Looking to get into all the ranged weapons, I asked around about how to use Rathalos as Gunner armor.

LBG/HBG - It's either just the Glavenus legs or the Lagiacrus arms and legs. Might not have a Dead Eye charm but can gem in Pierce Up. The one LBG is Hidden Eye and the two HBG are Hidden Gambit and Daora's Delphinidae.

Bow - Using solely the Yekla Bow, Not sure Focus is the best skill for it. I think either using 5 TrueShot gems to fill the full set can be a bit much but naturally the set has WEX and AuM. Can't be certain I have a Heavy Up charm.

Wanted to ask as the final way to get some closure before G Rank.

I’ve seen multiple takes for either side, so I am curious which elemental rapid fire option is better overall? I want to use a rapid fire elemental lbg but I’m not sure which one I should focus on.

Greeting fellow hunter in a bit of a pickle here. A friend and I are playing through iceborne at the minute and we both are currently using CB. We've pretty much have been steamrolling monsters left and right only for Namielle to absolutely demo us. To say we're struggling is an understatement, we're trying to build CB's of element(me) and impact(my friend) but had no luck.

We went online for build reqs and are currently running a starter iceborne build from the mh wiki. Now me personally I rarely use cb but have spinning axe down to a point. Would appreciate some assistance as (some underlying my friend wants a build with max plug, we also are hurting for rng gods to award us ironwall jewels for guard pointing.

Are sets are pretty mixed jewel wise but anything helps build wise... I believe their using iron tree impact as their choice for weapon. While I am using ice tree (Deep Schnegel II)

Any help would be appreciated... (P. S. We are mostly dying to bs Ai when healing(me mostly) or having water blight and being onslaughted by current attacks while stunned(my friend mostly)

Thank you and Happy Hunting

The guide in the stickied megathread doesn’t include an Ice RFP2 light bowgun so I was wondering what Ice lbgs I should look into or if there is no good option worth going for.

Hi, in need of a build for sword and shield for monster hunter rise. I just got my hunter rank to 7. Was originally a hunting horn main, but switched to sword and shield. Due to my interest in acquiring the street fighter v akuma layered armor. Goal for the build is that I want to do a lot of damage to get through the 7* hunts to get to rank 8. I understand the crafting of the game it just when you go into more detail of builds it gets confusing.

What's the best choice: Shagaru Hammer or Malzeno Hammer?

I really dunno which one is better...

Shagaru Hammer has 280 raw, good chunk of purple, 28 dragon element and 40% affinity...but no jewel slots. Malzeno has 310 raw, a bit more purple, 30 dragon element and a 4-lvl jewel slot...but no % affinity at all.

i can’t even get past the a lister fight i’m in dire need of help

I've made Kjarr ice dual blades so I can slay Alatreon, but the ones I have require the awakening charm or release decorations to use any of the element at all. Is this normal, or are just some dual blades like this, so maybe I just got bad RNG? It's hard for me to make a proper build if I can't use my weapon's element.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

https://imgur.com/a/bwKhQO5

Apparently a good meta GS set is frostcraft and hellflame, is there a good intermediate step or anything I can do to make farming for the endgame set easier?

hi recently I've been building a dragon ls build and was wondering with dragonheart if furious stacked

I'm almost halfway through Anomaly Investigations and was wondering if the builds linked in the Pinned comment are still the best builds.

Thank you in advance.

At the acidic glavenus fight and still using jagras blade but realized alot of these fights are better if im in savage axe.

But the progression guide doesnt cover thar so im wondering what armor to run?

I know that Evade Extender affects the SnS's back hop distance, but does it also affect the forward hop you make when you go into either one of your aerial attacks or Perfect Rush?

I'm trying to figure out if it might be worth slotting in Evade Extender for my SnS build. But if it doesn't affect the forward movement at all, then it seems like it'd be detrimental since it creates a risk of my back hop putting me out of range.

I’m thinking of playing gunlance for Rise’s endgame and I was wondering if evade extender is useful for the weapon? I use it on bow but I don’t know how much of a difference it’ll make for gunlance.

Not really good with the stunlock in heavy bow since I just use it as a general bow set, but I've been using Frenzy Fever a lot more recently and I am wondering if the affinity boost is good enough compared to the faster charge time for Haste Rain. Anyone crunched the numbers on this? Current set is Heavy up, True shot up, Weakness exploit, Critboost, Challenger 1 (only heavy up 5 3 slot, no heavy up 6 3 slot atm.)

Wich GS does most damage to Fatty? And wich augments should I use?

I am trying to find a video that goes over the best combos with and without wire bugs, but most guide dont explain what combos to do or dont explain why certain strings are good for whatever opening.

If there is not a general use a resource on just insect glaive is fine aswell

For context, I've recently come back to monster hunter for the purpose of practicing for wilds, my old playstyle however involves me charging up my switch axe (my main weapon) and once the bar is full I just use the clutch claw grapple and spam the living hell out of ZSD for whichever part I already tenderized. Usually resulting in me having the most dps compared to the other guys in the party. Adding on to the fact that I've already unlocked health augments I'm effectively an exploding leech.

However I'm aware that the clutch claw isn't in other monster hunter games, so if I want to "warm up" for wilds do I just focus on the version where you just ZSD from the ground? or is there any form of grappling in wilds?

Hey, I am new addition to the Monster Hunter. Went through the whole base game of Worlds with Twin Blades (cause I enjoy mobility it provides and simple yet epic combat) And I wanted to try Light Bow Gun. I watched couple of tutorials on YouTube, yet the builds include some super-endgame gear and stuff, and I didnt want to spoil monsters for myself.

