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      "body": "When I first picked up a copy of Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, I gave the game a shot without any previous knowledge or tutorials. I tried a handful of weapons, eventually landing on the Insect Glaive, and after bumbling my way through a few quests, I hit a wall and gave up. \n\nIt took a few months until I was reminded of the game again when looking for something to play with a friend. This time, I prepared. I read up and watched videos, and took the time to go through each individual weapon to find something I liked to play. I eventually landed on the greatsword, because of its simplicity and sheer killing power. But when I began to get bored of it, I decided to dabble with some of the more complicated weapons. \n\nIn MH4U, there are few melee weapons more complicated than the Charge Blade. It's an over-sized sword and shield, with the ability to morph into a giant double-sided axe, the shield serving as an axe-head. It's mechanic revolves around charging energy in the sword through attacks, then storing that energy into the shield, and using the axe mode to discharge said energy back into the monster. It's a fluid, cyclical weapon with outstanding damage potential and incredible defense, alongside a very high skill ceiling for beginning players. \n\nAfter a hundred hours and several hundred uses of the Charge Blade, it clicked with me. And nearly a thousand hours of gameplay later, not one of the other weapons in Monster Hunter gives me as much satisfaction to use effectively. \n\nBut therein lies the key. Efficiency. Without much of an explanation, the Charge Blade starts off as a clunky and needlessly complicated weapon. There's much to play with, but no clear sign of how, or when. Understanding the Charge Blade can turn you into a freakish killing machine, effectively stun-locking monsters and eviscerating them in minutes, in both MH4U and MHW. While the weapon has been made much stronger due to a simple change in mechanics, it still takes some skill to use effectively - and today, we'll go through all the ins and outs of using the Charge Blade. \n\n## Controlling the Charge Blade\n\n_For the sake of this guide, I'll refer to X (3DS)/Triangle (PS4) as the primary attack button, or attack 1, and A/Circle as the secondary attack button, or attack 2._\n\nThe Charge Blade starts off as a sword and shield. Hitting attack 1 thrice gives you the basic combo - two sword slashes, and a roundhouse slash. In-between every attack, hitting attack 1 and 2 at the same time gives you a shield bash. Holding attack 2 gives you a charged sword slash - your character slowly pulls the sword backward, and after a slight flash, letting go of attack 2 gives you the most sword charge in a single attack. \n\nWith the evade button, you can sidestep after every attack, positioning around the monster to evade attacks and continue slashing. However, you do have a shield. R2 is your block, and on its own, the shield's blocking power is akin to a greatsword. Once your sword glows red (your phials will glow red, too), hitting R2 and attack 2 simultaneously will store the sword's charge in your shield's phials. A red charge stores 5 phials. A yellow charge stores 3. Overcharging your sword will cause you to bounce, indicated by a glowing sword.\n\n![Monster Hunter_ World_20180312234104.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmX8NDUmLVrQAvvpaBnpnSVUWVxiCvEZspjLcWeM6vDv3F/Monster%20Hunter_%20World_20180312234104.jpg)\n\n![Monster Hunter_ World_20180312234125.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmNZi3EW5FV5vUGmGQWXXE8G7VxiNjVNPiSTch9XSpaFeX/Monster%20Hunter_%20World_20180312234125.jpg)\n\nIn theory, this is where you morph to axe mode and start discharging the energy in your phials. But this is inefficient. Never use an unboosted axe. \n\n### Red Shield\n\nInstead, while in sword and shield mode, give the air a whack with attack 1, then hit attack 1 and 2 simultaenously for a shield bash, then hit that combination again to go into an Amped Elemental Discharge. \n\nThat's: Attack 1 > Attack 1+2 > Attack 1+2\n\nYour AED is usually locked behind an axe combo, but this is the fastest way to get to it, and allows you to keep your phials. But instead of running its course, cancel the animation with R2. \n\nIt might take a few tries to get the button combination right, but after some time you should be able to cancel an Amped Elemental Discharge into an Elemental Roundhouse. Not only will this deal a little bit of phial damage (impact damage), but you will also use up all your stored phials to charge your shield. It's red now. This effect lasts 30 seconds per phial, for a total of two and a half minutes with five phials. \n\n![Monster Hunter_ World_20180312234257.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPX4zCNYpecMJKHY2pGmuHsVVmsg2h3aAN1R7ZJ3JTUEf/Monster%20Hunter_%20World_20180312234257.jpg)\n\nA red shield does several things for you. First, it improves your block significantly, bringing it up to par with a lance. Second, it changes your AED into an SAED, which is a slightly longer animation but deals a significant amount of damage, while dispersing all your phials in a single straight line. \n\n![Monster Hunter_ World_20180312234316.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmZwvuLDFMRmuRnskuk4X22QBCrhmAn5XgtHRFpX1qp6ib/Monster%20Hunter_%20World_20180312234316.jpg)\n\nTo reiterate. Now that you have a red shield, attack your target to recharge your sword. Use the prolonged attack 2, the charged sword slash. From there, store your charge in your shield as phials. Repeat the shortcut combo: \n\nAttack 1 > Attack 1+2 > Attack 1+2\n\nThis time, your sword and shield will morph directly into an SAED, discharging everything. In 4U, this uses up your red shield charge, making it an ineffective attack for general gameplay, usually only useful for waking up a sleeping target, or finishing off a monster close to death. For World, however, this would be your bread-and-butter, as SAEDs no longer consume your shield charge. \n\nYou can cancel an SAED in two ways. Hitting R2 at the start of the animation consumes your phials and reups your shield charge. Hitting attack 1 while pulling back on the analog stick (in the opposite direction of your hunter) will turn your SAED into an AED. This is invaluable in 4U, for keeping your red shield while making use of the Charge Blade's best attack. \n\n### Axe Mode\n\nAside from these finisher moves, the Charge Blade has other tools in its arsenal. While in sword and shield mode, hit guard and attack 1 to morph into axe mode. Attack 1 gives you a straightforward axe combo, relatively useless aside from checking your distance - for example, while in axe mode, you can hold the analog stick forward and hit attack 1 to do an overhead axe chop, allowing you to gauge the distance between yourself and the monster for an aimed finisher. \n\nAttack 2 lets you go into elemental discharge 1, then elemental discharge 2, and finally, the third hit is your AED/SAED. In 4U, this is a viable mode of attack, as it deals a decent amount of axe damage and KO damage while taking relatively little time. In World, the motion values for these axe attacks have been significantly nerfed, making it much better to simply stay in sword and shield mode until you're ready for a finisher. All phial attacks, including the ED combo, AED/SAED, elemental roundhouse (shield charge slash) and shield bash deal impact damage, and never bounce.\n\n### Positioning Tools\n\nIn 4U, positioning was limited to rolling in axe mode, and utilizing a sidestep + roundhouse slash after an attack. For example, you could use attack 1 + 2 from idle to do an advancing slash, then go into a shield bash, then sidestep to get to a better position, and hit attack 1 for a quick roundhouse. \n\nWorld greatly expands the mobility of the Charge Blade, namely with a single new attack in the form of a sliding slash. Moving the analog stick and hitting attack 2 repositions your character with a stylish slide-and-slash - this does pitiful damage, but allows you to easily slide away from a monster in order to get a better hit with a finisher. A common scenario is charging up on a downed monster with attack 2, using the sliding slash to get away from the head, storing your phials, then shield bashing into an SAED. The slide is just enough distance to typically get back in range with a shield bash to hit the monster's head with the axe during the SAED, for massive damage. \n\n### Guard Points\n\nOne constant within both games is the importance of taking proper advantage of the Charge Blade's guarding capabilities for offense. The shield is not there to block - it's there to counter. Any attack that deals minimal knockback can be countered with a number of things. Hitting attack 1 right after a blocked attack with minimal knockback will let you morph into axe mode. Hitting evade gives you a roll/sidestep. Hitting and holding attack 2 lets you combo into the charged slash. Hitting attack 1 and 2, however, lets you immediately combo into the SAED. This is how the Charge Blade counters attacks, by blocking and immediately launching into a finisher. \n\n![Monster Hunter_ World_20180312234408.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmZsteSQ9ra78XxHo3tQ2zMKRFbxirw5xaaMFqXTn52YHN/Monster%20Hunter_%20World_20180312234408.jpg)\n\nGuard Points allow you to effectively increase the guarding power of the Charge Blade, but unlike a regular block, they have a limited window. While most attacks deal some knockback even with a red shield, some deal a much more significant amount - a guard point allows you to mitigate a large amount of that knockback, thus creating more openings to counter. The Guard Point is simply guard + attack 1. The axe morph. The beginning of this animation causes your hunter to put their shield in front of them while sheathing their sword into it for the morph, creating a small guarding window. Once an attack connects with this guard, you can counter into a full morph with attack 1 or a finisher with attack 1 and 2. \n\nThere is another guard point at the end of the elemental roundslash, or whenever you morph back from axe mode into sword and shield. This is a longer guard window, but it's harder to time because it takes more foresight. \n\nIn MH4U, inputting the axe morph incorrectly will result in a different morphing animation without a guard point. To avoid this, set your kick button to start in the options menu, and use start to axe morph. This will result in a guaranteed guard point. Axe morphing after a sword slash always results in a guard point. \n\n### AEDs vs SAEDs\n\nBetween 4U and World, the primary difference is the addition of a change in how the shield charge works. In 4U, an SAED consumes the shield charge. In World, it does not. Thus, the gameplay changes significantly. \n\n4U Charge Blade users must prioritize using attacks as openings to guard point and AED on the head. Two consecutive AEDs cause a KO in most monsters, giving a large opening for more phial charging and extra damage, through the ED > AED combo. It's imperative to learn to guard point roars and charges, as these typically offer the greatest openings for an AED to the head. By moving the analog stick during the AED animation, you can minimally adjust how the AED will land. This is called headsniping. \n\nIn World, you only need to ensure that your axe lands on the monster during an SAED, and that preferably most of your phials hit the monster. Aiming for the head is no longer necessary, as most SAEDs cause a significant flinch or trip. That being said, it is a nice extra for some KO damage. AEDs still have their use, especially on smaller monsters like Kirin, where it is much more effective to concentrate axe and phial damage on the monster's head exclusively, and where its small size makes an SAED of more than three phials mostly useless. \n\n### Charged Sword\n\nWorld adds a new move to the Charge Blade's arsenal, allowing for more impact damage and natural mind's eye (no bouncing) on sword and shield mode. Holding attack 1 immediately after storing your phials while in red shield will charge your sword. You need a charged shield to charge your sword, and the effect lasts 30 seconds, taking 30 seconds away from your shield's charge. It's useful on monsters that cause tremendous bouncing (and on monsters with special armor mechanics, like Lavasioth/Kirin/Radobaan, but be mindful that you should focus on monster weakzones (that never bounce) anyway. \n\n![Monster Hunter_ World_20180312234420.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmcwXB5DEBxKh6oAWDkDZTxBNP7PdK4sVBeHXmUx4CioQJ/Monster%20Hunter_%20World_20180312234420.jpg)\n\n![Monster Hunter_ World_20180312234437.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmZNFBg6vmq6j5dtQCF59qEApDaWUS8NB9jxQQftM3ARcF/Monster%20Hunter_%20World_20180312234437.jpg)\n\n## Impact Phials vs. Element Phials \n\nCharge Blades come in two flavors: impact phials and element phials. In all games with this weapon (including Monster Hunter Generations), impact phial Charge Blades are superior. In World, this is more true than ever due to capped elemental damage values and the existence of several raw-boosting armor skills. Impact phials ignore hitzones, dealing a set amount of damage dependant on a weapon's total raw, the Felyne Bombardier food skill and the Artillery armor skill. Affinity and sharpness are ignored. \n\nPhials deal about 40-50% of an SAED's total attack, making them incredibly significant, and making raw the single most important thing in choosing a Charge Blade. This is why the Akantor Severance is best in most situations in 4U, losing out to the Ceadeus Regalia only against monsters with water weakness. In World, the Diablos Tyrannis II is the best Charge Blade, despite negative affinity and very little blue sharpness. \n\nThere are times when an element phial Charge Blade can be viable, but these times are hard to come by. Element phials are more effective in 4U, specifically against larger monsters with high elemental weaknesses, like Ukanlos, Akantor, Gravios and Basarios. With perfect play and a very specific build, an element phial Charge Blade can tear through other monsters with weak hitzones. But the versatility of impact phials makes them better in most cases, while the Diablos Charge Blade is flat-out unchallenged in World. That being said, an elemental SAED is quite the sight.\n\n![Monster Hunter_ World_20180312234541.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmdisQinswjdjGs1yruduejPReV4u9qjyAAqvCwYhsJ2YJ/Monster%20Hunter_%20World_20180312234541.jpg)\n\n## Using a Charge Blade in Solo Play\n\nThe Charge Blade revolves around quickly getting a red shield, then unloading phials. In both games, it's best to aim for the head as it is the most common weakzone, but the importance of headsniping is greater in 4U. Guard points are a key in solo play, as is learning a monster's behavior - sometimes, you need to know when to guard point twice in quick succession due to an attack combo, rather than guarding once, then getting caught in the middle of your counter. \n\nA good example is Diablos' zig zag in World. It always attacks twice, in two diagonal patterns. It's important to get close enough to block the first hit, then block the second. The knockback is enough to