@@CleopatraKing they made it a chore to unlock certain ingredients compared to older games. Really leaned into the expedition gimmick. Most people don’t even do guiding lands until they get carried through fatalis lol
@@DrooledOn doesn't matter, if ur relying on a competent hunter when all u have to do is wear the beginning head armor and hornitaur mail if ur going to the vale, ur just being lazy. Even if u aren't consciously going for all the canteen ingredients u should be gathering both account items while u hunt. Hell it's even separated in LR and hr so u only have to grab 8 ingredients to start. Even dedicated expeditions for the rare hr ones don't take more than 30 min.
Not gonna lie, reading the title... yeah that's accurate. In fact, it's a perfect description of why I love this series. (EDIT) I disagree with your take on the insect glaive though. I understand it, but disagree.
@@snakesan7724 Yeah. Though I also disagree because it's not meant to be a polearm weapon. It's more like a wizard's staff, if that makes any sense. Sure, it's got a blade, and it is pretty strong, but the bug is what ties it all together, applying free status, healing and buffing you, or even healing your team. You are basically a support caster. Not, well, Lancer from Fate.
@@ethanhostetler4007 Yeah but many have been screaming for a glaive weapon, me included. I love a heavy long reaching blade that makes me feel like Lui Buu from dynasty warriors. It's the one kind of weapon I feel like MH is truly missing. I'm with Degen here as I find the insect tedious to manage and takes me out of the experience of fighting the monster. I'd rather just be in there hitting it than backing up to hit the specific part I want to get my buffs up. Which is fine, I don't think they need to remove the insect for those that enjoy it. I just wish there was a side option where you could leave out the insect for some other mechanic to take it's place.
@@xelic1996 Tedious? I dunno, but without that bug it's JUST a stick. And it appears the Kinsect is here to stay, thankfully. That said, a dedicated spear weapon of some kind WOULD be neat, even if I would never play it. I like having the buffs it gives, and the resource management is pretty simple. I can either hang back for a sec, quickly target the parts I need, and then get back in, or just tag the part I'm currently beating, then move on when I get the buff. Plus, the bug itself being able to drop status clouds and healing means I can play a support role pretty easy, without having to just sit back with a bunch of potions and a gun. Like I said elsewhere, it's essentially a mage weapon. And it's not much different from managing a slinger either, just grab ammo, point, and sling. Just make sure your Kinsect is fast, some fights make it difficult to land extracts at range, although you aren't really going to be doing that much if you know what you're fighting... well dang, now I wanna go play Monster Hunter, sorry for the long ramble, this is one of my go-to weapons, so I'ma leave with this: If you want a suggestion from me, Longsword or Lance. Lance is way slower, not quite the mobility you want, but far simpler in terms of what you'll be doing, and Longsword, it's a bit complicated, and my other main weapon, of course, but it provides a lot of horizontal mobility when used correctly. Or if you really wanna make the glaive work with as little interaction with the Kinsect as possible, the head is always a Red Extract, get a Power Prolonger piece, wear it, grab red: profit. You'll have the combos and damage, and for a pretty long time. And you can usually start off most fights with a shot on the head if yer aim is good. Honestly, the only changed I'd want is being able to re-proc the 3 point buff. It feels weird not being able to do that. Anyways, later!
@@ethanhostetler4007Honestly I also kinda disagree too, since I think the weapon was originally meant to be more of a utility weapon not in a kinsect way, but more in a mounting fashion. In Mh4U when it was introduced, the biggest pro was that it was the only weapon that could do a mount without a ledge, giving out a good dps window. Not so much a kinsect utility since you couldn't aim well in a nintendo. Now they added an additional powder mechanic thing to compensate for the lack of usefulness in World, but I still think that it should be used as a fully melee weapon. It's hard to use it all in conjunction, managing the kinsect and dishing ground dps damage. But I think the biggest advantage that Insect glaive has, it's the ability to gap close with the vault and then down thrust mid air so you can keep dps'ing the monster on the ground without giving it a moment to breathe. MR 639 currently and 1k hours insect glaive main here.
think of it this way. if Low Rank is there to teach you the mechanics of the game, High Rank is testing you on whether or not you understand them and know how to use them. and Master Rank is the final exam, making you use the accumulated knowledge of both LR and HR.
Let's be real, the biggest spike is at the end of MR, when you get to the title update monsters. They're the real challenge in MHWIB, and are definitely souls level in difficulty. And then there's Fatalis.
@@julexar On repeat hunts, yeah, he carts me less than the Elden Ring DLC final boss, but he took longer for first kill (solo only). I think it's because his hunt just takes more perfection, since you have to deal with the time limit.
High rank is difficult, when your armor is not upgraded and even when it is some monsters hit like the hulk IE Tigrex. Going back to low rank to practice with another weapon or to grind mats is never a bad idea either.
Tigrex is in Iceborne Master rank kinda in the middle when you already have master rank gear, and the only times you don't have high rank stuff in high rank is like the first two quests.
The insane thing about this game is that the skill ceiling its insane. In 0:11 you actually had the opportunity to survive. If you had pressed R2 the second you got out of the roar stun, you would have turn the axe into the shield and parry the hit, but thats only something that comes with hours of experience. You probably would have noticed this now with your current skill level
Always glad to see a fresh group of people discover monster hunter. Makes my old gen 2 startin' self haply. However, your opinions on the insect glaive shall go down in your permanent record. Insect glaive mains everywhere are now aware of your location. You have been warned.
Also, monster hunt difficulty can be offset by preparation Having armor thats in a similar rank, flash pods for flying monsters, traps for opportunities, herbal medicines or powder instead of antidotes (same poison removal with faster animation and a minor heal) If a strat ain't working, regroup and try something else.
if those bug collectors want to come after me, they can! they might be better than me at the game, but i'll happily die on this hill at their hands! at least, until capcom adds a 'long spear' (or something akin to that) to the weapon roster.
@@degenerator Oh, was looking for one of yer comments. *Ahem*, as an Insect Glaive main, though I hesitate to say main because you can't really main two weapons... I guess, Longsword is the other by the way, whatever. As an IG user/main, I have things to say! While I do sorta understand not liking the bug aspect, it is very important, and also pretty cool when you understand it, especially when you can lace a giant bee with C4 explosives and nuke a T-Rex. It's not really a polearm, it's more like a magic weapon, if that makes any sense, with your bug being the main way of casting "spells". You have a variety of debuffs through different bugs, applicable elements, different bug stats, as well as self buffs through the main 4 colors (red, better combos and aerial moves, white, movement speed, orange, knockback prevention, and green, which heals you) Some of the bugs even have a healing dust instead of a debuff, which anyone can use, not just the person making them. Plus, your extracts do more than just what I've stated above, like giving you more damage, and can even be enhanced by armor skills. Point is, the glaive has always had the bug, it should always have the bug, and if it ever gets removed... it will be a sad day. Seriously, it'll just be a lame bladed stick. Also, you can buff the bug with slinger ammo, either more bug stamina or more bug damage, and it can do WORK. It's not just a thing for extracts, it's more DPS. Especially if say, you have a bug with blast that you tag on a monster, and then mount the monster. Your knife attacks can trigger these, as well as the spin moving from part to part. Anyways, that's all I really had to say. Plus, you don't wanna be Lancer... this carnival gets pretty deadly at the end. Low Rank is just the tutorial. Not to say don't play glaive, but I'm sure you get what I mean. (EDIT, also some slight errors fixed) By the way, we glaive users/mains aren't mad, we're just disappointed.
