@@aytestarose8903 the insect glaive counters him pretty well. Quite a few attacks, including a few of his new special attacks, don't even hit you if you're in the air. A lot of kinsect dash pokes and some midair evades in between to dodge wing attacks will shut him down pretty well.
As another IG main, it is a bit of a challenge since i dont fight valstrax often and i forgot his moveset. However after a few runs (all being fails) i can say that it is hard but rewarding
interestingly enough they introduced a 4slot dragon heart deco and they gave every piece of the risen vaalstrax armor a 4 slot just so players could stack dragon heart onto this new armor set for even higher resistance and dragon attack
Imagine augmenting for higher elemental resistance values xd And eating for 3 types of elemental defense And slotting in as much resistance as possible
Best Risen fight so far, caught me completely off guard with the added rain of dragon hellfire barrage before his round the world impact, he actually carted me too, 10/10 would cart again. Also I can't be the only one thinking about how his new skill essentially being an altered version of Alatreons armor set skill bonus from Iceborne right? Edit: A heads up just in case, but Valstrax does lose his weakness to the other elements when enraged, the parts that turn red with Dragon energy anyway, leaving only 2 spots, his front legs and his wing arms
Yeah his set bonus reminds me a lot of Alatreon’s set bonus element conversion, kinda disappointing to be honest. But we’ll see how good it actually is when more testing is done
Never will I fear a monster more than Risen Crimson Glow Valstrax The main reason why is because when he first Risen'd on me, he immediately went up into the sky completely out of sight which quickly sent from hunter mode to hunted
@@ahmadbugshan9603 Fatalis is definitely more obvious when it comes to fearing, he's the black dragon. It did takes me many more hunts to kill just one Fatalis compared to RCGV
"Some less exciting things like stun resistance" Dude it's one of the best quality of life skills in the game every set should have that skill if you have 3 extra slots to spare.
I agree..some may say its not important..hell,even in my longsword build,stun resistant is a must in my build..im not pro speedrunner,sometime make mistake..having no stun when get hit mostly save me in dire situation
@@skykillerxxx it's so important that I would make a case that they should just remove stun in the next game. It makes no sense having a status effect that everyone hates so much they have to put it in every armor set. The game is way better without stun tbh
If you don't get hit enough for it to be useful, then it's not that good. Defiance is much better imo. Even speed sharpening has more priority. Motivating players to get better
His 360 degree Jetstream Sam Style Wing Attack actually carted two of my team mates at the same time. I'm just one step away from being the third 💀 It really felt like that one attack could sever someone's head.
Rise is my first encounter with any valstrax. It was a difficult fight for me to try to overcome but eventually I learned it and farmed it. It's a fun creature to fight. Much like raging brachydios in iceborn. This master rank version looks like the original turned up to 13 which is just amazing to me.
Had to pause my fight with Risen Val, and I can say with absolute confidence: *PAIN!* Edit for context: I currently have a nigh perfect Gunlance build, with just over 1400 Defense, and all the Spiribirds I can hold. Getting hit by a combo takes out a third of my health WHILE BLOCKING.
1900 def? How do u even get it that high? The highest I can get my def is on my semi support/bruiser SnS set and I barely reach 1.1k def. And that's with full def skill investment,max def birds,Adamant Seed,Mega Armorskin and Armor Powder
@@Freakymanmaster101 yeah that was a bit of Dyslexia on my part. I had just over 1400. Maxed out armor stats, 10 defense spiribirds, and a Mega Demondrug. Gonna go edit the original post
I only had two attempts at this hunt earlier since my Switch was low on charge after grinding Velk for her stuff. This is probably the first time in Rise/Sunbreak where I've actually though, "huh, this might actually take a while". This fight is actual insanity. Harder than anything so far, granted I haven't really fought any Anomaly Monsters above 150. First attempt I went in with -15 Dragon Res, before I added Lv 3 Dragon Res. Might actually need to practice this one, not use to this kind of difficulty in Rise. With how overwhelmed I immediately was on my first run, I had flashbacks to Iceborne Alatreon.
Fun Fact, Risen Valstrax's armor is literally just a ported altered version of Valstrax's epic Gunner armor from GU. Interesting way for them to subtly bring it back. Already tested just level 1 DC, it literally lets you build the strongest dragon attack equipment in the game hands down, literally doubling your element from its base weapon when combined with elemental resistances AND attack boosting skills.
This fight was actually fun! While I managed not to cart, I really had to play carefully, which is a welcome change to the usual brute forcing everything. Ambush doesn't come always tho, he only used it twice on me even tho he powered up more times than that, tho maybe because I interrupted it in its pattern by a KO or a part break, can't really tell yet.
