#Monster Hunter World: Iceborne

[zhephs-dlc]

10⭐ VERGLAS VELKHANA

"Obsidian Ice Dragon"

“This newly discovered variant of Velkhana has an even bigger control of the ice it can produce with its ore-infused scales: It’s capable of controlling the temperature of the element it attacks with, so be careful and don’t get splashed with water, or you will be completely frozen in place before the Yian Garuga crows.”

[theycallmespider]

I love calling the Field Team Leader in Monster Hunter World by his voice actor’s name: Matt Mercer.

[simon-newman]

IT IS DONE!

Okay. So. For those who don't know (99,9% of mankind):

The Guiding Lands in Monster Hunter World iceborne are the final area unlocked in the Endgame. Most monsters from other areas appear in there with attack increased by some 20-25%. At the same time they drop special endgame items used to upgrade your gear.

For that reason the area is separated into sub-regions so that the monsters can spawn in their preferred biome. You won't see a ice loving Barioth spawn in the middle of a desert after all.

The higher the sub-region level the more monsters from that sub-region can spawn and the level tops at 7 when almost all monsters spawned are tempered - which means they're even stronger and drop special-special endgame items for upgrading...

But... There's a catch. You have a soft level cap of 27. Meaning that you can only keep 3 areas at lvl 7. At maximum you can have 7-7-7-4-1-1 in area levels.

The idea is that you're playing with friends and they have different areas at max lvl and you can play together to gather materials from all the monsters.

If you're playing alone you're doomed to look for randoms for help with that OR constantly re-level your areas to what you need at the moment.

Or... There's another option...

I've called it a "soft" level cap. That is because it slightly increases with each monster hunted in the area.

For each monster slain or captured you get 3*(lvl of region it spawned in) points so between 3 and 21 points. Those points are obviously hidden so you don't see them.

Those points increase your lvl cap.

You need ONLY 10000 points to increase the level cap BY ONE LEVEL.

Thus you need to hunt down some 7100 monsters to get all your sub-region to level 7...

I am not that crazy. I've just spent 4 months - hunting 10 (and later 15) monsters daily just to increase the cap by 3 and get a 4th region to lvl 7...

On the plus side - I got very proficient at fighting some of the game's monsters.

Do I intend to get the other 2 areas?

Maybe? But definitely not now.

The amount of grinding is INSANE.

[underleveledjosh]

What Namielle could have looked like.

Literally just looks like a gore magala variant.

[florjb0rj]

A friend and I were farming Xeno’jiiva the other day. He was talking about how cool it is, and how he hopes we can fight an adult version in future games, and I was just sitting there like:

[roseboyavalon]

I got this from the Extremely Talented, Audi Loki on Twitter. This art of Venandi looks so incredible. 🤩❤️💖

[necr0plasm]

Monster Hunter World Iceborne has gotta be my favourite monhun game, even still after sunbreak. I started monster hunter with Rise as I'm sure lots of people did, and while waiting for Sunbreak I bought World and Iceborne.

I ended up falling in love with that game for more than I ever did with sunbreak. No shade to sunbreak obviously, but iceborne was simply just more my style.

First of all - Seliana. Seliana is so god damn cozy and warm feeling, the food cutscene is fucking adorable, and the snowy environment? It's just all around better (for me, I wanna stress that) than Elgado. And I still loved Elgado! But there's a reason why I can hum the Seliana theme by memory and not remember a single note from Elgado's.

Past that, in terms of Monsters, Iceborne is stacked. Odogaron and Ebony Odogaron have some of the coolest weapons, Velkhana is an amazing flagship and one of my fav elder dragons, Radobaan is one of my favorite non-elders in general, and Shara Ishvalda is such a bombastic and interesting fight that it never really gets boring. Alatreon is in the same vein as Shara.

The only thing that holds it back slightly for me are the weapon designs. I know it's a meme to hate on them, but sunbreak essily beats out how boring a lot of iceborne weapons look. One reason I love odogaron weapons so much is because of how sick and unique they look, after all!

The armor though, that's still just as good as sunbreak's, if not even better because every monster has two master rank sets. Five sets total if you count low snd high ranks.

Anyway. Ramble over!

[cheese-elite]

When your friend tells you something good, but utterly incomprehensible

[tokyozilla]

Tobi kadachi has house cat energy when it screams

[ichorandpride]

there needs to be WAY more love for shara ishvalda. the mhw devs went OFF with that design and all the little easter eggs and fourth wall stuff. i love the almost lotus flower feeling of shara, not only the "blooming" after all the rocks break off but how the first phase afterwards is eyes closed. then when shara is getting desperate, its eyes open and it "awakens"

just SUCH a good thematic monster

[philonob]

Shara Ishvalda - The Old Everwyrm

Bonus Scrunkly:

[simon-newman]

Learning to Hammer in Monster Hunter World.

I must say.

Bonking is really, really fun! Especially the knockdowns.

But...

It sometimes feels like I'm bullying the monsters.

[hurrakka]

In honor to this unbearable summer heat, here's somethin that happens to my friend whenever we fight Fatalis

[actual-haise]

me: Grammeowster Chef you have to stop. You smoke too tough. Your swag too different. Your bitch is too bad. they’ll kill you Grammeowster Chef: