Hunting Journal

Finally back to the hunt! Started the day with three HR Barioth for the materials I needed to upgrade my Snow Sisters Ice duals into something useful in HR; as well as a Tundra Paw Pass quest to grab the Gracium. Half way through this, the Argosy came into port telling me about the Brachydios, which is cool 'cause I was just wondering about how to unlock his quest.

The Barioth hunts were rather uneventful, broke everything each run and capped them; though the last one was more difficult. I couldn't seem to hit its tail much at all, and my Archdemon bar kept depleting really quickly with all the dodging I was having to do. Used almost half my potions (both regular and mega) on that one, but eventually I got to his tail and capped him as well. Shortly after I found he was a silver crown Barioth; guess that might have had something to do with it.

The Paw Pass quest took forever cause of the damn Desire Sensor. Got just the amount of Gracium I needed (all 2 of them T_T) after burning 20 minutes and 4 mega pickaxes... Good thing you can buy those things now. There was also a Lagombi that kept following me around, being ridiculously annoying as I tried to mine what few nodes were respawning. Still, picked up a Fucium ore too, just the one mind you but from what I can tell Ima need a few of these later on.

With that, I finally got back and upgraded my Ice duals to within useable parameters. They're now stronger than my Dragon ones, albeit with less blue sharpness and lack of a slot, but I wasn't using the slot anyway and I have two sharpness related skills so that's fine.

Or so I thought. Apparently the blue sharpness only lasts for 2-3 combos before being dulled to green... Still. Seeing a LR Rathian in Free Hunt I thought it'd be the perfect time to try out the new duals and maybe get a sorely needed 4* commodity. Unfortunately, I killed it as soon as it started limping. Huh. There was also a Qurupeco in the area, so I turned on him as well. Similar story... Verrry nice. /dev/

On to Brachydios then. Now that was fun. Hard, but fun. His hand can take some serious punishment it seems; they were the last to break (I didn't know I was even hitting the head and that broke first) and even then I only got one of them. Took about 15 minutes and I carted once but I eventually wore him down and capped him. Definitely gonna be farming this guy, if only for the Slime Dual Swords.

Tried and failed to cap a Lagiacrus in free hunt, definitely gotten to the point where I can't wait for limping if I want to capture low rank monsters now, mah duals just put out too much damage. Still, even though I killed it I got the 2* commodity for it... Weird.

Took a rather long break then came back and hunted two more Brachydios... Not as fun as the first time. Very very infuriating actually. Second hunt took 35 minutes and I kept having to take breaks to go find Aptonoth for raw meats and to go back to the supply box for essentials. Not fun. Still, got just enough for Dios Slicers, and now I'm debating whether to try for the Gem I need to upgrade them again.

After those two stress filled hunts though, I decided to hunt a Jhen because can, (and partly for the Pelagicite ore from his back) after finding out that Jhen supposedly along with Ceadeus and the like take a lot of damage from Slime, as opposed to bird wyvern monsters and such. Wow. That was fun. I remember being almost scared of fighting Jhen back in Tri, as I'd seen many 4 man team failing to do it, but holy hell I felt like a god while doing this. Cracked both openings on his back MUCH faster than I thought I'd do it, AND destroyed both tusks. Evidently I also broke his legs too, I got a few Braces+ from the rewards at the end. Landed the first dragonator perfectly but didn't know the opening for the second in the final showdown, so that didn't do nearly as much damage as it could have. Still, after I couldn't collect anymore bombs for some reason, I took to just meleeing its legs; then after a few rounds decided to just attack the belly. Judging by the amount of attack lag I got from doing that, I imagine that's a pretty good idea; especially when your stamina is at its lowest with no recovery items. (herpaderp) The feeling you get when you make Jhen fall over just by slashing at it a bit is osserm; and then unloading combo after combo in its mouth, with the weakest hitzone possibly in the game feels even better. It was at the end of one of those combos that actually got me the kill; ten minutes before the end of the quest!

I think my MH3U feels guilty about those Brachydios quests from before; (I got desire sensor'd out of freakin' Raw Meat of all things; then burnt both because Area 11 of the volcano is hell to cook in if you rely on watching for the colour change of the meat) since during the body carves I got not one, but TWO Earth Dragongems in a goram row. YUS.

Too bad Jhen armour isn't what it used to be... :/

Nothing much of particular excitement today; just a bit of back-tracking to hunt two Nibelsnarf for their high rank claws, to upgrade the Plesioth water duals I made. Also saw a Brachydios in free hunt, carted three times before I was able to capture it... no commodity and no (much needed) gem. D:

Also took on a high rank Agnaktor to find the recipe for the Salamanders fire duals, to replace the Rath ones I have that aren't ageing well into higher ranked quests.

After that I went back to upgrading my water duals, taking on the Plesioth again, thrice in fact. Desire sensor is so awful... All I needed was 4 Fin+, it even went so far as to give me 2 wyvern stones in one hunt but only one fin+.

Got what I needed regardless, upgraded my duals to Plesioth Cutlasses+ then sighed heavily as I saw I need ANOTHER five Fin+ to upgrade again. Luckily though, it's doable at High Rank, just need the next village rank to unlock Glacial Agna and farm some of his stuff. Should make my Brach runs a little less painful once I get that. However, to make Glacial Agnaktor easier, I decided to work harder on the Fire duals. With that in mind, I set out on another Agna+ hunt.

This has happened a couple of times now, I start in the secret area (even though I didn't get Explorer) and I also forgot to bring Cool Drinks. I can't abandon and get some because I'm in the secret area and I've just gotten rustshards and various ores and armour stones. I have to run back to base, through the agnaktor, painting him on the way, then sit in the supply area til the spare drinks arrive.

However. It got to the ten minute mark and there were still no items being delivered, so I decided to screw it and restarted; capped the Agna and got quite a lot of rewards from it. With that, I called it a day and came off, too tired to even think as I finish this journal entry. T_T