give you a clean shot on the head. \n\nTail swipes are another great opening, especially for Rathalos, Rathian, Pukei-Pukei and Paolumu. Roars from all monsters give you a free counter, but some require at least Guard 1/Guard +1 to effectively punish. All Tigrex variants in MH4U require Guard +2 for effective Charge Blade play. Brachydios requires Guard +2 for his headon attacks, which always give a clean opening for an AED to the head. \n\nPay attention to your shield. Once it starts glowing yellow, it's time to recharge before you lose charge. Always keep your shield charged. \n\nEverything else is a matter of practice. Start by getting your shield charge and phials, then find your openings to counterattack. Know when you can counter, and when to not be greedy. Make mistakes, learn from them, and improve. \n\n## Charge Blade Armor Skills\n\nDue to its versatility and guarding power, most evasion skills are useless on the Charge Blade. There are very few exceptions - Evade Extender is useful on monsters with wide hitboxes and instant charges, where guarding reveals no openings, like GQ Teostra, while Tremor Res becomes invaluable for GQ Rajang and Deviljho - but in general, the defensive capabilities of the Charge Blade means you can go for full offense while ignoring evasion skills, tremor resistance, and earplugs, in exchange for using tremors, roars and attacks as opportunities to guard and attack. \n\nPhial damage means affinity means less for the Charge Blade than most other weapons, and even in MH4U, the only time Razor Sharp is truly valuable is against monsters with aggressive charging patterns and constant heavy roaring, like Tigrex and Diablos. \n\nBelow are a few important armor skills, giving you an idea of what to build for a Charge Blade, what skills to prioritize, and why. \n\n## MH4U\n\nSkill | Description | Priority\n------------ | ------------- | -----------\nArtillery Novice | Increases phial power. Cheap skill. | High\nSharpness +1 | Increases sharpness. | High\nHoned Blade | Increases sharpness and raw. | High\nChallenger +2 | Massively increases raw and affinity when monster is enraged. | High\nWeakness Exploit | Decreases weakzone defense. | High\nAttack Up (S/M/L/XL) | Increases weapon raw. | Medium\nGuard +2 | Reduces knockback, useful for Tigrex and Brachydios. | Low\nRazor Sharp | Halves the rate at which sharpness drops. Useful for guarding. | Low\nLoad Up | Gives you an extra phial, useful for SAEDs. | Low\nGuard Boost | Lets you guard beams and previously unguardable attacks. | Low\nTremor Res | Cancels tremors. Useful for Rajang. | Low\nEarplugs | Cancels roars. HG Earplugs for greater roars. | Low\nEvade Extender | Useful for Lv. 140 Teostra, instant charges and novas. | Low\nFocus | Charges phials faster. | Low\n\n### Artillery\nArtillery is a 10, 15 and 20 point skill, that begins with Artillery Novice. The reason this skill is so important is because it is incredibly cheap, and you should never invest more than 10 points into it. This is because the Charge Blade has a cap for phial damage, which is reached by combining Artillery Novice with the food skill Felyne Bombardier, which can easily be applied on every quest in the end-game without much RNG. \n### Handicraft/Edgemaster\nDepending on where you are in the game and what Charge Blade you use, there are very few skills that give as much of a boost as Sharpness +1. Armor pieces, charms and jewels with Handicraft are thus very valuable, because while sharpness does not affect your phials, it does affect everything else, including the axe chop. A jump from green to blue is a change from 1.05 damage to 1.2, and white is even more significant, at 1.32. Going from white to purple is 1.44. Edgemaster, while only accessible in late High Rank and late G-Rank, is Sharpness +1 and Attack Up (L) (20 extra true raw) rolled together. \n### Challenger\nWith a 15 point investment, Challenger +2 is more expensive than most of the other skills on this list, but gives you a whopping 25 extra raw and 20% affinity once a monster is enraged. Once you're comfortable with a monster's enraged state, this skill gives you a massive amount of extra damage for a lower skill point investment than Attack Up or Critical Eye. \n### Weakness Exploit\nWeakness Exploit in 4U adds an additional 5 points to a weakzone over 45, essentially increasing your attack by 5% on a weakzone of 45, and a diminishing percentage the higher the weakzone. Weakness Exploit is useful on all monsters with a weakzone under 60, especially if you're prone to hitting the head. Some monsters with weakzones over 60 or just under 45 cannot make good use of Weakness Exploit. \n\nThis is especially useful when deciding whether to take Attack Up L or Weakness Exploit, or deciding between a build with Sharpness +1 and Weakness Exploit, or just Honed Blade (Edgemaster). On monsters like Rajang, Weakness Exploit offers an immense damage boost. On monsters like Tigrex with a very high weakzone on the head and hitzones under 45 on the rest of its body, WE is not as useful. Same goes for Deviljho, which has small weakzones. Here's [a