Yeah that matches my experience with the charge blade. On some fights ex: Vaal Hazak, I can pretty much just go ham and get an SAED off every few seconds and deal tremendous damage. But I wonder if I had a different weapon with less setup time if my DPS wouldn't be much higher.
Charge blade is actually pretty good at that, the 2nd I think attack in triangle combo is vertical, the charge circle can hit decently high, and the axe form switch with R2+triangle is a vertical high damage slice that shit does like 150damage in a huge arc since it's axe form.
You can get some in expeditions, look for blue tracks, there's maps/video guides that show where they are for T2 and elder dragons(they always spawn in the same spots). Generally just fighting more will give you some though, breaking parts, finishing a hunt and obviously finding tracks during the hunt proc additional investigations. I generally get 1 per investigation(as in the 3 kills) I do, quite often 2, so I'm nowhere close to running out and can weed out the 2reward boxes ones. I guess bad RNG at the start might make you run out but at some point you'll have enough in stock that you can't really run out anymore.
It was true back then but at some point they unfucked it in a patch so now when you break something on a tempered mob, it gives more tempered investigations which makes sense. That's why you don't really have to farm tracks anymore, it was a stupid concept anyway. I haven't had to farm them since I got started getting 3 investigations off tempered Kirin for the HR49 quest and I have like 6 atm and a bunch I don't have active cause they're 2box kushala/teostra. Only time I end up joining SOS tempered is when I feel like doing Nergigante since this fucker never drops for me. Then it's like earlier and it's 3 archers and Nergi is just leaping from one side to the map to the other and I'm there trying to hit it more than once before it jumps again, feelsgoodman.
It's a fairly shitty system they have for coop during the story. Basically they didn't want to go with the mmo-like thing where you have people watching cutscenes just standing there invulnerable while other people are fighting next to them or whatever, so instead you have to start every story mission solo, do all the cutscene stuff and once you're at the monster, it'll say "You can send a SOS now" or some crap, at that point, one person sends a SOS, everyone else leaves their own game and join the SOS game and you can fight the monster together. It's not as much of an issue on PC because loadings are super fast but on PS4/Xbox where it takes like a minute to go out then back in, it's probably pretty fucking tedious to do. I mean it's still tedious on PC but not as bad.
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I got enough to switch to nerg hunting horn so going to build that and see what else I need for the armor(likely Vhaal armor but not sure yet, mix of diablo for tremor resist might be way to go early) What this means for you guys is I can give earplugs and attack up large.
Yeah all about max vial so your normal hits do extra damage, the discharge is good for a knockdown etc but shouldn't be in your rotation.
For me the big impediment to playing with buddies is that the game scales the difficulty of the mobs the same for 2,3 or 4 players. So if you've got one buddy to play with, and you're both about the same skill level, the two of you together will probably do worse than each of you would do soloing. Me and a buddy were trying to take out Nergigante for the first time, and after failing a few times we just split up and beat it.