I'm running the full set with DB, and I'm doing so much damage! I don't really follow the meta for damage. I like being tanky and still hitting decently hard, so I always have full defense decos. It made me pretty nervous to have them all go to 0 but im finding that when my resistances go to 0, it isn't really affecting me. I don't find I'm stopping to heal more frequently or anything. And when I switch to blue scroll, I'm all positive resistances again, so I'm definitely healing even less then. I think it's great! If you have a playstyle like mine where you like to be a tankier murder blender, then this set will make you real happy 😊
I was messing around with ideas for mixed sets and I think Nephilim armor or Archfiend armor could work wonders with it. I slapped on the Abyssal Horn to see if Blight Res is just turned into a second Attack Up melody and I think it worked. Thanks to Berserk also helping to activate Latent Power, or other things activating it, like Dereliction, I think I could easily get high affinity without much slot usage. Then just add on the stuff I want and bam, new build.
At first I thought Risen Valstrax wasn't as scary as Velkhana but when he exploded to this Risen form phase ....bro I gotta tell ya... He destroyed me and when I saw those asteroids coming down I knew that this was gonna be a big one.
I’m DYING to see how this new update changes your elemental dual blade build. I follow your meta dual blade stuff religiously. PLEASE share your dual blade findings soon! I’m gonna be checking your channel every day waiting for it 😂
When he’s doing his sky dive bomb you can look at him and tell from that when he’s coming down to do the Superman dive, I think some shirts can also just block it :/
The master rank version yes..but the risen version when u look up at his comet dive,alert with the explosion he sent before dive..i sometimes loss focus when loking at him and didnt realize im inside the explosion he sent before comet dive..
So as a Gunlancer.. this was by far the easiest Risen. Most of its attacks just miss you if you sit in its face.. i had a hard time to keep my Sharpness up with Guard Edge thanks to that (and it wasnt a really big Valstrax). I dont know if thats intended or not but it felt a bit weird since the regular MR Valstrax hits you alot more. Still an amazing addition to the Monster. The new Risen form Attacks look incredible!
I worry for the combination of furious lvl 3 plus dragon conversion lvl 3. If you also manage to throw on dragon heart and valstrax soul I can see some very stupidly high dragon elemental damage
Also, I think there's a way to get a similar, but lesser effect to having Dragonheart on the set is to equip each of the other Hard (Element) Resistance Jewel 4s on each of the 4-slots to get Fire, Water, Ice and Thunder Resistance 3 (you already have Dragon Resistance 3). Dragon Conversion will take all of those points and convert them to extra elemental damage. Granted, even one level of Dragonheart will outdo this, but you can use this method to boost Dragon Conversion's output with any element and while keeping your HP full. The last 4-slot can be devoted to the Hard (Element) Attack+ Jewel (the one that gives 4 ranks), and one of the 1-slots will be for that last level of (Element) Attack.
The fight ultimately boiled down to “how good am I at timing consecutive insta-blocks?” So after 6-7 runs it wasn’t so bad. His big charged wing spinning move is just Lucent Narga’s spin…except bigger and hits harder. Both monsters are a bit lack luster for me due to neither of them really benefiting Lance, which makes sense with it being a low usage weapon. Though Dragon Conversion is definitely something I’m going to meme around with. Gonna go full res and see just how high I can get my elemental hits with Skyward Thrust…will it be good? No. Still gonna try it though lol
Passed on first try. Used gunlance, watch all those flashy moves do next to no dmg to me, I like. Carted once by the meteor strike. Fun quest. Crazy armor set.
I don't know what it is about Risen Crimson Glow Valstrax (what a name), but I like this fight MUCH, MUCH MORE than the non-Risen one, despite not all that much changing. It's just the faster pace of the fight that really gets me pumped, like it's actually even harder than it already was but much more enjoyable as well somehow. Now, if only Capcom would give it decent Gunner hitzones, too... ^^
As someone who uses almost exclusively elemental weapons, I don't even know what to bring to him. Switch axe especially I have no idea what to bring, as not only have I completely neglected my raw axes, but exhaust phial does absolutely nothing to elder dragons. Poison is probably the way to go.
@@conorb.1901 you can use chaotic gore! For the power phial. However, if you don’t like power phial, exhaust axe with build up boost is good too. You are not using it to stun or exhaust but this combination has decent damage!
Setting elem resistances might even make you tankier. Most of my favorite sets have completely negative elem resistances across the board..... wonder how things will go with the qurio crafting
If you're used to fighting high-level Afflicted monsters and Risen Elder Dragons, then yeah ^But MR 10 is well below that threshold of difficulty, so you're better off comparing her to regular Chaotic Gore, Gold/Silver Raths, etc. That's where she was going to rank from the beginning, same as the others did compared to the higher-level Anomaly Investigation fights
Yeah I actually managed to triple cart and fail the quest against risen Valstrax 😢, just once tho, I came back with my survival oriented gear set a dragon res gem & dragon res food, still managed to cart once but got em the 2nd try
The only thing i dislike about dragon conversion is that the blue scroll requires 30 hits for SnS to activate its effect. The bonus you get from the blue scroll either has a really long timer or it never runs out till you cart or swap back to blue.
