I want to ask, now that I'm at HR6 in MHFU and can fight Fatalis (normal black one at Castle Schrade), how can I damage it efficiently? The problem with guides is that they tend to cover how to avoid its attacks, which is easy enough for me to work out myself, yet they don't go into much detail about landing one's own hits. It's a difficult monster to judge the outcome of one's actions upon, so if anyone should have experience with the black dragon, please enlighten me.
I play monster hunter. I'm pretty darn good at the game, but once i started getting high rank guild quests i got stepped all over. So i'm more of a casual MH player now. Lol I HATE high rank quests. Too many freaken one hit kills it makes me rage quit.
Guild-hall is unforgiving at high rank, the dual Tigrex urgent quest especially. I find it advisable that one should go through the Chief's quests before low-rank guild, and Nekoht's quests before high-rank guild. Only G-level ought to start turning the player away.
Ideally one should fight in fully-upgraded armour, 150 health and stamina, with weapons that exploit weaknesses.
Example: Rathalos is weak to water, dragon and paralysis, and if you use a sword then cutting his tail off quickly can save a lot of trouble.
A more in-depth example would be Tigrex: While it is clearly weak to thunder and less so to dragon, did you know it will go for poisoned/tainted/drugged meat after it's been fighting a while (apparently every 15 minutes)? Sleep-bombing hurts a lot, as does a hammer golfswing twice across a paralysed jaw. Taking away its mobility with flash bombs and traps isn't a bad thing, either, unless you're a sort of fair-fighter.
I understand you probably aren't playing MHFU anymore, but those monsters do both reappear in MHP3rd. As I said though, just examples. If you have a good think about what you're doing in-game and try different things, you can surprise yourself and find your own fun ways through life as a hunter. I'll be the first to admit that I've thrown flash and sonic bombs at a Khezu just to see if they did anything (answer: no), and I think I'll enjoy finding a way to troll Jinōga when MHP3rd comes my way.
Maybe you know all this though, sorry if so.
And is it me or is MHP3rd waaaaaaaay easier than unite? In mhp3rd i feel like im constantly in the monster's face shredding the crap out of it, but in unite i feel like im playing hit and run...Havent gotten to mhp3rd's high rank quests yet, but looking at unite's im not looking forward to them...I just wanna fight everything on low rank x3 Maybe the monster's stamina made mhp3rd easier, and the new combos/attacks are better now.
Along with that, hitboxes for monster attacks were fixed in third generation games; no more Plesioth hipchecks, heh... Also,
two felyne comrades.
I got Monster Hunter: Freedom Unite!
The Hunting Horn is a pretty dang interesting weapon
Also among the weakest, as physical attacks go. Listed damage ≠ actual damage. Shame really... Apparently much improved in MHP3rd though, if it matters to say.
Still, if you have a good fighting felyne it could work, I imagine. The
Dragonwood Horn is apparently a good choice. I'd personally prefer
Hidden Tone —which has the same note set— since I'm one for sharpness and affinity over status-infliction, but you can't get it until much later.
