Monster Hunter World Catch-All

Gaine wrote:

Looks badass. Is it common for sword and board to be changed to cleaver and board?

It's pretty common to have different weapons that fit within specific weapon archetypes. There are axe and club Sword and Shield variants, some great axe style hammer variants, and some longswords that look like spears or scythes. They look like those weapons, but they play like the archetype.

Sometimes, they get really dumb and/or amazing, like this pizza switchaxe
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this monkey holding cymbals hunting horn
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or this shark lance
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Monster Hunter is weird.

Bow that is a fish skeleton.
Greatsword that is also a fish.

Actually now that I look more closely, there's a solid fish theme throughout all the weapons if you want to get silly. There are also lots of cat themed weapons, cooking implement weapons, and food themed weapons (along the lines of the pizza one Dyni posted).

Dyni wrote:

Sometimes, they get really dumb and/or amazing, like this pizza switchaxe
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Amazing. End of discussion.

Does that pizza have cat ears?

Japan is amazing.

ccesarano wrote:

Japan is amazing.

and scary all at the same time.

Famitsu scans:
Part 1
Part 2

Skiptron wrote:

78 Days to go

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I like the Nibblesnarf armor sets.
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Gaijin Hunter will be doing a walk through of Famitsu’s 16 page article that came out today. When the video is ready I’ll post it. Be warned that it’s pretty spoiler full.

Also is now the appropriate time to start talking about armour skills?

The beta demo is a month out! That pizza-axe is a thing of beauty.

I'm streaming XX right now if anybody wants to come watch. Shooting to finish G4 tonight.

https://gaming.youtube.com/user/ahre...

shucks, just missed you.

The hunt to watch is my first kill on Atlal-Ka:

https://gaming.youtube.com/watch?t=6...

It was super fun, I honestly can't wait to do it again. Got 2 people from my live stream chat who had the 3DS game to join. We did all sorts of hunts, and closed the night with all 3 of us carting once each on G4 Hyper Deviljho.

ahrezmendi wrote:

The hunt to watch is my first kill on Atlal-Ka

aka, ahrez picking up unknown shinies for 15 minutes

Seriously though, that fight was crazy looking. Is that monster new to XX?

Yeah, new final boss. And yes, it is very shiny and mining heavy, but the armor is 100% worth it. The weapons are also some of the strongest in the game, though the SnS isn't the best.

Those monsters were pretty awesome. I knew Deviljo and Gravios from previous games but the other two were pretty rad.

What do you like about the SnS gameplay ahrezmendi?

The others were Rajang, Duramburos, and Agnaktor who were all in Generations.

The big things about SnS for me are the hunting arts and the ability to block. Coming from Insect Glaive and Switch Axe in previous games, being able to actually block instead of having to dodge everything is huge. It's especially useful since you can block roars, so not having earplugs/HG earplugs isn't as big of a problem anymore. The arts for SnS are all really strong, charge very fast, and the spinning slash one has iframes. I've toyed with the idea of switching off Striker for SnS, but losing access to 3 arts is hard to give up. I thought that using items without sheathing would be a bigger deal than it actually is. It's nice for sure, but in most cases I find you could sheath and use an item so it's not as big as I expected.

Since Arts aren't coming back in World, I'm curious to see how the meta will shape around the weapons. If Oils remain, then I think SnS could still be a top contender, especially if World holds to the current crit meta that XX (and X before it) has.

Man, the handheld MH games for Nintendo are quite a bit different compared to what I'm used to. I have not played a MH game where the SnS was considered a good option.

For reference I've played MH, most of or all the PSP releases, MH Tri, and Tri U. In all of those games I don't think that there are any well regarded SnS weapons.

Oils were added in X and they gave SnS a pretty big boost. Arekkz did a video on them which is worth watching, particularly if Oils return in World.

Gimpy_Butzke wrote:

Man, the handheld MH games for Nintendo are quite a bit different compared to what I'm used to. I have not played a MH game where the SnS was considered a good option.

For reference I've played MH, most of or all the PSP releases, MH Tri, and Tri U. In all of those games I don't think that there are any well regarded SnS weapons.