chart](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2VuMyfpCIiucXlSeFY3TWg1U0k/view) to help you decide. \n### Attack\nAttack in 4U is a skill with a 10, 15, 20 and 25 point investment, giving you AuS, AuM, AuL and AuXL respectively. Because it takes so many points, it's not worth prioritizing unless you've got Challenger, Artillery and Handicraft on your set already, and you can't make better use of Weakness Exploit. \n### Guard\nIt's important to make a dedicated Guard +2 set for select monsters, particularly all Tigrexes and Brachydios. This gives you the ability to block any and all roars and headon attacks without significant knockback, assuming red shield and a guard point. \n### Optional Skills\nTremor Res, Earplugs, Evade Extender and Focus all have their uses, depending on the matchup. Tremor Res is useful on Rajang, allowing you to punish his attacks with a very narrow dodge without having to time it perfectly. It is less useful on Deviljho, but can save you from a few dire situations in Guild Quests. Evade Extender is mandatory for Guild Quest Teostra, and can be useful for getting out of geysers when fighting G-rank Shagaru Magala. Focus is great on an Apex Zinogre set, alongside Load Up, because spamming SAEDs is the best way to knock it out of Apex and Charged states. \n### Element Skills\nThe basic elemental set in 4U is Sharpness +1/Honed Blade, Elemental Atk Up, (Element) Up +1/+2/+3, and Load Up. The strategy is to get a red shield and six phials and immediately unload them into the monster, one SAED after the other. The extent to which you can build the set above depends on your charms. \n## MHW\n\nSkill | Description | Priority\n------------ | ------------- | -----------\nArtillery (3) | Increases phial power by up to 30%. | High\nCapacity Boost (1) | Gives an extra phial. | High\nNon-Elemental Boost (1) | Increases raw of non-elemental weapons by 10%. | High\nWeakness Exploit (3) | Increases weapon affinity by 50% when hitting weakzones. | High\nAttack Boost (7) | Increases weapon raw. | High\nFocus (3) | Charges phials faster. | High\nHandicraft (5) | Increases sharpness. | Low\nAgitator (5) | Increases raw and affinity when monster is enraged. | Medium\nGuard (5) | Reduces knockback. Useful for some roars. | Low\nEarplugs (5) | Cancels roars. | Low\nFlinch Free (3) | Reduces your character's flinches. Useful for multiplayer. | Low\nMaximum Might (3) | Increases affinity at full stamina by up to 30%. | Low\nProtective Polish (1) | No sharpness loss for a limited time. | Low\nSlugger (3) | Increases KO power by up to 30%. | Low\n\n### Artillery\nSkills work very differently in World - instead of requiring a set number of points to activate, any point in a skill gives you some effect, while hitting the cap is possible with certain armor, deco and charm combinations. In terms of effectiveness, Artillery is arguably your cheapest and most important skill. Until you get three artillery decorations, utilize the Artillery Charm III. \n### Capacity Boost\nThis is World's equivalent of Load Up, giving you an extra phial and an extra 20% damage on the phial portion of your SAEDs. The cheapest way to get this is the Dodogama Greaves, but a magazine jewel (if you're lucky enough to have one) is just as good. \n### Non-Elemental Boost\nA flat-out 10% extra true raw before all other calculations for the cost of one skill point is slightly broken, but too good to pass up. This is just as important as Artillery, but nowhere near as cheap at first. Wait until you get an elementless jewel, rather than utiziling Diablos armor for the set bonus. \n### Weakness Exploit\nIncreases your weapon's affinity by 50% when hitting a weakzone. This allows you to instantly and quickly eliminate the Diablos CB's low affinity. When combined with Attack Boost 4+, you're effectively getting 25% affinity whenever you attack a weakzone. With the Affinity Booster present, that increases to 75%. Maximum Might and Agitator further increase that number - two levels in Maximum Might bring your affinity up to almost 100% for a solid minute. \n### Attack Boost\nThis is an easy pick for Charge Blade due to the usefulness of raw damage in boosting both general damage and phial damage. However, you don't have to max out on it, unless you've got your other skills maxed out. A minimum of 4 points to unlock the 5% bonus affinity can make a big difference. \n### Focus\nThis is a skill that does not seem to affect your sword's charging rate much, but you'll notice it allow you to cycle to SAEDs much quicker over the course of a hunt. Think of it as an accumulative bonus. This skill requires you to know how to efficiently and quickly drop SAEDs on the monster, otherwise, you might find yourself wasting it by charging phials faster than you can use them. \n### Handicraft\nHandicraft 4 is required to get the Diablos Charge Blade to white sharpness, but keeping that requires a Protective Polish jewel - which, even if you have it, oftentimes means dropping a magazine or elementless jewel. It's typically not worth it, despite the extra damage you get by staying in white sharpness. Opt for a quick Handicraft 2 from