Tip when playing multiplayer: As soon as you reach MR3 you should have 2x Dust of Life, 4x Gloamgrass Bud+ 4x God bug to craft more(both of these can be cultivated) in your loadout. This is a life saver! For 3 items slots you get 6 almost instant heals for the whole team and helps so much when someone is stunned or about to cart. I have saved so many teammates with this but it's frustrating when you're the one that's stunned and they can't heal you because no one on the team has Dust of Life. This should be the #1 tip on everyone list for multiplayer
Another super useful tip is tranq bombs have their own status condition with a duration, so you can tranq bomb a sleeping monster first, then place your trap. This can be niche but if you like to trap a lot during a fight especially against things like Barioth to give you time to break its limbs, or if you run Bugtrapper Palico, it makes it a lot easier than trying to get 2 tranqs in a potentially 3 second window.
While playing through the story there are several sections where you have to gather tracks during expeditions and optional quests before you unlock the next main quest. These "special investigations" can be quite tedious and annoying. So, as soon as you get to High Rank farm some small Jagras to craft the "Hunter's Headgear Alpha". This helmet gives the the skills "Scoutfly Range Up" and "Scholar", which increase the range of your track "radar" and speed up the progress per track found by 20% respectively. Quite helpful for these "quests".
Limping, Skulls on the minimap from the monster icon and most importantly if the monster manages to escape and you find it somewhere sleeping in whatever might seem like a nest, put a trap and give it 2 tranq bombs cause you got it in the bag, besides elder dragons, those you only slay but you get more than the usual 3 carves
@tommywenis ive gotten mantels and gems from caps so it is possibility carves are just 1% chance higher than cap. But thats a 1% to 2% chance increase usually
Super useful! I learned a couple new things despite having a couple hundred hours in the game. It's a little obnoxious how "raw is king" yet it's fairly complicated to calculate your weapon's raw damage, between affinity, sharpness multipliers, and that arbitrary weapon type modifier they slapped on...
Bottom left. Monster icon. Under the portrait is an ECG. If the monster is not enraged, the amplitude of the ECG waves indicate the monster's hp. A flatter trace indicates it is about to die. (Therefore being more of a CTG?) Also you can turn on the silhoutte option in the options menu to make life easier
Did not know I could hold the input down to gather, that’s fantastic. Also didn’t know I could use geology in GL to get the shinys twice. Also didn’t know about negative affinity giving you negative damage
I feel like not many people know of what I call “runnable walls” where all Locales have certain walls that you can “run up”, and certain weapons have unique attacks off of it, like the spinning hammer bludgeon like what you do when sliding down slopes ❤
I learned that the slinger ammo dropped by the monsters when attacking the indicates how low there health is i think the first one drops at 30% health the second is at 20% and the 3 is like 10% i find it easier to capture monsters when the second pod drops
Crazy that I've played MH my whole life and loved World and I didnt know stuff like the elemental res being 20 and geologist adds an extra shiny pickup. Game is full of random hidden mechanics. +Sub
A tip I learned about today when watching someone do a Fatalis run (I haven’t even tried this out myself): I think in some circumstances when your character is lying on the ground, he can use his slinger
I believe even when you're pinned down, but not when stunned. Like when you get caught in that Nergi dive bomb he loves to spam. Slinger his stupid face, might just save you before he finishes you off. I think you can even switch to flash pods if it's not loaded yet.
After 154 hours I knew 2/3 of your tips but the rest, like double pickups of the monster parts, or those two upgradeable charms in my inventory? Wow that was news for me! I once actually dodge monster roar, but I thought by some glitch. Thank you for this amazing video, I am sure, lots of us will find it very usefull.
For training area, asides from the Palico and your home, you can also access it through the map... A little bit faster, but probably useful if you need to go there many times...
GL tips,focus on leveling coral and volcano almost to lvl 7. Then level up wildspire and forest region to a zinogre and glavenus spawn level. For rarity 12 weapon augments
amazing guide. just started playing recently and MHW is my first MH game, and its a little frustrating how the game doesnt tell you a lot of things and basically throw you in to learn by yourself (unless you watch guides or have friends to teach you). not saying the game is hard but there seems to be a bit of an entry requirement if you know what i mean
Welcome to MHW! I know exactly what you mean mate, it’s silly that guides like this are even needed, yet here we are! Hope it’s helped ease the start of your journey a little
I'm an heretic, capture only, and am returning to the game after some time. I have left the game right after killing Fatalis and, now, I'll be looking to augment all weapons (high rank level); get the Platinum Trophy; and, later, will go on to continue the DLC. Thank u for the video. Loved the accent, slang and informations.
