Rurikhan Hey, would you suggest making loadouts with different weapons for different monsters or just main a specific weapon? Im a beginner and would like to know what you think. Thanks!
Personally I tend to focus on a weapon type, like the Gunlance, then I craft a bunch of them and change depending on the weaknesses of the monster I'm fighting.
Sorry to point out some inaccuracies but I just want to clear something up. When melding worn, and glowing and mysterious stones there is a chance to get stones of different rarities. There are 4 tables regarding rarity of stones. C B A S Mysterious Feystone - C 85% B 15% Gleaning Feystone - C 65% B 34% A 1% Worn Feystone - C 10% B 82% A 6% S 2% Warped Feystone - B 77% A 18% S 5% So when appraising said stone you have a chance of going up or down in rarity of the jewel. Hope this helps
I had no idea that you only needed ONE streamstone to create the THREE gems it shows the empty boxes for! I assumed you would be using three streamstones for the transaction, but the game was just letting you do three at a time to save some time. Awesome tip, Rurikhan!
It is possible to find a first wyverian dude in the field while on expedition or a quest, and if you talk to him he may sometimes gift you a wyverian print. I've only ever gotten steel prints, but it is possible.
Yeah I had to give the video a thumbs down. I've been trying to explain to a friend the whole concept of the Elder melder trade mechanic, and he wanted to see it done visually. The beginning of this video simply confused the hell out of him. Found a different video that's not 20 fucking minutes with the first four wasting time. 5 minutes only and straight to the point.
Very helpful video, too bad the whole melding thing is way to stingy... yeah sure when you're 600 hours into the game and you're drowning in streamstones and useless decorations it might be worth to use. But by then you probably also have more than enough of every other gem you need (except Attack Boost most likely...). The exchange rate is a bit too ridiculous for my taste. You have to trade in anywhere from 14 to 27 decorations to get a chance of 3 random ones? Yeah nope... i'll just do one tempered quest with 3+ rewards instead... I know it's just "another option" and once you're over the treshhold for each skill you don't need the additional ones... but damn, they could've made it a "little" less wasteful as an alternative to grinding tempered quests all day long.
there's absolutely no value in "14-27" decorations when you have more than you need. absolutely no reason to keep them. the only thing you're really trading in is research points (cmon... basically nothing) and gleaming streamstones which are useless if you don't already have hero's streamstones for your desired rarity 8 weapon augment and for augmenting armor, again useless if you don't have enough armor spheres to level them up in the first place. at that point, i'd rather get rid of my wasted excess gems and gamble them for almost nothing of value lost for essentially free chances at more decorations. once you have enough of the other materials you need for an augment, it takes no effort to get gleaming streamstones since you get at least one guaranteed from any elder dragon tempered hunt. i'd rather trade in every duplicate i have for any non duplicate of a useful skill i still need a jewel for.
I think that unequipping your jewels is exactly what you shouldn't do, since you wouldn't want to meld them by mistake. Although you can use this to know which ones you can or not meld with the spreadsheet, I don't think it's worth the trouble to update the number on such a few gems.
I'm a Monster Hunter veteran since the original, but I never progressed to the end of any of them because I lost patience. Your videos are helping me change that with this game and I appreciate it! Thank you for your great explanations!
Any of them after MHFU* I meant. But I put like 200 hours in that one and at least 50 in all the others. I just never had the patience or people to play with for the other ones. Like I loved Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate but didn't have Internet access at the time so I kind of hit a wall playing solo.
Jr Garibay Tbf, war veterans need not finish the war they participate in to be gain veteran status. As long as OP has a good grasp of the gameplay & mechanics, I don’t see why he can’t be a MH veteran.
Just a tip, you can preview what you will get from melding decorations by uploading your save to online storage or storing it on a USB. Then, just meld a whole bunch of decorations cause you’re gonna reset your save. The RNG seed remains constant so when you reset your save just memorize how many melds you need until you reach the meld you want. Any ritual advances the seed by 1, and completing a quest advances it by a pattern of 1-1-2 (need to experiment to see which part of the pattern you’re currently on).
I appreciate the video! I kinda think the cost of the Melder is still a little unbalanced for its output (especially in the sense of the amount of points required to do it, on top of the use of all the jewels needed and gambling aspect of the whole process, too). Either way, this video clarified a lot. So thanks again!
