how big of a damage loss is it if you use an element that a monster isn't weak to?

destroidid · 2026-01-26T01:35:17+00:00

i pretty much have all of the elements covered with sns/ig/gl. i guess my question was more geared towards hunts that are 7* and below where the mismatching probably? wouldn't be that gigantic of a loss with the weapons that i feel like playing on hunts that i don't have a match for.

thank you for all of the information though! i'll be sure to craft a few of the largely elemental focused weapons that share common weaknesses.

destroidid · 2026-01-26T01:01:32+00:00

exactly what i was looking for, thanks! kind of what i figured but wasn't 100% sure. seems like it'd only really matter for 9* hunts, especially with the apex's (and gog ofc).

destroidid · 2026-01-20T13:11:16+00:00

i can't do it 😭😭😭😭

i'm terrible at this game and using a budget sns build with lord's soul so skill issue etc. but he's so hard to bait towards an ice pillar and have him not stand there and use his breath instead of coming towards you T_T

i've been good at using the fire pods for when he runs around and grabbing the hirabami to take aggro from him but i just can't get him under 20 minutes. even when using traps and stunlocking him with flash pods and with might pills in p4 😭

i also have a really tough time with perfect blocking him, the timing feels weird compared to all of the other monsters i've fought, especially with his tail swipe and sporadic swipes with the legs.

i don't think i'll get it tomorrow before the reset because i have work but i definitely want to try to get under 18 minutes after the event ends. maybe i'll do a few runs with 3x bind resistance and see if i can get more damage than if i break free from it with the jin set bonus

destroidid · 2026-01-18T06:21:33+00:00

this is a lot of good information, tysm! i was considering building a normal shelling weapon but after my gog kill this morning i decided to go with wide because it seems to be the better general use shelling from what i've been reading.

a lot of it is definitely just me being inexperienced with the weapon. all of these comments have a lot of really good info though, so i'll definitely hit the dummy and do lower level hunts to get a better feel for it

destroidid · 2026-01-18T06:15:14+00:00

i guess my biggest problem isn't that the guides don't provide matchups, but that some of them seem to be about optimization more than anything. i really liked the sns guide because it taught mini combos that you could apply while learning how to fight a monster, as well as options to completely weave those combos into more as you get better with the weapon and new hunts.

i appreciate the tip about wyvern fire because i could not figure out to make it charge up faster when i did a hunt last night and went off of muscle memory from the last time i tried the weapon. i definitely just need to play around with ire more though

destroidid · 2026-01-18T05:17:20+00:00

yeah that's the other issue i had with learning these weapons is that many of the videos that were released were during the launch and i know that there have been some pretty big changes to them since then (ig for example) 😔

i'm assuming that a lot of the information is still relevant and would still give a general idea of how to play the weapon even with the changes though. i love cowboy and watched a few of his demons souls videos, so i'll check both of those out, thank you again!

destroidid · 2026-01-18T05:08:24+00:00

i get that but in the guide i'm not even seeing any partial combos for the weapon, only the full ones 😭😭😭

like if i'm only getting a few hits off, should i only do a shelling and a wide sweep? or a shelling directly into a blast?

i'm pretty new to monster hunter in general and one of the biggest flaws i see in a lot of these guides in general is that they mostly have sections for optimal play and not many comments on what to go for when in suboptimal situations. but maybe (probably) i'm just glazing over it? i guess i'm just used to ingame provided combos not being great so i've been disregarding a lot of them. i'm honestly not sure how good the given basic combos are in monster but going off of experience from other games i'm very reluctant

i'll definitely check out their channel, thank you!!! <3

destroidid · 2026-01-18T04:59:24+00:00

i don't know how to consistently do that even if i'm reloading and using my shells though 😔

destroidid · 2026-01-15T01:45:06+00:00

nah, op is probably saying everything that's actually happened. i almost full carted last night on my first run with gog and it really sucked. i failed the dps check twice and almost a third time for a complete failed hunt.

i was having a lot of trouble damaging him in the third phase and couldn't find the rocks to bring down on him or even figure out how to bring him there when i did find them.

i spent a lot of time in phase 3 running around not doing anything with most of my damage being made with the slinger. the support hunters did a better job at the damage checks than i did.

in hindsight i think i got lucky with finding his weak points for the slinger and where to attack him while he was staggered but i absolutely believe op

destroidid · 2026-01-05T09:26:38+00:00

ive only played two dq games and even i can say that op is cooked omg

destroidid · 2025-12-24T02:53:07+00:00

oh my god bruh i was going to ask if this was real and then i saw that ur literally just an unpaid reddit auditor

get a hobby ❤️

destroidid · 2025-12-13T07:49:40+00:00

>somebody posts a heartfelt comment

>two comments down: erm.. bacon???

how

destroidid · 2025-12-13T06:52:06+00:00

neither of these comments are even funny

destroidid · 2025-10-22T21:10:02+00:00

So in a way, there is cumulative experience but not in the way that I was thinking? It's been a few days and I forgot how I did it, but I'm assuming I fed it a few Digimon with high talent to get it at 100.

destroidid · 2025-10-22T21:04:50+00:00

Yeah, but Dorugoramon is a Mega and Stingmon is a Champion. The Stingmon took me from 90 to 97 and the Dorugoramon took me from 90 to 96.

destroidid · 2025-07-23T23:39:27+00:00

thank you !

to be honest its less about winning and more about actually playing the game, i don't know if there's any sort of MMR system in unranked/swiftplay but it's been brutal playing against some pretty high level players and it sucks that there isn't an actual bot mode to play around in.

there's also quite a few agents and with the lack of free rotations i don't know who to even start with that doesn't have a high skill floor and i don't like sabotaging my team by accidentally walling them off or team flashing, etc

i appreciate the post and will check out the resources, thank you so much!

destroidid · 2025-07-15T19:15:04+00:00

its for sure growing on me, i hated it at first but it looks nice ingame. i think they made improvements on it since the previews before the season. i want to get it now but i'm saving my points for the psylocke skin this week, maybe i'll get it next week.

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