@@ethanhostetler4007 🤭fair enough. i do think the IG is a cool weapon, it's just that a lot of the cool things about it don't translate to the type of gameplay i enjoy. though, to be honest, for all my grandiose talking, if i found out capcom was directly implementing my suggestions into wilds or something like that, i'd be pretty upset, too. sure, it would make the weapon more appealing to *me*, but i wouldn't want them to do that when there are so many people who like the weapon as-is, especially since there are so many other weapons i'd like to try anyway.
@@degenerator Huh. Neat. I do kinda wish we just had a straight up spear though for piercing, I love the lance, but it's a bit heavy. Still, game's got so many weapons already that having any more would bloat it too much, and changing some of them may end with them being too similar or just not fun. Anyways, I'ma head out, have a nice day!
foolish me finishing the base game with 40 hrs on the clock only to be met by the first master rank monsters watching 40 minutes pass by with the monsters barely giving a shit
@@J.H_.barioth is not that difficulty. I see many people saying he's so difficult but if ur able to take even one of his wings/legs out he becomes really manageable but yeah before that he's annoying as shit but not difficult I would say.
That Insect Glaive comment at the beginning and how you'd wish it was just the glaive really, REALLY resonated with me you have no idea (but I am also a Charge Blade main so weapon-wise we have similar opinions).
Well as a CB main since MH4U, i like the Kinsect part more than the Glaive part. IG was my main throughout HR in 4U. I think old gen was more focused on MH as an art form and an experience rather than combat and gameplay, so i really liked the kinsect concept and their designs and how it fit into the art style n whatnot. but then i realized CB was bonkers overpowered if you could use it correctly. sidenote: i really miss the old map and landscape design, game balancing, sound design, music, art style, etc., the only change modern gen made that i like is layered armor
Picking up Charge Blade (GS main) as a secondary turned me into a war criminal against small monsters. I become a fiend slaughtering everything to make sure I start every fight with full charge and phials.
Idk, for me, I've found every MH game I've played (4U, GU, Tri, World), it's kind of went like: Low rank: Easy High rank: The start can be rough but still not very hard G/Master rank: So you have chosen death
Tbh, 4U's G rank isnt super horrifying, its just the permanent 4p scaling in hub quests that kinda sucks. raging brachy and metal raths were hardest for me in 4U G rank Hub, where i didnt have nearly as much trouble with all three fatalis, akantor and ukanlos, gogmazios, and i think i even soloed dalamadur once with latent power+2 and sharpness+1 as my only contributing armor skills (arc x set).
@@Bob-jh6xt you gotta emulate it and play with a controller since the c stick was crucial to MH (and also it wears out really easily). if you look up n3dsxl c stick images, 85% of the games shown are MH4 lol.
i was fine with the *first* set of credits, but when the *second* set of credits started rolling, i immediately got up from my chair and went to make a sandwich.
Charge Blade is the most complex weapon and that's what people used to say, I don't know why the discourse changed from that to Charge Blade is really hard to use
i learn it atm playing 4U and its not even that hard to learn. i think everyone can learn any monster hunter weapon in 2-4 weaks and play trough the game with it.
i'd say that's the time frame to master it maybe, but just to learn it and get down your role and basic gameplan it's probably more like a couple hours.
Back when I was first playing MHW on Xbox with some friends, one of them kept telling me that me choosing Charge Blade was basically me choosing easy mode or something, he couldn't be more wrong but I was happy to learn a fairly interesting weapon idea
dude i swear, if SnS is the jack of all trades, charge blade is the jack of all dopamine trades. You get the satisfaction of greatsword's big slam, lance's block and counter, and dual blades flurry of numbers all in one neat package.
In Terraria, there are times when the world will spike up in difficulty, akin to a set of stairs. However, there comes a point where pure skill becomes basically useless and you have to find workarounds. This is balanced out by giving the player access to new materials after each step of progression, allowing them to partially flatten the difficulty curve so they can keep pace. If you ever hit a wall, just go explore a little until you find a way to upgrade yourself.
As a fan of both the charge blade and the insect glaive, I'm a bit irked by your statements revolving around the kinsect portion of the weapon. For both weapons, you maintain a powered up state. I understand how annoying it can be when you need to charge back up while in the middle of the fight, but they both share that same sort of feature.
Right? I’m glad im not the only one who felt really weird about that You can ofc have opinions on ig buffing but its still true that the kinsect is an integral part of the weapon identity
the difference is flow. the charge blade's moveset flows into powering up, and then flows back into resource gathering mode naturally. the insect glaive is like if you have to use your slinger to power up your axe mode.
Tips: 1) Always eat before a quest, unless you want to have -50% health 2) Insect glaive mains will forever haunt your bedside. Also, you *can* be lancer from fate, if you learn to properly use the insects. Personally, I would also gut you for saying such blasphemy, but your choice of chargeblade saves you. I would go into a rant about how you're fundamentally using IG wrong, but I know it's pointless. I can only beg you to reconsider once you get better equipment, insects, and full flinch free. 3) Immediately upgrade to the next rank in armour. Forget skills, defense is *necessary.* Jagras armour will get you to anjanath, and anjanath armour should carry you through most of high rank. 4) Learn as much chargeblade tech as possible. *Everything* is useful. For an example, overcharged phial charged sword spam, or manual side hops. The first is indeed niche, but it can save your ass, while the latter is objectively amazing.
I agree with you that IG bugs part is fucking boring. It's chores. No one when talking about IG says "ah yes the weapon where I play discount LBG and collect color juice from monster", they say "ah the helicopter weapon". The essence collection is a interesting attempt at resource management attempt. However the disconnect between the 2 portion of the weapon's gamplay just made it jarring and doesn't flow together. Capcom knows this, this is why they added Kinsect Slash in Sunbreak. Now that's a solid improvement.
@@ghoulishgoober3122 you can in world. It's R2/RT. It's funny that people call the kinsect "chores" when they provide extreme versatility. You can: 1) dual element. Works great on monsters that have special conditions. Example being a water kinsect to wash off the mud of a baroth while using a fire glaive. Or a certain elder that requires both fire and ice. 2) a fantastic, relatively free poke on the run with the kinsect. No animation lock for you. You can roll, dodge, even jump! Speaking of.... 3) the ability to get airborne at any 19:36 time. Now some of the hitboxes are....well bad. But there plenty of monsters you can jump over their lunge, spin on a dime and rip down their spine with a driving slash, helicopter down onto their head for a mount, MOVE back and forth for absurd mount damage (basically immune to all but a handful of monster effects while moving) and a free knockdown where you ground and pound the shit out of it, and thenvyou leap right before it gets up for another driving slash into a downward thrust right before it clears its standing animation. Now, downsides.....number 3 just ate all your sharpness. Also, it almost requires affinity to really start to feel good, and there just arnt a lot of options until master rank.
As an Insect Glaive lover, I’m offended (Though I will say World has the most boring Kinsect mechanics compared to other entries imo) but this is easily one of the better videos I’ve seen of someone cataloging their journey and I’m excited to see the next installment! Also small correction, you can dodge through roars, you just have to i-frame them rather than just dodge out of the way. You can also guard and counter them!
