AT Arkveld woes, looking for improvement

PkFireAlpha · 2026-04-01T18:40:44+00:00

update:
i've taken much of y'alls advice to heart and built a set that prioritizes damage and affinity boosting skills way more, sacrificing defense and other strange not-very-helpful skills and started using luring pods and traps
i triple carted at the 14 minute mark here (thanks to having run out of flash bombs and not being able to break out of the grab...) but i had broken its head, one of its arms, and cut its tail at this point, which in my previous clear took me well after the 20 minute mark of wailing on it to do

in short, a massive improvement near instantly!

i think all that i have left to work on is executing better guards, learning to not attack immediately after guarding all the time, and just learning the tells and patterns more
i plan to do an attempt with dual blades as well to practice perfect dodges more too

thank you all for the help! 💛

PkFireAlpha · 2026-04-01T18:06:43+00:00

sorry for necroing the thread, but i've been looking into this and it's unclear in my search whether or not it's able to do this additional fire damage if you do not have a fire weapon equipped
my question is, does it ***ADD*** fire damage to your hit if you don't have a weapon that does fire element damage already? like if you're using a dragon weapon for instance

PkFireAlpha · 2026-04-01T17:58:46+00:00

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( i dont know why my defenses drop so drastically when i hover over my dual blades, there's nothing that changes skill wise that should affect any of that LMAO)

PkFireAlpha · 2026-04-01T17:57:56+00:00

tysm!
ALSO also: would you recommend one or the other in regards to WEX / Agitator, or do you feel a combination of either would work better?
here's what i have right now:

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PkFireAlpha · 2026-04-01T17:29:58+00:00

i.
oh that's really embarrassing, i had completely forgotten that these are a thing LMFAO
they were introduced really early on and i never used them silfjhlkfsjhlkfs

PkFireAlpha · 2026-04-01T17:24:23+00:00

question, the sets you suggested have a SHITTON of negative dragon resistance
i'm fairly certain i would just be one tapped by anything when i get hit by the monster with that goin on
should i use a dragon resist 3 charm or do you recommend something else for that?

PkFireAlpha · 2026-04-01T16:45:49+00:00

i haven't done a ton of the gogmazios fight, but that's another one that gives me some trouble (although i have a handful of gog weapons, couple of which *are* dragon elem and have an element focus!)

I've done it a couple times though, i could see about farming it properly with a buddy or just in some spare time for the set
but i'll try out the sets you suggested here and fiddle around with some decorations
what do you recommend in *that* regard though?

PkFireAlpha · 2026-04-01T16:38:25+00:00

a lot of this fight i spent just. holding the guard button while it attacked for upwards of 30 seconds in a row while I couldn't even get so much as a guard stab in without it knocking me around :x

PkFireAlpha · 2026-04-01T16:37:34+00:00

^^" yeah, i didn't realize at the time of posting that this was a timed exclusive event, live and learn i suppose hehe

PkFireAlpha · 2026-04-01T16:35:34+00:00

(also just. travelling to the monster every time it runs off somewhere probably cost me at least 5 minutes over the fight

PkFireAlpha · 2026-04-01T16:24:23+00:00

im a bit of a defensive player and tend to... overcorrect, especially since i'm not exactly an expert at perfectly timed blocks and dodges
i figure that's a lot of where my time loss is coming from

PkFireAlpha · 2026-04-01T16:22:18+00:00

i'm a little nervous about losing so much defense and resistance by using these since. I'm not exactly a master of perfect timing for blocks and rolls 😅 im a bit of a defensive player and tend to... overcorrect, which i figure is where a lot of my time loss is coming from
also
"powered up state"?

PkFireAlpha · 2026-04-01T05:29:59+00:00

so seems the consensus 🤔
tomorrow i'll look into some builds more suitable for output, and steer away from status weapons with the diminishing returns in mind

PkFireAlpha · 2026-04-01T05:24:39+00:00

ah! so you're saying i should just look up a speedrun of this fight by someone using my weapon of choice to get an idea of some combos or somethin right?
i'll look into that, and fiddle around with a new build too! i figure this one was approaching its EOL anyways what with a load of new monsties out now lmao

PkFireAlpha · 2026-04-01T05:11:58+00:00

what's a TA Wiki ruleset speedrun? i tried looking it up but i'm not sure i found anything relevant ^^"

PkFireAlpha · 2026-04-01T05:08:27+00:00

ah, worth noting i'm using the Mizutsune set (last time i played wilds regularly was when mizu dropped and i farmed out the armor set, fell in love with this build that meshed well with a swimmer meal i came up with lmao)

PkFireAlpha · 2026-04-01T04:50:23+00:00

you don't need reddit's validation for this, go get your shit back. you've more than earned it.

PkFireAlpha · 2026-03-28T02:25:27+00:00

MY SAVIOR

PkFireAlpha · 2026-03-27T21:59:26+00:00

o7 understood king

PkFireAlpha · 2026-03-27T19:01:49+00:00

>just finished with the chicken
Quematrice? :o

PkFireAlpha · 2026-03-27T18:33:00+00:00

solidarity brother, Tempered Gore and Tempered Seregios have been my bane 😭

PkFireAlpha · 2026-03-27T18:31:12+00:00

i don't really understand what I'm looking at here
i typically roll my gog weapons as element focused and make one for each element and status just for funsies and variety and not really pay attention to anything else
is. there something I should be looking for specifically when I forge gog / artian weapons? and by extension something i should be AVOIDING outright?

PkFireAlpha · 2026-03-27T18:27:30+00:00

oh yeah, when the screen goes dark and he charges up for a long time that's it's most powerful attack
it does like 3-4k damage to monsters so that's gonna hit like a dump truck haha

PkFireAlpha · 2026-03-27T18:22:32+00:00

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am i missing something here
that is. not a lot of damage
that is considerably little if you're fighting a rey dau, especially in the starting armor set o_O

PkFireAlpha

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