story fight when Utsushi was there, but if you need to fight the Amatsu for more parts, different monsters show up each time.

I guess that's true, yeah, but there is a whole lot more after Magnamalo, since the whole rampage thing wasn't dealt with. That story stretched all the way to Narwa. I just assumed that most of the game was "go do all these other hunts if you want to, but you don't really have to, but you'll suck at the harder fights if you don't" lol So I did everything even if I didn't have to.

I can't say that I was attached to either Kamura or Elgado, either. I feel like if they stuck with Kamura the whole game, it would have been different. Either way, they definitely could have whupped that Magnamalo without the player, but they used the rampages as an excuse to send you in alone.

I also played the whole game with someone, I didn't really solo a whole lot of missions. I've got plenty of gripes with the game on the mechanics end, myself, but yeah, the monsters get WAY too aggressive and fast on higher difficulty hunts. My job was to draw the monster's attention while my wife beat the piss out of it. The silkbinds definitely made the weapons one trick ponies for sure. I'm no pro player though, I just ran in wailed away, then got out as the monster was turning towards me. I saw a lot of people saying not to use evade extender so I started using it to see if it really sucked, and my reaction every time was "bitch, you crazy." That ability is fan-effing-tstic.

Ah, so those maps are new then. I always used those spirit bird runs before a fight to grab extra mining spots for loot and kamura points, so it wasn't a complete waste for me. I think they could just give you those stat ups straight up (throw it in with the dango), or find some other way to do it. I think they did a lot of the stuff they did with Rise to be noob friendly, but still two controllers broke on me while playing the game, so I'm probably a one-and-done player lol

After the way the main game ended, I honestly wasn't even expecting to get what we did after the Primordial Malzeno fight, so I was actually satisfied with it lol Granted, I never played an MH game before this, so I have nothing to really gauge it off of besides the main game. I also realize that making Malzeno out to be this big bad m'fer only to turn it into a victim is kind of lame, so I can see it both ways.

Ugh, Amatsu, so damn annoying with the drop rates I had to grind off that thing forever to get the horns I needed. I'm not a fan of the "special" fights with those insanely oversized monsters either. I did like it when that Valstrax jumped in there and whupped ass, though lol I found it funny whtn Utsushi said to jump on the buildings to avoid the fullscreen nuke attack. I was just like nah, use that time to warp back to base & restock

That primordial malzeno fight was pretty nutts