Are you just referring to damage SnS for solo play? Because at least in 4U and Gen, status SnS was absolutely ridiculous for locking down a monster in a group. That's what my brother played for about half the hunts we did.

A typical hunt with him on a paralyze SnS went something like this: Paralyze --> pitfall trap --> mount --> stun from horn or hammer --> flash bomb --> Paralyze --> shock trap --> flash bomb --> pitfall trap --> dead monster.

The only status not inflicted by the SnS user in that chain was the stun. Other status weapons can do most of that, but the fact that a SnS user doesn't have to sheathe to use items makes all the difference for the smoothness of the CC chain and the amount of damage he could contribute between statuses. He was also crafting and dropping bombs to contribute to damage in between statuses, and he would use lifepowder so we didn't need to sheathe our weapons to heal.

It was so effective that it actually got a bit boring at times because the rest of us just beat on a limp monster pretty much the entire hunt. He eventually switched to charge axe, and our hunts got much more difficult because we had to learn how to fight monsters that could fight back again

I don't think damage SnS was ever close to being a top damage contender, but the oils and some extra moves they added allowed it to be a perfectly viable solo weapon, even without dropping bombs.

XX took it even further by adding a new Art called Chaos Oil. It's the effect of all other oils at the same time, and it stacks with your existing oil.

Gimpy_Butzke wrote:

Man, the handheld MH games for Nintendo are quite a bit different compared to what I'm used to. I have not played a MH game where the SnS was considered a good option.

For reference I've played MH, most of or all the PSP releases, MH Tri, and Tri U. In all of those games I don't think that there are any well regarded SnS weapons.

I used the Blazing Falchion branch in 3U in High Rank; nice attack and sharpness, fire element, and relatively easy to craft for that stage of the game.

Another notable property SnS gained in 4U was the ability to attack while ascending ledges, which arguably places it second to the Insect Glaive for mounting prowess.

I didn't give the SnS a try in Generations; I ended up sticking with Aerial Swax.

Dyni wrote:

Are you just referring to damage SnS for solo play?

I was saying that SnS haven't been considered efficient weapons In the MH games I have played. To my knowledge I've played every U.S. release of MH excluding the 3DS releases.

In the MH games I've played the SnS has always had great elemental or status effect damage but it never was able to put out high enough total damage to challenge the other blademaster weapons. Because of that SnS was mostly used for co-op as a support weapon.

When I saw that ahrezmendi was using SnS I was expecting the gamplay scenario you were describing while playing with your brother.

A typical hunt with him on a paralyze SnS went something like this: Paralyze --> pitfall trap --> mount --> stun from horn or hammer --> flash bomb --> Paralyze --> shock trap --> flash bomb --> pitfall trap --> dead monster.

That is what I've always known from SnS. A SnS with good paralyze was part of the optimal farming strategies for a few monsters early on in the MH series.

I was surprised watching ahrezmendi's stream, especially against the Atlal-Ka, because I've never seen any monster stagger from a SnS that quickly. I could tell that ahrezmendi was buffing his SnS but it was still a shock that it was so effective.

Here's a good example of how strong SnS is in this game:

I don't know how possible/impossible this would have been before the 3DS games, but it's definitely a solo powerhouse now.

I am looking into getting this for PC. I have never played a monster hunter games as I never had a system they were on. Based on how I played dark souls I like fast dodge heavy characters. Does my play style sound like it will work in monster hunter?

Thank you.

There are weapons that demand mobility over blocking. I suggest checking out some Dual Blade or Insect Glaive videos.

Stealthpizza wrote:

I am looking into getting this for PC. I have never played a monster hunter games as I never had a system they were on. Based on how I played dark souls I like fast dodge heavy characters. Does my play style sound like it will work in monster hunter?

Thank you.

Absolutely, though being dodge heavy in Monster Hunter can often have more to do with your armor skills than your weapon choice. Like ahrez mentioned, insect glaive and Dual Blades can be fast, dodge heavy weapons. I would add Bow and Long Sword to that list.

Oh yeah, Longsword for sure. I'm about to check that out myself, since it's the only Atlal-Ka weapon I can craft right now. Looks like a ton of fun.