I've just entered Iceborne, and thus far I only tried Karma with spread shot 1 - while fun, I don't enjoy staying within one roll range from giant flailing monster. things that I really enjoyed the LBG for is wyvern shot. I guess what I am looking for is build that allows me to blow flying monsters out of the air and stun them, and/or also having a firerate of a mini-gun. Something like WH40K bolter fantasy.

Any suggestions? I'd be very thankful! :]

I'm trying to beat Master rank in world before wilds comes out and I'm not sure what guide I should follow i used to follow this one

https://youtu.be/Nev2BuWDBhk?si=oZ0_DUAbaFbjue8t

But i recently saw this https://mhwbowbuilds.wordpress.com/progression/

So I'm wondering how much of a damage loss I am facing with the Legiana or Nargacuga/barioth set vs the rathalos helm/armor odogareon vambrace/coil barroth greaves.

I don't have a mighty bow gem and my decorations are kinda bad in general I'm not HR 50 yet so I can't farm the greatest jag yet stuff.

So I've been slowly building on this over the past year or so. With that being said is this build trash or decent? How could I improve it? Also my other elemental builds are the same as this except swaping element damage and weapons.

https://imgur.com/a/OYMJzKN

I am playing wide Gunlance and i am going to use Safi Gunlances for the extra Zorah Magdaros Essence. I have already rolled some good safi gunlances (with Zorah Essence) and i am addicted to rolling more. In any case, the purpose is to slot Artillery Secret on the build, either with Zorah or Raging Brachy sets.

Option 1 - Safi Weapon (with Zorah Essence) - 2 piece Zorah armor:

• Which Zorah parts should i choose to build, the ones with artillery (zorah α+) or zorah β+? Keep in mind i do have the Artillery 3 Charm.
• Which parts to round up the armor pieces? Uragaan? (I do already have the Uragaan Mail β+ and Coil β+).
• In this scenario, i will use 2 Zorah armor pieces, 2 Uragan armor pieces, 1 safi weapon and i still have an armor to choose to round up the build. Which part is best to choose?
• Is it best to choose other armor sets (for 2/3 piece bonuses?) instead of Uragaan? Which ones?

Option 2 - Raging Brachy for Agitator and Artillery Secret

• I would need Guard Up jewel in order to counter the fact that i don't use Uragaan armor. Correct?
• What pieces to craft and what else to slot in in this case? Is this build better for R. Brachy lance?

On frostcraft build, why does it have crit eye 7 and agitator 7 ? I mean it is overcapped already by also having WEX 3, if im not mistaken its 40% + 20% agitator+ 50, if hit on weakness... Its okay to stop at 100% right? Or is there anything i dont understand?

I’m fighting safi and am spamming Zero-sum discharge and the final explosion is doing white damage.

Can I still break its head like that?

Hi.

I would like to Ask if theres 10 % to spawn monster in area 12 which can be crown, there is 6% for small and 10% for large size, its means i need to be lucky to have monster in area 12 for overall 10% spawn chance, AND from that area there is 6/10% for small/large size?

So its mean i should reroll quest for baggi to get him in area 12 THEN checking his size which odds are 6/10%? Is that correct way of understanding it?

Cheers for answers.

Charge blade main here who CANNOT wrap their head around the almudron fight at any level. I’m tired of bashing my head against this fight and would love some help with a mid game (MR4) almudron slayer weapon and armor set

Theres only one level 6 awakening to be equip, and on meta build gs thread its sharpness vi not attack, why is it? Right now i have atk vi and i have the option to replace it by sharpness vi.

Im talking about froscraft gs: ATK V ATK V SHRPNESS VI SHARPNESS V VELKHANA DIV

Greetings first time posting here.

So I have been experimenting with some possible meta builds that do not require fatalis but are still end game.

One of them I created was the following:

https://imgur.com/a/yzMlRIP (are links to images also not allowed?)

• The build in question contains the following:
  • Awakened Safi's Shatterclaws:
    • Abilities:
    • Augments:
  • Armor:
    • Safi Head B
    • Teostra Chest B
    • Teostra Hands B
    • Safi Coil B
    • Safi Boots B
    • Fury Charm V/Power Charm IV
  • Required minimum Skills:
    • Latent Power 5
    • Resentment 5
    • Handicraft 2 (purple sharpness)
    • Vitality 3
    • Critical Boost 3
    • NO MEDICINE! (unless you don't have health regen augment)

Now to give a bit more description what I noticed is that safi's set bonus damages the player, however it also totals the damage the player takes for the build up of latent power.
Not only that this is allows the player to relatively quickly benefit from latent power they can also start stacking it, building it up outside of combat.

The Last thing latent power is extremely good voor dual wield because it reduces stamina depletion by 50% perfect for demon mod.

Now for Resentment. The main reason resentment works in this build is because the amount of HP you regain from health regen augment on dual wields in general is just a bit under the amount of damage you take (on average (in this build)) Which makes it so that more often then not you are fighting with a tad bit of RED health meaning resentment is almost constantly active.

Another Thing Notice That I do not use expert skill? This is simply because safi's set bonus gives me a straight 20% affinity on draw, the augment and awakened afinity gives this weapon a default 25% and when latent power activates it gives another 50%!

Generally I thought this build had almost no downsides and actually did not relay on the monster beïng agitated to fully come to fruition. It's also a build that could easily be used for elemental builds. Seing safii gives extra elemental bonus.

Any thoughts?

TLDR; custom safi build for dual wields.

Hey there! Its my first time posting on this sub, so I apologize if this is too much of an early build. I was looking for a good Raw Lance build to grind MR100 as I just got to MR50.

I have a couple of Elemental Lance Build, probably more than suboptimal and Im still grinding a ton of Monsters for better gear.

I'd appreciate any help! Good hunting everyone