I would like to create a fun build with the explosive LBG.
The problem is that I have trouble gauging talent, especially compared to Artillery. 
I understand that Novice Gunner increases explosive damage by 15% and that Expert Gunner increases by 30%.
The Feline Boommer meal apparently increases loss by 15%.
The problem would be that explosive damage would be capped at 30%. So does it serve as an Expert Gunner if I plan to eat Feline Boomer or am I mistaken? 
thanks for your help :)

I've been playing gl recently since i play it in world and rise, right now i'm just using full neset set but i was wondering what i could do better

Sorry that's a ton in the tittle that's my bad y'all

Hey all, I've been wanting to do a second playthrough of the game and found out there are certain methods that allow the game to run at higher framerates. Does anyone more familiar with the game's mechanics know whether there are any mechanics tied to the fps, that would make playing the game at higher than 30fps undesirable?

I ask because I know some games tie mechanics/physics directly to the framerate for frame locked games, so I was just concerned that maybe certain things like iframes might be affected (i.e. having half as long invincibility period on dodges at 60fps).

It was a Great Maccao Hunt

What is stronger for Solo Grank? Bow or l/h Bowgun? specifically I Want to hunt Grank Hell glavernus. Can someone please suggest which of the ranged weapons would be the most powerful and why? (specific weapon names would be really helpful as well).

Any tips fighting Dreadking Rathalos with shorter reach weapons (SnS, Dual Blades)?

I flash spam him once the wings are broken, but it's breaking the wings that's taking too long. Dreadking 2 took me 20mins to clear with end game gear 🤣

Please help a hunter out 🥲

Boltreaver is absolutely nuts. This man cooks me in his G1 quest, even though I‘m in post Ahtal-Ka gear. I have only done a few deviants, only hellblade and rustrazor extensively. Why is boltreaver so much harder than rustrazor?? It‘s his G1 quest, I shouldn’t have any problems!! But I have. Boltreaver, you will get to feel my hot lance inside of you, and there will be nothing, you can do about it!!

I did the first quest for cha cha but can’t unlock the second quest with a hyper kut ku and ceanataur so I can do the three hyper ma quest. Does anyone know what I might be missing? I already beat the final boss mantis.

I had been doing aerial gunlance with the hard hitter. I cleared village key quests through valstrax and complete valstrax and jho. At HR 6 star it was recommended to me to try valor GL. So I tried swapping to Valor. I finished the key hub 6 star quests with valor, and was able to beat shaggy in 7 star. But I have hit a wall. Brachy is a total pain. He moves way too much. I can't keep valor up. He is always dropping green explosive puddles. I tried changing my build to adept DBs but my clear time on 7 star hub Rath went from 20 minutes with aerial GL to 45 min with dbs. Mind you it was a raw DB build. But the dps falloff was massive. I am building an attack up and wex rath set so I can try different weapon options. I was running seltas for artillery up with GL, and was always eating for bombardier. I'm planning on swapping back to aerial GL and giving that another go both with and without cats and see how it feels. Valor just feels so bad to try to build the gauge up against monsters and once I get into valor mode the monster just runs around non stop and I never have openings to actually hit it. Am I supposed to be abusing traps and just disabling the monster so I can dps it down? When I see tech posts on this game, like placing a mini barrel bomb to allow yourself to heal, they just looks like unfun gimmicks. I don't want to have to place a bomb to heal safely, I want to just have openings where I can choose between attacking and healing. It feels like solo those just don't exist unless I topple the monster or run to another area. Also, though I beat him once, the 7 star astalos duo monster quest kicked my ass as well.

Any advice is appreciated. Online I saw that shelling GL basically falls off at the end of HR for this exact reason. I'm not playing slap lance. I'd rather try real lance, or crit draw GS or some other easy build where I can focus on avoiding attacks and punish short openings. I just want to get through G rank and see the big mantis bug fight at the end. It's been hyped up for me. But I don't see how shelling GL is going to get me there. I don't want to grind a million different things for materials or items. So gunner feels like it isn't a build I want to try, and I don't want to go an elemental build where I need to look up every monsters weakness online before every hunt to swap my set around. I just want a solid raw build brain dead approach where I can focus on learning the monster and read their attacks and I get punished if I overextend. From 4U Crit Draw GS was that for me. DBs is really fucking me up cause I played them a ton in world and rise and the move set is completely different in gu.

Thanks in advance.

Edit: Just beat Brachy. Went full rath set with artillery novice and back to aerial gunlance. I just don't have the skill for valor style. A wins a win. Took 35 minutes though ;o;

Lately I am crazy invested in making the ultimately ultimate damage efficient charge blade set for both impact and elemental.

The way I understand general CB damage:

• (out of total of (overall)100% damage done by a single CB hunter in a quest.)
• 50-90% of sword mode slash damages
• 10-50% of phial attack damages

(Depends on your playstyle but I noticed fewer Axe mode(phials) usage against strong foes like EXs)

Therefore, sets like this does not work:

1. phial damage oriented sets with mind's eye + Attack up Large. Which would dramatically increase the phial damages, but give out sh*t sword mode slashes due to either being green sharpness(akantor CB) or negative crit(diablos/bloodbath CB). Your overall CB damage comes heavily from the sword mode and this just gives up the sword mode damage for mediocre axe(phial) damages which only counts for 10-50% of the overall CB damage.

2. Elemental CB with boosted element attack up+2 and element crit skills. By Google sensei, numerous CritBoost v ElementCrit forums have concluded that generally at same base damage numbers, the raw(CritBoost) easily tops elemental crit damage.

Therefore, my understanding of maximizing elemental CB damage is to:

• i) get the respective element attack up+2 skill & elemental attack up(alatreon set skill).
• ii) then just use affinity skills + CritBoost.
• iii) i HAVE used an element CB with element attack up+2 WITH elementCrit skill but I don't think it made hunts any faster compared to just regular impact CB user with raw CritBoost.

My question: I just want to get confirmation if my analysises are sound or I'm gravely mistaken.

Feel VERY free to correct me on this, thank you.

Hello fellow hunters! Main GS here. I'd like to try a Bow. Could anyone recommend me any good sets/mixsets for late G rank? What skills should I prioritise mostly? Which ammo type? Style? I already hit HR 90 and mostly playing online. Thanks in advance!

Getting this crown next to the hunter name is the hardest thing I have done in any MH game that I have played. The dopamine was worth it

I've got both a RF Pierce LBG [Narga] and a RF Normal LBG [Kush] which I use.

The other day, at the canteen, I received an attack up meal with Felyne Slugger and Felyne Temper (was playing pierce) and was wondered if the bowgun ammos can actually cause stun/KO damage.

I don't remember ever getting a KO with my bowgun, with the only downed states coming from part trips. So I was curious if anyone knew definitively whether your popular base ammos Pierce/Normal/[Pellet] carried KO stats.

Thank you