Current Events > How grindy is Monster Hunter World?

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I've been on the fence on this game for a while.

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It is Grinding: The Game.

like that is literally the entire game

Very. But still a good game.

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They have free DLC weapons that make the entire vanilla game pointless.

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Grinding is largely the point of the game. You kill a monster over and over to get parts to make better equipment to kill stronger monsters over and over for the same reason. That's the game.

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Getting to the current endgame will likely require hundreds of hours of grinding.

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Extremely
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ugh fuck it then. Guess I'm playing nothing until Elden Ring

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It's really hard to say because I usually hate grindy games but I LOVE monster hunter

Proofpyros posted...

It's really hard to say because I usually hate grindy games but I LOVE monster hunter

Probably because the grind isn't mindless unless you're farming a super easy monster. And at that point, you should probably be grinding harder, more engaging monsters.

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I think I might play through Dark Souls 3 a 3rd time. All your fault CE!

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I mean, I love Monster Hunter: World. I have a blast learning the idiosyncrasies and playing styles of all the weapons. Combat is super fun and engaging. Maybe you would enjoy it. But games just don't get much grindier. For reference a large part of endgame is deco hunting, and there are people with thousands of hours who haven't managed to get all of them because of RNG.

The better way of thinking about it is how MHW is the grinding in this game?

Monster hunter should be the benchmark of grinding that other games are compared to.

Squall28 posted...

I think I might play through Dark Souls 3 a 3rd time. All your fault CE!

MHW is still great though, the grinding is not that bad unless you're specifically trying to farm a rare drop off a tough monster. You will typically be able to coast through low, high and master ranks with the bare minimum.

Also the DLC makes it way easier to coast.

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the real grind is the deco farming
<10% drop rates should be kept to shitty mmos and gacha games.

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You can basically play base MHW without grinding because the Guardian/Defender weapons and armor.

A lot of it won't pose any challenge to you though and you'll probably suck when you hit late base game and Iceborne.

But you won't have you grind.

But MHW revolves around the grind but it is a very different sort of grind. Combat against any monster you need to grind against is never mindless and requires you to actively play.

Xenozoa425 posted...

MHW is still great though, the grinding is not that bad unless you're specifically trying to farm a rare drop off a tough monster. You will typically be able to coast through low, high and master ranks with the bare minimum.

Also the DLC makes it way easier to coast.

With Prints and Investigations even rare monster drops are pretty easy to get. The real grind truly is for high-end decorations and those really don't matter until endgame. You could easy drop 100 hours into MHW and never worry about the worst of the grind.

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It's got a lot of grinding but not nearly as much as the older games. A lot of the grind comes from the base games end game of farming elders for gems. Farming for armor sets / weapons isn't as bad as it was in the old games. Gotta love hoping for a 2% drop for an upgraded weapon.

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It's grindy like Dark Souls, grinding isn't required but it can bolster you to adjust difficulty, (I.E. Building/improving weapons/armor means you will be doing missions repeatedly, but the game is definitely doable without grinding for the current best armor and weapons)

In base World I probably only built like 3 armor sets, and had my fun fighting all the new monsters. (that said, I felt World did not have an acceptable amount of content when compared to previous entries)

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Also, I would say the majority of fun in Monster Hunter comes from multiplayer with friends so if you will be playing solo I'd say you are safe to skip it.

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Megaman50100 posted...

It's grindy like Dark Souls, grinding isn't required but it can bolster you to adjust difficulty, (I.E. Building/improving weapons/armor means you will be doing missions repeatedly, but the game is definitely doable without grinding for the current best armor and weapons)

In base World I probably only built like 3 armor sets, and had my fun fighting all the new monsters. (that said, I felt World did not have an acceptable amount of content when compared to previous entries)

Well with DS3, I never grinded. I became overleveled just because I like exploring and finding all the items.

Are all items from monster drops in MHW?

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Compsognathus posted...

You can basically play base MHW without grinding because the Guardian/Defender weapons and armor.

A lot of it won't pose any challenge to you though and you'll probably suck when you hit late base game and Iceborne.

But you won't have you grind.

But MHW revolves around the grind but it is a very different sort of grind. Combat against any monster you need to grind against is never mindless and requires you to actively play.

With Prints and Investigations even rare monster drops are pretty easy to get. The real grind truly is for high-end decorations and those really don't matter until endgame. You could easy drop 100 hours into MHW and never worry about the worst of the grind.

Yep this. They really made the grind much easier and bearable in World. Still will have to fight a monster a few times, but killing them 3 - 4 times for an item you need is waaaaaaay better than the 20+ times I had to fight Silver Rathalos for plates. With prints and the increase in rewards vouchers (can't remember the name) the game is way better than the older ones and is definitely worth the time.

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Squall28 posted...

Well with DS3, I never grinded. I became overleveled just because I like exploring and finding all the items.

Are all items from monster drops in MHW?

Not all, some come from gathering, but it is in no way an exploration game like DS.

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Squall28 posted...

Well with DS3, I never grinded. I became overleveled just because I like exploring and finding all the items.

Are all items from monster drops in MHW?

Yes all items and upgrades aside from base line weapons and generic armors are all crafted from previous versions (weapons) or entirely new (armor), though some things require gathered materials like ores. But DS3 has the point of exploration and fun boss fights. Monster Hunter's whole deal is right there in the title: you hunt monsters. Big ones. A lot. There's some gathering and roaming the large maps but overall the goals are just kill that big thing for items to make better gear to kill the next harder thing to get better gear, etc. etc.

It's really not as bad as it seems, especially since World has been updated with tons of QOL changes from the older styles.

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Yes it's a grind, but it often isn't a mindless grind. It's not the type of grind where you can be half on your phone and spam the attack button, it's the kind where you need to actually play the game because (depending on the monster) there's always a chance of losing.

The loop is fight monster, get materials (random, fight monster again if not enough/wrong materials), use materials to get bigger weapon and armor, fight bigger monster with new gear, repeat. You don't need to grind out a full set of armor for every monster since they all come with abilities, and if you don't care about those abilities you can just skip the set. For the base game I think I had 4 or 5 armor sets through out the entire game, maybe twice as many weapons as that. So don't think that you need to grind a new set before fighting every monster, because you'll likely be fighting ~20 monsters before thinking about getting new gear.

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You can honestly get through base game on three sets of armor and Iceborne with another twoish sets before you start going for endgame stuff.

Odds are you do more than that as you just experiment with stuff but you don't need a ton of armors.

Weapons depend on type. If you are a Great Sword user you could arguably get through the base game and Iceborne by focusing on only two swords.

If you are Bow or Dual Blades you'll have to make like 6 different weapons.

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