Another advice: stock up on sharp claws and wingdrake hide. You'll want them to craft the new weapons and armors. They aren't hard to get, but it's always nice to have them in advance.
We should take it easy on driftstones. Play like they were never exist. Upgrade your weapons to the max. It's already hard enough to max a weapon, even harder if you want to build all necessary elemental weapons. Make the armors and after all of those hard grinds, you can jump into drift smelting shenanigans. IMHO. I just don't care if i got a bad skill from the smelting. Already slaying 10* mons without them. Note: you can slay 9-10* monsters using max meta build which is elemental weapons. Driftstones skills just make it a lil bit easier. BUT YOU NEED TO UPGRADE YOUR WEAPON, PEOPLE.
Hope suddenly they add a function that let us trade habilities between our armors, maybe something like MT's in Pkm go. Or at least reduce the time to forge in the driftsmelting, 5 km seems a little to much in my opinion
With regard to upgrading weapon, if they keep the trend of special Monsters like zinogre and 🥒 in the future. We end up just using wgs on Armors since these monsters has their own red mats..
Oh that is true. Which is very annoying honestly haha! Hope they make a system where to can trade WGS for special r6 mats like jho saliva or zinogre plate.
My 3 best drifsmelts so far are: jagras chest - weakness exploit, girros legs - para attack & radobahn helm - offensive guard. Having really bad luck on most others like the element ones
For my daily I have a few sets to select: Fire Ice Thunder Dragon RAW Paralysis I just hold and quick swap my sets. Currently I’m mostly using Ice as the boosted spawn for Corals🎉
Interesting topics. I will discuss why I disagree with your reason number #1. I'll also discuss why I also agree with option one. First, let's start with the agreement part. IF you're not a launch player (player that started when game dropped), yes. You may want to prioritize dmg in that case so you can pull your weight with the rest. Now for the disagreement that I've come to. I've had time to think it throughly. The 1st dragon we get is weak to Thunder/Dragon. The Zenogre and Devil Jho both have their own R6 item. That being said. They both carry weapons that will handle the kushala. That in my mind tells me " my wgs can be spent to unlock extra skill slot " Thought I'd share my thoughts. Happy Hunting!
You have a point with zinogre and deviljho. If you use those weapons you can invest wgs elsewhere. But if you use poison you wanna still go for damage and for fire to use against khezu!
I pushed my pink rathian chest to g8 as 1st g8-armor piece cause as a bow main i could smelt thunder, ice and water atk on it to have ele-atk 5 + focus 5 (water-set will still got focus 4...)😁 and at least i try to get burst on it to get burst 5 on my dragon DB build😂
Driftsmelt is way more efficient than upgrading weapons, so it's odd to see so many people still standing by weapons as being the best use of wgs. 8 wgs will get your weapon to 8.4, that's enough to driftsmelt 4 pieces. For something standard like c pukei weapon that's 326 attack/element difference. Let's use my C. pukei lance as an example, 4 driftsmelt slots would allow me to drop jya chest for barroth chest, and then craft 3 more offensive guard. That's 5 offensive guard which gives me an average of just 80 less damage, but also the driftsmelts will have random stats and I have way more armor. you can farm 8 stars at 7.5 element 5 no problem and taking less damage is way more important than being able to move on to 9 star monsters. This difference becomes even better for driftsmelt as you move up to tier 8.5 or if you are using a weapon with more raw like azure rath.
I can see where you are coming from, but with driftstones, there's a big IF you get the skills you want. Upgrading weapons are just more consistent, and with stronger weapons, you can end hunts much quicker, giving fewer opportunities for the monster to attack as well. I'll take my odds at dodging/blocking fewer attacks than risking more attacks and survive taking the hit. But interesting point on being able to upgrade more pieces. I just see armor more for the late game, haha
Yes that was my way to play I only upgraded weapon as I can. E stronger to killing them faster then waste it on my armor. As it's hard to wyvern gem 💎 already do whatever you do double it with small knives.
First 🔥 Edit: So changing loadout doesn’t automatically change the Driftstone This means the current DS strategy should be getting least amount of gears for what ever Lv. 5 Armor skills you have Ie. Fire Attack 5 needs 3 armors to be equipped. By DS 1x Fire Attack 5 into an armor with Fire Attack 2 (Anja Helm R8) you will only need 2 pieces of armor Anja Helm (FA3) and Anja Gloves (FA2) The remaining parts can be: Anja Helm (FA2,FA1) Odo Mail (CE2, CE1) Anja Gloves (FA2, WEX1) Bblos Coil (Lockon, WEX1) Kulu Boots (CE2, WEX1) Total after DS: Fire Attack 5 Crit Eye 5 WEX 3 Lock On Rathalos CB 10.5 (3937) Even for P2W it’s hard to roll those DS RNG
@@PauwerPlays Ahhh okay So the armor piece's have a different texture on females? Is it all armor or just some and does it apply to weapons too? Thanks for the answer
Wish they add a trading house that let hunter trade item between players for the same rarity and let in person trading. This problem is why the game hasn't skyrocketed yet because of limited interaction between real life and online gameplay
It would be nice to just have a big graphic that shows which color drift stone is best for each piece of equipment.
