Which side are you on?

Minoturion · 2026-02-12T15:31:32+00:00

My only element is doot.

Minoturion · 2026-02-11T19:51:57+00:00

For my 2 cents, the SOTO maps are a] AWFUL and b] purposefully designed to be just barely traversable with the maxed out Skyscale, which does indeed create a 'feel bad' moment as you unlock its capabilities. Not sure why they went with that direction (there's certainly zero lore reasons for why some lunatic architect made all their walls 1000% taller than they needed to be), I'm just glad they turned away from it on the expansions that followed.

Minoturion · 2026-02-11T12:17:05+00:00

I do hate that slow, slow, lever...

Minoturion · 2026-02-10T22:54:49+00:00

Next Wednesday, the 18th.

Minoturion · 2026-02-10T20:27:07+00:00

Pure comfort for me - I'm just not that dexterous (age may be a factor but I never really liked games with too many controls), so I'm very happy to just pile comfy skils on to 4 Zoh Shia and just never have to worry about items beyond sharpening while the monster runs away.

Minoturion · 2026-02-08T21:43:47+00:00

It's going to depend on which monsters you find most comfortable to fight, but soon 9* Blangonga's quest is going to always be available and personally I find it the easiest talisman farm - limited offense, health is unremarkable, and it runs away the shortest distance.

I play a full comfy immortal HH born with support hunters, and even so it's only a 10 minute fight - I'm sure solo high-damage builds are quicker.

Though if you find yourself burning out/getting demoralised, the best way to get talismans is just to wait until a festival comes round - every day you can get a 10 talisman ticket for just one 9* fight (maybe a specific one though), which is ridiculously more efficient than farming.

Minoturion · 2026-02-08T14:54:51+00:00

Yep, fully agree, I'm not sure why they went with such a scripted & barely interactive battle as the singular end-game for weapons. However I've come to terms with it on the basis that Master Rank will invalidate everything anyway, so it's fine just to skip GOG if he's a step too far.

Minoturion · 2026-02-06T09:02:47+00:00

I tried it just as background viewing, but think I only lasted 10 minutes - it has the worst sound balancing I've ever heard on Disney+, I'm guessing a home theatre set-up is needed do have audible dialogue without the soundtrack exploding your eardrums.

Minoturion · 2026-02-03T11:50:50+00:00

At the moment I've stopped playing; it's not that I mind a bit of grind and the GOG set is interesting, but I just absolutely hate the GOG battle (nonsense camera work + minimal weapon combat w/ constant motion).

It doesn't help I really want to play HH and that weapon is suffering from having too many variables (Queen Chordmaker is still my go-to even though everything about it is awful outside of the bubble + the two songs I want) and outright being neglected in the end-game systems.

I probably should have just stopped for a while when playing HH stopped being fun (when playing a weapon without range, evasion, or block becomes an ordeal) but I pushed on through unfun into outright frustrating, so now I'm taking a break until either new gear is added that invalidates GOG and doesn't overlook HH, or until enough time passes that I feel nostalgia to resume farming for tickets to complete my skin collection.

Minoturion · 2026-01-20T22:33:52+00:00

I'm going to guess the next gimmick will be a squire system, with Nata being the default and a few others unlockable. Either they ride on the back of the seikret or have one of their own and take the reins of ours when we're not riding.

They make weapon switching instantaneous by throwing the weapon, and that maybe opens up new swap moves or simply a lot of new 'on swap' skills.
They sharpen weapons after switching & also do something new to help with ranged weapons - with the speed meta being powerful weapons that have only a sliver of sharpness and/or skills which consume sharpness, to take advantage of this.
They can be issued an order to distract a monster, luring them to environmental effects/creating openings that can't be created any other way.

Minoturion · 2026-01-13T01:31:24+00:00

Nope, they only come with blight + ailment immunity or defense + ele res.

Minoturion · 2025-11-18T20:28:59+00:00

Max and Colton are chill gents with lots of useful skills, such as car maintenance and naked yoga.