Dear lord, this thing slaughtered me so many times before I finally got him. Between its crazy reach with its wingarms, the additional _orbital bombardment_ with its ambush, and that FREAKING NEW SPIN ATTACK, I needed to bring both Hinoa and Minoto with Hunting Horns AND two Healing Palicoes to win the first time! Unless everyone on your team knows him like the back of their hand, multiplayer hunts are likely to go VERY badly, as Risen Valstrax can easily punish even your mistakes. The ambush now seems to require THREE consecutive dive evades (run away from the monster, then do an evade) to get out of unscathed. The worst part about Valstrax (and Risen Valstrax's) fight for gunners is that he's only weak to shot damage in three places - the wingarms, which are fairly small and tricky targets to hit; the wings, but only when they're glowing; and the chest when he's charging up. As for Risen itself, the only bright point compared to its normal MR fight is that it sometimes does just one hovering wing stab rather than two in a row. Also, I think elemental is actually NOT recommended for either Valstrax. The Hunter's Notes are misleading - for the majority of the fight, most of his body will be wreathed in that Dragon-element energy, turning those elemental hitzones to 0. You want to go with a Blast or Poison weapon buffed by the Buildup Boost skill. Edit: Additional notes
With qurious crafting it’s possible to have Furious with dragon conversion. If it gives elemental raw for every point lost you’d gain 150 elemental for being in red scroll.
So this begs the question, if you combine Dragonheart with Dragon Conversion, which takes priority? On the Red Scroll will it drop to 0 even with DH activated or will DH activate and overwrite DC? Curious to find out, as I currently run Full Valstrax gear, excited to upgrade
I was under the assumption that we could get a +300 element boost if Dragonheart (LVL 5) procs first, and then the Dragon Conversion (LVL3) [factoring in the All Resistances +10 boon] procs thereafter.
This is probably the hardest fight in the game imo. Took me three attempts before I successfully slayed him while also clearing my self-imposed challenge of doing so cartless (wherein I reset if I faint); even with maxed out spiribirds and Mega Armorskins he hits like a freight train and gives you practically NO time to recover if he manages to smack you. Felyne Moxie didn't help at all in the first two attempts, but its failures at least paved the way for the successful attempt where at one point I literally knocked him out of his Risen state, while he was in the sky, MID-CHARGE.
3 pieces of risen valstrax gear for the lvl 3 dragon conversion, 2 pieces of regular valstrax + one dragon heart jewel for lvl 3 dragon heart will probably be the new elemental meta. Dragon heart raises your elemental resistances to 50 and dragon conversion converts it all to elemental attack. I was able to get dragon element up to 140 without augmenting any elemental weapon augments. Plenty of deco room for critical element, elemental exploit, elemental attack, and pretty much anything else dealing with elemental attack. My only issue is reaching high affinity, wish they'd add those critical eye lvl 4 decos already
For some reason it helped because I swear the times I ran away and came back it was either no longer in its risen state or there was another monster there too
The only monster that carted me 3x to fail and forced me to have at least 1060 defense. Forget everything you know about valstrax he feels slower than base/sunbreak valstrax but damn does he hit hard, so hard. Also took me a whopping 30 mins to beat with no carts because I was running for quite a while. I loved the hunt though
also collect spiritbirds, they are there to help you, seems like everyone has forgotten about them.adding a minute at most to the fight isn't bad at all.
One thing i have to warn everyone that do not use elemental weapon, his elemental resistance increases when he is powered up so stick with raw in the whole fight
looks like the idea is to use dragonheart to purposefully give yourself dragonblight which will boost your resistances to 50, then use valstrax soul+conversion to get massive dragon elemental damage, which is weird because the set doesnt give anything for element except conversion
Since my control stick is drifting like crazy, I'll have to put off fighting Valstrax and Vel for a while until I can get a new electronics cleaner to deal with it. I know full well this fight will be a nightmare as a bow/insect glaive main...
One word: Merciless Three words rocket powered uppercut Also he is so beautyfull, so blue and honestly the dragon element effect looks diferent and alot cooler
This thing was crazy. Had to completely redo my build just to get a little extra hp and defence in there xd. How ya dual blade build is doing crazy damage as well 0_o
Hopefully this is seen, but Hollow, I would really recommend you show the individual armour pieces next time. For example, it’s all well and good knowing the skills, but if the skills a distributed poorly among the pieces, or the slots are garbage, all the good skills in the world can’t make it a good set. Guides like these are helpful, and if you show individual pieces, and the slots, it’d go a long way to making the video even better!
Fights like this are why I picked up the lance…I personally do not find any enjoyment in getting 2 shotted, which is why I did not enjoy his fight beforehand, let alone the risen version, as much as I enjoy the concept of a rocketing jet dragon
What happened to the harder monsters being fairer like in world? When you'd face an arch tempered elder dragons, you'd die in two to one hits of course, however, it seems that the "arch tempered" of rise aka the risen are not that fair gameplay wise. When fighting arch tempered velkhana it was fun to fight most of the time due to the good openings and fun parry opportunities; now though, it seems if you get hit once you're dead due to the lack of spacing and time to recover
Monsters generally do more damage in Rise/Sunbreak to encourage players who keep getting OHKO'd (like these silly RUclips folks) to grab Spiribirds to buff their HP and DEF at the very least. If you're not running around with effectively 66% of your max HP at all times, it's much easier to not get obliterated by a single random blow.