Fastest way to unequip all decorations is to use Set Decorations > Equipment Box > press start to remove all Decorations (that option may not have existed at the time of this video)
3:31 "i know, i open this up and there's a bunch of stuff onscreen and your like "Jeeesus CHrist! so many goddamn things"" yupp, recently started now with the PC release without playing monster hunter before and that's the first impression of most menus in this game xD
Capcom really screwed me here I melded my only attack gem thinking that I was getting an attack gem. I have 300hours and am lvl 120 and have yet to get another one.
Seeing how rare this thing seems to be makes me wonder if it's really intended or a bug... I mean yeah, Attack Boost is a very potent skill for a level 1 gem. But i've seen tons and tons of people complaining they spent over 100-200h farming tempered monsters and not get a single one. That seems kind of ridiculous. >_< I've only recently started farming tempered quests and haven't gotten one either of course, and knowing my luck i probably never will if it's "that" rare.
Thank you for explaining this. The game's built-in tutorial ironically does not do nearly as good a job as you do at explaining the basics to a complete noob like me.
The mechanics of the Elder Melder are a very easy concept to grasp my friends; put good decorations in, get shit out. Conversely, if you put shit in, you'll still get shit out.(All joking aside, it's a good way to clean house on any useless decorations you may have, and potentially net you decent decorations like Maximum Might, Attack Boost, etc. Just don't rely on her to give you the highest tier decorations imaginable.)
What happens if you traded and have excess points? I mean, I know you can just set it so it is exactly the amount you need. But just in case it happens
hi Thanks for this helpful video!! I just started playing MHW, i noticed the items available from the melder (left column) are really basic, i don't see any gems or rubies at all (i'm looking for Rathalos Ruby). How can i get my melder to offer the items i actually want/need? I've been having fun playing but i'm starting to get tired of grinding Rathalos without any sign of it dropping the Rathalos Ruby at all...
I have occasionally recieved prints from the 1st wyverians you can meet on expeditions...you know the ones that do the monthly weapon popularity report or something? But they give you things when you talk to them
Can you explain the augmenting stuff? I can’t figure it out. I think threat level 2 monsters can drop that one item, but idk. Also, do the double elder dragon invests have better drops or something?
The only reason I use the melding pot is for the different gems. Other than that, I rarely use it for decorations because who why get rid of decorations when you could just get more from some lousy tempered monster?
I got it the wrong way around thinking that the right side was the items I get and the right side was my inventory and ended up losing my attack gem... Something I wish I had known before hand lol
quick question, a level 3 gem does that mean it will give you three nodes of that talent ( so equipping a level 3 jewel will give you 3x that talent, Attack/Poison etc
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but essentially with the wyverian ritual, if you want A or S tear jewels only, the first two melding techniques (spire sorcery and coral concoction) are useless and a complete waste of jewels because it is not possible to get those high tear jewels?
Do UA-camrs all take speed-talking classes before starting to make videos? Almost every tip/trick vid in gaming is done by someone whose dinner is getting cold.
I have Melded a lot of objects into Ancient potions but when I have confirmed the items are not in my item box or item pouch. How do you collect the items?
You get low tier decos from low tier monsters, and high tier decos from high tier monsters. Or better gems from mid tier monsters that are tempered. Not that hard to comprehend. And what? Lvl 3 decos require lvl 3 slot, lvl 2 decos require lvl 2 or 3 slot, lvl 1 decos need 1-3 slot..?
The best way to get large amounts that I have found is to equip your Palico with the Plunderblade Palico Gadget (If you haven't unlocked that yet, highly recommend you do, go to Rotten Vale, search for "doodles" until your scatterflies guide you to a grymelkyne that you have to feed a piece of raw meat to). As your Palicos proficiency with it increases it'll unlock the Palarang and your Palico will sometimes force a monster to drop an item. Most of the time that item will be a crafting material but sometimes it will drop something like a Wyvern Tear which will give you hundreds of research points. I've gotten between 150-800 points just from a single item. You also get quite a bit of points from completing bounties and you can get points from gathering spots such as Cacti in the Wastelands, Ancient Fossils in the Coral Highlands and Beryl or Amber Deposits in the Elders Recess.
