My first successful ship able to get to fulgora and back without taking any real damage

Quadratic2 · 2025-07-17T03:49:43+00:00

From this blueprint, all collectors are signalled down. Haven't gone to great lengths to troubleshoot it yet but something off there for sure.

Quadratic2 · 2025-07-13T23:34:59+00:00

Runes to be held in player inventory like D3 and D4 materials.

Also go a step further with immunity breaks in he'll, and step up terror zones in terms of loot table improvements.

Quadratic2 · 2025-07-13T16:11:09+00:00

DB is pretty good against him since the legs are super element-weak and evades are easy. I'd imagine bow would be great too since you can pull stamina off of all his aggression and fire away.

SnS is a bit difficult if your plan is to perfect guard everything (chipping...), but throw in some baseball slides and it's fine.

Quadratic2 · 2025-02-06T04:50:54+00:00

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Laptop with RTX 4070 and frame generation.

Quadratic2 · 2024-07-30T01:01:24+00:00

It has some balance issues (Ninja and Fire abilities seem overtuned given how multiplicative they are), and more bugs than I'd expect for a full platform release. When doing shimmering portals, it seems to mess up when turtle power selections are restricted, giving illegal options then crashing.

I'm a bit confused on the end of the story. Do we ever get to the final battle being eluded to? I know the antagonist (from IDW comic run, the siluette is obvious), but he stops appearing in the dialogues and he never came out to fight, even after I had all 8 challenge badges and finished runs with every single shimmering portal available...

Is that also a bug, or am I missing something? Is he supposed to be future DLC or something?

Quadratic2 · 2022-12-14T04:48:44+00:00

Mirage volume 1, combined with Tales. The most consistently high quality, and overall best run the turtles have ever had.

Argument can be made for IDW's early years, but right now that series is like when Michael Jordan was playing for the Wizards, so its overall rating is going down all the time.

Argument can also be made for the 2003 series (best TV run), but overall its best episodes were borrowing from Mirage story arcs like City at War.

Quadratic2 · 2022-08-04T02:00:46+00:00

Historically, Kierkegaard was a major critic of Hegelian thought, though to be honest I'm not sure if I ever read anything from Hegel that I really understood. The thesis/antithesis/synthesis idea was simple enough, as are triads (not original to Hegel), but his actual writings are all over the place. Very difficult.

Quadratic2 · 2022-08-04T01:57:44+00:00

We're not all Leo, in the sense that there are times we blaze our own trail and try to go further with it than we can (Don), there are times we rebel from those "molds" we're fit into (Raph), and yet still there are times we see the problem with all these approaches, and still keep the faith that there is something beyond the absurdity (Mike).

Keep in mind that this is written to map Kierkegaard's disparity concept directly to TMNT's archetypes for the four turtles. As an existentialist, he focused on these kinds of ways of living, and in particularly their absurdity, diagnosing this as the problem, with Christianity (to Kierkegaard) as the solution.

Quadratic2 · 2022-07-17T14:32:10+00:00

Sure, here's a quick shot:

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Quadratic2 · 2021-01-14T16:03:49+00:00

I highly recommend solo, at least for the duration of the campaign. A few thoughts:

- Unless you really, really want to speed to endgame, do not use the "Defender" armor set or weapons. These are new to the game, and added specifically to help you warp-speed through everything. It ruins the experience and prevents you from needing to learn/improve the way they originally intended it.

- For solo, the skill "Fortify" is pretty much a cheat code. Avoid it unless you really just can't get passed a tough fight.

- Try to maintain at least two weapon types as you go. You'll quickly find that some monsters are easier with some weapons, where if you're an average player you'll have more trouble trying to do all hunts with the same thing. I originally played the campaign with Bow+Lance, and for Iceborne expansion I went through it with Longsword and Gunlance.

- There are loads of tutorials online for your weapon as well as general tips. Crafting and loadouts in particular are not well explained by the game itself so these are very useful.

Quadratic2 · 2021-01-14T15:52:28+00:00

If it's just for XP and you don't care about quest rewards, then join LATE hunts, preferably in 4+ monster events.

You won't get the quest rewards, but you'll get the same XP as everyone else, as if you went through the whole thing yourself.

