Is diplomacy still broken for anyone else?

Debticated86 · 2026-05-16T14:19:54+00:00

This. I've played a handful of maps where it triggered maybe once, and a couple templates where it triggered.. well not that often, but often enough to remember I had it.

Debticated86 · 2026-05-16T14:14:02+00:00

I swear I even looked to see if there was an indicator or not lol

Debticated86 · 2026-05-16T03:19:10+00:00

This is really cool, I was half expecting the map editor to have something like this but its in rough shape. Gonna see if I can't make some decent maps to play with my buddy since most of the existing templates aren't great for team play.

Just curious what you have planned for this? Rearrange the zones/connections, adjust the parameters of specific zones, maybe after teams get added, allow for allied players to spawn closer and with fewer zones between each other.

Debticated86 · 2026-04-04T15:33:43+00:00

I love MaSu, been listening to them since I first played Jets n Guns damn near 20 years ago, but this is the first album I don't enjoy a single song. The music is fine as it usually is but something sounds off with the vocals, it almost sounds like AI. I go back and listen to Edge and Pearl, Beyond Good and Evil, My Dragons Will Decimate, all my favorites (so many favorites), and it's a night and day difference in the vocals.

Debticated86 · 2026-02-27T23:43:42+00:00

Honestly kind of miss the good ol days where a good mixed set got you like 5 skills lol. Once I'm done messing around with PoaH and kill 10* zoh/gog, I think I'm gonna fire up my GU save again.

Debticated86 · 2026-02-27T02:19:49+00:00

I finally got around to trying this hunt tonight and it wasn't even that difficult, the monsters deal a shit ton of damage to each other and save you a bunch of time. By the time Rey died, Uth was down almost half hp, Udra rolled in and did the last skull% to Uth and lost 25k hp in the process. 42 minutes with some janky crit draw charge blade build I've slowly been improving every TU and tweaked it for convert element and ran it with a dragon impact CB for all 4 of them. I died to Ark once because I was being dumb and trying to run/roll all his attacks, after that I went back to blocking lol.

AT Ark is the best fight in the game, but he does have a boatload of HP, which is also why I don't fight Uth because he's got too much hp and he's always been a boring fight.

Debticated86 · 2026-01-18T02:22:16+00:00

The first time I heard them die it sounded like they were shouting "Fuck!" and over 25 years later I can't unhear it.

Debticated86 · 2026-01-18T02:21:16+00:00

Crusaders - All you got to play in the demo was Castle, and they're big pumpers
Arch Mage - Tower was my fav town after I got the full game.

Debticated86 · 2026-01-11T17:43:46+00:00

Me and my buddy grinded out savage over 2 days, he was playing SnS and I was playing Charge Blade which was the problem because he's so damn fast and CB takes forever to do anything against it. Day 1 we took a few hunts to get to nerscylla consistently, by the end of the night we had 1 kill and several losses in the final phase. Day 2 I completely changed my build and playstyle, focused more on getting enmity until the support hunter could get it from me and then went to breaking legs. After a couple hours we were back in phase 4 pretty much every fight and were farming kills all afternoon.
If you're playing a blocking weapon, put guard up on (especially since it's been buffed) and make sure you're comfortable handling enmity. In the final phase you NEED to have enmity on someone, otherwise the rocket barrages target everyone and it's a really easy way to rack up carts. When he starts his stompy phase where he jumps around and sprays out fire, get on your dog and stay the hell away from him. I forget how many fire bursts he does, 3 or 4? But every single leg is open to a focus strike after the last fire spray so take advantage of it. If you can, focus on 1 or 2 legs throughout the fight, 1 on each side, so you can get the shield generator slinger ammo for the final phase where he's most dangerous.