Basically a recycle option if you get to a point were you have many spare jewels or if you dont want to grind a specific item and you manage to have some prints with you :)
No, everyone gets 1 attack gem for "free" during the melding tutorial. It's just subsequent ones which are rare. Kinda like how in Iceborne now, everyone gets a Crit Eye+ gem, but past that freebie, it is a very rare 4 slot gem to get.
Please don't buy Wyvern gems from the melder. Just hunt a Jyuratodus with a plunderblade palico and receive 3 almost everytime. One from the reward, one from the carve or ground, and one from the Palico. It's.. STUPIDLY easy to get these things.
What type of monsters do I have to go after to get regular streamstones? I have the heroic streamstones, but I need 2 regular streamstones to augment my weapon. I can't find anyone that tells how you get them.....
Thanx 4 this man. I didn't understand what the hell its was so i ignored it. Now i traded some stuff i was grinding for 4ever!! Why the F*UCK they call it melding not Just trading? Thanx again 👍🏿
➽ MuskratTuck's Decoration Spreadsheet
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ysj6c2boC6GarFvMah34e6VviZeaoKB6QWovWLSGlsY/htmlview?usp=sharing&sle=true#
Rurikhan Hey, would you suggest making loadouts with different weapons for different monsters or just main a specific weapon? Im a beginner and would like to know what you think. Thanks!
+YOUNGLZ36
he's streaming right now if you want to actually talk to him live :P
twitch.tv/rurikhan
This is extremely helpful. Thanks for sharing!
He explained this better than most UA-camrs I watched. Thank you.
Personally I tend to focus on a weapon type, like the Gunlance, then I craft a bunch of them and change depending on the weaknesses of the monster I'm fighting.
Sorry to point out some inaccuracies but I just want to clear something up. When melding worn, and glowing and mysterious stones there is a chance to get stones of different rarities. There are 4 tables regarding rarity of stones. C B A S
Mysterious Feystone - C 85% B 15%
Gleaning Feystone - C 65% B 34% A 1%
Worn Feystone - C 10% B 82% A 6% S 2%
Warped Feystone - B 77% A 18% S 5%
So when appraising said stone you have a chance of going up or down in rarity of the jewel. Hope this helps
Well that's good to know, and a little bit of a bummer; nothing's perfect, though, so it does make sense, he said rolling his eyes. lol Good tip
Almost a whole year after you made this video and its still useful.(just started playing a month ago on PC)
Yeah. The best explanation I could find.
2 years now. still great vid and explanation
It's still useful in 2021, timeless classic right here.
Still useful 3 years later lol
Lifesaver here in 2024
I had no idea that you only needed ONE streamstone to create the THREE gems it shows the empty boxes for! I assumed you would be using three streamstones for the transaction, but the game was just letting you do three at a time to save some time. Awesome tip, Rurikhan!
8:50 if you only care about decorations
It is possible to find a first wyverian dude in the field while on expedition or a quest, and if you talk to him he may sometimes gift you a wyverian print. I've only ever gotten steel prints, but it is possible.
First time palying through world after sinking 200+ hours to rise/sunbreak. Glad to see my man did guides for this
4:25 the buildup of the explanation cracks me up
Yeah I had to give the video a thumbs down. I've been trying to explain to a friend the whole concept of the Elder melder trade mechanic, and he wanted to see it done visually. The beginning of this video simply confused the hell out of him.
Found a different video that's not 20 fucking minutes with the first four wasting time. 5 minutes only and straight to the point.
Took a long break from world and getting back into it and realising I have forgot so much so good to watch these kinds of videos.
Big thank you for the explanation video from a new player that started few days ago. Really well explained.
Man u always make things so simple to understand especially if u don't have grind time luv ur vids and presentations
Now I finally understand the melding in this game!
Elder Melder: less attractive than the handler and quickly approaching her usefulness.
And by usefullness i mean she has so little utility is laughable.
My palico is more of a handler
@@justrcd Maybe get coral orchestra gadget for your palico?
