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guess I need to farm afflicted parts before the new update

You mean for the Qurio crafting or what do you need? Because I'm like 90% sure that they're gonna make us farm new stuff for anything added to Title Update 1.

Can someone spoil me on what monsters MR70 and MR100 unlock? I assume 100 is Scorned Magna but I wasnt sure what 70 was.

Jesus Christ the grind from 70 to 100 is long.

Anybody gonna be up for playing way later today at around 6:00PM Central? I was grinding out that feather which needs an A rank with every weapon in every MR Arena quest. It actually hasn't been that bad because I haven't once gotten a rank below A. My Mantle luck has been mostly shit since last weekend, but a lot of my builds have been coming along.

Crown hunting is bullshit.

Edit: First hunt after this post I get a crown.

Every time I'm having bad RNG complaining about it online fixes it. Weird.

What afflicted parts do you need exactly? I keep running out of Claws and Scales it seems so if you don't mind it's time to bully some Pukei.

Jesus I didn't know we were doing a HAME run that was straight up animal abuse, not that anyone likes Khezu enough to care.

I think you have to be like on the opposite side of where he's swinging his tail a bit. I managed to Spiral Slash during the startup and he missed completely. Also I was pure spaghetti that hunt. Other than hitting 3K with the Strongarm Stance TCS I played like garbage <_<

SMH I can't believe I carted to a Rathian, I'm clearly losing my touch right now. One more from me and then I'm out.

I was wondering why the joyous sounds of shots went quiet and then I look for your health bar only to find nothing :/

Well that was my last hunt for the night either way so GG's. I managed to carve two Afflicted Fangs which was nice. I don't think I've managed to get more than one before the rewards screen.

Getting pissed the fuck off honestly. Fuck our worthless power infrastructure in America.

I'm not a big fan of what they did and removed, like it just feels like I'm in a rush to do everything ASAP and I'm not really hunting I'm just running towards an icon until I can kill it quickly and move to the next one.

Today I realize I forgot to put Focus in!

Basically have to make an entirely new set.

Who here is a Gunlance main? I feel like they've changed the shots and what bonuses they get, can someone give me a run down? I thought it was:

Wide -> Wyrm stake, single shots are boosted (this is the one I prefer to use because of it's propensity for poke damage)
Long -> Charged shells, wyvern blast are boosted
Normal -> Full burst is boosted

Has that been changed? I made a Basarios set with Load Up to give me an extra shell but I'm using a really strong Long type shell so I just want to be sure I'm getting all the bang for my buck.

I'm pretty sure Wide Wyrmstake has always been the weakest of the three in Rise specifically, but it applies KO which was the main benefit. Normal and Long actually both get the same bonus to charged shelling in Rise(1.5x) according to Caoslayer, but Long has better base damage so it would result in higher overall damage. Long has the best Bullet Barrage because the Wyvern's Fire portion of it hits an additional time. I'm unsure if charged Level 8 Wide shells can still outdamage a charged Long shell, but if you're firing off regular shells I guess Wide would still be okay.

I'm a GL main on Rise and Sunbreak, and I know most of the things about it.

Wyrmstake is boost by Long. Sadly WS is entirely outclassed by Erupting Cannon in every single way. In fact, you're actively gimping yourself by running WS over EC in any of the 3 weapon types. EC buffs melee (and retains the buff even if you sheathe), which does actually matter, and it also connects into other moves way better:

Normal: Always wants EC. Normal doesn't have inherent stake buffs, has the weakest stakes of the bunch. Fullshell style dominates Normal, which is facilitated by Blast Dash and Reverse Dash. But after shelling and double melee, you can go into EC, poke, quick reload into more full shell combo, which vastly outdamages and is just flat out faster by a second than full shell, melee, into stakes

Wide: Always wants EC. EC buffs melee, which is 'nuff said. Also Reverse Dash's KO dmg is arguably better than Wide's Stake KO, which is hilariously one of the last few bastions of why you should ever use stakes on Wide, which is now no longer a point in its favor. The other Wide style that's popular is the shell shell shell combo, which the 3rd shell will become the WS/EC. Here, you never ever want to run WS because it flat out kills your DPS. EC can connect into guard reload, which lets you fully shell shell EC again.

Long: You can use WS here, IF you do the spam Bullet Barrage build, where you basically proc as much Redirection as possible and use Wirebug Whisperer 3. Your BB has slightly more damage with WS. But in exchange, now your BB cooldown phase is basically plagued by you having to run WS, which basically makes your combos much worse. If you ever accidentally go into WS, you're getting hit. Also while BB spam is good, if you miss one (and you WILL miss), you're basically doing worse DPS than every other styles. Also BB spam doesn't even do the highest DPS to begin with. It's great for staggering monsters, which can help in multiplayer, but also it'll knock other players away.

Also do not use the stupid stakes buff Rampage skill. It won't buff past shell lvl 8, which means you run this on a shell lvl 7 weapon, which makes you lose DPS in every other skills.

In base Rise, flashy styles look cool and all, but at the end of the day, it's just LR and HR. Good luck trying to find an opportunity to use WS against MR enemies. You're getting hit 100% unless you're using it on a downed monster, to which the better DPS is actually still fullshelling

The most optimal GL style right now is Normal Fullshell, but Wide Slap and triple shelling are also viable, latter mostly viable in that you get to run every defensive skill + artillery/load up, and you still do the same amount of damage, which means you'll basically never die. Long is mostly novelty. You're losing damage but essentially doing the same thing with Normal, which doesn't make sense unless you like Long that much, or you like the designs, which I certainly like how most Long weapons do. Range don't matter much when you can fly everywhere

If you're asking about Rise specifically, however, fullshelling is still the way to go. You're playing with Sunbreak buffs, first off, which made shelling incredibly powerful (was still the best pre-buff, which says a lot). Also Blast Dash has basically made fullshelling incredibly easy. In fact, it's found by most ppl that if you Blast Dash literally right in front of the monster, instantly slam down and full shell, that's the highest dps you can do because meleeing to get there or even reloading to slam down and full shell takes longer and does less damage. Most people who played GL since Rise forgets that stakes ever existed. They're an option you can go for when you're literally out of every option, and you'd rather stake than reload again. But I question if that situation actually exists. The only time it's great is if the monster is about to get away from you, and you're very slightly too far away to do full shell.

Sadly on base Rise, you have to rely on a very terrible silkbind skill called Sliding Dash. Using that skill will buff all your shelling/stakes/etc by like 20%, which sounds like a lot, but you lose the buff if you ever sheathe, and your Wirebug recovers slowly. You're better off just using your silkbinds defensively via Guard Edge. Actually they buffed that uppercut move in Sunbreak, and I find it to be quite good actually. But that's if you also remember to use your Wyvernfire often