Monster Hunter: World

Well that FFXIV set was like bis with 4pc for the set for a long while but then they powercrept that. But yeah it's like a puzzle game where you just put the best pieces possible with the most sockets for the decorations you have to reach the skills you need(which depends on the weapon, like for example getting guard stuff for lance or getting buff duration for IG or whatever). There's automatic solvers you can find on internet where you just enter your decorations, what skills you want and it finds the most optimal ways to do that and the better your gear/decos are the more skills you can slap on so that by the end you have a lot of utility/qol skills on top of the raw dmg stuff.

For leveling though you're pretty much just gonna stick to a couple of sets, like usually early in HR/MR you'll be able to get a semi decent set of stuff going(iirc bone armor for MR? or was it HR? there were a fair few good pieces in one of these with like attack and what not, metal/bone armors are nice cause you can just run around gathering mats and then make them instead of having to fight monsters and get bitchslapped with your outdated armor). And then you ride that until later when you start getting one tapped and you just stop the story for a bit to farm something to get better armor at that tier(or you spend your armor stones to upgrade your current shit). Once you're done with the story and you can really start farming is when you start putting together the "real" stuff. There's likely guides on that or you can wing it.

Aazrael said:

I'll resurrect this thread for the World discussions.

I just got to the desert area and been using the Bone sword due to damage number higher = must be better but the Steel sword might be better to use? It got that crit thing and supposed to be "Sharper"?

Really enjoying the game and taking it slow doing the Optional quests as they unlock before continuing the MSQ.

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Early weapons are kinda whatever. Bone usually has more raw attack but less crit and less sharpness, but for low rank stuff it kinda doesn't matter. Sharpness becomes useful once you can hit white sharpness though because it'll ignore a bunch of the "tough armor" bounce stuff, but for Longsword iirc a bunch of moves just ignore it anyway.

I'd say once you feel you start struggling is a good time to upgrade. Another way is to wait for specific monsters to show up to farm. For example weapon wise most classes will usually benefit a lot from Nargacuga weaps, they have average damage, good sharpness and a lot of crit, so once you get to Narga, stopping to farm him a bunch to get a weapon upgrade can be a good idea. Nargacuga is only HR though iirc? Maybe. Another example is once you move to a higher rank, getting a weapon with poison early on helps because poison does a static amount of dmg which makes it very strong early in a new rank(since it updates the values based on rank) but then it falls off, so slapping a monster like Pukei-Pukei for an early upgrade can be good. But you kinda can just use whatever you find mats for and progress through the story pretty decently, usually only having to potentially grind for like the elder dragons/last boss in HR/MR.

Just started a new playthrough after having beat all content with the Switch Axe before Iceborn was even announced. Now I'm back and trying out the Charge Blade. World was my first deep dive into the franchise but I must have retained a lot of the info because I am breezing through the first few monsters and refuse to use the Defender set. We will see how this works out since I am contemplating upping the Jagras armor a few notches and then going after the Anjanth early.

Aazrael said:

Is it correct to assume when an item have ??? crafting materials I have not yet encountered the right monster?

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Been a while but iirc it's both because you haven't killed the monster yet or haven't killed it in a way that can drop the item(this is mostly relevant for monsters in the Guiding Lands which is an Iceborne endgame feature where the monster drops additional special items there). I think there might be some cases where the items doesn't show if you haven't gotten one yet either(like the gems for each elder dragon).

If you see the whole thing as ??? or most of it, it's likely just the monster(the appearance/type of weapon can also clue you on the monster that drops it, like a water elem weapon is going to be Jyoratodus most likely unless it's very high tier then it's the Iceborne elder dragon I forgot the name of and so on). If you see ??? only on one item, it can be due to specific conditions for that item, best is to check a 3rd party site to figure out exactly what's missing.

Also sometimes it's gathered stuff, like metal/bone gathering in every zone will cover that usually.