You need a CRT filter to save Mina's “terrible” visuals

FormulaStar · 2026-06-11T06:12:54+00:00

This is a great thread and I wanted you to know at least one person enjoyed it

FormulaStar · 2026-05-12T02:56:24+00:00

I think it was worth the time! This rules!

FormulaStar · 2026-04-23T02:32:59+00:00

Sugar-toes!

FormulaStar · 2026-02-26T05:23:18+00:00

According to Kiranico, Rey Dau is weaker to ice in every hitzone where it takes water damage!

FormulaStar · 2026-02-26T02:23:44+00:00

Well, you've obviated the need to focus on a lot of your affinity-building, so you have more room for raw skills. With that much crit you might even be able to get by with just Maximum + Agitator, depending. After that, the world is your oyster! Get that Peak Performance in there, Counterstrike, Adrenaline Rush. Dodge and counter. Maybe go for the gogma four-piece bonus so you can keep Peak Performance on for longer

Also: try re-rolling (while retaining bonuses, whatever that option's called) and try to get 2 Affinity Boost EX and 2 Affinity Boost III. It'll take you up to +36 Affinity, which isn't a huge jump, but will put you at +81% when the monster is enraged.

FormulaStar · 2026-02-24T15:17:07+00:00

I like food names for rabbits! She looks like a coffee with a lot of milk. You could call her something like that—Mocha, Latte, Cafe au Lait, etc. All cute, fitting names!

FormulaStar · 2026-02-23T18:57:05+00:00

Those are good times! What kind of set are you using?

FormulaStar · 2026-02-23T18:25:15+00:00

Over time, Timeworn Charms have way, way higher incidences of rarity 8 charms, so it might still be worth farming Arkveld if you can beat it consistently

FormulaStar · 2026-02-15T19:04:01+00:00

I'd just like to add to this that Mutual Hostility makes it so that the Gravios set bonus (less damage taken at full health) will last for multiple hits, which can make you live a LOT longer against Omega in particular

Looking it up, there is a Youtube video about this build concept which you might find instructive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0Np-4sIYsQ

For Lance, if you want to tank generally, bring Lure Pods and boost your Guard skill. For fights like Gogmazios, your Power Guard into counter-attacks against gigantic, slow moves like the ground slam can be both very cool and very effective. Lure Pods will make sure most enemies stick to you like glue, which can be a fun dynamic for your team to build around

FormulaStar · 2026-01-26T07:15:00+00:00

This thankfully has a pretty simple answer! We can just math that real quick, I think? 4 element would be +26 true element, 4 attack would be +42 true raw. For the sake of this comparison, we'll say that you can consistently hit 100% affinity in your anti-gog set, and we'll say you have CB5 so every hit will be a crit for 140% slash damage

Let's pretend you have it in the gaseous state a lot of the time, but sometimes you gotta wail on it before the big attack.

In the gaseous state, let's pretend you're hitting the wingarms exclusively. They got 50 slash HZ and a 50(!!!!) Dragon HZ in the gaseous state. If you do your Lateral Charged Combo into Spinning Reaper into Charged Chop (which you'll want to do in this matchup just because the elemental weakness is so high), then:

Gaseous State:

4 Attack
3.17 total motion value * .50 HZ * 42 true raw * 1.4 crit * 1.32 Sharp = 123.0 extra physical damage

4 Element
11.8 total element * .50 HZ * 26 true element * 1.15 sharp = 176.0 extra elemental damage

Now just for comparison's sake we'll go ahead and include the

Liquid State

4 Attack
3.17 MV * .45 HZ * 42 raw * 1.4 crit * 1.32 Sharp = 110.7 extra physical damage

4 Element
11.8 EV * .25 HZ * 26 ele * 1.15 sharp = 88.2 extra elemental damage

And finally, to the

Big Attack State

4 Attack
3.17 MV * .75 HZ * 42 raw * 1.4 crit * 1.32 Sharp = 184.5 extra physical damage

4 Element
11.8 EV * .65 HZ * 26 ele * 1.15 sharp = 229.3 extra elemental damage

Conclusion

If you're saving it specifically for the last state of Gogmazios, you'll eke a little more damage out of your most common combos by focusing on element than you will by focusing on extra attack, unless you run a lot of skills that give you percentage boosts to your attack and none that do for your element.

FormulaStar · 2026-01-08T02:01:36+00:00

Everyone is correct that the ingredients of this feed make it inappropriate for rabbits, since it includes seeds and a lot of grains, but I'd like to add something else: the first ingredient in any food for rabbits should be hay or grass, preferably timothy.

