Monster Hunter World Catch-All

The first major content update released last night. It's a big one.

Rajang is back. Volcanic region added to the Guiding Lands, tons of new Layered Armor options for current MR sets (effectively transmog at this point), and a bunch of improvements to how zone leveling in the Guiding Lands works, which you can find here.

I unlocked and battled my first Rajang last night. He's just as terrifying as I remember. I also got to see this in action:

And just as I was about to dig into the new content, my internet went out... wasn't really able to do much hahaha Maybe tonight, if I'm lucky?

I actually found Rajang super manageable, despite never having fought him. I used Fading Blossom, the final boss LBG. The key ammo type is Sticky 2 Autoreload, which is actually also present on the Banbaro LBG, Mammoth Gun. The key armor skill is Artillery 5, to boost Sticky damage. The key food skill is Felyne Bombardier. The key player skill is the ability to craft ammo while fighting. Aiming is very forgiving, since Sticky does constant damage anywhere.

It does take a while, playing this way.

Yeah I beat him first time just under 20 mins. Felt odd since the perma enraged Kirin you didn't before that (which is apparently weaker than Rajang) gave me a much tougher time.

FedoraMcQuaid wrote:

Felt odd since the perma enraged Kirin you didn't before that (which is apparently weaker than Rajang) gave me a much tougher time.

Yeah, Kirin is just a nightmare every time.

FedoraMcQuaid wrote:

Yeah I beat him first time just under 20 mins. Felt odd since the perma enraged Kirin you didn't before that (which is apparently weaker than Rajang) gave me a much tougher time.

I used my Tigrex set for that. I don't think I carted and healing was never an issue, since I basically had unlimited and fast healing, but the sheer amount of chasing I had to do was incredibly annoying. I'd charge up my Savage Axe Mode and use up two phials just getting to a point where I could actually hit Kirin. Really spazzy.

Which is why I figured I'd just use the LBG for Rajang. He felt like he was going to be even spazzier and I didn't feel like running around even more. Turns out that fear was unfounded. He's very Doggo-like, so even though he moves all over the place, he basically orbits you so if he yeets off somewhere, you can usually just stay where you are and he'll come back soon enough.

That's interesting. At least on charge blade, I had an easier time against Kirin than Rajang. Kirin is just a matter of looking for openings and not getting stunned. Rajang has me running for my life half the time. Many of his attacks come out so quickly that timing guard points is difficult. His enraged dive bomb takes deals almost half my life in chip damage when I block it, and his grab goes straight through my block. He's getting easier, but those first couple fights were pretty chaotic.

I was finally able to make the Gold Rathian charge blade that I've been wanting and built a dps set around it.

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3 piece Teostra gives me Master's Touch. I've never found an Artillery 1, Focus, or Guard gem. Those are what I still need to round out this build. I should probably just use another 4 slot Artillery +2 gem to hit Artillery 3 for now.

Gold Rath was also an very difficult fight the first couple times. He's pretty manageable now, but it seems like it'd be a pretty rough fight for weapons that can't block. That flipping tail swipe has huge range.

Thanks!

So for those that care, we've scheduled Monday Night As Monster Hunting Mondays in the other thread. Feel free to join us on PS4/Discord/Xbox.

Atomicvideohead wrote:

So for those that care, we've scheduled Monday Night As Monster Hunting Mondays in the other thread. Feel free to join us on PS4/Discord/Xbox.

Awesome, I just posted there.

Now I know what to do on Monday nights!

You've heard the talk, but here's an 'official' announcement!

Monster Hunting Mondays!
Every Monday, starting November 11
5-8pm PST
8-11pm EST
Tuesday 1-4am UTC

Our focus, in my eyes, is on community, and hanging out with your fellow GWJers. You have the rest of the week to follow the meta or analyze your DPS build or run ATKT for hours. I just want to make new friends and kill innocent monsters with them.

My priority is going to be getting everyone through the game's content gates, so we can all play together meaningfully. That means finishing the main campaign, finishing Iceborne's campaign, then raising Master Rank. So whoever is furthest behind can call the shots, and that also means you're totally welcome to play on Mondays, even if you just bought the game.

My PSN is BeriAlpha. Add me on PSN, and in your invite, mention 'MHM'. I've started a new squad for this, to make it convenient to join up together. Just get online Monday, and I'll start a session and send out invites.

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Joining in! My PSN is SpinalShooter! I'll be joining the squad soon. I'm in the endgame grind of Iceborne, so I'm keen on the social experience and hunting with others. I'm open to gearing down my weapon for HR or LR hunts.

I'm down too! I'm at the tobi subspecies at the start of ice bourne. Just grinding optional quests while I avoid fighting that hoppity hoppity monster move set I hate.

Anyone still in the main game who's playing tonight?

I'm in the endgame of Iceborne but I would not mind farming some Vipers. The armor is cool and I should probably craft more weapons from him. But I'll be on tomorrow. Monster Hunter Monday is a go!

At some point I want to go back and kill an ancient leshen to get the upgraded witcher sword, but I assume thats a time restricted event.

It looks like the Contract: Ancient Leshen quest is available from 11/14 to 11/21. So we'll have a week to tackle it soon!

Gotta stack that bleeding resist up then!

I just threw up a psn party if anyone wants to hop in.

Okay! We're online in the squad session for the main GWJ squad, Hunters With Jobs.

I'll be on in 10ish.

Edit: I keep getting a connection error when I try to join the open session It's just putting me in one by myself. I haven't had this issue when playing online with my brother, so not sure what's up.

I see a few open party chats, but none with you all. Do you have it set to private?

We're on in-game voice chat. Are you in the Hunters with Jobs squad? I'll jump over and get you sorted out in a sec.

PSN friend me (BeriAlpha) if we aren't already.

I don't think I can join that session. I can make my own, but I keep getting an error code when I try to join the one you have open. Unless you all want to try joining mine, I might be out of luck for the night.

This is the first time I've had this kind of connection problem.

It makes a new squad session for you? Anyway, we'll finish this quest and then figure out what to do next.

Yeah, it says "failed to connect to squad session" and then makes a new one. When I try to join using your invite or from my friends list, I get an error code.

We're gonna try closing the squad session and starting it up again.

Can I get an invite to the Squad?

Sorry I wasn't able to stick around for long tonight. Next week I should be able to stay for about an hour (hopefully).

I can only invite you to the squad if we're in the same online session. Monster Hunter is weird. If you can hop back on, I'll get it taken care of, or just let me know when you're available and I'll hop on when it's convenient for you.