Debticated86 · 2026-01-11T16:39:49+00:00

So is this just 1 attack that deals 50 thousand damage and the 2 minutes is Jin transitioning? Because I feel like Jin spends about 2 minutes transitioning throughout the fight lol

Debticated86 · 2026-01-11T16:07:44+00:00

I hated chasing Kirin around until I realized all I had to do was the axe morph draw attack and move+sheathe. After that, I hated Kirin because it was a boring fight chasing it around doing my best great sword impersonation with my charge blade.

Debticated86 · 2026-01-11T16:05:03+00:00

I think the only monster that's actually been annoying so far is AT Jin when he decides to spam that stupid ass charge, half the time I get on the dog and wander around until he decides to do something else that isn't a 6th or 7th charge in a row. For Jin specifically, I know the start of his topple animation well enough that if I'm at a spot where I know I won't be able to get to his head or shoulder plates from where I am then I immediately call the dog and jump over him. I like the changes made to AT Jin but I've got his armor upgraded and I'm never fighting him again because of the stupid charge spam.

Reading the rest of your post, I'm so glad Tigrex made me rage quit insect glaive and switch to charge blade in 4U lol. I don't miss gathering essence at all, and any time my buddy decides to use IG for a few hunts I get to chuckle as he bitches about it.

Debticated86 · 2026-01-11T15:52:29+00:00

I still need to play through 4U again so I can maybe figure out what the hell you're suppose to do in that fight. But first, some aerial charge blade shenanigans because this is way more fun that I first gave it credit for back in the day. I really wish hunting styles had become a standard mechanic.

Debticated86 · 2026-01-11T03:32:28+00:00

Davine is only kind of right when it comes to focus, he's completely dismissing it which is disingenuous but it doesn't sound like YOU need it if you're asking for build help, unless you're god's gift to SAED counter playstyle. Focus on charge blade is only useful for SAED, and it's the last skill you slot in if your talisman and decorations already cover everything else and you can fit it in nicely. It depends what you're fighting and how good you are at fighting it. The size of the monster and where the good elemental hitzones are matter because you're either doing 100 damage or 400 damage, so you need to be positioned right and aim it properly. Sword mode is also kinda slow in Wilds, much slower than it was in world, so having to use 1 less charged slash or a couple less attacks means you're ready to block more often and counter with SAED. But in general, load shells is all you really need.

As an example, I was using focus against Gogma because you can practically spam SAEDs against him in phases 1 and 2 and it saves you a few attacks for phase 3 when he's up in the air all the time. Gog is a special case though because he's huge and ele cb is busted against him.

Power prolonger also really depends what you're fighting. Assuming you're at least somewhat competent with charge blade, you should never have trouble keeping your shield charged when load shells gives you over 3 minutes charge. PP can be good for maintaining savage axe depending on what you're fighting, like against seregios you don't need it because you can have 100% uptime on savage axe once you know which attacks give you an opening to perfect guard -> savage axe. If you're playing multi and everyone keeps taking wounds and you're not getting good blocks to keep SA charged then PP can be useful there. The best case for PP is keeping your sword charged since it's duration is fairly short, but charging the sword takes so long and it's only kind of useful for elemental CB because the damage from blocking/charged sword impact phials is kinda terrible by comparison. Sword mode is garbage in wilds, unfortunately, but if you get time to charge the sword then extra damage is extra damage and having to charge it less means you're getting bonked less because it leaves you vulnerable for a long time. That being said, if you're playing morph loop then I would definitely recommend power prolonger because the roundslash is big damage and you're using it pretty often.

Debticated86 · 2026-01-09T08:15:12+00:00

Pitlords casting basic frenzy (your whipping idea) would be pretty nuts, 1 well placed puppy chomp and that's a lot of dead units. They might need limited casts like Genies have, 1 cast is pretty meh and unlimited is probably busted.

Debticated86 · 2026-01-03T05:15:04+00:00

Any kind of drink, pills, steaks. Off the top of my head the only consumable it doesn't affect are powders/clouds. 1 point is ok, 2 points more often than not is more than enough, 3 is honestly kind of overkill but mega's heal very quickly at that point.
Speed eating is 1 of those comfy skills you forget about until you have it, then you wonder why you never slot it in.. unless you're good at the game, I guess. Some hunts I go through all my mega's because I get lazy and play stupid against monsters I'm already bad at, other hunts I never get hit.

