If they add Valstrax then you better be able to ride him and do the comet attack as the finisher, I will kill for this
Pre-World, hub quests were scaled for a specific player #, varying roughly from 2-2.5x depending on the game; more challenging solo due to the series being attrition-based (less so post-World, though to a degree still & functionally identical if choosing not to restock, ever), but not balanced around 4 players. This also meant 4 player hunts tended to be much faster, but not 'easier' - less attrition sorta? Now they'll scale in Rise like World, but we dunno if scales like 1,2,4 or 2,3,4 or 1,2,3,4 or 2,4 etc. It scales in some way, that's all we know.
I barely used the wirebug during my first few hunts and got by just fine, but it's definitely worth working the wirebug into your arsenal. The first thing you should get accustomed to is ZL+B to quickly recover when knocked down. It's saved me a few times, and it's just nice not spending so much time on my butt, heh.
With Mizu, the only way I can reliably avoid damage is to just focus on punishing whiffs during the window of time where it literally cannot start a new attack and then dodge the fuck out of the way far enough that whatever the next attack is and however fast the start-up tell is, I'm far enough to be safe. With this in mind I find that I am most effective with the Sword and Shield but it really pisses me the hell off that I can't for the life of me use the Long Sword (my favorite in World so far, though it's not like I'm very far into it) effectively. I cannot identify a single attack, and so I can't predict its timing and use Foresight Slash to level up the damn spirit gauge. And since the monster is so fast and unpredictable I don't really have enough time to level the gauge up via spirit roundslash combos unless the monster is toppled.
Frankly I gave up on Mizu, it is not an easy monster at all lol
For some reason, I kinda grew to it lol. It's cheesy as hell but it's funny.
Lol I love it honestly. When the music is all hype and cheesy one liners come out, its even more hype
"What have we here?" bothers me so much. Looked it up and it's grammatically correct apparently but why not just say "What do we have here?" or "What have we got here?"
Stop, don't get our expectations up. I wanna fight him again in HD ;__;
Truly some of the most cringe lines I've heard in a while, but I fear I'm developing stockholm syndrome for it. Someone help me.
I have Monster Hunter Language on, and hearing *unintelligible word salad* or something along those lines whenever Mizutsune gears up for its 360 beam attack has actually proven to be pretty useful.
I keep them on as I like the way the Hunter shouts warnings to his pets in SP
After some practice, I manage to clear Mizu with LS in 14 minutes. Not surprised with LS being the fastest weapon for speed runners, that weapon is really powerful and consistent.
I dunno, I find the call outs before large attacks kind of useful.
Light Bow Gun is a pretty good start. It's pretty straight forward and has some good WireBug moves.
That's what it seemed to me, yeah. Playing with my brother, sometimes the mines I'd drop would land on hard to reach places (like Rathian's back or wings), and I'd use pierce shots to make sure they still went off. Usually around 40 per blast, 5 times per mine, but sometimes was doing as much as 75, which I think was when he was landing something big. It's pretty fun either way, and I bet will be really useful against some of the hardier monsters/body parts.
As someone who's beaten both numbered Xenoblade games, I find stupid voices in the middle of combat strangely endearing. There was one time where I was carving something where my Hunter said something like "Daddy needs a pair of new boots" which was a bit ugh though.
Looks pretty good on my cx but I also have the mclassic with makes games look nicer
I do know this mclassic works wonders so if I had to guess that's why everything looks good for me
In case you never resolved it, the stuttering seems to be a known bug from having too many friends on your user account. Switching users seems to resolve the issue