Very helpful video, too bad the whole melding thing is way to stingy... yeah sure when you're 600 hours into the game and you're drowning in streamstones and useless decorations it might be worth to use. But by then you probably also have more than enough of every other gem you need (except Attack Boost most likely...). The exchange rate is a bit too ridiculous for my taste. You have to trade in anywhere from 14 to 27 decorations to get a chance of 3 random ones? Yeah nope... i'll just do one tempered quest with 3+ rewards instead...
I know it's just "another option" and once you're over the treshhold for each skill you don't need the additional ones... but damn, they could've made it a "little" less wasteful as an alternative to grinding tempered quests all day long.
its a gold sink
there's absolutely no value in "14-27" decorations when you have more than you need. absolutely no reason to keep them. the only thing you're really trading in is research points (cmon... basically nothing) and gleaming streamstones which are useless if you don't already have hero's streamstones for your desired rarity 8 weapon augment and for augmenting armor, again useless if you don't have enough armor spheres to level them up in the first place. at that point, i'd rather get rid of my wasted excess gems and gamble them for almost nothing of value lost for essentially free chances at more decorations. once you have enough of the other materials you need for an augment, it takes no effort to get gleaming streamstones since you get at least one guaranteed from any elder dragon tempered hunt. i'd rather trade in every duplicate i have for any non duplicate of a useful skill i still need a jewel for.
@@icebarrage_iwc Surprisingly good argument, in my opinion. Kinda makes sense of it all.
I think that unequipping your jewels is exactly what you shouldn't do, since you wouldn't want to meld them by mistake. Although you can use this to know which ones you can or not meld with the spreadsheet, I don't think it's worth the trouble to update the number on such a few gems.
Still best explanation 5 years later
Great video,
The spreadsheet ALONE is worth a like
I'm a Monster Hunter veteran since the original, but I never progressed to the end of any of them because I lost patience. Your videos are helping me change that with this game and I appreciate it! Thank you for your great explanations!
Nigel Jordan if you never beat any of the games how does that make you a vet??
Any of them after MHFU* I meant. But I put like 200 hours in that one and at least 50 in all the others. I just never had the patience or people to play with for the other ones. Like I loved Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate but didn't have Internet access at the time so I kind of hit a wall playing solo.
Jr Garibay Tbf, war veterans need not finish the war they participate in to be gain veteran status.
As long as OP has a good grasp of the gameplay & mechanics, I don’t see why he can’t be a MH veteran.
Just a tip, you can preview what you will get from melding decorations by uploading your save to online storage or storing it on a USB. Then, just meld a whole bunch of decorations cause you’re gonna reset your save. The RNG seed remains constant so when you reset your save just memorize how many melds you need until you reach the meld you want. Any ritual advances the seed by 1, and completing a quest advances it by a pattern of 1-1-2 (need to experiment to see which part of the pattern you’re currently on).
just an exploit would be more fitting
I know this isn't a combat guide but thanks to u I've started to go in sword and shield
This is the most useful guide I've found on Melding, thanks.
Thank you Rurikhan for all of your useful MHW videos.
I appreciate the video! I kinda think the cost of the Melder is still a little unbalanced for its output (especially in the sense of the amount of points required to do it, on top of the use of all the jewels needed and gambling aspect of the whole process, too). Either way, this video clarified a lot. So thanks again!
Finally!! I've been waiting for this video for 2 weeks!
Fastest way to unequip all decorations is to use Set Decorations > Equipment Box > press start to remove all Decorations (that option may not have existed at the time of this video)
if you do all the missions from the fisherman and the researcher of wildlife you get 1 gold wyverian print from each
3:31 "i know, i open this up and there's a bunch of stuff onscreen and your like "Jeeesus CHrist! so many goddamn things"" yupp, recently started now with the PC release without playing monster hunter before and that's the first impression of most menus in this game xD
Shaderox Same here. Been playing MHW since close to launch & I only just started using the melder bc i didnt want to accidentally waste any gems
you're guilds are fantastic thanks for the help you provide
How do you get steel wyverian prints. I cannot find anything about getting these. please help?
Go to equipment box option press start and itll clear all gems on all gear in inventory
Thank you bro , I just got the game
Capcom really screwed me here I melded my only attack gem thinking that I was getting an attack gem. I have 300hours and am lvl 120 and have yet to get another one.