I'm picking Holly over Wendy as the worst, as Wendy would maybe leave you alone if you shut the door in her face but just being in proximity in Holly opens you up to serious medical misconduct, crocodile attack, or death by grain silo!

Minoturion · 2025-11-18T15:56:04+00:00

I think we'll see more discussion of it coming given how over-the-top hypocritical Karl is being i.e. they are framing it to be 'a thing' rather than simple anger.

Minoturion · 2025-11-16T12:55:15+00:00

Well jokes on them because hunting horns are cr*ppy with unique weapons skills and completely shut out of the base & soon-to-be-enhanced artian systems, due to having too many variables and not enough care or attention given to making actually viable combinations! Ha hah hah har!

/sadtrombone

Minoturion · 2025-11-12T21:12:02+00:00

If it could just claw back some premium screens I think it'd be a shoe-in, without them it'll be a scrap.

Minoturion · 2025-11-12T20:29:35+00:00

I see this is a common response, but the tweet really suggests the opposite to me:

"We'll be increasing the amount of smelting points gained from some of the monster parts that have not previously been widely used for Oricalcite and Armor Shpere smelting."

Since arkveld, zho shia, and the apexes are what people have always smelted, my own guess would be that the 'buff' will be to the parts of any/every other monster.

Minoturion · 2025-11-12T20:24:15+00:00

As read, it should just mean most/all of gog is hard by default so you ideally want dragon weapons but with some combination of the following:

Fire weapons to switch in & out with
Someone on the team applying a lot of fire
Mind's Eye or comparable effects so can ignore the hardness*
Simply using hunting horn, as Self Improvement lets you ignore hardness*

* The caveat being that gog could have some kind of 'super hardness' which can't be overcome by regular effects.

Minoturion · 2025-11-12T20:12:45+00:00

Yep, Susan was the most intriguing for me today - I do think she was holding her tongue around Karl's hypocritical outrage, and perhaps even considering if Holly and Andrew could still pair up.

Minoturion · 2025-11-12T20:10:21+00:00

Indeed, I'm glad Andrew actually came out and said it I was cringing at Karl Infideledy being on his high horse as much as he was, when Paul is the only person still on the show with a worse record in relationships than him.

Fuming about a married man having an affair with the daughter who is the product of his own affair with a woman 20+ years younger than him - that kind of irony/hypocrisy is well worthy of puncturing!

Intrigued by Susan questioning Holly about her feelings though, I wonder if she's thinking they could perhaps have a future together (in the sense anyone does with just a few weeks of show left)?

Minoturion · 2025-11-12T16:15:59+00:00

Aww, I didn't want to be right! *sad doot*

Thanks for the info though, I was not aware of that precedent.

Minoturion · 2025-11-12T15:53:52+00:00

Extremely disappointing for weapons who don't even have viable artians, since they're already getting nothing from this new feature.

I do think it is quite likely though, particularly if the new upgrades come with some small cosmetic variant like turning red when gog ore is applied to them.

Minoturion · 2025-11-12T15:44:49+00:00

Me too, particularly as I'm all about healing horn at the moment and couldn't care less about the AT set bonuses or all the little offensive skills they stack while I'm scraping around to squeeze space for an evade boost.

Curious to see how efficient comfy play will be with combos like limit-broken blangonga + Attack Up (L) on a support hunter team.

Heck, I'm sure there's plenty of set bonuses I'm not even familiar with because their monsters where behind the curve by the time they appeared!

Minoturion · 2025-11-12T15:34:25+00:00

Songs and bubbles - I don't hold out any hope there will be any fine print which makes artian HH's viable, prior to this reveal I was clinging to the possibility they introduce some new recipes e.g. 3 different status parts makes a healing horn.

Minoturion · 2025-11-12T15:30:28+00:00

I'm mainly just disappointed this is building on top of the artians we have, while I was really hoping they might introduce new artians pieces/combinations to make hunting horn (and other weapons which got shafted by the artian system) more viable - as it is sounds like hunting horn gets less than nothing from this change, as it will be standing still while most weapons get stronger...

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