the Death Stench Boots instead, once you have a magazine jewel to replace the Dodogama legs. That should allow you to stay in blue sharpness for the majority of any hunt. \n### Agitator\nAn easy pick for early sets, Agitator maxes out at 5 but is usually much easier to fit in at 2 utilizing the Nergigante Arms. This is MHW's equivalent of Challenger +2, giving you extra raw and affinity whenever a monster is enraged. \n### Optional Skills\nGuard 1, Earplugs 5, Flinch Free, Maximum Might, Protective Polish. These are just a few skills that have room in a Charge Blade's arsenal. Due to the removal of the charm system and a revamp of how armor skills work, you can fit a lot more skills and play around with sets to suit different purposes and monsters. For example, Capacity Boost is useless against smaller monsters like Kirin, or monsters that are tricky to pin down length-wise like Odogaron. You are better off going for more sharpness, or more KO through Slugger 3. If you have trouble blocking certain roars, Earplugs can be a wise investment, and if online play gets too chaotic for you, then Flinch Free keeps you from tripping due to Dual Blade or Longsword users. There are lots of monsters and many ways to hunt them - play around with your decorations and see what you can build. \n## Using a Charge Blade Online\nIn both 4U and World, a lot of the magic of efficient, stylish Charge Blade play is lost because of erratic and unpredictable monster behavior. This, combined with burst damage, makes the Charge Blade less useful, unless in teams capable of efficiently stun-locking a monster with paralysis, mounting and KO damage. \n\nYou can still be of great use to a team by being more conservative with your play, keeping SAEDs for sure knockdowns or certain monster attacks with long recovery (after Rathian's tail flip, or during Teostra's tail swipes for example). Be mindful of where you aim your bursts. In 4U, your job is to apply as many AEDs to the head as possible, to get at least two or three KOs, thus creating windows for a crapton of extra damage. \n\nWhen playing with a Greatsword user, let them wake the monster up. 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      "body": "The core gameplay of Monster Hunter, regardless of what iteration of the series you're playing, is the act of hunting powerful monsters. You go in all geared up and decked out, and go ham. \n\nhttps://i.imgur.com/I4I46bn.jpg\n\nTo simplify any guide written for Monster Hunter's complex combat, simply refer to the two tenets of skilled MonHun gameplay:\n\n1. hit things until they die \n2. don't get hit\n\nAnd that, ladies and gentlemen, is all there is to it. \n\nOf course, it's not quite that simple. Monster Hunter: World is the latest in a series of modern video games built around challenging and satisfying gameplay - it's not about creating artificial challenge through inflated health values and low player damage, or through paywalls and microtransactions. In Monster Hunter, the game has a simple and fair premise, gives you the tools to succeed, and forces you to rely entirely on your skill as a player to complete the objective, and improve in the long-run. \n\nHalf the fun in Monster Hunter is beating a monster that was giving you hell - and it is often those moments that turn a frustrated, alienated player into a new life-long fan. \n\nBut where many find fun in going toe-to-toe against monsters again and again, some of us are compulsive nerds who need to pick apart a game's every mechanic until we turn on our consoles and see the inner workings of the game with our third eye. If you are a fellow minmaxer (someone who wants maximum performance gear-wise), then strap in, because this is the guide you were looking for. Today, we'll discuss how damage works in Monster Hunter, and how you can calculate and compare builds for maximum DPS. \n\n## What Is Attack Power and True Raw?\nWhen you check your equipment info in-game, you will see that you've got an attack power indicated on your general hunter info screen, next to your affinity, health, stamina, defense and elemental resistances. This is your displayed raw. Raw indicates \"raw damage\", disregarding affinity or elemental/status damage, which is calculated after the raw attack power of your weapon. \n\n![Fq74cLhg.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmWXW81fK8DvKkawEe6zBsG3PaPeX9N9qhzxFUeoxR8oZ8/Fq74cLhg.png)\n\nHowever, your displayed attack power - in your equipment screen - already takes into account several different things. We need to dig deeper to the basics of Monster Hunter damage values - and for that, we need to understand what true raw is. \n\nEvery weapon in the game has a true raw value, and in the end-game of Monster Hunter World this typically ranges from 180 to 230. G-rank weapons go even higher with their true raw, but are absent in this game. When you go to craft a hammer, the number you see in the Attack Value slot is the weapon's true raw modified by its weapon modifier. These bloated attack numbers honestly just complicate things, but they do a good job of indicating the overall speed of a weapon - weapons with bigger numbers tend to have slower swing speeds, while weapons that hit very quickly and very often have smaller Attack Values. That is a consequence of their respective weapon modifiers. \n\nWhen calculating between different options of a single weapon type (choosing between hammer A and hammer B), you can basically leave weapon modifiers out of the equation. Instead, take the weapon's true raw and any raw modifiers. \n\nRaw modifiers come in the form of armor skills, items, kitchen buffs and horn buffs. We'll take the Diablos Shatterer II as an example here. It is a hammer with 230 true raw and -25% affinity.