@@JDude151 also encouraging wirebug positioning, superarmor/eframe/shield/counter attacks and switchskills and making defensive weapons like lance way more meta (lance is fucking great and deals tons of dps thanks to the monsters being so aggresive in late game, wich puts it at the level of other weapons). The game is pretty well balanced, but high skill demanding, wich is great for my taste
Unless they turbo buffed the elemental conversion from Iceborne (Alatreon set bonus, was god awful), I doubt that Dragon Conversion is actually going to be all that... Those legs show promise though.
Yup if you stay at 80%Hp at least to activate it, also being able to survive without max HP with 0 elemental resistance against the same monster is a nightmare... However good enought against all monsters other than Risen Valstrax himself
This is one of those monsters where I straight up just search him up to see if there’s any reason whatsoever to put up with the bullshit. A straight up “fuck this” fight, to the point you just don’t want to play.
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As an insect glaive main it was fun dancing with him in the air, even being above him he can hit you real easy
As insect glaive main I'm scared of this. It looks like the kinsect yeet might be more useful than every other silkbind attacks
@@aytestarose8903 the insect glaive counters him pretty well. Quite a few attacks, including a few of his new special attacks, don't even hit you if you're in the air. A lot of kinsect dash pokes and some midair evades in between to dodge wing attacks will shut him down pretty well.
As another IG main, it is a bit of a challenge since i dont fight valstrax often and i forgot his moveset. However after a few runs (all being fails) i can say that it is hard but rewarding
You're a brave man fighting this thing without any spiribird buffs.
interestingly enough they introduced a 4slot dragon heart deco and they gave every piece of the risen vaalstrax armor a 4 slot just so players could stack dragon heart onto this new armor set for even higher resistance and dragon attack
Fucking yes
@@frenchyfrenchsilver1331 let's goo
Dragonheart + Conversion + Valstax Soul = VERY strong dragon element builds
Imagine augmenting for higher elemental resistance values xd
And eating for 3 types of elemental defense
And slotting in as much resistance as possible
Problem is only few mobs has weakness against dragon attacks...
@@lucianomagalhaes321 You'll be the ultimate Rath counter, though...!
@@eivind261093 🥴🥴🥴🥴
@@lucianomagalhaes321 yes but here the thing both of final boss of rise and sunbreak is weak to dragon
Best Risen fight so far, caught me completely off guard with the added rain of dragon hellfire barrage before his round the world impact, he actually carted me too, 10/10 would cart again. Also I can't be the only one thinking about how his new skill essentially being an altered version of Alatreons armor set skill bonus from Iceborne right?
Edit: A heads up just in case, but Valstrax does lose his weakness to the other elements when enraged, the parts that turn red with Dragon energy anyway, leaving only 2 spots, his front legs and his wing arms
Yeah his set bonus reminds me a lot of Alatreon’s set bonus element conversion, kinda disappointing to be honest. But we’ll see how good it actually is when more testing is done
His tail remains one of his weakest parts (and it's pleasantly easy to cut) so I just aim for it the entire fight
The conversion is actually batshit insane.
Paired it with deriliction, i turned 80 water into 172.
As for dragon, turned 62, into 174.
Never will I fear a monster more than Risen Crimson Glow Valstrax
The main reason why is because when he first Risen'd on me, he immediately went up into the sky completely out of sight which quickly sent from hunter mode to hunted
Risen Shagaru: Want to bet?
You can relive the nightmare by watching his deadly attacks here: ruclips.net/video/xjQAFZLTrxo/видео.html
fatalis? man i soloed him 1 or 2 weeks ago but he still scares me
@@ahmadbugshan9603 Fatalis is definitely more obvious when it comes to fearing, he's the black dragon. It did takes me many more hunts to kill just one Fatalis compared to RCGV
@@HenshinFanatic Since I already consider Shagaru an adversary, Risen'd would perhaps be a nightmare as well
"Some less exciting things like stun resistance" Dude it's one of the best quality of life skills in the game every set should have that skill if you have 3 extra slots to spare.
I agree..some may say its not important..hell,even in my longsword build,stun resistant is a must in my build..im not pro speedrunner,sometime make mistake..having no stun when get hit mostly save me in dire situation
@@skykillerxxx it's so important that I would make a case that they should just remove stun in the next game. It makes no sense having a status effect that everyone hates so much they have to put it in every armor set. The game is way better without stun tbh
If you don't get hit enough for it to be useful, then it's not that good.
