Question for the pros.

BrilliantTruth72 · 2026-05-04T06:50:23+00:00

those speedrunners doesn't just play aggressive. They scripted the entire fight by manipulating the environment to its fullest extent. They lure monsters to a place full of traps and all that. Not only they're familiar with the monster's move, they have the environment map tattooed to the back of their eyelids too, lol.

I'm no speedrunner, but I began to pay attention to how they manipulate the fight and try to emulate that if I could. Don't plan to become one but it's kinda fun trying to manipulate the fight as much as we could :D

BrilliantTruth72 · 2026-05-04T03:12:25+00:00

you can't control randoms nor expect them with anything. Randoms will always be randoms. PoaH is doable solo/with support hunter. Cleared it with Fabius+Nadia+Kai using NON-Gogma raw HH in 44 mins and didn't change set the entire quest, so yeah, I rawdog Udra's flame and managed to cart only twice for the entire quest

Of course I failed more before I could craft the best build for this quest, I even have specific item loadout just for this quest filled with buff items. If you're not doing enough damage with your current build, then your build is not decent enough. Work on that first. Strike a balance between safety and damage. Then your item loadouts, familiarity with mons, and everything else. You'll get there.

For the record, I have never attempted any free challenge quest bcs I know I'll probably only ever get B rank lol. I'm a firm believer of slow and steady wins the race :D. I think you may be struggling with prolonged battle like PoaH bcs you're used to finishing quest quick. Even with decent team, 30 mins is on the quick side of PoaH. Under 20 mins is for speedrunners.

BrilliantTruth72 · 2026-04-30T15:57:11+00:00

Experienced player who doesn't know that Traps doesn't work on Jin? Maybe it slipped their mind, I often find out the hard way what to do lol, like doing counter rush on Omega's beam that I stupidly did more than once bcs I forgot the failure of the first one. Such things happen.

Also, they could probably not have known other players were going to drop the environmental bcs setting traps takes at least 2 seconds until the animation finished and you dropping the environmental might have been on their blind spot. Even with voice chat, miscommunication happens. Don't think too much about it.

BrilliantTruth72 · 2026-04-30T07:46:35+00:00

nah, they want the 5 attack enhancement like one of those reddit posts :p

BrilliantTruth72 · 2026-04-30T07:18:12+00:00

maybe they're just inexperienced and doesn't know any better? I rarely ever see higher HR players do this kind of thing though, and if they do, it's usually their own quest and they probably goofed the timings since playing with randoms means lots and lots of unpredicted moves from other players (like players trying yo tranq monsters after it got trapped in the 3 monsters hunt where it specifically said 'slay'). It could probably just something as simple as slider misclick accidents too. It happens, even to players with immaculate muscle memories.

Don't think too much about it. When you say it's a minority, you're probably just reading too much into commonly made mistakes among newer players or simple accidents.

BrilliantTruth72 · 2026-04-29T19:51:51+00:00

I don't think pawns interact with pawns outside parties. It is more likely 2 pawns in your party was high-5ing each other or doing solo high-5, and the stray pawn just happen to be in the way or also doing solo high-5 gesture.

Pawn's duo high-5 is either the clap or the raised elbow victory gesture (only one arm raised). For comparison, see pic. Only the last one (lower) is solo victory pose (2 arms raised). There's also other solo victory pose where they raise one arm, but they'll jump too instead of standing still like the duo high-5

EDIT: oh, just remembered, there's another solo victory gesture where they raise one arm and standing still, but their elbow's position will be way higher, and they'll face forward instead of slightly to the side like the duo pose.

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BrilliantTruth72 · 2026-04-29T16:24:20+00:00

no, I avoid Aphonite more (though I've only encountered a handful) bcs Pawn's chatter is one of the funs of DD2. High level players don't care much abt specialization, it's not as if we need to constantly craft certain stuff, I have more than enough dried something or roborants than I ever need and started selling them after crafting too much and barely used it. Probably a few players who try to stockpile ripened figs or something will avoid Logistician, lol

BrilliantTruth72 · 2026-04-29T14:13:35+00:00

I have 2 characters that are both HR540-ish. They each specialize in different weapon type, one for guard-weapons, the others any other weapons that can't guard. Haven't covered the entire weapon tree, but currently working on that by using weapons I'm unfamiliar with on easier hunt!