I'd say it was an improvement from MH4u Especially when iceborne added that downward spike attack that combos into tagging the monster part for the bug to attack You could use that to get the buffs without interrupting glaive attacks And feed the kinsect slinger ammo to have it pick up multiple buffs at the same time
Learn by playing the game. Ya know, how most people learned to play MH, especially older, significantly more difficult titles. If people manage to learn to play well with desired weapons back when there were no guides, the in game tutorials only went as far as "combine this herb with this mushroom for potion, plus honey for mega", and when you had to chug a potion while standing still, then pose after finishing it, people will do fine.
honestly the switch from low rank to high rank was pretty unnoticeable but the switch to master rank was like going from sea level to the top of mount everest
I instantly groaned when I saw how small their health and stamina bars were, and that they didn't have 2 or 3 status buff icons flashing in their hud. You can't brute force your way through monster hunter lol. Wear all the right equipment, bring all the right consumables, eat all the right things at the canteen, and maybe, MAYBE you can afford to make a few mistakes. These guys are just charging in leeroy Jenkins style and then wondering why they get one shotted. As soon as I realized that the lance shield can block infinitely as long as you have stamina and there's a consumable that gives you unlimited stamina even master rank became too easy. Who cares about I frames when you ARE an I frame.
As someone who has made it to guiding lands without ever wearing any armour, I can agree. The game is pretty hard. And Unforgiving. And I hope you never have to face Black Veil Vaal Hazak with nothing but your undergarments and a close-ranged weapon.
That final boss reaction was so anticlimactic, half of it was silence and the other half was “I gotta leeeaaave!” 😂 (and no I’m not complaining about it, it’s honestly pretty funny)
I am a die hard IG main but I really agree with your opinion on it. The kinsect is cool and unique but god is it annoying for me to be doing a sick combo and suddenly my red buff runs out Nice video btw
The only real Wall i ran into on my monster Hunter journey was Diablos, he kicked my ass a bunch of times. But after many failed attempts i finally managed to beat it. That feeling lit the spark that became the fire of continuous self improvement... Once you realize that everything is overcome-able, getting over that Hill became what it was all about. putting in the effort, researching, finding new answers and striving to get better and better, failing became learning... Also I develop an addiction to the sound of the longsword when pulling of a counter
Pretty sure they hadn't upgraded all their low rank gear, and they also were not eating food. If they were they certainly weren't getting full health bars from it, which made attacks that would do about a 2/3rds of their health be one shots.
I didn't notice the difficulty spike until Arch Tempered became a thing. I find it difficult to play MHW these days because I took a long break after fighting the insanity of those monsters for awhile, and when I come back they're my only avenue left for progression... so hunting anything else feels pointless but hunting them (and their equivalents, like Alatreon and Fatalis) especially while out of practice and coming off of a break is just pure pain, an absolute chore and a job away from my job. So I don't really play MHW anymore
High rank is difficult only if you don't know how to use the weapon. After beating game solo (especially Alatreon, Fatalis and AT Velhana) then start from the beginning and everything feels easy :))
Mained lance for MHW and Iceborne on PS4, my one difficulty spike came in the form of an angry monke. (Defensive kit was on too often) Bought it bundled on Steam and started over on PC last week, scrubbing the rust away, so much fun! Enjoyable video
@@colematlock7755 hecka wall that I never quite got used to, but the rest of the mons tho - chefs kiss. I will get back to lance-only speedrun practice before Wilds comes, fun af
Insect glaive is my favorite weapon and the insect is part of the reason I like having the beginning of the fight figuring out where the buff spots are dodging all the monster attacks and by the end of the fight you got the monster all figured out and it's satisfying
5:25 as a charge blade main i disagree although the weapon is strictly speaking not the hardest mechanic in all of gaming to execute and play trough relative to all other weapons in mh it is indeed the hardest to pick up and play with, not only does it have the longest combo hold A>a+b>hold A>block+A>A+b>a+b+block cancel you then need to do half of that again to charge phials to have the weapon ready to SAED, SAED is easy to miss early on but even after you get some experience with the weapon and start never missing it, the recovery animation stills fucks you up pretty hard if you don't know watch a guide on how to play discovering how you're supposed to play the thing is also not that intuitive as overcharging phials will make you bounce off effectively making the weapon inusable until you recharge your phials after mastering it you notice it's many strenghts and very few weakneses but that is locked behind a very tecnical weapon with a pretty high entry barrier and even higher skill ceiling than most weapons in mh even on the simplified explanation takes several minutes while some of the truly easy to pick up weapons could be done on a single sentence
While I don't agree that skills like stun resist, earplugs, ect are even kinda necissary so long as you play around them and know how to manage them, I do agree that the fact you can build a set to be immune is a nice option to have so long as you think you need it. You guys are haven't really gotten to the point where you avoid getting hity repeatedly and avoid stuns or you block or roll through roars so I immagine you'll learn eventually, or you won't but you'll enjoy the game however you want regardless and that's just fine too.
100% on the part about 1p vs 2p vs 3p. 3 Player is easily the hardest amount of players outside of 1p no palico. Its genuinely easier to just have someone play a support at that point unless all 3 of yall know the matchup.
Wild to me that we're still getting videos about World. It's not even old! It's not even Retro monhun like Generations, 4, 3, or Frontier! People are still makin' videos about World!
Anajanath was a brutal wall in World, thank god they tuned him down in Rise, and he was pretty much replaced with Goss Harag, who was an extremely fun fight, but was definitely a massive difficulty spike, but i do miss the days of Barroth being the early game apex, eventually leading to fighting Barioth, and Agnaktor in the post game, which were both walls in their own right, with Aggy being the reason i learned lance! xD Stun also builds up quicker when you have thunderblight, so having max stun resistance against Kirin for example, is pretty much nessacery.
For me, i dont think Anjanath was a difficult wall, it may be a family friendly way to play mh but, i always grind a lot for having all the armor i want and have a great drip, my really first wall was Barioth on iceborn because the fight was really intense (i took me 38 minutes and 0 faints), the only one who trigered me was Devilhjo first run with stun lock combo and other dirty stuff (this m*krs i always hated him since MH4U). I understand your thoughts on the old mh games apex monsters and all, i started with MH4U and the apexs where gore magala and Seregios, that was the good old days... but i think evolution of the bestiary is not that bad because every monster keep their position in the ecosystem. I think what you were talking (barroth and barioth) was in the secund generation of mh games ? Was it a good games ?
If you learned lance how the heck its hard? And yea F kirin. No amount of sidestep saves lance from getting zapped. Its like we are carrying lighting rods... Hummm.
Anjanath wasn't much of a wall, though. I mean, if you were already struggling with every other early game monster, then it would be, but if you can comfortably handle a Great Jagras, then you should, at minimum, be able to uncomfortably handle Anjanath.
you could build armor for the monster you struggle with (elemental resistence), eat before every hunt, propper prepping for the hunt with items, positioning , just use dmg windows for bigger combos with more dmg and so on. there is a lot ppl should learn if they rank up.
Based on the title i low key was expecting more explanation on your view on it but by half of the video and with explanation or anything but game play and story elements i had to stop watching due to it getting to click bait territory
Charge Blade does take a long time to explain, and feels like calculus when you do. But honestly, just playing with it, you can mostly figure it out. One idea that might help out others is to use weapon guides to fill in the blanks from your experience, rather than expecting them to teach you from scratch.
I'd like to point out how you said it was annoying to maintain one buff timer (red or triple is really all that matters, the rest is defense and speed, maybe white for jump height depending on the monster) and instead decided you wanted to manage a buff timer, a charge system, and limit your dps to smaller windows with larger windup that also require knowing the monster/spacing disproportionately to most other weapons. Also saying the insect glaive should lose the insect and keep the buff as default is like saying the switch axe would be better without the sword mode, the hunting horn shouldn't have buffs, or the charge blade shouldn't have phials. It's literally the identity of the weapon. Being able to manage your buff uptime because taking in another version of the same buff doesn't refresh the duration. Allowing it to refresh the duration is actually a buff I think it should have for Wilds, or at least exend the duration by like 10-20 seconds with a cap, that way you can use it to your advantage if you're good, but overdoing it wastes DPS similar to hunting horn or charging phials when your weapon already has them.