The amount of times I hear rapid button clicking when gathering/carving in a group in voice chat is unreal lmao. I can't count how many people I've told that you can just hold the button and you'll keep gathering until you're finished.
You pointed out the heart rate. It also looks line the heart rate monitor speeds up when a monster is enraged. The music also changes when monsters enrage, but that's harder to notice.
Actually running element is useful in specific cases, alatreon for obvious reasons but also did you know fire damage(slinger ammo included) can untoughen lavasioth's hide and melt velkhana's blocks more easily.
early game i recommend everyone brings 3 levels of mushroom mancer allows you to bring 10 mandragoras that are max potions absolutely insane you can heal instantly max hp so you can get into the fight quicker and late game i say bring atleast 1 level of free meal or 3 levels if you have fatalis armor along with materials to craft max potions mushroomancer 3 early game free meal 3 late game being able to heal many times for full hp instantly is absolutely great obviously if you never get hit this isnt helpful for you but if you're like me and you get hit alot its very helpful so you arnt spending the whole game chugging mega potions just to get hit again
I didnt know about the target lock on, for some reason the slinger option while weapon is drawn is the same as the lock on for ranged weapons, and it annoys me to no end everytime i accidentally lock on before aiming.
unfortunately no, focus monster and aim slinger is same option, if i could show you what it looks like on pc, i would. Well ive set it to "do not focus" as i have pretty quick reaction time
I've wondered with the armor loadouts, but do decorations save per loadout? Or do they remain separate? Like can I use the same armor set but only change decorations from say focus to evade extender? Or will the decorations stay how they were last set and I'd have 2 identical loadouts?
I actually had this question about a week ago and from the MHH discord the answer was that you can change your loadout with decorations, save it, swap them around, save the second one, and the decorations will follow.
Your decos are saved to the loadout slot. When ever you equip a different loadout your decos will change. No need to worry about switching decos everytime. Make your build with your prefered decos and save it.
Great question, as others have already answered, your decos are saved to the loadout, making them super convenient for different builds and styles even with the exact same weapons but a different set of decos!
What the hell. I'm not gonna lie, I didn't even really know there were heart rate lines beneath the monster's icon, and paid even less attention to it over all, let alone noticing that it CHANGES. Or that there was an indicator for capturable state within it.
2 questions that can hopefully be answered. 1) at 8:20 about elemental resistances, is it possible to have too much elemental resistance? ( how much would be too much?) 2) at 9:43 does the monster take less damage from the player when the monster is in rage mode?
The elem res number colour denotes what "tier" it's in, the higher it is the more red it gets. It caps at something like 50, I forget, but anything over 20 for the free blight resist is a waste anyhow. It can do, some monsters will become armored, like Nergigante's black spikes
There is a skill that gives you more sharpening meter, that little bag shows the sharpness that skill will give you, as there is a little bar with color at the bottom
ive seen the raw is king before, but every one also says i need to build elemental bow with critica element and whatnot. is it such a waste of effort? or do different weapons vary in effectiveness of elemental damage?
Raw vs Elemental comes down to motion values. General rule is Slow weapons are better with Raw and Fast weapons are better with Elemental but it also depends on the monster's weaknesses. Kinda tricky lol
@@abusivewafflegaming4450 ah. gotcha. well, thats true for all monster hunter. slow weapons (as in, all but bow, ig, sns and db), never had relevancy when it comes to elemental damage.
