Been farming HR Rathian for the Ruby for the past 3 days and I just cannot get it. I am severing and carving the tail, Palico has plunderblade, and I'm running investigations with gold reward slots. This is comical how bad the drop rates are. I have over 20 Plates and not one Ruby.
It strikes me as odd since obtaining other HR gems/rubies took, on average and with optimal behaviours, 5-7 runs. Meanwhile, I have over 40 HR Rathian slays/caps from the past 3 days of farming.
There is gear that gives you extra materials for captures (I think its Kirin's gear.)
My friend runs it and would always get multiple rubies/gems and I would get none. Then i went solo and saw my gem rates increase.
I wonder if i was missing out on them cause he was getting all them.
You know what eludes me, Daora's horn. I've killed her so many times and the horn rarely drops, and i'm banging her in the face the entire time with my bow. I've got like 8 Daora gems from the farms but can barely get a horn to drop.