\n\n### Armor Skills\n\nIf your armor skills include Attack Boost 6 and Agitator 5 (a common duo in hammer mixed sets), then you have a total additional raw of 38 (18 from Attack, 20 from Agitator) when a monster is enraged, which is common. This boosts your weapon's true raw to 268. \n\nOther armor skills affect raw as well. Here are a few, not counting the two mentioned above: \nArmor Skill | Effect\n-------------------------|------------------------------------------------------\nPeak Performance | 3 Levels. Adds 20 true raw to your weapon if your health is full. \nHeroics | 5 Levels. Activates when your health is low, takes your weapon's true raw and adds a total 30% - a huge boost. \nFortify | 1 Level. Adds 10% after two faints. \nNon-Elemental Boost | 1 Level. Adds another 10% for weapons without active status/element (includes unawakened weapons).\nResentment | 5 Levels. Adds up to 25 true raw whenever you take damage and are still recovering with red HP. \n\n### Food and Item Buffs\n\nGiven Attack 6 and Agitator 5, factor in the Attack Up kitchen skill (5/10/15 raw), and a few booster items, you can take the Diablos hammer and pump its raw up to a relatively consistent 310. Here are the item buffs that stack: \n- Might Seed (lasts 3 minutes, adds 10 raw)\n- Might Pill (lasts 20 seconds, adds 20 raw)\n- Mega Demondrug (lasts until fainting, adds 7 raw)\n- Demon Powder (lasts three minutes, adds 10 raw)\n\nThe Might Pill is highly situational due to its low duration, but allows you to get that raw up to 330 for a short time. However, raw alone is not the key to victory. \n\n## Affinity And Why It Matters\nAffinity is basically a weapon's crit chance. However, critical hits are not as important in Monster Hunter as they may be in many other games. A [crit](https://mhworld.kiranico.com/guide/damage#critical-hit) in Monster Hunter takes your raw damage and multiplies it by 1.25. A negative crit (for negative affinity) deals x0.75 damage.\n\nhttps://mhworld.kiranico.com/storage/assets/guide/images/combat_critical_hit.png\n_Credits to Kiranico_\n\nBecause it's a percentage chance to get a crit (for example, 20% affinity represents a 20% chance to hit 25% harder), there is a formula for calculating crit and true raw to get to calculated raw. The formula is: \n\n> True Raw x (1 + 0.Affinity x (25/100)) = Calculated Raw\n\nCritical Boost modifies crit damage, changing it to 1.30, 1.35, and 1.40 for each level. If your set uses Critical Boost, simply replace 25/100 with your critical hit damage (i.e. 40/100). If you're not using Critical Boost, you can further simplify this for easy usage: \n\n> True Raw x (1 + 0.Affinity x 0.25) = Calculated Raw\n\nNegative raw works much the same way - simply amend your formula. For example, the Diablos Shatterer II without any armor skills, augmentations or buff items would have a calculated raw of: \n\n> 230 x (1 - 0.25 x 0.25) = 215\n\nBut for our Diablos hammer build, assuming we're using our buffs and taking into consideration our armor, we're looking at 310 raw and 10% affinity (due to Agitator 5, and two Affinity [augmentations](https://mhworld.kiranico.com/guide/augmentation) adding 20% affinity): \n\n> 310 x (1 + 0.10 x 0.25) = 317 \n\nAlways round down. But what if we add Weakness Exploit into the mix? It's another very common armor skill for damage, and assuming we're hitting heads here (which we should be doing), we effectively have 50 extra affinity. Thus: \n\n> 310 x (1 + 0.60 x 0.25) = 356\n\nThis isn't how much damage we're doing on a crit, rather, it's an approximation of how much damage we're doing in general/on average. You can take the formula and adapt it for yourself. Throw in Critical Eye for more affinity, or Critical Boost to change 1.25 to higher, better values. \n\nBut of course, we're not done. What do we do with this calculated raw? We determine the weapon's sharpness. \n\n## Sharpness Modifiers\n\nSharpness modifiers are the extra damage a weapon deals when in a certain level of sharpness. The modifiers are as follows: \n\n![mspaint_2018-02-22_17-12-51.