Finishing up my first playthrough of world and going to play again with a full group of friends, started with swaxe and planning on using charge blade for the next playthrough, as well as recording and makin a vid on it, cause damn do I love this game
When it comes to dark Souls 2 there's a ring you can get early on to reduce the Max HP drain from 50% to only 25% you get very early in the game. Combined with four ring slots you can wear it for the entire game with no issue
My man SAED without learning the monsters, brave. Also hard disagree on the Insect Glaive opinion, resource management is part of the weapons of MH and this is just a part of it
My charge blade evolution throughout progress : 1 : What is this a cool weapon (change sword n shield then axe) my hunts going to be awesome 2 : Wow its op with the heavy swinging 3 : fck it change back to sword n shield mode please!! I need to guard Anjanath one shot ;( 4 : Okay learning amped discarge 5 : Unga bunga AED 6 : Not enough. Learned SAED 7 : Why these phials are charging slowly 8 : Set Decos 9 : Elder Dragon time (keep dying). Learned guard point 10 : Phial charge, store phials, AED, SAED, Guard point, stunlock 11 : Guard Point analyst 12 : Ouh iceborne; Pizza cutter When I first played I never thought charge blade was hard. It was cool and coolness overwheighs my priority in hunts hahaha. Like cmon when the SAED hits and then the monster stunned. Perfection
The loop is intimidating, but you're also doing consistent damage the whole time. A charged sword/shield mode can deal 200+ damage each swing with a good elemental match up. Sword swings like 4-6 times every 5 seconds.
Please stop calling mechanical changes "qol" or I'm gonna suffer 😭 Love the video and seeing you go through this amazing game, I look forward to your Iceborne video. Also that low subscriber count is criminal, your videos are very fun
Did u use defender armor? Edit oh okay yea So start of HR is always p rough bc the power spike. The ways devs intend for u to play from lr to HR is to complete all ur canteen quests(and gather the rare account items from both types of area specific gathering nodes,crimson fruit and ancient fossils of rotten vale for example) and also all ur other equipment quests. It's also recommended to do LR kirin as well, and u might benefit from the zoarah gear which is ez save for the quest availability. Even with 2 lr rath pieces, zoarah legs and arms, and like lr Anja coil, things are still really mean and that's with armor upgrades. Mr is slightly easier bc beotodus is a bish and u have decorations going into it, unlike her where u get a single attack deco and nothing to slot it in.
Down voted the video with the idiotic comment of dumbing down the insect glaive bug partner concept. Marking target powering up with the kinsect combo with powder bugs for extra manage it’s all there.
Imo it’s because there’s no skills to level up. You get better weapons and armor, but other than that the one who needs to improve is you as the player. Not by leveling up n shit yk
i started off world with a hammer, then i went greatsword on iceborne (heavenly) then in rise i used hammer, then went to longsword on sunbreak (greatsword just doesn't feel the same in rise)
So this is happened with a lot of new player, most of them is so underprepared for HR or MR and they started to learned about upgrading armor with armorsphere, using buff potion etc AFTER they get beaten up to a pulp by the same monster they defeat multiple times in low rank, the game also did a bad job introducting these survivability mechanic to a new player sadly and I don't see a lot of videos about these little mechanic to keep new player live longer too 😂
*Looks at Intro Clip* *sigh* Why do CB players always feel the need to stick their nose INTO the Monsters rear before starting a SAED and then are most likely going to miss? TAKE. ONE. STEP. BACK. BEFORE. SAED. goddammit!
Wait, you switch from the insect glaive, because you didn't want to manage the insect essence, and go for the charge blade instead? No, nothing to keep constantly managed there, I feel dumber for watching the first 5 mins.
I wasnt expecting the video to be a CB propaganda and IG anti-propaganda. 😂 But ngl, enjoyed it all the same tho im not gonna agree with your take on IG 😁
I have to disagree with the "3 players is hard" thing. Mathematically speaking you just need to deal a tiny bit more dmg in a 3 man party personally than in a 2 man. The only thing you are missing is your cat, which isn't that huge of a deal, except if you rely on your vigorwasp and if you do, thats kinda a you problem. It becomes a problem when you have 1 player who is a deadweight though or even 2, since you now need to deal solo dmg or even more, meanwhile you can fail the quest because the other ones just want to get carried. Bu if you are all equal, 3 man shouldn't be harder than solo or 2 man. 4 man on the other hand is so fucking easy its funny ngl.
Not eating is another thing y’all should avoid doing
Yeah making it a habit to eat
And unlock all canteen ingredients. So many hunters neglect their canteen
@@CleopatraKing they made it a chore to unlock certain ingredients compared to older games. Really leaned into the expedition gimmick. Most people don’t even do guiding lands until they get carried through fatalis lol
@@DrooledOn doesn't matter, if ur relying on a competent hunter when all u have to do is wear the beginning head armor and hornitaur mail if ur going to the vale, ur just being lazy. Even if u aren't consciously going for all the canteen ingredients u should be gathering both account items while u hunt. Hell it's even separated in LR and hr so u only have to grab 8 ingredients to start. Even dedicated expeditions for the rare hr ones don't take more than 30 min.
You know you can put Anjanath's fire out by hitting him in the mouth with Pool Pods? It's pretty funny to see.
What the F?!?! I didnt know that after playing the game for more than 500 hours😂😂😂
Pods are severely underrated. While they seem meaningless, they all have a very good use for them
They were so useful in base world, but iceborne kind of removed them to just be the universal wall splat option
The rollerbeetles from rise and sunbreak serve the same purpouse here, and they actually have common uses.
Or you can parry him lmfao
Not gonna lie, reading the title... yeah that's accurate. In fact, it's a perfect description of why I love this series.
(EDIT) I disagree with your take on the insect glaive though. I understand it, but disagree.
For real bugs are cool af
@@snakesan7724 Yeah. Though I also disagree because it's not meant to be a polearm weapon. It's more like a wizard's staff, if that makes any sense. Sure, it's got a blade, and it is pretty strong, but the bug is what ties it all together, applying free status, healing and buffing you, or even healing your team. You are basically a support caster. Not, well, Lancer from Fate.
@@ethanhostetler4007 Yeah but many have been screaming for a glaive weapon, me included. I love a heavy long reaching blade that makes me feel like Lui Buu from dynasty warriors. It's the one kind of weapon I feel like MH is truly missing. I'm with Degen here as I find the insect tedious to manage and takes me out of the experience of fighting the monster. I'd rather just be in there hitting it than backing up to hit the specific part I want to get my buffs up. Which is fine, I don't think they need to remove the insect for those that enjoy it. I just wish there was a side option where you could leave out the insect for some other mechanic to take it's place.
@@xelic1996 Tedious? I dunno, but without that bug it's JUST a stick. And it appears the Kinsect is here to stay, thankfully. That said, a dedicated spear weapon of some kind WOULD be neat, even if I would never play it. I like having the buffs it gives, and the resource management is pretty simple. I can either hang back for a sec, quickly target the parts I need, and then get back in, or just tag the part I'm currently beating, then move on when I get the buff. Plus, the bug itself being able to drop status clouds and healing means I can play a support role pretty easy, without having to just sit back with a bunch of potions and a gun. Like I said elsewhere, it's essentially a mage weapon. And it's not much different from managing a slinger either, just grab ammo, point, and sling. Just make sure your Kinsect is fast, some fights make it difficult to land extracts at range, although you aren't really going to be doing that much if you know what you're fighting... well dang, now I wanna go play Monster Hunter, sorry for the long ramble, this is one of my go-to weapons, so I'ma leave with this: If you want a suggestion from me, Longsword or Lance. Lance is way slower, not quite the mobility you want, but far simpler in terms of what you'll be doing, and Longsword, it's a bit complicated, and my other main weapon, of course, but it provides a lot of horizontal mobility when used correctly. Or if you really wanna make the glaive work with as little interaction with the Kinsect as possible, the head is always a Red Extract, get a Power Prolonger piece, wear it, grab red: profit. You'll have the combos and damage, and for a pretty long time. And you can usually start off most fights with a shot on the head if yer aim is good. Honestly, the only changed I'd want is being able to re-proc the 3 point buff. It feels weird not being able to do that. Anyways, later!
