[QUOTE="God's Beard!";57252552]There's no reason to not make the wait after jhen to be 2 minutes. There's no internal logic to not being able to carve him, and there's no gameplay benefit. It's just dumb. Period. Speed gathering is not a solution, it's Stockholm Syndrome.[/QUOTE]
Jhen isn't too bad to carve. Get to the head, duck, and start carving. Then roll to the body, carve more, and you're done.
Miralis is worse since it's so damn huge, it's often hard to tell what is what, and it's got 9 carves compared to Jhen's 8.
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";57251282]Yeah, the woods in general is one of my many, many grievances with this game. It's such a massive waste of effort. This game just loves making people do a lot of dumb things for no reason.
"Oh you want long fragments for Artian leg armor? That's a 5% drop on a 4★ fishing trip that only pops up about 10% of the time, and takes 6 days to come back. And you need three of them."
"Oh, you want to make Pumpkin armor? Well you're gonna need bumblepumpkins for that, 20 of them. And you can only get them by trading 5-star commodities, which means you have to hope that at least a Pink Rathian shows up in the woods, spend 15 minutes killing each one for a fraction of the reward you'd get from just picking Pink Rathian quests and hope they actually drop a commodity. So including the mindless time acceleration you'll have to do to cycle through the waves of royal ludroths and great jaggi or the wasted quests where shitty monsters show up, we're looking at 8-9 hours of grinding for an armor set that really isn't that useful."[/QUOTE]
However, I will agree on those points.
Artian stuff is pretty much randomness, and the Pumpkin stuff is a bit silly in that you apparently can't plant it in your farm.
At least in P3rd, getting the Pumpkins wasn't THAT bad since they came from the Red/Green seeds at your Felyne Farm at random rates.