Another advice: stock up on sharp claws and wingdrake hide. You'll want them to craft the new weapons and armors. They aren't hard to get, but it's always nice to have them in advance.
Great advice! I always run out of those haha!
yep, keep in stock around 200+ each
Stock up? I spend 100s of those a day XD lucky if I wake up with more then 3
We should take it easy on driftstones. Play like they were never exist. Upgrade your weapons to the max. It's already hard enough to max a weapon, even harder if you want to build all necessary elemental weapons. Make the armors and after all of those hard grinds, you can jump into drift smelting shenanigans. IMHO. I just don't care if i got a bad skill from the smelting. Already slaying 10* mons without them.
Note: you can slay 9-10* monsters using max meta build which is elemental weapons. Driftstones skills just make it a lil bit easier. BUT YOU NEED TO UPGRADE YOUR WEAPON, PEOPLE.
Hope suddenly they add a function that let us trade habilities between our armors, maybe something like MT's in Pkm go. Or at least reduce the time to forge in the driftsmelting, 5 km seems a little to much in my opinion
Those would be great additions but it's for sure going to be a paid feature 😭
Thanks for the video. I did mishear at 0:10 - initally thought you said the endgame was when you STOPPED farming for WGS. Haha
Thanks for watching, man. Appreciate it! Grind for WGS never ends 😂
I highest grade item is the pumpkin head because it doesn’t ask for WGS
better focus on farm for WGS.. thats the priority.. not to forget complete event quest..collect driftsmelt gem is an optional..
The WGS grind never ends haha!
With regard to upgrading weapon, if they keep the trend of special Monsters like zinogre and 🥒 in the future. We end up just using wgs on Armors since these monsters has their own red mats..
Oh that is true. Which is very annoying honestly haha! Hope they make a system where to can trade WGS for special r6 mats like jho saliva or zinogre plate.
Atleast, they made the red mats requirements for wolf and 🥒 less but I really hope melding and downgrading can be a thing in the future..
Yes it's gonna be a pain to farm specific r6 mats for each new monster 😭
@@PauwerPlays Just imagine farming for elder mats.. 😵
We'll get our first take with kushala 💀
My 3 best drifsmelts so far are: jagras chest - weakness exploit, girros legs - para attack & radobahn helm - offensive guard.
Having really bad luck on most others like the element ones
The wex one is soo good tho! Great rolls over all :)
It's also worth noting taking most armor pieces from 6.1 to 8.1 costs 39k zenny. That really adds up.
So poor now.
Oof that's so painful 😭
please make a video that u use set a weapon and armor for daily and why, or u favorit set weapon and armor ?
Oooh that's a good idea actually! Thanks for the suggestion!
For my daily I have a few sets to select: Fire Ice Thunder Dragon RAW Paralysis
I just hold and quick swap my sets. Currently I’m mostly using Ice as the boosted spawn for Corals🎉
By far the best Monster Hunter Now content creator! I do love your videos and I will support you!
Thanks man! That means a lot :)
Interesting topics.
I will discuss why I disagree with your reason number #1.
I'll also discuss why I also agree with option one.
First, let's start with the agreement part.
IF you're not a launch player (player that started when game dropped), yes.
You may want to prioritize dmg in that case so you can pull your weight with the rest.
Now for the disagreement that I've come to. I've had time to think it throughly.
The 1st dragon we get is weak to Thunder/Dragon.
The Zenogre and Devil Jho both have their own R6 item. That being said. They both carry weapons that will handle the kushala.
That in my mind tells me " my wgs can be spent to unlock extra skill slot "
Thought I'd share my thoughts.
Happy Hunting!
You have a point with zinogre and deviljho. If you use those weapons you can invest wgs elsewhere. But if you use poison you wanna still go for damage and for fire to use against khezu!
@@PauwerPlays a khezu? Gimme mah raw hammer lol sleepy time.