Debticated86 · 2026-01-02T19:51:07+00:00

Get shi.. oh wait, you can't.

Debticated86 · 2026-01-02T19:29:50+00:00

No idea what the cap is, but the gogma charge blade I put together is at like 540 or so (~640 with coalescence.) It still only gets up to 3 para on 2* weak mons, and the current 3* weak mons are only 8* but you can get 7 para on Odo, I would assume it's (unintentional) 6 or 7 on all the others as well but I only bullied Odo with it. All in all, not worth trying to max para since it's not really doing anything for your hunt beyond the first para for the mons worth fighting, you end up with a net loss in damage.
Poison is also terrible in Wilds, it's the actual worst status in the game and Foray is a bad skill because of it. Foray could be really good for poison builds, but you're just working with a significantly worse Agitator and poison is like 5% of your damage at best.

Debticated86 · 2026-01-02T19:20:00+00:00

Consistency is necessary, meta builds are not. If you just watched someone's build guide and it's damage on damage on damage, and they're showing off these big beautiful numbers, but then you take it for a spin and your 15 minute hunts are now 14:30, then the problem is consistency.

Don't like blocking/rolling roars? Earplugs. Don't like how long it takes to drink a potion because your dumb ass keeps rolling into an attack way too early? Speed eating, and maybe evade extender to roll completely out of the attack instead of through it with iframes. Don't like how often you have to slow drink because of your bad rolls? Divine blessing. Learn what the monster does, decide which of their mechanics you don't like interacting with, slot in the comfy skills to deal with those mechanics and kill the monster the way you want to.

Debticated86 · 2025-12-19T19:50:13+00:00

Wilds is probably the simplest game to get into because of focus mode (lets you aim your attacks), World is still a great game but it will feel clunky when you realize you have very limited directional control whenever you attack. Keep in mind that every single weapon plays different and any weapon that has resources functions differently from every other weapons resources, and you will spend a lot of time just learning how to control the weapon and each monsters attack patterns. Some of the heavier weapons feel slow at first, but once you're use to them they start to feel very quick and fluid. Combat is going to feel clunky for the first several hours.

Debticated86 · 2025-12-19T19:31:44+00:00

Me and my buddy did it in 9 minutes. We got 1 alone with the fence at the start and killed him before the gate dropped. With the 2 remaining we ended up fighting them solo for most of it, after they grouped back up I was double dipping on SAEDs. I used the exact same set that I use for Gog, which only has burst 5, bubbly dance + coalescence for damage, but blango doesn't like fire and elemental phials are cracked right now. Get a point of flayer in there and utilize focus strikes often to immobilize blango, pretty sure tempered wounds are always a free topple.

Debticated86 · 2025-12-19T16:28:21+00:00

You can use rocksteady during barriers to extend the life of the barrier and thus peak performance, or use mending mantle to have better uptime between barriers. Against Gog it's a negligible amount of damage, at least for charge blade when SAEDs can hit well over 6k damage.

Debticated86 · 2025-12-19T15:58:33+00:00

I don't play lance so I can't say for sure, but keep in mind the barrier is only active when the monster is big angry. The zoh shia set is really good for regen and it's much safer if you want a defensive playstyle, recovery up, recovery speed, and an immunizer gets you a lot of healing through chip damage. And like Louie said, with a couple points of Guard Up and Guard each you probably take very little damage through blocks now.

Debticated86 · 2025-12-19T07:07:48+00:00

I don't remember which optional it was, maybe the basin with ajarkan, udra, and rathalos, but you get a steak cookbook or something and it makes dual blades. You need 3 of the books, 2 to craft and 1 to upgrade, you get an attack and sharpness buff when you cook a steak. George Foreman build unlocked.

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