Elemental is a flat damage addition to each hit, hence why it’s more effective for fast/multi striking weapons like dual blades and bow. The damage calcs on the hit zones are really punishing, making it virtually pointless for the vast majority of fights. Viable, yeah, but raw nearly always wins by miles in nearly all circumstances. Alateon is near enough the only fight where it matters, and that’s because they’re making a point of it being an elemental fight lol
"For whatever reason you want to capture a monster" Me: "uuuuuh capture quests? Plus you get to see them sleeping in Astera" Also already know most of them around 18/21. 50 hours in and just beginning High rank coz I spent a lot exploring and reading
Everything's viable, but you really don't need to fuss yourself about making different sets, nah. A solid raw/blast weapon is gonna be dope, like Furious Rajang or Raging Brachy (and anything in between)
@@LightItUpDan let me beat the first brachydios from story mode first 🤣 I bought the game in 2018 but I started playing not long ago, i dont even have rarity 11
Hi dude, o like your video, Just a thing, i'm Brazilian, without cc O cant understand so much, can u add subtitles tô next vídeos? Thank u Very much! And sucess 4u!
I didnt know elements dont matter as much, all this time ive been prioritizing elemental skills and only been using 3 star weaknesses. My whole life is a lie
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Pushing R1/RB when handlers open the quest book speeds it up by a lot.
What would that button be for pc though
It shoud be the sprint button
Once you learn this there’s no going back lol
@@s2wuolf508Shift aka sprint button.
@@shoobzy3431 got it
Tip when playing multiplayer: As soon as you reach MR3 you should have 2x Dust of Life, 4x Gloamgrass Bud+ 4x God bug to craft more(both of these can be cultivated) in your loadout. This is a life saver! For 3 items slots you get 6 almost instant heals for the whole team and helps so much when someone is stunned or about to cart. I have saved so many teammates with this but it's frustrating when you're the one that's stunned and they can't heal you because no one on the team has Dust of Life. This should be the #1 tip on everyone list for multiplayer
Dust of Life is so damn good! You can get a mountain of them by running steamworks too
me running wide range and speed eating:
@@_Tzer 🙏
Another super useful tip is tranq bombs have their own status condition with a duration, so you can tranq bomb a sleeping monster first, then place your trap. This can be niche but if you like to trap a lot during a fight especially against things like Barioth to give you time to break its limbs, or if you run Bugtrapper Palico, it makes it a lot easier than trying to get 2 tranqs in a potentially 3 second window.
True yeah, pre-tranq bombing works great!
While playing through the story there are several sections where you have to gather tracks during expeditions and optional quests before you unlock the next main quest. These "special investigations" can be quite tedious and annoying. So, as soon as you get to High Rank farm some small Jagras to craft the "Hunter's Headgear Alpha". This helmet gives the the skills "Scoutfly Range Up" and "Scholar", which increase the range of your track "radar" and speed up the progress per track found by 20% respectively. Quite helpful for these "quests".
Great tip!
Been playing monster hunter games since freedom unite on the PSP, never knew about holding down the gathering button… thanks capcom 😂
Haha you’re gonna save so much time now!
Limping, Skulls on the minimap from the monster icon and most importantly if the monster manages to escape and you find it somewhere sleeping in whatever might seem like a nest, put a trap and give it 2 tranq bombs cause you got it in the bag, besides elder dragons, those you only slay but you get more than the usual 3 carves
For sure! I don’t play capture personally but can be really helpful on a difficult quest
I could be wrong but I don't think I've ever gotten mantles from captures, only body carves if that means anything
@tommywenis ive gotten mantels and gems from caps so it is possibility carves are just 1% chance higher than cap. But thats a 1% to 2% chance increase usually
Super useful! I learned a couple new things despite having a couple hundred hours in the game.
It's a little obnoxious how "raw is king" yet it's fairly complicated to calculate your weapon's raw damage, between affinity, sharpness multipliers, and that arbitrary weapon type modifier they slapped on...
Yeah I hear you mate, they really hid a lot of imperative info under the covers in World for some reason lol
Bottom left. Monster icon. Under the portrait is an ECG. If the monster is not enraged, the amplitude of the ECG waves indicate the monster's hp. A flatter trace indicates it is about to die. (Therefore being more of a CTG?)
Also you can turn on the silhoutte option in the options menu to make life easier
I love the silhouette option, I never leave home (Seliana) without it!
Did not know I could hold the input down to gather, that’s fantastic. Also didn’t know I could use geology in GL to get the shinys twice. Also didn’t know about negative affinity giving you negative damage
Awesome, this has been a worthwhile watch for you then haha!