@@ethanhostetler4007Honestly I also kinda disagree too, since I think the weapon was originally meant to be more of a utility weapon not in a kinsect way, but more in a mounting fashion. In Mh4U when it was introduced, the biggest pro was that it was the only weapon that could do a mount without a ledge, giving out a good dps window. Not so much a kinsect utility since you couldn't aim well in a nintendo. Now they added an additional powder mechanic thing to compensate for the lack of usefulness in World, but I still think that it should be used as a fully melee weapon. It's hard to use it all in conjunction, managing the kinsect and dishing ground dps damage.
But I think the biggest advantage that Insect glaive has, it's the ability to gap close with the vault and then down thrust mid air so you can keep dps'ing the monster on the ground without giving it a moment to breathe.
MR 639 currently and 1k hours insect glaive main here.
think of it this way. if Low Rank is there to teach you the mechanics of the game, High Rank is testing you on whether or not you understand them and know how to use them. and Master Rank is the final exam, making you use the accumulated knowledge of both LR and HR.
Let's be real, the biggest spike is at the end of MR, when you get to the title update monsters. They're the real challenge in MHWIB, and are definitely souls level in difficulty.
And then there's Fatalis.
@@somebodyanonymous4608 Fatalis is easy tho?
@@julexar On repeat hunts, yeah, he carts me less than the Elden Ring DLC final boss, but he took longer for first kill (solo only).
I think it's because his hunt just takes more perfection, since you have to deal with the time limit.
@@somebodyanonymous4608 Once you hunt him a few times, he‘s pretty easy
Oh I must have missed somthing then. I drink potions like water in master rank
High rank is difficult, when your armor is not upgraded and even when it is some monsters hit like the hulk IE Tigrex. Going back to low rank to practice with another weapon or to grind mats is never a bad idea either.
Tigrex is in Iceborne Master rank kinda in the middle when you already have master rank gear, and the only times you don't have high rank stuff in high rank is like the first two quests.
The insane thing about this game is that the skill ceiling its insane. In 0:11 you actually had the opportunity to survive. If you had pressed R2 the second you got out of the roar stun, you would have turn the axe into the shield and parry the hit, but thats only something that comes with hours of experience. You probably would have noticed this now with your current skill level
that guy talking about IRS whistleblower report is completely unhinged psychopath
Always glad to see a fresh group of people discover monster hunter. Makes my old gen 2 startin' self haply.
However, your opinions on the insect glaive shall go down in your permanent record. Insect glaive mains everywhere are now aware of your location. You have been warned.
Also, monster hunt difficulty can be offset by preparation
Having armor thats in a similar rank, flash pods for flying monsters, traps for opportunities, herbal medicines or powder instead of antidotes (same poison removal with faster animation and a minor heal)
If a strat ain't working, regroup and try something else.
if those bug collectors want to come after me, they can! they might be better than me at the game, but i'll happily die on this hill at their hands! at least, until capcom adds a 'long spear' (or something akin to that) to the weapon roster.
@@degenerator Oh, was looking for one of yer comments. *Ahem*, as an Insect Glaive main, though I hesitate to say main because you can't really main two weapons... I guess, Longsword is the other by the way, whatever. As an IG user/main, I have things to say! While I do sorta understand not liking the bug aspect, it is very important, and also pretty cool when you understand it, especially when you can lace a giant bee with C4 explosives and nuke a T-Rex. It's not really a polearm, it's more like a magic weapon, if that makes any sense, with your bug being the main way of casting "spells". You have a variety of debuffs through different bugs, applicable elements, different bug stats, as well as self buffs through the main 4 colors (red, better combos and aerial moves, white, movement speed, orange, knockback prevention, and green, which heals you) Some of the bugs even have a healing dust instead of a debuff, which anyone can use, not just the person making them. Plus, your extracts do more than just what I've stated above, like giving you more damage, and can even be enhanced by armor skills. Point is, the glaive has always had the bug, it should always have the bug, and if it ever gets removed... it will be a sad day. Seriously, it'll just be a lame bladed stick. Also, you can buff the bug with slinger ammo, either more bug stamina or more bug damage, and it can do WORK. It's not just a thing for extracts, it's more DPS. Especially if say, you have a bug with blast that you tag on a monster, and then mount the monster. Your knife attacks can trigger these, as well as the spin moving from part to part. Anyways, that's all I really had to say. Plus, you don't wanna be Lancer... this carnival gets pretty deadly at the end. Low Rank is just the tutorial. Not to say don't play glaive, but I'm sure you get what I mean.
(EDIT, also some slight errors fixed) By the way, we glaive users/mains aren't mad, we're just disappointed.
@@ethanhostetler4007 🤭fair enough. i do think the IG is a cool weapon, it's just that a lot of the cool things about it don't translate to the type of gameplay i enjoy. though, to be honest, for all my grandiose talking, if i found out capcom was directly implementing my suggestions into wilds or something like that, i'd be pretty upset, too. sure, it would make the weapon more appealing to *me*, but i wouldn't want them to do that when there are so many people who like the weapon as-is, especially since there are so many other weapons i'd like to try anyway.
@@degenerator Huh. Neat. I do kinda wish we just had a straight up spear though for piercing, I love the lance, but it's a bit heavy. Still, game's got so many weapons already that having any more would bloat it too much, and changing some of them may end with them being too similar or just not fun. Anyways, I'ma head out, have a nice day!
Wow, high rank quests were real tough! I'm sure iceborne will go much better!
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Barioth is watching is watching his next prey
foolish me finishing the base game with 40 hrs on the clock only to be met by the first master rank monsters watching 40 minutes pass by with the monsters barely giving a shit
lol the sarcasm.
@@J.H_.barioth is not that difficulty. I see many people saying he's so difficult but if ur able to take even one of his wings/legs out he becomes really manageable but yeah before that he's annoying as shit but not difficult I would say.
This is unexpectedly a very good Charge Blade tutorial.
Also, love your green screen.
Welcome to Monster Hunter.
Bro the editing quality of this channel is insane! Love the storytime intermissions. This right here is an instant sub.
That Insect Glaive comment at the beginning and how you'd wish it was just the glaive really, REALLY resonated with me you have no idea (but I am also a Charge Blade main so weapon-wise we have similar opinions).
Well as a CB main since MH4U, i like the Kinsect part more than the Glaive part. IG was my main throughout HR in 4U.
I think old gen was more focused on MH as an art form and an experience rather than combat and gameplay, so i really liked the kinsect concept and their designs and how it fit into the art style n whatnot. but then i realized CB was bonkers overpowered if you could use it correctly.
sidenote: i really miss the old map and landscape design, game balancing, sound design, music, art style, etc., the only change modern gen made that i like is layered armor
Picking up Charge Blade (GS main) as a secondary turned me into a war criminal against small monsters. I become a fiend slaughtering everything to make sure I start every fight with full charge and phials.