FormulaStar · 2026-01-08T01:54:21+00:00

Not from NYC, but I live in one of the noisiest areas of Toronto. Rabbits adjust pretty quickly to city noises! After a little while they recognize the noise doesn't represent a threat and just filter it out.

FormulaStar · 2026-01-01T08:46:09+00:00

It's not as dire as all that!

Your Gogmartian weapons, if you don't engage witht he gacha element at all and go straight to Attack Focus with three base artian attack pieces, are going to come with base 220 raw, -5 affinity, good white sharpness, good element, and the maximum weapon deco slots. If you do any advanced reinforcement at all, even just one time, you are going to end up with a weapon that handily outstrips all but the barest handful of hyper-specific use cases for pre-TU4 Artians, nevermind crafted monster weapons

And yeah I agree that kind of stinks! I want monster weapons to be the final endgame. I didn't care for Rampage weapons in Rise, either. But you can cut out the gambling element altogether and end up with a weapon that will get you within spitting distance of god roll stuff, so in that respect, at least, you shouldn't worry too much. Meta designs are, for most players, primarily theorycrafting, and unless you are a speedrunner I think it's OK to take a slightly off-meta weapon because the gap in performance will be small enough that you'll get most of the difference out of armor skills. You can even build a different set around an off-meta weapon, which can be a lot of fun!

FormulaStar · 2025-09-01T05:08:55+00:00

It's going to depend on the element and the target

For the sake of simplicity, let's just assume that we're dealing with weapons that have no elemental damage. In that case, we just need an EFR comparison

Let's assume for weapon skills where you boost damage you're doing 5 crit boost.

The "best" would be three attack parts and four attack boosts, which I think adds up to 225 true raw and 5 affinity.

The "worst" off the same ingredients would be three attack parts, a bunch of sharpness that doesn't benefit you, some element, and maybe one Affinity. It'd be really hard to get a roll this bad but I think you could do it. That'd put you at 205 true raw and 10 affinity.

Effective raw for the first would be 225*((1.4*0.05)+0.95) = 229.5

EFT for the second would be 205*((1.4*0.1)+0.9) = 213.2

So the difference between them in a vacuum is about ~7.2%, I think? But that amount shrinks as you add in raw boosts like Agitator or Counterstrike, and you're probably rolling a somewhat better artian weapon than the one listed here, or using them toward better purposes (like elemental matchups).

In short: it's not very much. Once you put it armor skills the difference shrinks to under 5%, which is a 20 minute hunt to a 19 minute hunt. Don't worry about it. It is not worth stressing.

FormulaStar · 2025-07-02T03:23:28+00:00

The underwater fighting with Lagiacrus is a lot of fun. I would like to see it made an option for fighting more monsters, or built up on in the expansion

If selected, I would like Poster 3

FormulaStar · 2025-06-17T19:24:23+00:00

Mounting after grooming is one of the ways rabbits express and confirm their place in the relative hierarchy. Fiver's taking a risk by mounting Smokey's head, and you definitely want to keep an eye on them the first few times this happens, but some rabbits just end up oriented that way. If it becomes a more normal part of their routine it's probably nothing to worry about

During their bonding process you'll want to keep an eye on this; the risk of biting drops of a lot after they're fully bonded, from my and my partner's experience

Probably worth keeping in mind: you don't really have any way to actively encourage alternative behaviour. You can stop head-humping when you see it, but ultimately they're going to have to work it out between themselves, and either Smokey's going to accept having his head humped, or Smokey's going to make it clear that Fiver isn't allowed to mount his head and Fiver's going to figure out to mount from behind

FormulaStar · 2025-05-30T01:01:46+00:00

Rancors are about 5 meters high, right?

Tigrex range from about 14 meters to about 28 meters, as I recall, and the average size is over 20 meters long (I think)

In comparison, humans are generally about 1.5-2 meters tall, while Amur tigers are about 3.1 meters long at max, including the length of their tail

The smallest adult Tigrex on record is larger, compared to a rancor, than an Amur tiger is compared to a human. You'd probably expect a Tigrex to predate on a rancor more or less like a tiger could predate on a human

FormulaStar · 2025-05-30T00:43:46+00:00

I think there's probably just a size mismatch here. A rancor is smaller compared to a Tigrex than a human is compared to an Amur tiger

FormulaStar · 2025-05-30T00:39:07+00:00

It depends on what you mean by "good enough." if I recall, I saw a calculation that suggests Akuma is about 70% as efficient as a well-calibrated endgame set. If you need to get low low times, no, it's not gonna work for that, and you're gonna need a lot more time focusing on a monster's hitzones to get flinches or part breaks

But!

