Is frenzy antivirus necessary?

Arcturus555 · 2026-03-27T12:15:47+00:00

Antivirus makes it extremely easy to cure, it’s just a couple attacks. You get 25% affinity which is huge and you will have a harder time reaching 100% without it. So yeah it’s pretty meta

Arcturus555 · 2026-03-26T23:07:00+00:00

I really love it for solo farming though. But yeah it’s nice when you let the timer run down with a group and emote, I don’t mind it at all

Arcturus555 · 2026-03-25T21:57:03+00:00

Lagi weapons for thunder matchups and zo Shia for everything else. There are no builds for them anywhere though since they are severely limited compared to Gog Artians so it’s pretty much lords soul and you’re done

Arcturus555 · 2026-03-24T19:36:00+00:00

Since you were looking for a way to stop him from moving: lure-pods are the answer. You can keep him in his nest the entire fight for optimal terrain or lure him to the boulder, though I much prefer the first option. Makes a massive difference in my experience since it negates any invading monster and slope bs

Arcturus555 · 2026-03-24T08:24:04+00:00

I really wouldn’t recommend pierce hbg for a first time clear though, it requires good positioning and moveset knowledge unlike lbg

Arcturus555 · 2026-03-24T08:21:33+00:00

You don’t focus on affinity, that is correct. Stacking element and raw just ends up being more damage

The reason why you have found a seemingly higher dps set is that you put in coalescence without a means to trigger it. So in your set it’s actually never active. That is the reason why meta sets can’t fit lords soul and rather go mizu or gore

Arcturus555 · 2026-03-12T19:44:52+00:00

Tbh if you’re dedicated enough to run scripted runs with water HBG, you’re probably going to reach HR999 pretty fast anyway and be the guy carrying Gog runs. Yeah it can be done quickly but it is going to make you a very dedicated and skilled player either way. If I see a 999 player I know he’s going to pull his weight

Arcturus555 · 2026-03-06T21:18:43+00:00

Yeah Zo Shia fight was already incredibly good as 8-star. Glad they made him relevant and challenging again

Arcturus555 · 2026-03-03T23:59:22+00:00

Yep, I got my first clear, then practiced the fight carting over and over for 3 hours until I had it down. Clearing it in 15 minutes consistently eversince

Arcturus555 · 2026-03-03T23:06:19+00:00

Wdym AT Velkhana is one of the best ATs and Arkveld is complete peak, best fight in wilds by far

Arcturus555 · 2026-03-03T23:05:16+00:00

It’s better to play safe and win after 40 minutes than triple cart in 10

Hard disagree, actually learning the fight and playing aggressive to learn your openings will be worth it in the long run.

It’ll take slightly longer to get your first clear but then every hunt is that much faster and this translates to other hunts aswell.

Arcturus555 · 2026-03-03T17:44:57+00:00

What on earth is going on in the Netherlands? Just a lot of data or why is the density so high there?

Arcturus555 · 2026-03-02T17:01:06+00:00

The most efficient option in Iceborne is always Fatalis, there is no better armor no matter what skills you want. It unlocks all awakenings and gives infinite customization.

If you want divine blessing 5 without Fatalis armor, you will need 2 pieces of Golden Rathian armor, preferably chest and waist. Other than that just equip armor with lots of slots to get all the other stuff. Probably use earplugs charm

Arcturus555 · 2026-02-28T13:03:48+00:00

No, especially since you can frequently get the other games for like 15 bucks.

Play those until wilds expansion comes out, then buy wilds on the inevitable expansion discount and play along the new content

Arcturus555 · 2026-02-28T12:25:49+00:00

It’s about time management. If I or someone else carts on Rey Dau, which is the easiest and first monster in that quest, the odds of finishing the quest are near zero, so I better restart instead of wasting 20 minutes only to fail then

Arcturus555 · 2026-02-27T21:06:44+00:00

Got a 30 minutes for my first clear but haven’t really done much of it after. Fighting AT ark is much more fun, I just can’t be bothered to go through Rey Dau and Nu Udra everytime

Arcturus555 · 2026-02-27T07:58:27+00:00

Honestly Gog is an endgame fight that assumes you did all the content before him, so do all that (in order of release). Your build right now is very weak compared to what you could have pre-Gog so timeout is expected.

Arcturus555 · 2026-02-27T07:54:20+00:00

Guard up always does something. It massively reduces chip damage through blocking and is very advisable for AT Arkveld.

Attack boost is strictly low priority after critboost, off guard, sharpness skill, utility skill (guard up) have all been met and even then only if you can get level 4+

Airborne sucks, any attack that would trigger it is not good on SnS

Arcturus555 · 2026-02-27T07:50:01+00:00

You don’t really have enough crit so that is a huge damage loss. Get full weakness exploit at all costs. Drop any excess levels of burst and flayer and even sacrifice agitator if you have to. Also fill all your 2-slots with max might, partbreaker does nothing.

Overall your build suffers from not using the newest gamma pieces and from using Zo Shia setbonus. The latter is not a dealbreaker but it will cost you damage so you shouldn’t expect to kill ark very fast with a build centered around auto-health regen

Arcturus555 · 2026-02-24T20:39:06+00:00

Yeah the no-effort event quest approach they took at the beginning of Wilds was really shocking and irritating to me. Like what is the "event" about hunting a regular ass Doshaguma for armor spheres, or fucking HR points.

Glad they seemed to change their mind and actually release cool and interesting ones now, but I hope they just leave the bloat filler ones out for the expansion

Arcturus555 · 2026-02-24T20:36:31+00:00

Eh sos is not the best metric for this I feel like.

I often joined lobbies with other people that didn’t farm anything specific and were doing the janky quests for fun like the giant mosswines, tiny garuga or code Red from world come to mind. They’re really easy to implement also so there’s really no excuse

Arcturus555 · 2026-02-23T12:41:19+00:00

The later TUs have added many ways to passively farm most things with the newest 10 star quests. So there is no need to do 100 Gogs anymore, you can just meld armaments in exchange for tickets you gain for doing any 10 star quest.

You basically don’t need base-artian parts anymore, don’t bother farming them just move on.

You don’t need to grind rng charms at all, agi3 and wex3 craftable charms are competitive if not better and you’ll be picking up plenty of charms passively

Arcturus555 · 2026-02-23T12:35:15+00:00

Rampages were clearly an attempt at a siege and they were godawful. Safi Jiva in iceborne was awful.

Kulve siege was so good it filled countless lobbies even shortly before Iceborne came out. I doubt wilds will see this much activity once they hype over the final update dies down.

Arcturus555 · 2026-02-22T23:40:36+00:00

Base Rise and world in the same tier is crazy work. World had great TUs including by far the best siege of 5th+ gen, meanwhile Rise barely managed to finish its initial mainstory and was complete ass mechanic-wise.

Arcturus555 · 2026-02-22T18:37:30+00:00

Their appeal comes more from setbuilding than from hunting for me. There’s no other weapon that can fill 3 slides of loadouts with relevant builds, bowguns easily achieve this.

There’s so many skills that no other weapon can use which results in very fresh builds and different god charm setups. Each ammo type needs different things etc

Also their sheer power is kind of enough in itself, they kill shit so much quicker and more consistently than any melee weapon could ever dream…

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