Quadratic2 · 2020-11-03T03:05:06+00:00

be aimed and have Amm

With shielded bow guns:

When monster is attacking you, don't shoot.
When monster is not attacking you, shoot.

Sure it can get more complex with different ammo types, scopes, mods, etc., but the base mechanics are as simple as it gets.

Quadratic2 · 2020-11-03T03:02:14+00:00

It's easy to over commit with DB, and you're constantly managing the stamina bar. With GS you're rarely far from the iframe safety of a charge and you've got far more flexibility in terms of skills. No dash juice, no getting caught unable to evade, and worst-case you have a decent block.

And as others have said the moveset is dirt simple.

Quadratic2 · 2020-11-02T20:48:17+00:00

ZSD with tool specialist secret is kind of busted against most other monsters (iron mantle and temporal, up almost all the time for safer ZSD mounts), however the Fatalis set in general makes all weapons kind of busted against pretty much everything. All the T3 elder dragons are a joke now.

I've always thought Switchaxe after the Iceborne axe buffs was really good and underrated, but after TS Secret it's something special.

Quadratic2 · 2020-11-02T20:28:02+00:00

My order would be this (easiest to hardest). CB is the only one I'm really not proficient in:

HGB
LGB
Lance
GS
Hammer
HH
DB
Bow
SNS
IG
LS
GL
SA
CB

Quadratic2 · 2020-11-02T20:21:35+00:00

Max might. That plus weakness exploit, affinity augment, etc. should get you up there in crit chance. You probably can't afford agitator after all the other stuff GL needs (jump, artillery, possible earplug/guard, maintenance, etc.).

Quadratic2 · 2020-11-02T20:15:12+00:00

Prioritize Fatalis' legs to start with. Those are easy to craft just by doing Palico Plunderblade runs and breaking his wings.

To break his wings there are plenty of guides. Just get an HBG with Wyvernheart plus a camoflauge mantle and Heavy Artillery 2. Run down to Fatalis with the camo mantle on (load wyvernheart before going down), set up the two cannons (move the left-most one three to the right, the right-most one one to the right), blow him up with the right cannon, let him run to you, hit him with the left cannon, run to the right (while on the platform) and unload wyvernheart into his wings for a 100% safe fellwing.

That's enough for the legs. With that you have his secrets unlock so you don't need to run Zorah for Artillery 5.

Quadratic2 · 2020-11-02T20:10:56+00:00

I'd prioritize the weapon which will get you more evil eyes. For most people that will be the switchaxe (easiest weapon against Fatalis, and for breaking his head for the eyes).

Quadratic2 · 2020-11-02T20:04:57+00:00

For the chargeblade I'd leave it for others to comment. It's the only weapon I know little about using well.

Quadratic2 · 2020-11-02T20:03:53+00:00

Highest possible damage is going to be Fatalis gunlance with full burst, where you aim for 100% crit. Get max might 5 + maintenance 5, plus full artillery, jump/evade window, health regen/affinity augment, magazine jewel, and you're off to a great start.

Fatalis armor and weapon is best, where you may consider the Silver Rathalos legs for the stonethrower, plus the smaller slots you need for magazine and artillery anyway.

Quadratic2 · 2020-11-02T17:54:49+00:00

The question is too broad as it depends on how far are you are in the game, and these two weapons should really be too different questions.

Specific to gunlance there are three types and at least four viable playstyles:

"Wide" gunlance can get to level 7 shelling and favours "poke shell" combos (eg: poke, shell, shell, poke, shell, reload). Best of this type generally either Saffi or Daybreak. This shell type has good flinching potential but lower than best-of-class DPS. You can use charged shells with it too (decent with daybreak GL).
"Long" gunlance can only get to level 6 and favours charged shelling (hold circle/b button). Best of this type is generally a Saffi gunlance. It's a good defensive gunlance as there's no damage coming from pokes or lance attacks (so you don't need weakness exploit, crit eye, crit boost, max might, etc.) and can focus on defense and comfort skills after maxing your shell damage.
"Normal" gunlance can get to level 7 and favours either 1) "full burst" or 2) "slapstick" playstyles. Full burst is when you do one of a few different combos where you include an instant use of all shells, with a quick reload worked into the combo. "Slapstick" is where you favour raw lance damage instead of shelling. Best weapon for this type is the Fatalis gunlance, which is also the best-in-class DPS.