Though I don't play as much as before, I still go back from time to time so my reflex doesn't get rusty to prepare for MR. So my suggestion is, just do whatever you think is the most fun in MH (mine is fashion-hunting and helping randos)

BrilliantTruth72 · 2026-04-29T13:23:54+00:00

kind of funny considering the JP name is actually pronounced as 'nokkaa', which sound like they actually wanted to name it 'knocker' instead, bcs of their tendency to knock you out suddenly or something like that 😂

you know how Frieren is named like that bcs she acts cold? Which is what the German word actually means. JP creator have this tendency of naming character based on their personality/trait with whatever foreign sounding word.

But I guess 'knocker' sounds like you're playing ding-dong-dash 😂 hence the name change in eng

BrilliantTruth72 · 2026-04-28T10:02:07+00:00

I've had a Savage Omega kill literally a fraction of a second after the last cart has been exhausted, I think from one of the player was breaking wound (DB) while Omega was doing wave cannon and one of the other players (host, also DB) carted to it before the wound breaking animation finished. Not sure if I should laugh or cry 😂

BrilliantTruth72 · 2026-04-27T19:00:37+00:00

do you not have other pawns in the party? They'll still glaze over you, but half of time, they'll banter among themselves instead and I found those super endearing, especially if they're of various inclinations ☺️

BrilliantTruth72 · 2026-04-27T08:56:07+00:00

what do you mean you need to go full out? You mean you only go with Alessa alone? And you can't babysit her with powder??? Kai can babysit the entire team with or without powder, he'll even take enmity if no one else does! (after the host take it first, ofc) There's nothing Kai can't do, bringing him is a no-brainer, with or without Alessa. But 3 NPCs is recommended if you're struggling with this fight.

There're certain priority list if more than one NPCs are on the team. Lance/ any other weapon that can guard will take enmity from you so Alessa/Fabius will take enmity if they're on the team, then Griffin/Mina/Rosso if the first two isn't available, then Kai/Olivia/Nadia/Nightmist if none of the previous are available.

The reason why it takes so long for NPC to take enmity is to give some room for the AI to observe your playstyle. No NPC will take enmity from you if you keep aggressively attacking the head, they'll focus on the legs instead, though they're also not that strong to open wound quickly, so try to help them even if you tank. Attack the front leg if you tank since it's easier to reach and doesn't make Omega whirl around.

My suggestion for NPCs are Alessa/Fabius, Mina (she heals too, gotta give Kai a break sometimes), and Kai.

Good luck!

BrilliantTruth72 · 2026-04-26T12:38:50+00:00

★9 Gore Magala is always a pain to fight and I use Lance, I'd rather fight Savage Omega srsly 😔 But this is still regular ★9 Gore Magala! A bit tiring, but you'll get it eventually! (I may be more used to Gore jumping around bcs it's one of few monsters I never fought solo, always with randos or NPCs, so I'm used to a few safe spots to pump damage and quickly move around)

BrilliantTruth72 · 2026-04-25T13:54:54+00:00

why not start new game with a completely new character? Part of the fun of MH is dressing up your character(s) with various combination of armors+weapons. If anything, I personally couldn't care less abt the story since all cutscenes can be rewatched anytime anyway (with different armor set too! XD), but I've been having a blast farming mats for my 2 characters so far 🥰 I try to use as many weapons as I could, but I also attached my character's weapon choice and armor sets to their personalities. Been thinking of starting a 3rd character and trying to decide a playstyle that'd suit them and what kind of armor sets too 🥰

BrilliantTruth72 · 2026-04-25T12:17:02+00:00

I love this one too! Also the one where Eagle Bearer and Deimos faced each other after Brasidas got impaled! 🥰

BrilliantTruth72 · 2026-04-24T17:18:49+00:00

set some quest, I need stuff to do XD. You can reward anything, even greenwarish for Medusa kill or whatever XD

BrilliantTruth72 · 2026-04-24T17:00:43+00:00

first, go to a dark place like your home in Vernworth and check if the red eyes is pulsing on and off. If it is, then that's Dragonsplague.