🤭 that sucks
Seeing how rare this thing seems to be makes me wonder if it's really intended or a bug... I mean yeah, Attack Boost is a very potent skill for a level 1 gem. But i've seen tons and tons of people complaining they spent over 100-200h farming tempered monsters and not get a single one. That seems kind of ridiculous. >_<
I've only recently started farming tempered quests and haven't gotten one either of course, and knowing my luck i probably never will if it's "that" rare.
I’ve played 170 hours......only 1
😵😵😵😵😵😵😵😵😵😵
well duh...obviously u need to spend 1000 hours to get another one
Attack jewel was my first one...
This was incredibly helpful, thank you.
Worn feystones can very rarely give Rarity 8 deco's. Really, that is what you want to work towards, and get some useful R7 as you go.
You can get Prints randomly by talking to the First Wyverian in the wild. Thanks for vid man!
Thanks for the well explained video.
Fantastic video! Deserves way more likes
Before this the whole melding ting was Greek to me ... Thanks mate
Thank you for explaining this. The game's built-in tutorial ironically does not do nearly as good a job as you do at explaining the basics to a complete noob like me.
Wow this is pretty handy, I've just been ignoring this system, the safari system and the sailor system haha
The mechanics of the Elder Melder are a very easy concept to grasp my friends; put good decorations in, get shit out. Conversely, if you put shit in, you'll still get shit out.(All joking aside, it's a good way to clean house on any useless decorations you may have, and potentially net you decent decorations like Maximum Might, Attack Boost, etc. Just don't rely on her to give you the highest tier decorations imaginable.)
MegaZX_ Unity747 The elder melder is a joke. Wasted over 30k research points and did my get anything useful
I just got into actually exploring every aspect of the game. I never bothered with jewels or charms until now
This was actually extremely helpful!
I've been selling my extra decorations. Dang it
I’ve got most of those Warped Stones from killing Tempered large monsters, haven’t gotten high enough for Tempered Elder Dragons.
What happens if you traded and have excess points? I mean, I know you can just set it so it is exactly the amount you need. But just in case it happens
Holy crap! I could have just Melded Mutagens for the Witcher Layered Armors? I've been farming Ancient Leshen for weeks now without results.
Thanks for the guide.
looking forward for those spred sheeks 😁
I had no idea that you could use that coatings decoration for Switch Axes.
You can equip it, but it doesn't do anything, I just equipped random things for the purpose of the video.
Rurikhan That's unfortunate. The possibilities could've been awesome.
Very well explained. Ty
Thank you my friend.
thanks mate, will you be doing a video on augmenting aswell? I haven't played with that at all. Not realy sure whats worth investing in either tbh.
Very good explaination, thx man
hi Thanks for this helpful video!! I just started playing MHW, i noticed the items available from the melder (left column) are really basic, i don't see any gems or rubies at all (i'm looking for Rathalos Ruby). How can i get my melder to offer the items i actually want/need? I've been having fun playing but i'm starting to get tired of grinding Rathalos without any sign of it dropping the Rathalos Ruby at all...
I have occasionally recieved prints from the 1st wyverians you can meet on expeditions...you know the ones that do the monthly weapon popularity report or something? But they give you things when you talk to them
Thx a lot for this guide!
So where do you see the melding points you've collected ?
Can you explain the augmenting stuff? I can’t figure it out. I think threat level 2 monsters can drop that one item, but idk.
Also, do the double elder dragon invests have better drops or something?
Thx for this vid gonna try it meself later!
So I thought left inventory was mine and right inventory was the melder's rip to all the stuff I gave away thinking I was receiving it.
The only reason I use the melding pot is for the different gems. Other than that, I rarely use it for decorations because who why get rid of decorations when you could just get more from some lousy tempered monster?
Elder Melder asks for a lot for so little return. I'll pass.
What's the purpose of unequipping your decos? Like what difference does it make??
So you can see your totals overall.
I got it the wrong way around thinking that the right side was the items I get and the right side was my inventory and ended up losing my attack gem... Something I wish I had known before hand lol
Uh I kinda have some first Wyvern tickets but for some reason I don’t have that guy, how do u get him?