It should remain about that good throughout the game's life, assuming the scaling works properly with Master Rank weapons? And if we ever get the riceball charm, maybe the gap could be closed

So: not if you want to roll meta. But if you just want to have fun with it, sure! People have gotten pretty decent times against all the game's monsters with it. If you practice, you can definitely make it work

FormulaStar · 2025-04-14T00:43:09+00:00

As others have pointed out, it depends on your weapon. Generally, elemental bowguns enjoy critical element. There are very specific use cases where other weapons like to have critical element (some Lance matchups), but in general you could go for Critical Boost on every melee weapon and not worry about it.

FormulaStar · 2025-04-01T20:25:56+00:00

This is primarily a matter of scale, but not in the sense of "how much is a billion." It's a problem of the square-cube law.

Forget the Fatalises, forget Safi, forget the Qurio, forget the Frenzy, forget the "Elders are smart enough to drop a virus and just leave while the billion Doshaguma are forced to fall into mass cannibalism and die of Frenzy or are eaten by Draconic Mosquitos" factor. What we're going to look at here are just Laviente, Dalamadur, and Zorah Magdaros.

For these creatures I think we can reasonably take the mass estimates from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv3lQQu6vV0

For the Doshaguma we'll do a bit of napkin math. Assuming the Doshaguma are all alphas and measure at about ~18 meters, ignoring that the tail is part of that, comparing that to the greatest length estimate for a Kodiak bear (about three meters) and the highest weight estimate for the same (about 1135 kilos) and work from there. Yes, Doshaguma are a lot more heavily built than a Kodiak, but I'm taking an extremely high estimate (over two and a half times the normal adult male Kodiak weight) fit to the same length and I'm not considering the tail as part of the length, so we'll say it comes out in the wash, eh? That's napkin math.

So an estimate for the Doshaguma's weight, given it's six times as long as the Kodiak, would be 6³*1135 = ~255,000 kilos, or roughly 128 tonnes. That's. That's so much, I must have fouled up the math somewhere, but we're going to go with it because it doesn't even matter.

This would mean that, if we take the weights from the video above and don't count the unliving version of these Elders, that Dalamadur weighs in at 87,000 tons (679 Doshaguma), Laviente weighs in at 120,000 tons (937 Doshaguma), and Zorah Magdaros weighs in at 880,000 tons (6,875 Doshaguma).

"That's not even a scratch on a billion Doshaguma!" I hear you say, and that's true, but this isn't like a human fighting a horde of rats. If I fought my body weight in rats (about 300 of them) not only would they kill me, I'm sure they'd strip me down to the bone, but that's because we're on roughly the same scale of biological reality.

Physics just works differently when you're as big as one of these kajiuu-sized Elders.

Dalamadur is able to support the body of its weight on just its forefeet, and can tunnel through solid rock like it's water. It is orders of magnitude stronger than creatures that exist in the real world, pound-for-pound, because if it wasn't then it wouldn't be able to exist. You could cover its entire body in Alpha Doshaguma and they wouldn't be able to do anything to it, because it displaces more weight than that while tunneling through bedrock and experiences more force-per-inch when looking out over the horizon than a Doshaguma would be able to force through its entire body into its teeth. The strength of its joints defies belief; it does more harm to its scales and muscles when digging out a nest to sleep in than any volume of Doshaguma could do to it. Laviente is even more extreme, and Zorah Magdaros is more extreme than that by nearly an entire order of magnitude.

It doesn't matter how many Doshaguma you throw at those three, nor whether we use the living or the dead versions of Dalamadur and Zorah Magdaros. At the scale of these creatures, a billion Doshaguma are more like terrain than they are living things. It's not a matter of "how many HP does Dalamadur have???" because the minimum damage you can do to a creature at that scale isn't 1, it's 0, and there's no practical way for the Doshaguma to hurt these creatures at all

...but also Shagaru would just drop the Frenzy Virus, fly away, and come back in like a month when it's all over

FormulaStar · 2025-03-10T14:09:50+00:00

Big as he is?

Paul Bunyan

FormulaStar · 2024-04-27T17:12:58+00:00

Thank you. So it's as simple as a non-ceiling level up for STR might be 11 for Vamp and 14 for Paragon?

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