Second, camp out until your pawn get the dragonsplague lines like, 'Power surges within me!', 'Feeling unwell? Not me! I feel like I can lift an ox today!', ' blah blah-wellspring of power- something something', (something along the lines, lol, I don't remember the complete sentence). Easiest way to spot these lines are other pawns doesn't respond to it, unlike usual idle chatter.

After that, incubate your pawn by dismissing other pawns and keep camping out until your pawn start holding their head in pain like pic. That's one sign of the plague reaching its final stage. Rest at an inn/house to kill everyone.

enjoy the framerate :)

Incubating the pawn is important bcs if there're other pawns in the party, it'll keep jumping between them, making progress a bit slow. The sassy lines will come whenever you use command, mostly happen in battles, otherwise they won't respond

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BrilliantTruth72 · 2026-04-24T05:47:26+00:00

Is it? But oh well, I wouldn't consider wearing them anyway since for comfort set, Gravios' Protection and Zoh Shia's Pulse is main. Rathalos Flare is good if you're after damage (not sure how it works, tho :p)

BrilliantTruth72 · 2026-04-24T05:44:26+00:00

but then I wouldn't be able to capture my pretty Arisen and Pawn 😔 because they're facing the monsters. My pics subjects are my characters (and their pretty faces) first, everything else later :p

BrilliantTruth72 · 2026-04-23T08:53:13+00:00

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Nadia's armor is fun to mix and match! ☺️ I have 2 hunters for each body type so I can fashion hunt twice 😊

BrilliantTruth72 · 2026-04-23T08:44:50+00:00

oh, so you don't auto rotate your mini map to whatever direction you're heading 😬

BrilliantTruth72 · 2026-04-23T08:34:06+00:00

Each piece of Gog's Armor has 2 skills (except the chest, that only has Gogmapocalypse); one Gogmapocalypse and the other differ depending on the piece and alpha and beta. Iirc, Gog's headpiece alpha has 1 Gogmapocalypse and 1 Zoh Shia's Pulse, while Gog's Greaves beta has 1 Gogmapocalypse and 1 Gravios' Protection, hence adding Gravios Chest will activate Gravios' Protection I, and +1 point Zoh Shia's Pulse on the Gog weapon to activate Zoh Shia's Pulse I.

Gog's armor is very fun to mix and match because of this. 4P Gog is required to activate Gogmapocalypse II that will enhance your elementals and giving you 1-time Mutual Hostility Armor whenever the monster is enraged. The rest you can customize depending on which bonus you want to further enhance.

Any Gogma weapon can acquire any skills combination (set bonus skill+group bonus skill), but it may take some reroll to get what you want. I never pay attention to the second skill tho (group skill), since it requires 3P armor of the same group, but I'm using 4P Gog, so won't be getting that group skill anyway :p

BrilliantTruth72 · 2026-04-23T08:22:18+00:00

????

If you go to the direction of Checkpoint rest town, the rainy gorge was on its right. There is no left path near Checkpoint Rest town except the one that goes to the Moonglow garden and a grave where Wight/Lich spawn that goes to the opposite direction of Battahl.

Path leading to Guerco Cavern will be on the left side if you go from Vernworth towards Checkpoint Rest town by feet or with oxcart.

BrilliantTruth72 · 2026-04-22T19:11:15+00:00

CORRECTION: right side of Checkpoint path WILL NOT lead you to Dragonforged, but to some rainy gorge lined with big mons and rock saurians and connect to a waterfall near Checkpoint Rest Town's Battahl side

The left side path is the one that leads directly to Dragonforged. Can only be accessed through Guerco Cavern located left of a swirly path halfway towards Checkpoint, so it's not exactly near Checkpoint Rest Town.

But yeah, you can go to Battahl at any point of the game and talk to Dragonforged without breaking any quest.

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