Idk, for me, I've found every MH game I've played (4U, GU, Tri, World), it's kind of went like:
Low rank: Easy
High rank: The start can be rough but still not very hard
G/Master rank: So you have chosen death
Here is how rise works;
Low rank; easy
High rank; medium
Master rank; how does four elder dragons at once sound
Tbh, 4U's G rank isnt super horrifying, its just the permanent 4p scaling in hub quests that kinda sucks. raging brachy and metal raths were hardest for me in 4U G rank Hub, where i didnt have nearly as much trouble with all three fatalis, akantor and ukanlos, gogmazios, and i think i even soloed dalamadur once with latent power+2 and sharpness+1 as my only contributing armor skills (arc x set).
@@orochi_08 I did play the DS trilogy when I was like, 8, so it could be less bad then I remember
@@Bob-jh6xt you gotta emulate it and play with a controller since the c stick was crucial to MH (and also it wears out really easily). if you look up n3dsxl c stick images, 85% of the games shown are MH4 lol.
when i started watching this vid i had no idea i was going to to get so triggered every time he says zagdna macardose lol
59:00 surprised you didn’t talk about the 10 minute unskippable credits 😂
i was fine with the *first* set of credits, but when the *second* set of credits started rolling, i immediately got up from my chair and went to make a sandwich.
Charge Blade is the most complex weapon and that's what people used to say, I don't know why the discourse changed from that to Charge Blade is really hard to use
i learn it atm playing 4U and its not even that hard to learn. i think everyone can learn any monster hunter weapon in 2-4 weaks and play trough the game with it.
@@leonidasvonsparta that is a lot of time bruv 💀
i'd say that's the time frame to master it maybe, but just to learn it and get down your role and basic gameplan it's probably more like a couple hours.
Back when I was first playing MHW on Xbox with some friends, one of them kept telling me that me choosing Charge Blade was basically me choosing easy mode or something, he couldn't be more wrong but I was happy to learn a fairly interesting weapon idea
The secret is that it is neither.
44:15 Kushala Daora is the ONLY time I’ve ever time failed a quest in over 400 hours because you can’t hit it for most of the quest
dude i swear, if SnS is the jack of all trades, charge blade is the jack of all dopamine trades. You get the satisfaction of greatsword's big slam, lance's block and counter, and dual blades flurry of numbers all in one neat package.
In Terraria, there are times when the world will spike up in difficulty, akin to a set of stairs. However, there comes a point where pure skill becomes basically useless and you have to find workarounds.
This is balanced out by giving the player access to new materials after each step of progression, allowing them to partially flatten the difficulty curve so they can keep pace.
If you ever hit a wall, just go explore a little until you find a way to upgrade yourself.
As a fan of both the charge blade and the insect glaive, I'm a bit irked by your statements revolving around the kinsect portion of the weapon. For both weapons, you maintain a powered up state. I understand how annoying it can be when you need to charge back up while in the middle of the fight, but they both share that same sort of feature.
Right? I’m glad im not the only one who felt really weird about that
You can ofc have opinions on ig buffing but its still true that the kinsect is an integral part of the weapon identity
the difference is flow. the charge blade's moveset flows into powering up, and then flows back into resource gathering mode naturally. the insect glaive is like if you have to use your slinger to power up your axe mode.
Tips:
1) Always eat before a quest, unless you want to have -50% health
2) Insect glaive mains will forever haunt your bedside. Also, you *can* be lancer from fate, if you learn to properly use the insects. Personally, I would also gut you for saying such blasphemy, but your choice of chargeblade saves you. I would go into a rant about how you're fundamentally using IG wrong, but I know it's pointless. I can only beg you to reconsider once you get better equipment, insects, and full flinch free.
3) Immediately upgrade to the next rank in armour. Forget skills, defense is *necessary.* Jagras armour will get you to anjanath, and anjanath armour should carry you through most of high rank.
4) Learn as much chargeblade tech as possible. *Everything* is useful. For an example, overcharged phial charged sword spam, or manual side hops. The first is indeed niche, but it can save your ass, while the latter is objectively amazing.
I agree with you that IG bugs part is fucking boring. It's chores.
No one when talking about IG says "ah yes the weapon where I play discount LBG and collect color juice from monster", they say "ah the helicopter weapon".
The essence collection is a interesting attempt at resource management attempt. However the disconnect between the 2 portion of the weapon's gamplay just made it jarring and doesn't flow together.
Capcom knows this, this is why they added Kinsect Slash in Sunbreak. Now that's a solid improvement.
In gen ultimate insect glaive could also mark with a physical hit I think
@@ghoulishgoober3122 you can in world. It's R2/RT. It's funny that people call the kinsect "chores" when they provide extreme versatility. You can:
1) dual element. Works great on monsters that have special conditions. Example being a water kinsect to wash off the mud of a baroth while using a fire glaive. Or a certain elder that requires both fire and ice.
2) a fantastic, relatively free poke on the run with the kinsect. No animation lock for you. You can roll, dodge, even jump! Speaking of....
3) the ability to get airborne at any 19:36 time. Now some of the hitboxes are....well bad. But there plenty of monsters you can jump over their lunge, spin on a dime and rip down their spine with a driving slash, helicopter down onto their head for a mount, MOVE back and forth for absurd mount damage (basically immune to all but a handful of monster effects while moving) and a free knockdown where you ground and pound the shit out of it, and thenvyou leap right before it gets up for another driving slash into a downward thrust right before it clears its standing animation.
Now, downsides.....number 3 just ate all your sharpness. Also, it almost requires affinity to really start to feel good, and there just arnt a lot of options until master rank.
As an Insect Glaive lover, I’m offended (Though I will say World has the most boring Kinsect mechanics compared to other entries imo) but this is easily one of the better videos I’ve seen of someone cataloging their journey and I’m excited to see the next installment!
Also small correction, you can dodge through roars, you just have to i-frame them rather than just dodge out of the way. You can also guard and counter them!
Ye what separates great hunters from apex hunters is being able to consistently dodge roll roars
I'd say it was an improvement from MH4u
Especially when iceborne added that downward spike attack that combos into tagging the monster part for the bug to attack
You could use that to get the buffs without interrupting glaive attacks
And feed the kinsect slinger ammo to have it pick up multiple buffs at the same time
But I won't deny I'll miss MH Rise Glaive being able to stay in the air a lot more
What are we going to do in Wilds now that Arekkz no longer makes weapons guides?
We Hunt, break though and adapt to the hunts brother
People hunt before Arekkz, we rise to the challenge brother. Use the knowledge Arekkz has imparted.
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rurikhan , gaijin hunter, rage gaming and lot more are out there covering such stuff.
Learn by playing the game. Ya know, how most people learned to play MH, especially older, significantly more difficult titles.
If people manage to learn to play well with desired weapons back when there were no guides, the in game tutorials only went as far as "combine this herb with this mushroom for potion, plus honey for mega", and when you had to chug a potion while standing still, then pose after finishing it, people will do fine.
I like how the difficult monster was pink rathian and the rest was just smooth sailing
6:53 is one of the funniest double-deaths I've ever seen
honestly the switch from low rank to high rank was pretty unnoticeable but the switch to master rank was like going from sea level to the top of mount everest
i m new round here, someone please for the love of god tell me why tf my man over here calling Zora Magdaros - "static numero calos"???
I instantly groaned when I saw how small their health and stamina bars were, and that they didn't have 2 or 3 status buff icons flashing in their hud. You can't brute force your way through monster hunter lol. Wear all the right equipment, bring all the right consumables, eat all the right things at the canteen, and maybe, MAYBE you can afford to make a few mistakes. These guys are just charging in leeroy Jenkins style and then wondering why they get one shotted. As soon as I realized that the lance shield can block infinitely as long as you have stamina and there's a consumable that gives you unlimited stamina even master rank became too easy. Who cares about I frames when you ARE an I frame.