Defiance is much better imo. Even speed sharpening has more priority. Motivating players to get better
@@josedanielng604 this. Defiance is way better than stun res
I’m so glad this fight was as hard as it was. I legitimately feel like I earned that new broken skill
His 360 degree Jetstream Sam Style Wing Attack actually carted two of my team mates at the same time. I'm just one step away from being the third 💀
It really felt like that one attack could sever someone's head.
THERE WILL BE BLOODSHEDDD
Against anything but a Hunter, it would VAPORIZE their head, and possibly the rest of their body.
Rise is my first encounter with any valstrax. It was a difficult fight for me to try to overcome but eventually I learned it and farmed it. It's a fun creature to fight. Much like raging brachydios in iceborn. This master rank version looks like the original turned up to 13 which is just amazing to me.
Raging brachy was tough, I’ll still cart to him every so often especially in group
after all past risen fights this one is actual insanity
Had to pause my fight with Risen Val, and I can say with absolute confidence: *PAIN!*
Edit for context: I currently have a nigh perfect Gunlance build, with just over 1400 Defense, and all the Spiribirds I can hold. Getting hit by a combo takes out a third of my health WHILE BLOCKING.
1900 def? How do u even get it that high? The highest I can get my def is on my semi support/bruiser SnS set and I barely reach 1.1k def. And that's with full def skill investment,max def birds,Adamant Seed,Mega Armorskin and Armor Powder
@@Freakymanmaster101 yeah that was a bit of Dyslexia on my part. I had just over 1400. Maxed out armor stats, 10 defense spiribirds, and a Mega Demondrug. Gonna go edit the original post
Wait. Fellow GL user. You sustained ACTUAL damage?
I can’t wait!
1400def..while me in 700def on my longsword build..
@@skykillerxxx sounds about right. Imagine LS build actually having DEF when u have the best evade and counter options in the game lmao
The Full Velkhana & Frostcraft Breakdown: ruclips.net/video/DPDMISnnqOM/видео.html
Where are Valstrax slots? Does he even have some?
I only had two attempts at this hunt earlier since my Switch was low on charge after grinding Velk for her stuff. This is probably the first time in Rise/Sunbreak where I've actually though, "huh, this might actually take a while". This fight is actual insanity. Harder than anything so far, granted I haven't really fought any Anomaly Monsters above 150. First attempt I went in with -15 Dragon Res, before I added Lv 3 Dragon Res. Might actually need to practice this one, not use to this kind of difficulty in Rise. With how overwhelmed I immediately was on my first run, I had flashbacks to Iceborne Alatreon.
Fun Fact, Risen Valstrax's armor is literally just a ported altered version of Valstrax's epic Gunner armor from GU.
Interesting way for them to subtly bring it back.
Already tested just level 1 DC, it literally lets you build the strongest dragon attack equipment in the game hands down, literally doubling your element from its base weapon when combined with elemental resistances AND attack boosting skills.
This fight was actually fun! While I managed not to cart, I really had to play carefully, which is a welcome change to the usual brute forcing everything. Ambush doesn't come always tho, he only used it twice on me even tho he powered up more times than that, tho maybe because I interrupted it in its pattern by a KO or a part break, can't really tell yet.
Thanks for info Lad , Also interesting they even gave a decoration for that Skill early on
2:02 THATS A BIG BOI JESUS
I'm running the full set with DB, and I'm doing so much damage! I don't really follow the meta for damage. I like being tanky and still hitting decently hard, so I always have full defense decos. It made me pretty nervous to have them all go to 0 but im finding that when my resistances go to 0, it isn't really affecting me. I don't find I'm stopping to heal more frequently or anything. And when I switch to blue scroll, I'm all positive resistances again, so I'm definitely healing even less then. I think it's great! If you have a playstyle like mine where you like to be a tankier murder blender, then this set will make you real happy 😊
Dragonheart + conversion + adrenaline + strife bow speedrun about to look crazy
A video about the Hazard quests next?
I was messing around with ideas for mixed sets and I think Nephilim armor or Archfiend armor could work wonders with it. I slapped on the Abyssal Horn to see if Blight Res is just turned into a second Attack Up melody and I think it worked. Thanks to Berserk also helping to activate Latent Power, or other things activating it, like Dereliction, I think I could easily get high affinity without much slot usage. Then just add on the stuff I want and bam, new build.
At first I thought Risen Valstrax wasn't as scary as Velkhana but when he exploded to this Risen form phase ....bro I gotta tell ya... He destroyed me and when I saw those asteroids coming down I knew that this was gonna be a big one.
*ambush*
*climbs up ledge*
"OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH MY GOOOOOOOOOOD"
@@asianartist1 that's exactly what happened 😂
as a great sword user it was a fun and painful hunt, getting blasted mid hit animation never gets old XD
I’m DYING to see how this new update changes your elemental dual blade build. I follow your meta dual blade stuff religiously. PLEASE share your dual blade findings soon! I’m gonna be checking your channel every day waiting for it 😂
The best form of valstrax to fight, it is relentless, so many punishing move, i really love this valstrax
When he’s doing his sky dive bomb you can look at him and tell from that when he’s coming down to do the Superman dive, I think some shirts can also just block it :/
The master rank version yes..but the risen version when u look up at his comet dive,alert with the explosion he sent before dive..i sometimes loss focus when loking at him and didnt realize im inside the explosion he sent before comet dive..
