Monster Hunter Wilds

Intrinsic

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Ooohhh, man for some reason I couldn't put that together in context. Makes sense though.
 

Zindan

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The patch today fixed an exploit(?) that allowed players to farm up a trade item, Nightflower Pollen, which could be traded for Golden Tickets by manipulating time/state of the Plains. This can still be done, but on a much smaller scale, enough so that I'll be doing it.

When you're done with the game for the day, go to the Plains and change its state / time to: Fallow / Evening. Then save and exit the game (fully exit/close the game). The next time you enter the game, it will be at the Plains and in Fallow / Evening. Wait 6min doing something, and when the game enters Nighttime, go to Area 10 and harvest the Ephemeral Flower for the Pollen. There is another flower on a plateau you need to glide down too, you'll need to find it / look it up but its near a spot with 3 collapseable pillars that Arkveld / Rey Dau sometimes spawn at or go to. Just jump off from there and glide. This will get you 2 Pollen, and eventually one of the Traders (via Nata) will offer a Golden Ticket for the Pollen. So a short routine to get into that can eventually give you nice rewards via Melding.
 

Chimney

Trakanon Raider
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Unless you just hate killing monsters why bother with the pollen farm as nothing is rare in this game outside of getting perfect stat artians which are barely worth even engaging with.

Arkveld gems are 1k points and targetable plus the monster part turn ins, artian parts and deco bonus rewards. I can pop my investigation and be done in <5 minutes which will offer more than the 1200 ticket points plus other crap. If you don't have your own good saved investigations yet then hopping into MP and just grabbing any of the dozens that are juiced is easy. Kill times in groups have been pretty reasonable in the 8 minute range from the 50 or so I did so you're barely saving any time. I've only had 1 MP hunt fail so odds are you are going to get the bonuses unless you're the dead weight carting. Maybe this will change as more casuals hit HR, but for now it's cake.

I snagged all decos in the database (and then some) and had enough crap to make armor spheres for 3 sets of endgame armor as well as pages upon pages of artian mats by ~70 hours of playtime just from hunting alone. I've also got more zen and points than I can ever use for the lifetime of this series as well. Why trivialize an already generous end game system?
 
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xaivius

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Would be nice to have Hinao back
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ok would pay for her dlc
This reminded me that I played some Rise over the weekend on the steam deck. I really hope they revisit Kamura at some point, it was a neat counter-point to the largely European/Spanish/HRE inspired Kingdom, even if it was hyperbolically Japanese. The rampage system and wirebugs were definite standouts and fun design, and I'd love to see a return of Caynyne's, especially combined with Wilds alt-weapon on the mount. The rampage system would be really interesting in wilds, having to defend say a base camp from several waves of Dougas/Catas being led by something like a Rey Dau would probably scratch that difficulty itch people are feeling.

But yeah, would definitely buy a Hinoa/Minoa DLC in a heartbeat. Perhaps as replacement support hunters or handlers?
 

Hatorade

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This reminded me that I played some Rise over the weekend on the steam deck. I really hope they revisit Kamura at some point, it was a neat counter-point to the largely European/Spanish/HRE inspired Kingdom, even if it was hyperbolically Japanese. The rampage system and wirebugs were definite standouts and fun design, and I'd love to see a return of Caynyne's, especially combined with Wilds alt-weapon on the mount. The rampage system would be really interesting in wilds, having to defend say a base camp from several waves of Dougas/Catas being led by something like a Rey Dau would probably scratch that difficulty itch people are feeling.

But yeah, would definitely buy a Hinoa/Minoa DLC in a heartbeat. Perhaps as replacement support hunters or handlers?
Different devs so next game will probably go back to something like it.
 

Zindan

Bronze Baronet of the Realm
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Unless you just hate killing monsters why bother with the pollen farm as nothing is rare in this game outside of getting perfect stat artians which are barely worth even engaging with.

Arkveld gems are 1k points and targetable plus the monster part turn ins, artian parts and deco bonus rewards. I can pop my investigation and be done in <5 minutes which will offer more than the 1200 ticket points plus other crap. If you don't have your own good saved investigations yet then hopping into MP and just grabbing any of the dozens that are juiced is easy. Kill times in groups have been pretty reasonable in the 8 minute range from the 50 or so I did so you're barely saving any time. I've only had 1 MP hunt fail so odds are you are going to get the bonuses unless you're the dead weight carting. Maybe this will change as more casuals hit HR, but for now it's cake.

I snagged all decos in the database (and then some) and had enough crap to make armor spheres for 3 sets of endgame armor as well as pages upon pages of artian mats by ~70 hours of playtime just from hunting alone. I've also got more zen and points than I can ever use for the lifetime of this series as well. Why trivialize an already generous end game system?
I'm not going to try and justify why people did the exploit, or why I'll do the fixed version when I start the game up. It sounds like you've been farming relentlessly to get all the stuff you've gotten. Others will go about it differently. I think I've gotten all the deco's, aside from Piercing Shot, before starting this method. Personally, I love killing shit and today I started using a charged up focus shot to pop multiple wounds at once... big number. Best so far has been around 2200 total dmg. Fun.
 

Valorath

Blackwing Lair Raider
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Some of my buddies are pretty casual. A couple just hit HR 40, couple more are still in the 20s. These guys struggle some despite the relative ease of this release.

Did a Tempered Gore today and someone wide-ranged the fuck out of it to keep everyone alive and kicking. Decided to do this myself.

I spent some time today making a support build with free meal, wide range, speed eating, mushroomancer, etc. Hoping with a little babysitting we can more reliably get through some of the harder fights.
 
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Brahma

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Yeah, I'm thinking this game is waaaay too easy. Couple guys at my job can't even get close to killing Temp Gore.
 
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Penance

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Game is beyond easy with LS. Me thinks they went a bit overboard with the iframes and counters
 

Intrinsic

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Well, I got one benchmark done with the new computer and was going to run a couple of others with frame gen on/off, Ray Tracing on/off etc, but I can't even get the benchmark to finish anymore. Crashes every time. Not sure what is up. Temps are mid 60s. Everything is stock, haven't tried to even mess with anything since I'm just getting set up. The without frame gen runs were averaging about 100 fps before crashing.

Will try again tomorrow and keep messing with stuff. Still need to play with some cable routing and fans.

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Aazrael

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Think I finished the red MSQ quests, chapter 6?

Why can't I craft "Chain Charm II", or upgrade the first one?

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