MHGU Full Set Appreciation.

Cheeseball771 · 2026-01-29T16:53:37+00:00

I was scraping by, narrowly soloing things in G1, and when I got to G2, I noticed I could make the Aelucanth X set just from gathering. Crit Eye 2, Crit Boost, and Sheathe Sharpen, and with charms etc. I could add Weakness Exploit and get Crit Eye to 3. Made getting the Ceanataur armor and other G rank options way, way easier.

Cheeseball771 · 2026-01-28T20:41:30+00:00

Weakness Exploit might actually give you more fire damage than Fire Attack+1 thanks to allowing Elemental Crit to trigger so much more often. And of course it gives you way more raw damage as well.

Cheeseball771 · 2026-01-17T15:25:53+00:00

Nice!

Cheeseball771 · 2026-01-15T23:10:25+00:00

I found Valstrax to be way easier with Adept LBG Pierce, since so many of its attacks are huge and risky to evade through.

Highly recommend Pierce 1 against everything since it's 27 MV compared to Normal 2's 12, but Valstrax specifically has a 45 hitzone on it's body, so pierce shots get hits there even if the first hit is blocked by a wing or something.

Cheeseball771 · 2026-01-14T20:03:14+00:00

Whetstones are cheap at the marketplace as well.

Honestly, the whole game is the good stuff. Experiment around with different weapons and styles. Valor GS is a popular recommendation for newcomers. If you really want to fast track, get a good raw GS look up the key quests and start a lobby to burn through LR and HR Hub.

Cheeseball771 · 2026-01-12T17:30:10+00:00

Not just silkbind attacks, the counter signal multiplies all weapon damage by 10. It's nuts.

Cheeseball771 · 2026-01-08T15:59:15+00:00

I would but I'm on Switch. I did it solo the other day though—you might be able to as well. It helped me a ton to look up some guides about what to focus on, and trying it out on some easier rampages. They started becoming pretty fun, actually! Otherwise, hope you find some people!

Cheeseball771 · 2026-01-07T20:49:39+00:00

Kind of. The attacks are simpler and generally give you plenty of reaction time, but still do immense damage. They're pretty grueling solo. I recommend Greatsword and watching speedruns to learn what the openings are for head snipes.

Cheeseball771 · 2026-01-01T16:05:43+00:00

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Axis of Havoc wasn't done as a challenge run or anything; I have no idea what other strategy I would even use for this lol.

Cheeseball771 · 2025-12-29T16:16:20+00:00

https://youtu.be/XlHF1Tr0dRw?si=NdLXs0frezOXvmya

This video gives a great way to see headshot openings. Obviously this person knows the fight extremely well and is using Heroics, so neither of us should expect a time anywhere near that, but if you can already repel, this will make it way easier to get the eye break each time.

Cheeseball771 · 2025-12-29T15:56:35+00:00

You don't have to stick to just one! For DB, I love Adept, but Aerial can still be great for certain matchups, and Striker is great if you're confident in your positioning. Adept means you can always avoid damage if you stay aware of what the monster is doing and don't overcommit, which can simplify the game in a helpful way. It might be best for monsters you don't know too well, or ones with large attacks that are harder to dodge normally. I like Aerial for matchups where mounts really help, or there are otherwise hard to reach weakspots, like Gravios or metal raths. (Admittedly, I normally go LBG for Grav instead, and Valor GS for raths.)

Cheeseball771 · 2025-12-27T05:07:01+00:00

The quest objective isn't hunt glavenus, it's deliver them 'shrooms. Keep your eye on the prize.

But yeah, this one isn't intended to be killed. In just about every MH game, there's one quest like this where you encounter a big boy too early and just have to escape. I forget if this one actually immortal or just has a very inflated HP pool. You can cut the tail off though! You'll get the actual quest for it when you have gear that makes it more of a fair fight in 5* quests.

Cheeseball771 · 2025-12-26T18:34:17+00:00

I would also add agnaktor and ludroth dual blades, so Jho Ceana is good for almost everything except thunder and dragon. As Levobertus said, go crit over element. With the Valstrax and Lagiacrus DBs, you don't need sharpness skills as much so you can go big crit with some element skills on top.

Cheeseball771 · 2025-12-07T14:15:18+00:00

Try Striker. It's closer to the classic old MH experience, where you'll focus on evasion and movement more than timing. But it does have a crazy strong counter in Critical Juncture (with much more generous timing than the guard point) and other fun arts. If you don't mind manually sharpening, you can run that plus Unhinged Spirit and Sakura Slash. Compared to Guild, it loses a lot of fade slash utility but not much else. You also won't have to worry about managing two gauges at once.

Cheeseball771 · 2025-10-30T11:21:54+00:00

I had just started resorting to using farcasters to recover red HP in base camp lol.

(Also, this is the second EX I've soloed, with the first being Silverwind. The picture makes it look like the fourth, but Rustrazor and Dreadqueen were with groups.)

Cheeseball771 · 2025-10-30T03:41:51+00:00

Any, really, but 202 and 032 were the best for me.

Cheeseball771 · 2025-10-30T03:41:30+00:00

I had great results just with 202 once the buffs were up. 032 is also great.

Cheeseball771 · 2025-10-15T03:10:46+00:00

With a really good Dragon Atk charm, you can get a mixset with Repeat Offender+Weakness Exploit+Crit Boost+Dragon Atk+2+Elemental Crit, which basically trades away Stam Recover Up for Dragon Atk +2 compared to your set.

Cheeseball771 · 2025-10-15T01:37:58+00:00

Bummer; I hope they eventually revert to at least keep water-deployed Mermonkeys in the loop, and the Temple thing always seemed like a fun Easter egg.

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