As someone who has made it to guiding lands without ever wearing any armour, I can agree. The game is pretty hard. And Unforgiving. And I hope you never have to face Black Veil Vaal Hazak with nothing but your undergarments and a close-ranged weapon.
Eating, mega demon drug, mega armor, power talen, armor talen, power and armor charms- just that with decent armor will save you a lot!
Your video is really good! Keep up the good work!
That final boss reaction was so anticlimactic, half of it was silence and the other half was “I gotta leeeaaave!” 😂
(and no I’m not complaining about it, it’s honestly pretty funny)
I am a die hard IG main but I really agree with your opinion on it. The kinsect is cool and unique but god is it annoying for me to be doing a sick combo and suddenly my red buff runs out
Nice video btw
The only real Wall i ran into on my monster Hunter journey was Diablos, he kicked my ass a bunch of times. But after many failed attempts i finally managed to beat it. That feeling lit the spark that became the fire of continuous self improvement...
Once you realize that everything is overcome-able, getting over that Hill became what it was all about. putting in the effort, researching, finding new answers and striving to get better and better, failing became learning... Also I develop an addiction to the sound of the longsword when pulling of a counter
how was pink rathian THAT bad
Pretty sure they hadn't upgraded all their low rank gear, and they also were not eating food. If they were they certainly weren't getting full health bars from it, which made attacks that would do about a 2/3rds of their health be one shots.
I didn't notice the difficulty spike until Arch Tempered became a thing. I find it difficult to play MHW these days because I took a long break after fighting the insanity of those monsters for awhile, and when I come back they're my only avenue left for progression... so hunting anything else feels pointless but hunting them (and their equivalents, like Alatreon and Fatalis) especially while out of practice and coming off of a break is just pure pain, an absolute chore and a job away from my job.
So I don't really play MHW anymore
That Hairstyle good Sir, just forced me to hit that sub button! Lovin it!
High rank is difficult only if you don't know how to use the weapon. After beating game solo (especially Alatreon, Fatalis and AT Velhana) then start from the beginning and everything feels easy :))
This was very entertaining to watch, it was paced like a movie and i watched the whole thing
Mained lance for MHW and Iceborne on PS4, my one difficulty spike came in the form of an angry monke. (Defensive kit was on too often)
Bought it bundled on Steam and started over on PC last week, scrubbing the rust away, so much fun! Enjoyable video
dude angry monke is a not a difficulty spike, he is a difficulty wall. and thats coming from someone who has solo'd Fatalis.
@@colematlock7755 hecka wall that I never quite got used to, but the rest of the mons tho - chefs kiss. I will get back to lance-only speedrun practice before Wilds comes, fun af
Insect glaive is my favorite weapon and the insect is part of the reason I like having the beginning of the fight figuring out where the buff spots are dodging all the monster attacks and by the end of the fight you got the monster all figured out and it's satisfying
TIL there's a Power Axe mode. And here I am calling myself a Charge Blade main lmao
5:25 as a charge blade main i disagree although the weapon is strictly speaking not the hardest mechanic in all of gaming to execute and play trough relative to all other weapons in mh it is indeed the hardest to pick up and play with, not only does it have the longest combo hold A>a+b>hold A>block+A>A+b>a+b+block cancel
you then need to do half of that again to charge phials to have the weapon ready to SAED, SAED is easy to miss early on but even after you get some experience with the weapon and start never missing it, the recovery animation stills fucks you up pretty hard
if you don't know watch a guide on how to play discovering how you're supposed to play the thing is also not that intuitive as overcharging phials will make you bounce off effectively making the weapon inusable until you recharge your phials
after mastering it you notice it's many strenghts and very few weakneses but that is locked behind a very tecnical weapon with a pretty high entry barrier and even higher skill ceiling than most weapons in mh
even on the simplified explanation takes several minutes while some of the truly easy to pick up weapons could be done on a single sentence
Bro might be Cu Chulainn🙏😭 (he died a lot)
While I don't agree that skills like stun resist, earplugs, ect are even kinda necissary so long as you play around them and know how to manage them, I do agree that the fact you can build a set to be immune is a nice option to have so long as you think you need it. You guys are haven't really gotten to the point where you avoid getting hity repeatedly and avoid stuns or you block or roll through roars so I immagine you'll learn eventually, or you won't but you'll enjoy the game however you want regardless and that's just fine too.
100% on the part about 1p vs 2p vs 3p. 3 Player is easily the hardest amount of players outside of 1p no palico. Its genuinely easier to just have someone play a support at that point unless all 3 of yall know the matchup.
Wild to me that we're still getting videos about World. It's not even old! It's not even Retro monhun like Generations, 4, 3, or Frontier! People are still makin' videos about World!
Anajanath was a brutal wall in World, thank god they tuned him down in Rise, and he was pretty much replaced with Goss Harag, who was an extremely fun fight, but was definitely a massive difficulty spike, but i do miss the days of Barroth being the early game apex, eventually leading to fighting Barioth, and Agnaktor in the post game, which were both walls in their own right, with Aggy being the reason i learned lance! xD Stun also builds up quicker when you have thunderblight, so having max stun resistance against Kirin for example, is pretty much nessacery.
For me, i dont think Anjanath was a difficult wall, it may be a family friendly way to play mh but, i always grind a lot for having all the armor i want and have a great drip, my really first wall was Barioth on iceborn because the fight was really intense (i took me 38 minutes and 0 faints), the only one who trigered me was Devilhjo first run with stun lock combo and other dirty stuff (this m*krs i always hated him since MH4U).
I understand your thoughts on the old mh games apex monsters and all, i started with MH4U and the apexs where gore magala and Seregios, that was the good old days... but i think evolution of the bestiary is not that bad because every monster keep their position in the ecosystem. I think what you were talking (barroth and barioth) was in the secund generation of mh games ? Was it a good games ?
Whats with everybody finding the pink boy hard? Or are yall talking about the electric anja?
If you learned lance how the heck its hard? And yea F kirin. No amount of sidestep saves lance from getting zapped. Its like we are carrying lighting rods... Hummm.
Anjanath wasn't much of a wall, though. I mean, if you were already struggling with every other early game monster, then it would be, but if you can comfortably handle a Great Jagras, then you should, at minimum, be able to uncomfortably handle Anjanath.
Welcome to astera , hope you enjoy Selina 5th fleeter.
you could build armor for the monster you struggle with (elemental resistence), eat before every hunt, propper prepping for the hunt with items, positioning , just use dmg windows for bigger combos with more dmg and so on. there is a lot ppl should learn if they rank up.
Based on the title i low key was expecting more explanation on your view on it but by half of the video and with explanation or anything but game play and story elements i had to stop watching due to it getting to click bait territory
Real hidden gem of a video. Hope it gets big
Your intro is all of Arekz whiffs combined.
So much fun
The editing is on point.
Charge Blade does take a long time to explain, and feels like calculus when you do. But honestly, just playing with it, you can mostly figure it out. One idea that might help out others is to use weapon guides to fill in the blanks from your experience, rather than expecting them to teach you from scratch.
the only wall i faced was anjanath in world, than everything became easy? but when anjananth was hard HE WAS HARD for me
I'd like to point out how you said it was annoying to maintain one buff timer (red or triple is really all that matters, the rest is defense and speed, maybe white for jump height depending on the monster) and instead decided you wanted to manage a buff timer, a charge system, and limit your dps to smaller windows with larger windup that also require knowing the monster/spacing disproportionately to most other weapons.
