Some of you may find this interesting some of you may not.

For those of you who don't know what the skill Fortify does, it increases your attack strength every time you fall in battle. I'm not saying I'm a noob and die a lot but I wanted to point this skill out. You can obtain this skill by getting the Hellhunter jacket and or Soulhunter jacket in event quests.

I got the Hell Hunter jacket about 3 months ago, never used it until I randomly stumbled upon yesterday on what it actually does by experimenting. I arranged an armor set, I'll display that momentarily if anyone wants to see it, with the skills of Attack up(L), Sharpness +1 and Fortify.

I went into free roam with Cha Cha with no attack bonuses other than the Attack up(L) skill from the armor set and had about 1108 attack if I recall with the Alatreon Metamorph(936). I went to the Rathian that was randomly flying around and let her kill me. I gained about 100 attack and roughly had over 1200 attack with purple sharpness. I let her kill me again and I had a total of 1318 Attack.

I thought it would be cool to see if it would increase again but I found out that the skill will not give any additional bonuses because in a normal quest you would fail unlike the free roam so it won't give any extra bonuses. I took no more than 8 smashes to the face and the Rathian was dead.

I now wonder what my attack would had been if I used a stronger weapon like Crimsonwall(1104), Gigas Hammer(1144) or Devil's Crush (P)(1040). I also would of liked to of seen what my attack would had been if I used a Megademon drug and had the skill Adrenaline +2. I justed wanted to throw this out there in case some of you rolled your eyes at this.

pointless i never fall in battle

IDEA :idea: noobs get fortify

and put those damm signature pics in a spoiler :P

use it to solo Jhen Mohran, or simply because the HellHunter Jacket looks fucking badass

Not to be a jerk, but this is old news to about 99% of us. That being said, hopefully it was informative for the other 1%.

In any event, fortify is really only useful in solo hunt or offline mode since you really have to faint/die/fall twice to make it all that useful and then hope that you (or the other members in your hunting party) don't get random combo-whombo'ed, which I think we can all admit, happens, even to the best of us, from time-to-time.

Generally, unless you have reached "K-god status" (i.e. you are either Kasumi or Kasuka or play as well or better than them), using fortify (or especially adrenaline) is risky and inconsiderate to your other party members.

P.S. Welcome back Zihark - haven't seen you post in a while.

It should be a x1.1 attack increase each cart. Applied separately.

I think BT forgot about Kanade as well.

I only have fortify because the pants match my jacket when I am wearing my adren+2, sharpness+1, AUL, fortify set.

Its nice when you accidentally get killed when using adrenaline but it takes just as long to cart twice on purpose than to just kill the monster. I would say adren +2 is way more useful and fortify is there for then you have a whoops.(or to solo Jhen)

Yeah like the others said its kinda pointless to use outside of solo'ing. The only reason I have survivor is because hellhunter jacket makes me look badass, and the 3 slots of hellhunter= torso up fun.

fuck dying, i'll solo jhen without fortify >: ) HIGH RANK JHEN