#i cant wait to start iceborne

[abraxasrinbalt]

I wish I liveblogged about monster hunter lmao. It was a wild ride.

Spoilers for mhw below lmao

I start the game

I follow the main quests exclusively

I'm too afraid to do any big hunts by myself and make a friend or my Partner In Cringe help me whenever possible

I run for my life from rathalos and rathian when I find them

Anjanath is my biggest enemy and my greatest fear

Spent most of my time going on expeditions to get endemic life for my room.

I have 3 forest pteryx and I love them deeply

I make it into High Rank somehow

Still haven't soloed either rath. Still haven't solo'd much of anything

Enter: Bazelgeuse, more lovingly called the B-52 bomber.

This fucker is my paralysis demon. I am VERY AFRAID of him.

He ruins many of my hunts

Also enter Deviljho. Known colloquially as a Pickle. I finally get why ff14 content creator Drak referred to that one boss as a Pickle.

He ruins many hunts that Bazelgeuse didn't

I hate them both. Partner tells me we're gonna hunt a B-52 bomber to try to make me less afraid. It doesn't work but I appreciate the effort.

Game eventually wants me to kill elder dragons. I put this off as long as possible.

Get bored of waiting (and also forgot I was supposed to get PiC to help, we ended up fucking up a bunch of black diablos that day instead)

Accidentally pick the easiest one to deal with. Kill it on my first attempt of the mission.

Also learn that the Girros are suffering from cordyceps fungus. Hate that.

Pick the single most annoying one second, also by accident. Beg PiC to help me because I don't have the APM or skill to control the WIMDY FUMKIN BOY. L + Ratio + I'm too fresh to MH

I cause the mission to fail so we try again. Goes better.

Then we meet Toaster.

Good boy 10/10 I'm afraid of him too

Very good fight

I'm now Master Rank and have entered Iceborne. Except not really.

I'm undergeared in the sense that I'm not building with any specific idea in mind, so I can't even get past the first iceborne encounter

I now have to farm rathalos, odogaron and Toaster for gear. This is non negotiable.

I keep getting distracted by endemic life

Any time Bazelgeuse, Deviljho, rathalos or rathian show up uninvited- actually when ANYTHING shows up uninvited. They get dung pods to the face.

I now carry excessive amounts of animal shit in my inventory to make more.

Tonight alone I:

Finished my Flying Kadachi Strikebow after grinding forever yesterday

Anjanath AND Rathian almost ruined my last capture, but somehow I managed to time a flash pod with Rathian knocking over my Critically Wounded Target, blinded everyone, trapped the Tobi-Kadachi amongst the chaos, and tranquilized it before it (or I) met an untimely demise. I never want to do this again.

Hunted One (1) Odogaron and was immediately overstimulated

Hunted a Kirin because I didn't want to negotiate with a rathalos after the above overstimulation

[viostormcaller]

The Behemoth fucking sucks. Fuck this game for making it impossible to do solo.

I dont fucking care about your "special feature you implemented just for this monster". I can't use it because my internet isnt good enough to play with others online, and even when it decides to be good enough, no one fucking joined anyway so I still cant get help. And local play isn't possible in World.

At least, going in before you start the string of quests and change the fucking music to some annoying loud ass shit for Final Fantasy, you should tell the player what they're getting into and let them know you're supposed to do this with four people and not by yourself.

Some of the things the Behemoth does is really fucking cheap. Multiple times the stupid tornado move blocks the entrance or exit to different zones so I cant leave to continue fighting the monster, or it traps me in a corner somewhere and can't move my camera in time to see where I'm going. Literally just now it blocked the exit out of my camp. You only have a short amount of time to do this fucking quest, not the normal 50 minutes. I dont have that kinda time to be wasting waiting around for a tornado that stays there for forever and a half to dissipate

This monster is really not worth the fucking effort. I dont care about the gear or weapons you could probably make. Its fucking stupid. Im extremely pissed off. No one's gonna be playing monster hunter till either the iceborne dlc drops or when the beta releases in a few days. But i absolutely should not have to rely on other people in a game that is usually completely possible and necessary to beat solo. That is terrible design for a monster. Monster hunter was generally a solo game before they added local and later online play, but the story you had to do by yourself

This entire event is stupid and now the music in the game is stuck because I started the string of events already.

At least the Witcher event was possible to do by yourself. Challenging as hell, but it was at least fun. The behemoth and the final fantasy quests are just cheap. I'm really angry.

[neuroticmitochondriac]

We started Iceborn last night and it's absolute fire

Viper tobi kadachi is badass, we were expecting the poison and knew he was going to be a serious challenge but we were not expecting the poison potency to stack or the paralysis venom on top of it, that was brutal.

Master Rank is going to be serious business, they were really not joking about that and I'm completely stoked now

I wonder (honestly cant wait to see) what other monster are going to have dual elements/ailments that synergize because that's really cool and adds an aspect to the game that's going to force me to learn some new combat/defense techniques.