Have you seen Alatreon yet?
As long as you keep farming some of the tougher monsters that pop up in the Moga Woods night forecast, you're bound to collect enough high star commodities to trade for bumblepumpkins over time. It's not only good practice, but because there's no limits on time or carting, it's also risk-free.
I have 22 items to trade for pumpkins, but when I got that far I already didn't want the armor haha (if I used a bow I could've used them for that). I guess I could use them to get the decoration achievements.. it was so much work, too, because I reset for the rare trades.
Nope, just Ceadeus and Jhen Mohran. Ceadeus wasn't too bad, but Jhen...
Though I never reset for the rare trades, I did gear up with Capture Master in hopes of getting the best rewards. And in the end I wound up trading a bunch of Worldeater Bellies for all the furniture items just to fill that slot on my guild card.
Grats! Might want to get a good water weapon for the inevitable brachy farming once you reach HR5
Nothing to worry about there, I got Plesioth Dual Blades first chance I had.
I can be around in the evening (CST) to deliver an endless stream of flame shots to the face. That usually does the trick.
Those launches out of the ground are my least favorite thing in the world. Even with 150 health, fully upgraded gunner armor and eating for defense, it's still a one-shot cart if Felyne Defender doesn't kick in.
Thanks. Somehow, I went from needing two to upgrade my Ide DB to deciding I want Barioth S (?) Armour and a HR Ice Lance.
The (Element) Atk Up +2 skills do add a 20% boost to damage, which is especially potent when combined with Bonus Shot which adds another shot to each rapid fire volley. One goes from 210% damage per shot to 336% if all of them connect (and I'm doing my math right).
Full strength HBG shot combined with (Element) Up and Adrenaline should be a potent combination per hit so long as the ammo (and combines) hold out. I'm curious how it'll work out in practice.
I think thunder S is 2-4, but the difference is that you can carry up to 20 Fire Herbs but only 10 Flashbugs. Not to mention base combination success rate for flame S is better.
The Willuminator is the best FlameS (and DragonS) weapon since its Attack score is so high and elemental shots aren't affected by its big negative affinity. But the Rathalos LBG line also works fine, and rapid-firing Crag 1 is a lot of fun.
I've seen the bow with some of the fastest times when used properly, it's just so hard to use. The key is really the distance control, most of the DPS is in a very thin zone.
I use everything although I didn't do much SA this file and I rarely use HH but every other weapon is at at least 100 uses on my card.
I'm still mostly light bowgunning all the things. I've been dabbling with heavy bowgunning recently which is very satisfying, but hasn't been significantly faster in bringing down monsters during my solo test runs. I've also thrown together a set of Hallowed Jhen armor to try out the longsword a little, but I'm still terrible with it.
For solo hunts in Port, it's not unusual to run out of elemental shots and need to combine for more before falling back to physical shots. Fortunately, most of the materials can either be bought from the item shop (like Huskberries), bought from Granny Go-To in Port (like the various fish), or grown on the farm (like the herbs). According to the big list of item combinations, having combo books 1 through 4 is enough to raise the chances on almost everything interesting to 100%, so I only take those. That leaves about a page of inventory for carves, but that's usually enough for a hunting quest.
I'm all set. Just name the spot.
OK, I made a group in Free F. You can't miss it.
Sassy dog is on the way.
Thanks again for all your help.