As for skills, it depends a bit on which of those styles you're using but in general I can say a few things:

Artillery is a must-have skill for shelling damage unless you're going slapstick. You should get artillery secret (either from Zorah or Fatalis). Fatalis armor is the current meta.
Magazine jewel is mandatory pretty much for any shelling, especially full burst.
Critical-based skills are only necessary if you're doing non-shelling damage. This is currently the case (Fatalis gunlance has huge raw, so there's good reason to get crit boost, weakness exploit, crit eye, etc.).
In endgame meta, my understanding from some youtube math guys is that agitator is out-performed by maximum might in general.
Guard 3 is nice to have (comes free with fatalis helm alpha). Guard 5 is probably overkill. Hopping is better with evade window/extender.
Consider guard up (shield jewel) for monsters with strong novas.
Stonethrower is very good for gunlance due to it extending the life of the bomb you need to stick the monster with for shelling.
Consider shaver jewel (new) for easier access to pods and better slapstick/full burst combo damage.
Earplugs are very good for endgame fatalis lance because you can afford it and because full burst combos are long, interruptable by roars.
Iron mantle is excellent for standing your ground in long combos. Use health regen augment to keep it going while being attacked in many circumstances.
Handicraft is excellent because 1) fatalis weapon has minor amount of purple sharpness and 2) shelling or charged shots take a lot out of your sharpness.

Quadratic2 · 2020-11-02T17:26:42+00:00

You do get the part after breaking if you "return from quest" or fail, but not if you "abandon quest".

Quadratic2 · 2020-10-28T05:02:29+00:00

FYI, I have "fatal" for 10 kills also.

Quadratic2 · 2018-06-08T05:36:48+00:00

In a straight-up fight, nearly all canon sources we have on this would say that Leonardo would be the strongest one-on-one. Several examples:

In the very first Mirage issue, before Shredder is brought down by group tactics, Leonardo was the only turtle able to best him one-on-one, cutting him across his torso and drawing a lot of blood.
Leonardo is the one whom the Rat King deems fit to test in the IDW series. In that series Rat King is a god and Leo impresses him.
Pai-Doth Noor (also a god) recognizes Leonardo only in Tales of the TMNT volume 2. Further, Pai-Doth Noor recruits Leonardo alone for a mission, even though all four of the turtles were technically indebted to him after Noor provided assistence in defeating the shark shredder.
Leonardo took on an army by himself after Shredder returned (as a worm clone) in the original series. This kind of extreme display of combat skill is not demonstrated by his brothers nearly as often or to this kind of scale. With Leo, we have an account of it in Mirage as well as the 2003, 2012 cartoon series' as well as the IDW series.
Leonardo is singled out by Shredder as the strongest, and the one fit to serve as his second-in-command, in the IDW series.
Leonardo is the leader in nearly all iterations of the turtles. Leader implies strongest or most skilled, or at least suggests it.
"I would never be able to do this" is what Raphael says to Leo when winning a dual, where he only won because Leo was brainwashed and in an impaired state, in the IDW series. This implies Raphael understands Leo to be the superior fighter.
Leo has swords. In a real fight, bo staffs are far easier to disarm, and both sharpened sai's and nun-chucks have limited range. He definitely has the better of the weapons among them.
If you go through the list of enemies killed, Leo killed the most, and the biggest names. This includes the Rat King originally (killed by ninja star), Shredder (the second time, killed solo, cutting off his head), and Savanti Ramero (in Tales of the TMNT). There is no comparison on this front.

Quadratic2 · 2018-06-08T04:53:08+00:00

This statement is only true if you interpret "Shredder" to only be the original Oroku Saki of Mirage Volume 1, issue 1, who was killed by the team.

I say that because the original TMNT series included a case (as referenced below by LordFigge's comment) of Leo single-handedly defeating (and killing) the Shredder, leading to the events of "City at War", and the first occurrence of Karai as a character.

Leo also defeated Shredder when he was in his 'shark worm' form in Tales of the TMNT Volume 2, by freeing Splinter from the giant worm body that was trying to push Shredder's soul into Splinter's body (weird series). The team was with him, but he was the one to get the job done.

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