Also saying the insect glaive should lose the insect and keep the buff as default is like saying the switch axe would be better without the sword mode, the hunting horn shouldn't have buffs, or the charge blade shouldn't have phials. It's literally the identity of the weapon. Being able to manage your buff uptime because taking in another version of the same buff doesn't refresh the duration. Allowing it to refresh the duration is actually a buff I think it should have for Wilds, or at least exend the duration by like 10-20 seconds with a cap, that way you can use it to your advantage if you're good, but overdoing it wastes DPS similar to hunting horn or charging phials when your weapon already has them.
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Finishing up my first playthrough of world and going to play again with a full group of friends, started with swaxe and planning on using charge blade for the next playthrough, as well as recording and makin a vid on it, cause damn do I love this game
This video is so good made, i hope more people knew about it
Charge blade is really cool but why choose that when I can big bonk
When it comes to dark Souls 2 there's a ring you can get early on to reduce the Max HP drain from 50% to only 25% you get very early in the game. Combined with four ring slots you can wear it for the entire game with no issue
My man SAED without learning the monsters, brave.
Also hard disagree on the Insect Glaive opinion, resource management is part of the weapons of MH and this is just a part of it
Not going to lie now I'm looking forward to watching you guys play Rise and get slapped around.
indicating that MH:rise is a challenge before Sunbreak and lvl 100+ investigations is a big no-no even for a semi-casual MH player like myself
@@orion1694 I say it depends on the Monster, one persons ez hunt is another's kryptonite.
@@Ookamimoon66 well , ye I understand your pov but still, I would say like Valstrax is a good difficulty spike for Rise
@@orion1694 To the unprepared yeah, the issue is if they try the event version first. That is a MR Level in terms of Damage.
@@orion1694 valstrax Is straight up a master rank monster smurfing, i find quite amusing a bazelgeuse of mr7 does the same damage as a HR valstrax
world used to have it where the monsters health was the same if you had 2-4 players hunting the monster.
Guys, dont tell them about the Iceborn DLC.
My charge blade evolution throughout progress :
1 : What is this a cool weapon (change sword n shield then axe) my hunts going to be awesome
2 : Wow its op with the heavy swinging
3 : fck it change back to sword n shield mode please!! I need to guard Anjanath one shot ;(
4 : Okay learning amped discarge
5 : Unga bunga AED
6 : Not enough. Learned SAED
7 : Why these phials are charging slowly
8 : Set Decos
9 : Elder Dragon time (keep dying). Learned guard point
10 : Phial charge, store phials, AED, SAED, Guard point, stunlock
11 : Guard Point analyst
12 : Ouh iceborne; Pizza cutter
When I first played I never thought charge blade was hard. It was cool and coolness overwheighs my priority in hunts hahaha. Like cmon when the SAED hits and then the monster stunned. Perfection
6:34 As a GS user since forever, this loop just to deliver a massive damage scares me lol (But I'll try it)
The loop is intimidating, but you're also doing consistent damage the whole time. A charged sword/shield mode can deal 200+ damage each swing with a good elemental match up. Sword swings like 4-6 times every 5 seconds.
Please stop calling mechanical changes "qol" or I'm gonna suffer 😭
Love the video and seeing you go through this amazing game, I look forward to your Iceborne video.
Also that low subscriber count is criminal, your videos are very fun
You forgot Super charging your sword when your shield is charged.
Skill issue. And upgrade ur damn armor. No wonder you getting flipped like a burger.
Never cook again
getting strong Sam vibes
General Sam the GOAT 🐐
Don't think the difficulty spike is very big if you take the game slowly. Also... IG, GS, and CB is crazy when ur bad.
Did u use defender armor?
Edit oh okay yea
So start of HR is always p rough bc the power spike. The ways devs intend for u to play from lr to HR is to complete all ur canteen quests(and gather the rare account items from both types of area specific gathering nodes,crimson fruit and ancient fossils of rotten vale for example) and also all ur other equipment quests. It's also recommended to do LR kirin as well, and u might benefit from the zoarah gear which is ez save for the quest availability. Even with 2 lr rath pieces, zoarah legs and arms, and like lr Anja coil, things are still really mean and that's with armor upgrades. Mr is slightly easier bc beotodus is a bish and u have decorations going into it, unlike her where u get a single attack deco and nothing to slot it in.
Also use flash bombs only on flying monsters. It makes them fall(usually there's some that require specific timing, cough cough alatreon)
Down voted the video with the idiotic comment of dumbing down the insect glaive bug partner concept. Marking target powering up with the kinsect combo with powder bugs for extra manage it’s all there.
ngl not being able to tell the difference between Taylor Swift and Avirl Lavigne is CRAZY
Wait a minute.... you got to master rank without finding or fighting the Bazelgeuse? That doesn't make much sense....
Heh. Not using guard point? Master rank is gonna make you pay for that 😅
Yea charge blade isn't that hard to learn, certainly one up there but in any case what is hard are the actual controls required to do said actions
yeah Chargeblade is really easy imo. the hardest part for me is learning the monster in order to guard point more lmao. the rest is super easy
Imo it’s because there’s no skills to level up. You get better weapons and armor, but other than that the one who needs to improve is you as the player. Not by leveling up n shit yk
i started off world with a hammer, then i went greatsword on iceborne (heavenly)
then in rise i used hammer, then went to longsword on sunbreak (greatsword just doesn't feel the same in rise)
So this is happened with a lot of new player, most of them is so underprepared for HR or MR and they started to learned about upgrading armor with armorsphere, using buff potion etc AFTER they get beaten up to a pulp by the same monster they defeat multiple times in low rank, the game also did a bad job introducting these survivability mechanic to a new player sadly and I don't see a lot of videos about these little mechanic to keep new player live longer too 😂
Sorry chief the Dodogama see's this as a skill issue.
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7 point to cb. With lance you poke stuff till it dies. YOLO.
*Looks at Intro Clip*
*sigh* Why do CB players always feel the need to stick their nose INTO the Monsters rear before starting a SAED and then are most likely going to miss?
TAKE. ONE. STEP. BACK. BEFORE. SAED. goddammit!
I'm not even a CB main and know this
I remember the first time I fought nergigante I got smoked rq 😂
I see charge blade I subscribe
Wait, you switch from the insect glaive, because you didn't want to manage the insect essence, and go for the charge blade instead? No, nothing to keep constantly managed there, I feel dumber for watching the first 5 mins.
Yeah, let him hear of point guard and predict saed next
IG mains when one of the 14 weapons isn’t someone’s preferred weapon (evil)
I wasnt expecting the video to be a CB propaganda and IG anti-propaganda. 😂 But ngl, enjoyed it all the same tho im not gonna agree with your take on IG 😁
If you think this is difficult try MH Rise afflicted monsters level 7 😂
I’m 37 and played every Monster Hunter game since the first one
great video, i liked it
I have to disagree with the "3 players is hard" thing. Mathematically speaking you just need to deal a tiny bit more dmg in a 3 man party personally than in a 2 man. The only thing you are missing is your cat, which isn't that huge of a deal, except if you rely on your vigorwasp and if you do, thats kinda a you problem. It becomes a problem when you have 1 player who is a deadweight though or even 2, since you now need to deal solo dmg or even more, meanwhile you can fail the quest because the other ones just want to get carried. Bu if you are all equal, 3 man shouldn't be harder than solo or 2 man. 4 man on the other hand is so fucking easy its funny ngl.
Idk the game didn't get hard for me until Iceborn
Really enjoy the vid good job man
Omg do they not eat or use nutrients 😰😰😰