At 9:16, That decoration list. Does it ever get better jewels on there?
quick question, a level 3 gem does that mean it will give you three nodes of that talent ( so equipping a level 3 jewel will give you 3x that talent, Attack/Poison etc
No. Only one point. The level is just relevant to the slot size
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but essentially with the wyverian ritual, if you want A or S tear jewels only, the first two melding techniques (spire sorcery and coral concoction) are useless and a complete waste of jewels because it is not possible to get those high tear jewels?
Do UA-camrs all take speed-talking classes before starting to make videos? Almost every tip/trick vid in gaming is done by someone whose dinner is getting cold.
I have Melded a lot of objects into Ancient potions but when I have confirmed the items are not in my item box or item pouch. How do you collect the items?
Nice vid man
How do you get the First Wyverian Ritual option?
Good job with this video.
Do you have video just about decorations? Like what monsters drop what or how to apply decorations to armor and how the slots work?
You get low tier decos from low tier monsters, and high tier decos from high tier monsters. Or better gems from mid tier monsters that are tempered. Not that hard to comprehend.
And what? Lvl 3 decos require lvl 3 slot, lvl 2 decos require lvl 2 or 3 slot, lvl 1 decos need 1-3 slot..?
im trying to get daora gem but it isnt showing up on my menu. why???
Wait you can augment your armour with the streamstones?! Well thats good to know
Hey how did you get so much research points? I often have to do runs for more but never get a drastic amount. Have any tips?
The best way to get large amounts that I have found is to equip your Palico with the Plunderblade Palico Gadget (If you haven't unlocked that yet, highly recommend you do, go to Rotten Vale, search for "doodles" until your scatterflies guide you to a grymelkyne that you have to feed a piece of raw meat to). As your Palicos proficiency with it increases it'll unlock the Palarang and your Palico will sometimes force a monster to drop an item. Most of the time that item will be a crafting material but sometimes it will drop something like a Wyvern Tear which will give you hundreds of research points. I've gotten between 150-800 points just from a single item. You also get quite a bit of points from completing bounties and you can get points from gathering spots such as Cacti in the Wastelands, Ancient Fossils in the Coral Highlands and Beryl or Amber Deposits in the Elders Recess.
How do you get more attack gems? Do you only get one and that’s it?
Basically a recycle option if you get to a point were you have many spare jewels or if you dont want to grind a specific item and you manage to have some prints with you :)
What HR will u be able to farm for them?
holy crap. Getting decorations is ridiculous
Thank you so much
is there an "up to date" version of the spreadsheet for iceborne?
Nice video new subscriber keep up the great videos
he's streaming right now if you want to actually talk to him live :P
twitch.tv/rurikhan
Apparently I was absurdly lucky to receive an attack gem as my very first gem lol
No, everyone gets 1 attack gem for "free" during the melding tutorial. It's just subsequent ones which are rare. Kinda like how in Iceborne now, everyone gets a Crit Eye+ gem, but past that freebie, it is a very rare 4 slot gem to get.
Ty,a perfect video.
Sooo how do you add items to the left because i dont have everything and idk how to get it
Please don't buy Wyvern gems from the melder. Just hunt a Jyuratodus with a plunderblade palico and receive 3 almost everytime. One from the reward, one from the carve or ground, and one from the Palico. It's.. STUPIDLY easy to get these things.
I only got one option on the elder melder menu
Disaster Central same here, and ive got all the tickets etc - how to unlock all the options?
Great vid keep it up
What type of monsters do I have to go after to get regular streamstones? I have the heroic streamstones, but I need 2 regular streamstones to augment my weapon. I can't find anyone that tells how you get them.....
Anything stream stone related = tempered elder dragons.
SLEEPCOAT ON A GUNLANCE. NEW META
Thank you so much loved the video very informative :)
is there a free elem/ammo up decoration?
If people are really making spreadsheets for this game. what chance do I stand?
What do I do with commendations and trailsider vouchers?
Twisted Gamer Those are used to make armor and charms.
I got a elementless 2 times from a spire last night*
wow good info about removing ur dec ...👍👍
Thanx 4 this man. I didn't understand what the hell its was so i ignored it. Now i traded some stuff i was grinding for 4ever!! Why the F*UCK they call it melding not Just trading? Thanx again 👍🏿