One of the greatest hunt ever. It's like fighting a fighter jet. 🤩
So as a Gunlancer.. this was by far the easiest Risen. Most of its attacks just miss you if you sit in its face.. i had a hard time to keep my Sharpness up with Guard Edge thanks to that (and it wasnt a really big Valstrax). I dont know if thats intended or not but it felt a bit weird since the regular MR Valstrax hits you alot more. Still an amazing addition to the Monster. The new Risen form Attacks look incredible!
this fight made my hands sweaty. had a few tings of fatalis with the pacing of the battles - absolute blast.
I worry for the combination of furious lvl 3 plus dragon conversion lvl 3. If you also manage to throw on dragon heart and valstrax soul I can see some very stupidly high dragon elemental damage
I hope this new skill wouldn't be like Alatreon's Element conversion where it was nerfed for bowguns for no reason.
Also, I think there's a way to get a similar, but lesser effect to having Dragonheart on the set is to equip each of the other Hard (Element) Resistance Jewel 4s on each of the 4-slots to get Fire, Water, Ice and Thunder Resistance 3 (you already have Dragon Resistance 3). Dragon Conversion will take all of those points and convert them to extra elemental damage. Granted, even one level of Dragonheart will outdo this, but you can use this method to boost Dragon Conversion's output with any element and while keeping your HP full. The last 4-slot can be devoted to the Hard (Element) Attack+ Jewel (the one that gives 4 ranks), and one of the 1-slots will be for that last level of (Element) Attack.
The fight ultimately boiled down to “how good am I at timing consecutive insta-blocks?” So after 6-7 runs it wasn’t so bad. His big charged wing spinning move is just Lucent Narga’s spin…except bigger and hits harder.
Both monsters are a bit lack luster for me due to neither of them really benefiting Lance, which makes sense with it being a low usage weapon.
Though Dragon Conversion is definitely something I’m going to meme around with. Gonna go full res and see just how high I can get my elemental hits with Skyward Thrust…will it be good? No. Still gonna try it though lol
I hope we see a anomaly level that's all Risen
Grats on 1mill guys!
Passed on first try. Used gunlance, watch all those flashy moves do next to no dmg to me, I like. Carted once by the meteor strike. Fun quest. Crazy armor set.
Risen CG Valstrax has that Swax Counter and I love it.
I don't know what it is about Risen Crimson Glow Valstrax (what a name), but I like this fight MUCH, MUCH MORE than the non-Risen one, despite not all that much changing.
It's just the faster pace of the fight that really gets me pumped, like it's actually even harder than it already was but much more enjoyable as well somehow.
Now, if only Capcom would give it decent Gunner hitzones, too... ^^
The second part of his new "big" move while Risen (the charged up wing stab that follows the charged up spin) goes through block, I believe.
I had no problem blocking it with my lance + guard up + Embolden
@@connormorrell2566 Hm, maybe I ran out of stamina, how hard does it hit the stamina?
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I wouldn’t use elements to fight valstrax tho because all elements will go to zero after it powers up.
As someone who uses almost exclusively elemental weapons, I don't even know what to bring to him. Switch axe especially I have no idea what to bring, as not only have I completely neglected my raw axes, but exhaust phial does absolutely nothing to elder dragons. Poison is probably the way to go.
@@conorb.1901 you can use chaotic gore! For the power phial. However, if you don’t like power phial, exhaust axe with build up boost is good too. You are not using it to stun or exhaust but this combination has decent damage!
My first triple cart in Sunbreak when using IG. He is by far the hardest fight in the game so far.
Charge Blade Velkhana + Risen Valstrax armor ohhh i can't wait to see how powerful it is🤩
Setting elem resistances might even make you tankier. Most of my favorite sets have completely negative elem resistances across the board..... wonder how things will go with the qurio crafting
I wonder if we can build up Elem ice+Elem fire+ Elem drag+Elem water+Elem thunder resistance that can be combined and turned into elemental attack
@@frenchyfrenchsilver1331 dats why furious works so well with dc
By my math you should dodge at about 2.5 seconds after the explosions from the ambush, it takes 4 total for him to land after those.
Far tougher than velk.
If you're used to fighting high-level Afflicted monsters and Risen Elder Dragons, then yeah
^But MR 10 is well below that threshold of difficulty, so you're better off comparing her to regular Chaotic Gore, Gold/Silver Raths, etc. That's where she was going to rank from the beginning, same as the others did compared to the higher-level Anomaly Investigation fights
Yeah I actually managed to triple cart and fail the quest against risen Valstrax 😢, just once tho, I came back with my survival oriented gear set a dragon res gem & dragon res food, still managed to cart once but got em the 2nd try
And then you get risen velkhana and that will change....