I love that you’re still making videos. As a player coming back to play ice born, I definitely enjoy your videos.
I'm so glad! Welcome back, there's so much to enjoy
I feel like not many people know of what I call “runnable walls” where all Locales have certain walls that you can “run up”, and certain weapons have unique attacks off of it, like the spinning hammer bludgeon like what you do when sliding down slopes ❤
That's a great tip yeah, not all of them are very clear at all!
When you talk to the Quest lady, you can hold (R1 on PS. The run button?) to hasten the animation.
I wish I never learned this a while back, now I have to do it or it feels SO SLOW lol
That geology tip is a godsend dude, tksm
You’re very welcome mate!
I started the game today so this is a lifesaver
Hell yeah, welcome to MHW and the channel! Loads of useful videos on here to get you going
@@LightItUpDan thanks! I'll probably be watching plenty so I can optimise my builds, gotta study my games lol
Good luck
Make sure you take time to gather everything i mean everything you’ll never know what you lack
I learned that the slinger ammo dropped by the monsters when attacking the indicates how low there health is i think the first one drops at 30% health the second is at 20% and the 3 is like 10% i find it easier to capture monsters when the second pod drops
Yeah the pods are a great tell too!
Crazy that I've played MH my whole life and loved World and I didnt know stuff like the elemental res being 20 and geologist adds an extra shiny pickup. Game is full of random hidden mechanics. +Sub
That's awesome haha! It really is, yeah. Appreciate you, welcome to the channel
A tip I learned about today when watching someone do a Fatalis run (I haven’t even tried this out myself): I think in some circumstances when your character is lying on the ground, he can use his slinger
Yeah that's a certain animation/knock down where you can do that
I believe even when you're pinned down, but not when stunned. Like when you get caught in that Nergi dive bomb he loves to spam. Slinger his stupid face, might just save you before he finishes you off. I think you can even switch to flash pods if it's not loaded yet.
@@jryamz yeah it's the pin attacks
After 154 hours I knew 2/3 of your tips but the rest, like double pickups of the monster parts, or those two upgradeable charms in my inventory? Wow that was news for me! I once actually dodge monster roar, but I thought by some glitch. Thank you for this amazing video, I am sure, lots of us will find it very usefull.
Amazing to hear, you're very welcome mate! I'm so glad it was helpful
For training area, asides from the Palico and your home, you can also access it through the map...
A little bit faster, but probably useful if you need to go there many times...
So weird how they hid away all the fast travel in the map haha, great tip!
GL tips,focus on leveling coral and volcano almost to lvl 7. Then level up wildspire and forest region to a zinogre and glavenus spawn level. For rarity 12 weapon augments
Nice
I reach 100HR/MR and my friend jsut told me I can sell all those trade-ins items and here I am looking watching to what I am still missing.
Haha, was there anything else?
Been thinking about playing world again, might have to re download it later.
It’s a great time to hop back in!
amazing guide. just started playing recently and MHW is my first MH game, and its a little frustrating how the game doesnt tell you a lot of things and basically throw you in to learn by yourself (unless you watch guides or have friends to teach you). not saying the game is hard but there seems to be a bit of an entry requirement if you know what i mean
Welcome to MHW! I know exactly what you mean mate, it’s silly that guides like this are even needed, yet here we are! Hope it’s helped ease the start of your journey a little
I'm an heretic, capture only, and am returning to the game after some time. I have left the game right after killing Fatalis and, now, I'll be looking to augment all weapons (high rank level); get the Platinum Trophy; and, later, will go on to continue the DLC. Thank u for the video. Loved the accent, slang and informations.
That's dope! You're very welcome, appreciate you
Super helpful video I’m definitely sharing it with my friends who are new to the game so I don’t have to explain all of it myself 😅
Hell yeah, I’m so glad it was useful!
YOU CAN MINE OFF THE URAGAAN?? Thats fucking amazing 😂 things like this are why i love mh
pretty neat, huh? haha
The amount of times I hear rapid button clicking when gathering/carving in a group in voice chat is unreal lmao. I can't count how many people I've told that you can just hold the button and you'll keep gathering until you're finished.
So crazy it’s not explained any where in game haha
You pointed out the heart rate. It also looks line the heart rate monitor speeds up when a monster is enraged.