I have the worst time with monster bone s..and get bone + like crazy
I know right they drop so rarely and we need a lot of them. Most of my gear uses bone plus its so annoying 🤣
I pushed my pink rathian chest to g8 as 1st g8-armor piece cause as a bow main i could smelt thunder, ice and water atk on it to have ele-atk 5 + focus 5 (water-set will still got focus 4...)😁 and at least i try to get burst on it to get burst 5 on my dragon DB build😂
That's a long grind a head bro! Good luck!
@@PauwerPlays i know😅 but i'm lackin hard on WGS so i will not invest more of them in armor till i got all my weapons at G10😂
0:36 nice background song
Its from mh3 :)
@@PauwerPlays yes i know. I’ve been trying to get all awards in 3u. Need around 12 more? I think? Anyway 3u is definitely my favorite monster hunter.
@@thecringeprophet mh3u was my first mh! Unforgettable experience haha!
Mh4u was my first 😂
Driftsmelt is way more efficient than upgrading weapons, so it's odd to see so many people still standing by weapons as being the best use of wgs. 8 wgs will get your weapon to 8.4, that's enough to driftsmelt 4 pieces. For something standard like c pukei weapon that's 326 attack/element difference. Let's use my C. pukei lance as an example, 4 driftsmelt slots would allow me to drop jya chest for barroth chest, and then craft 3 more offensive guard. That's 5 offensive guard which gives me an average of just 80 less damage, but also the driftsmelts will have random stats and I have way more armor. you can farm 8 stars at 7.5 element 5 no problem and taking less damage is way more important than being able to move on to 9 star monsters. This difference becomes even better for driftsmelt as you move up to tier 8.5 or if you are using a weapon with more raw like azure rath.
I can see where you are coming from, but with driftstones, there's a big IF you get the skills you want. Upgrading weapons are just more consistent, and with stronger weapons, you can end hunts much quicker, giving fewer opportunities for the monster to attack as well. I'll take my odds at dodging/blocking fewer attacks than risking more attacks and survive taking the hit.
But interesting point on being able to upgrade more pieces. I just see armor more for the late game, haha
Yes that was my way to play I only upgraded weapon as I can. E stronger to killing them faster then waste it on my armor. As it's hard to wyvern gem 💎 already do whatever you do double it with small knives.
First 🔥
Edit:
So changing loadout doesn’t automatically change the Driftstone
This means the current DS strategy should be getting least amount of gears for what ever Lv. 5 Armor skills you have
Ie. Fire Attack 5 needs 3 armors to be equipped. By DS 1x Fire Attack 5 into an armor with Fire Attack 2 (Anja Helm R8) you will only need 2 pieces of armor Anja Helm (FA3) and Anja Gloves (FA2)
The remaining parts can be:
Anja Helm (FA2,FA1)
Odo Mail (CE2, CE1)
Anja Gloves (FA2, WEX1)
Bblos Coil (Lockon, WEX1)
Kulu Boots (CE2, WEX1)
Total after DS:
Fire Attack 5
Crit Eye 5
WEX 3
Lock On
Rathalos CB 10.5 (3937)
Even for P2W it’s hard to roll those DS RNG
Woah man, you're very consistent! Thanks for all the support!
@@PauwerPlaysI think Cyan then Pale is best color DS to smelt
For their Crit Eye & WEX
@@ascalone9806 yep certainly gonna be popular if you want affinity in your builds
Upgrade your weapon to 9, then select armor to 8. You can kill everything with upgradable material.
I still suggest at least 10 if youve unlocked 9 stars
it is kind sad, that we got driftstones instead of gems, this feels kinda odd....
They want a reason for players to walk and grind some more haha
@@PauwerPlaysstill waiting for pokesharp dev team, for the release of a version for monster hunter😂😂
Very informative topic as usual
tysm🔥❤️
Thanks man! Hope you find the topic and the info useful :)
What helm is that at 4:00 i dont have that in my game and didn't understand what you said
It's still both the rado helm. The armor will have the same driftskill for all your loadouts.
@@PauwerPlays What?
What Rado?
I literally don't have a helm in the game that looks like this.
@robinnautica9773 radobaan the boney monsters haha. Im using a female avatar so it might look different from yours.
@@PauwerPlays Ahhh okay
So the armor piece's have a different texture on females?
Is it all armor or just some and does it apply to weapons too?
Thanks for the answer
@@robinnautica9773 all armor for female have different design. Weapons stay the same :)
Wish they add a trading house that let hunter trade item between players for the same rarity and let in person trading. This problem is why the game hasn't skyrocketed yet because of limited interaction between real life and online gameplay
That's a cool idea. Wish they add gathering hubs like pogo gyms where players have irl interactions and get potions in return haha
Completely agree, this game severely lacks the community aspect that PoGo has.