The only thing i dislike about dragon conversion is that the blue scroll requires 30 hits for SnS to activate its effect.
The bonus you get from the blue scroll either has a really long timer or it never runs out till you cart or swap back to blue.
Dear lord, this thing slaughtered me so many times before I finally got him. Between its crazy reach with its wingarms, the additional _orbital bombardment_ with its ambush, and that FREAKING NEW SPIN ATTACK, I needed to bring both Hinoa and Minoto with Hunting Horns AND two Healing Palicoes to win the first time! Unless everyone on your team knows him like the back of their hand, multiplayer hunts are likely to go VERY badly, as Risen Valstrax can easily punish even your mistakes. The ambush now seems to require THREE consecutive dive evades (run away from the monster, then do an evade) to get out of unscathed. The worst part about Valstrax (and Risen Valstrax's) fight for gunners is that he's only weak to shot damage in three places - the wingarms, which are fairly small and tricky targets to hit; the wings, but only when they're glowing; and the chest when he's charging up. As for Risen itself, the only bright point compared to its normal MR fight is that it sometimes does just one hovering wing stab rather than two in a row.
Also, I think elemental is actually NOT recommended for either Valstrax. The Hunter's Notes are misleading - for the majority of the fight, most of his body will be wreathed in that Dragon-element energy, turning those elemental hitzones to 0. You want to go with a Blast or Poison weapon buffed by the Buildup Boost skill.
Edit: Additional notes
I can see a use for it with Blight Resistance
With qurious crafting it’s possible to have Furious with dragon conversion. If it gives elemental raw for every point lost you’d gain 150 elemental for being in red scroll.
So this begs the question, if you combine Dragonheart with Dragon Conversion, which takes priority? On the Red Scroll will it drop to 0 even with DH activated or will DH activate and overwrite DC? Curious to find out, as I currently run Full Valstrax gear, excited to upgrade
Even if they stack weres the lvls of dragon heart coming from mainly cause the deco is a lvl four ? And how meny lvls you putting in
@@Darkwarp1994 the risen Valstrax set offers 6 4* slots, so full Dragonheart on the set is possible
@@Darkwarp1994conversion is a 3 piece skill so can add 2 Dragonheart pieces and slot the last 3
I was under the assumption that we could get a +300 element boost if Dragonheart (LVL 5) procs first, and then the Dragon Conversion (LVL3) [factoring in the All Resistances +10 boon] procs thereafter.
This is probably the hardest fight in the game imo. Took me three attempts before I successfully slayed him while also clearing my self-imposed challenge of doing so cartless (wherein I reset if I faint); even with maxed out spiribirds and Mega Armorskins he hits like a freight train and gives you practically NO time to recover if he manages to smack you.
Felyne Moxie didn't help at all in the first two attempts, but its failures at least paved the way for the successful attempt where at one point I literally knocked him out of his Risen state, while he was in the sky, MID-CHARGE.
3 pieces of risen valstrax gear for the lvl 3 dragon conversion, 2 pieces of regular valstrax + one dragon heart jewel for lvl 3 dragon heart will probably be the new elemental meta. Dragon heart raises your elemental resistances to 50 and dragon conversion converts it all to elemental attack. I was able to get dragon element up to 140 without augmenting any elemental weapon augments. Plenty of deco room for critical element, elemental exploit, elemental attack, and pretty much anything else dealing with elemental attack. My only issue is reaching high affinity, wish they'd add those critical eye lvl 4 decos already
You can go up to level 5 dragonheart if you want to. Add in resuscitate as well.
Crimson Glow gauntlets give you WEX 2.
When I was fighting this, I got bodied, but every time it turned to the risen state I immediately ran away which I never did with the other ones
For some reason it helped because I swear the times I ran away and came back it was either no longer in its risen state or there was another monster there too
Don't worry guys, there's always a solution to every hard fight.........It's called Minoto the Bait.
Beatt him 5 times while he beat me 3 times.
I gotta say practicing Redirection timing works wonders, swap evading all of his attacks was satisfying
I'm thinking I could combine lv1 of this new skill with frostcraft for some fun effects
The only monster that carted me 3x to fail and forced me to have at least 1060 defense. Forget everything you know about valstrax he feels slower than base/sunbreak valstrax but damn does he hit hard, so hard.
Also took me a whopping 30 mins to beat with no carts because I was running for quite a while. I loved the hunt though
So dragon conversion is pretty much alatreons set bonus from iceborne and burst skill from sunbreak in one skill
also collect spiritbirds, they are there to help you, seems like everyone has forgotten about them.adding a minute at most to the fight isn't bad at all.
Ya most of them don't even gather spirit birds and die.
… put some respect on Stun Resistance. That is the difference between being carted and avoid an follow-up.