The music also changes when monsters enrage, but that's harder to notice.
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my tip is to charge your sword on chargeblade it gives you 10-20% ko up depending on the damage and crits
Nice, nice
The heart rate indicator also pulses orange when the monster is enraged. I find that easier to keep an eye on than the minimap icon
Oh nice, good catch
Actually running element is useful in specific cases, alatreon for obvious reasons but also did you know fire damage(slinger ammo included) can untoughen lavasioth's hide and melt velkhana's blocks more easily.
Exactly, very specific use cases that are few and far between
early game i recommend everyone brings 3 levels of mushroom mancer allows you to bring 10 mandragoras that are max potions absolutely insane you can heal instantly max hp so you can get into the fight quicker
and late game i say bring atleast 1 level of free meal or 3 levels if you have fatalis armor along with materials to craft max potions
mushroomancer 3 early game
free meal 3 late game being able to heal many times for full hp instantly is absolutely great
obviously if you never get hit this isnt helpful for you but if you're like me and you get hit alot its very helpful so you arnt spending the whole game chugging mega potions just to get hit again
GREAT way to get a huge amount of heals each hunt!
Great tips! I never tried to track gathering spots, that's a good idea!
Super handy for gathering quests and generally farming something you’re after in an expedition or whatever!
Your channel is going to be eatin good when Wilds releases
I hope so mate!
Last geologist tip blew my 700 hour mind
Haha let’s goooo double drops from here on out bby
The Geologist guiding lands trick bizzarely works on kulve taroth as well.
You said in another comment that you heard this, have you confirmed it?
I didnt know about the target lock on, for some reason the slinger option while weapon is drawn is the same as the lock on for ranged weapons, and it annoys me to no end everytime i accidentally lock on before aiming.
Oh god that sounds so frustrating lol can you change the inputs?
unfortunately no, focus monster and aim slinger is same option, if i could show you what it looks like on pc, i would. Well ive set it to "do not focus" as i have pretty quick reaction time
I've wondered with the armor loadouts, but do decorations save per loadout? Or do they remain separate? Like can I use the same armor set but only change decorations from say focus to evade extender? Or will the decorations stay how they were last set and I'd have 2 identical loadouts?
I actually had this question about a week ago and from the MHH discord the answer was that you can change your loadout with decorations, save it, swap them around, save the second one, and the decorations will follow.
sorry, by "follow" i mean yes, they save with your loadouts. I don't know why I worded it so stupid lol
Your decos are saved to the loadout slot. When ever you equip a different loadout your decos will change. No need to worry about switching decos everytime. Make your build with your prefered decos and save it.
Great question, as others have already answered, your decos are saved to the loadout, making them super convenient for different builds and styles even with the exact same weapons but a different set of decos!
What the hell. I'm not gonna lie, I didn't even really know there were heart rate lines beneath the monster's icon, and paid even less attention to it over all, let alone noticing that it CHANGES. Or that there was an indicator for capturable state within it.
Haha now you know!
2 questions that can hopefully be answered.
1) at 8:20 about elemental resistances, is it possible to have too much elemental resistance? ( how much would be too much?)
2) at 9:43 does the monster take less damage from the player when the monster is in rage mode?
The elem res number colour denotes what "tier" it's in, the higher it is the more red it gets. It caps at something like 50, I forget, but anything over 20 for the free blight resist is a waste anyhow. It can do, some monsters will become armored, like Nergigante's black spikes
@@LightItUpDanty for the information 👍.
I did not know the flatline that will be very useful thanks :)
Awesome, you’re welcome!
The only thing I didn't know out of the list was the last one, I'mma use it when hunting in the grinding lands
Doubles your farming efficiency!
Okay that last tip is a game changer, wish i knew i few months ago
Saves a lot of time for sure!
Regarding enraged status, do you mean flashing is enraged? Because your minimap will be red in combat regardless
The monster icon itself flashes red
I wish Xeno’jiiva had better Armor it just looks so cool
could always use it as layered!
@@LightItUpDan say what now
@@Soygome layered armor, where it has the appearance of it but you're not actually using it as gear
@@LightItUpDan damn that’s fire thanks, this is why your one of the best mhw content creators
@@Soygome 🤝
I want to know, for the sharpness what is that tiny bag after the full bar?