One thing i have to warn everyone that do not use elemental weapon, his elemental resistance increases when he is powered up so stick with raw in the whole fight
This is a long shot, but can you guys do a new Gunlance build guide please?
looks like the idea is to use dragonheart to purposefully give yourself dragonblight which will boost your resistances to 50, then use valstrax soul+conversion to get massive dragon elemental damage, which is weird because the set doesnt give anything for element except conversion
Since my control stick is drifting like crazy, I'll have to put off fighting Valstrax and Vel for a while until I can get a new electronics cleaner to deal with it. I know full well this fight will be a nightmare as a bow/insect glaive main...
As someone who plays xbox I am SO hyped to fight this big beauty🤤😆
It fires mortars at you from space…this guy is insane
He looks so damn cool 🤩
Risen valstrax has immediately allowed the single most powerful dragon builds in the game to be made, maybe if not most definitely even raw to!
Yo what set are you using it’s so strong
One word: Merciless
Three words rocket powered uppercut
Also he is so beautyfull, so blue and honestly the dragon element effect looks diferent and alot cooler
Please tell me you saw the Malzeno VS Velkahana Turf WAR! its the Best so far!!
With this we can reach crazy numbers of raw dragon damage
This thing was crazy. Had to completely redo my build just to get a little extra hp and defence in there xd.
How ya dual blade build is doing crazy damage as well 0_o
Frostcraft + Dragon Conversion build when?
Hopefully this is seen, but Hollow, I would really recommend you show the individual armour pieces next time.
For example, it’s all well and good knowing the skills, but if the skills a distributed poorly among the pieces, or the slots are garbage, all the good skills in the world can’t make it a good set.
Guides like these are helpful, and if you show individual pieces, and the slots, it’d go a long way to making the video even better!
oh boy can’t wait to get orbital bombarded
Is that soon attack single hit or multi hit ?
Was holding hoping for at least the dragon blessing one slot sadly not this update.
When will you fight him rage,cotton and hollow
I'm still 30 MR short. It takes so long to grind MR it's painful.
Really fun fight
Are you playing with a ps5 controller?
Fights like this are why I picked up the lance…I personally do not find any enjoyment in getting 2 shotted, which is why I did not enjoy his fight beforehand, let alone the risen version, as much as I enjoy the concept of a rocketing jet dragon
This is a dereliction (can't spell it) elemental build. That basically just gave them a reason to mix it.
Is there new gems? I need some level 4 gem attacks, my soul is dying from fighting magnamalo in high rank for the Damm chest plate ;-;
Risen Valstrax fights like its got somewhere to be
Finally
Dragonheart jewel
What happened to the harder monsters being fairer like in world? When you'd face an arch tempered elder dragons, you'd die in two to one hits of course, however, it seems that the "arch tempered" of rise aka the risen are not that fair gameplay wise. When fighting arch tempered velkhana it was fun to fight most of the time due to the good openings and fun parry opportunities; now though, it seems if you get hit once you're dead due to the lack of spacing and time to recover
I think there's trying to push players to really utilize the wirebugs in these fights.
Idk what u think is unfair in this fight, the fight is completely reasonable considering how strong hunters are.
*Arch Tempered Lunastra enters the chat*
Monsters generally do more damage in Rise/Sunbreak to encourage players who keep getting OHKO'd (like these silly RUclips folks) to grab Spiribirds to buff their HP and DEF at the very least. If you're not running around with effectively 66% of your max HP at all times, it's much easier to not get obliterated by a single random blow.
@@JDude151 also encouraging wirebug positioning, superarmor/eframe/shield/counter attacks and switchskills and making defensive weapons like lance way more meta (lance is fucking great and deals tons of dps thanks to the monsters being so aggresive in late game, wich puts it at the level of other weapons). The game is pretty well balanced, but high skill demanding, wich is great for my taste
Valstrax confirmed a Pharah main
Unless they turbo buffed the elemental conversion from Iceborne (Alatreon set bonus, was god awful), I doubt that Dragon Conversion is actually going to be all that...
Those legs show promise though.
The 50 elmRes of dragonHeart+Dragon conversion..
Element's gonna be spicy😐
Yup if you stay at 80%Hp at least to activate it, also being able to survive without max HP with 0 elemental resistance against the same monster is a nightmare... However good enought against all monsters other than Risen Valstrax himself
What are the slots
This is one of those monsters where I straight up just search him up to see if there’s any reason whatsoever to put up with the bullshit. A straight up “fuck this” fight, to the point you just don’t want to play.
…I could barely beat risen teostra without losing my mind. You think I’m gonna fight THAT without at least a week of mental preparation? Hell no
It's super easy. Beat him in maybe 10 minutes. Though I did it with fully geared out Lance. Just poked him in the face until he died.
@@jobers5566 I play hunting horn and greatsword
The armor is so perfect, stun reistance, stamina surge, attack boost and latent power?, how is it so good!?
this came out on the 76th for me and if I recall it supposed to come out on the 7th so I'm a little confused.
Japan is a day ahead of us so for them it’s currently the 7th
so wait
how busted is this potentially w chaotic gores set
Can’t believe there are no new weapons 😢