There is a skill that gives you more sharpening meter, that little bag shows the sharpness that skill will give you, as there is a little bar with color at the bottom
Think of it as weapon's "potential" sharpness. The Handicraft skill unlocks this potential
As others already said, it’s the potential sharpness you can unlock with “handicraft” skill
@@gerardfarresfranch7242 thanks
@@Serai-l7z thanks
ive seen the raw is king before, but every one also says i need to build elemental bow with critica element and whatnot. is it such a waste of effort? or do different weapons vary in effectiveness of elemental damage?
Bow (and Dual Blades to a slightly lesser extent) is the only weapon where elemental is better than raw for most matchups
Raw vs Elemental comes down to motion values. General rule is Slow weapons are better with Raw and Fast weapons are better with Elemental but it also depends on the monster's weaknesses. Kinda tricky lol
You only need an elemental for fighting alatreon, 🎉
@@abusivewafflegaming4450 ah. gotcha. well, thats true for all monster hunter. slow weapons (as in, all but bow, ig, sns and db), never had relevancy when it comes to elemental damage.
Elemental is a flat damage addition to each hit, hence why it’s more effective for fast/multi striking weapons like dual blades and bow. The damage calcs on the hit zones are really punishing, making it virtually pointless for the vast majority of fights. Viable, yeah, but raw nearly always wins by miles in nearly all circumstances. Alateon is near enough the only fight where it matters, and that’s because they’re making a point of it being an elemental fight lol
Another fantastic tip:
Game has 14 different weapons.
So many players pick one and stick to it the whole game, which is such a disservice to themselves haha
@@LightItUpDan mhm
It's even sadder because how each weapon almost completely change how the game feels in combat.
@@Evrimomono YES!
does the geologist tip still work?
Yep, try it!
Interesting fact holding down the button to gather was put in the games since monster hunter generations.
very cool!
"For whatever reason you want to capture a monster"
Me: "uuuuuh capture quests? Plus you get to see them sleeping in Astera"
Also already know most of them around 18/21. 50 hours in and just beginning High rank coz I spent a lot exploring and reading
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5:55 WTF why no one ever told me this?
Haha, now you know!
Wait do people not hold the gathering input? I thought it was common knowledge that you hold it?
If only! The game never explicitly tells you as far as I recall haha
you used to make neverwinter content right? It's cool seeing you still making videos :D
A long time ago, yeah
Then if raw is king, I dont need to care about which element my dual blades are and always use a nitro one?
Everything's viable, but you really don't need to fuss yourself about making different sets, nah. A solid raw/blast weapon is gonna be dope, like Furious Rajang or Raging Brachy (and anything in between)
@@LightItUpDan let me beat the first brachydios from story mode first 🤣
I bought the game in 2018 but I started playing not long ago, i dont even have rarity 11
@@roplay3872 you got this!
How do I max out the stamina
Fatalis armor
@@LightItUpDan thanks g just returned to the game from taking a 2yr break , never beat em before but ig it’s time to learn the fight/ mechanics
Hi dude, o like your video, Just a thing, i'm Brazilian, without cc O cant understand so much, can u add subtitles tô next vídeos? Thank u Very much! And sucess 4u!
Hi friend! I thought they get automatically added? I’ll look into it!
Hey Dan!
I didnt know elements dont matter as much, all this time ive been prioritizing elemental skills and only been using 3 star weaknesses. My whole life is a lie
I'm so sorry
Wait wtf you can mine off monster's back?? IM TRYING THAT RIGHT NOW
Haha yeah for Uragaan and Radobaan! Capture net on Zinogre too
To be honest i hate subscribing to channels i like. UA-cam seems to stop showing me videos of the channels i sub.
If you turn the bell notifications on you can’t miss them
“Elemental damage means nothing”
I’d like you too meet Alatreon
“I’d like you to meet the one monster designed to force elemental in the game”
Love this guys, bro i already sub and add on discord when can we hunt bro
Awesome! When I'm next around I'll let folks know in the #MHW channel
I love all the information including those from the comments, thank you so much. 😂 it’s helped me out so much
I'm so glad to hear that!