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmQmKDb982dy95muQoq8NU3hXPGCAm32CbiXgaEY8Tcx5W/mspaint_2018-02-22_17-12-51.png)\n_Credits to Kiranico_\n\nBecause of the jump from blue to white (1.2 to 1.32) it's easy to see why some weapons with decent raw but amazing white sharpness outperform weapons with high raw but low sharpness.Similarly, hitting yellow is such a steep drop (35%) that it must be avoided at all costs. Higher sharpness also prevents bouncing from some monster hides, making it doubly useful. Sharpness modifiers are typically thrown in before affinity, but the end result is the same. You can easily test this (always round down). \n\n> 310 x (1 + 0.60 x 0.25) x 1.2 = 427\n> 310 x 1.2 x (1 + 0.60 x 0.25) = 427\n\nOur Diablos Shatterer II has blue sharpness. However, there are builds that allow you to sacrifice raw for massively improved sharpness. For example, by combining a Handicraft Charm III with the Kushala Alpha mail and Xeno'Jiiva gear, you can attain Handicraft 5 and the Razor Sharp effect from Xeno'Jiiva' set bonus, consistently giving you white sharpness at the cost of raw from Attack Boost and Agitator. Do your own calculations to see if the sharpness to raw tradeoff is worth it for you. \n\n## Weapon Modifiers and Motion Values\n\nOnce we have our calculated raw, including raw boosts, affinity, and sharpness. This is all you need when comparing options within weapon types. It's not possible to compare between weapons, because of the variables in performance and DPS, but using the formulas above you can decide which hammer to take with you, and which set to craft for it. \n\nBut what if you want to know how much damage you can deal in a single hit? It's time to take into consideration three crucial things: weapon modifiers, damage types, and motion values. \n\nWeapon modifiers are the cause of bloated attack values, as mentioned previously. Aside from giving you a sense of how \"big\" the weapon is, they don't do much. An attack's actual power is determined by its motion value. The bigger the motion value, the more powerful the attack. Weapons like hammers have on average much higher motion values than weapons like dual blades, but they still have some attacks with far greater motion values than others. For example, the motion value for the last hit in the hammer's Big Bang combo has a much larger motion value than the rest of the combo. \n\nWhen calculating the damage of a specific hit, rather than the weapon itself, the motion value is the first thing you take into consideration after raw, affinity and sharpness. It's a simple modifier - a motion value of 40 means 40% of your total calculated attack. \n\n## Hitzones\n\nSo we've got attack power and motion values down - what's next? Hitzones. Hitzones are where the monster actually comes into play - they determine the amount of damage you're actually landing, and subtracting off the monster's hidden HP value. Hitzones above 45 are considered weakzones - hitting these activates Weakness Exploit, giving you an additional 50% affinity. Much like motion values, hitzones are modifiers - a hitzone of 50 means 50% of your attack is landing. \n\nThis is where damage types also come into play. Hitzones change depending on the damage type you use to hit that hitzone. Rathalos' head has a cutting hitzone of 50, but an impact hitzone of 70. In other words, he hates hammers. If you're gunning, his head also has a hitzone of 50. \n\nSo say you hit a crit with 310 raw and blue sharpness hammer, on a 91 MV move (final hit of the stationary power charge combo) on Rathalos' head (70 hitzone for impact damage). That's: \n\n> 310 x 1.2 x 0.91 x 0.70 = 236\n\n## Elemental & Status Weapons\n\nI'm predominantly a hammer and charge blade user, so when it comes to elemental weaponry, I basically don't care much at all given the usefulness of the Non-Elemental Boost skill. But other people do care - so it's important to educate them on how to calc for elemental damage. \n\nMuch like how different damage types get different hitzones, elemental damage is also hitzone-dependent. For an elemental blademaster weapon, you'll want to calculate your elemental damage and raw damage separately. Keep in mind everything I've written about raw damage, and now create a separate calc for the elemental damage to add the two. Only faster weapons are viable for both elemental and status application, as these are per hit, and motion values do not matter. \n\nFirst, refer to the sharpness modifiers above. Then, take your weapon's elemental damage number, multiply it by the sharpness modifier, and check the monster's elemental weakzone. \n\nRathalos' head has a dragon weakness of 25. We'll take the Enduring Schism as an example, with 270 Dragon element and 140 true raw. We know how to calc for raw. But what about elemental? \n\n270 Dragon actually translates to 27. Elemental attacks land 33% of the time. Assuming you do not crit, that's 27 damage dealt to a hitzone of 25 - so a quarter of that damage applies. Rounded down, taking blue sharpness into account, that is 7 extra damage for every third hit on average. Because of this, it is not strictly a good idea to focus entirely on elemental damage when picking dual blades. Choose something middle-of-the-road, like Nergigante's dual blades, or Xeno'Jiivas. \n\nStatus damage works differently. Status damage again only deals 10% of the displayed status stat, and this still happens only 33% of the time, but hitzones do not matter. A status weapon will deal status no matter where it hits, and this status builds up until a monster's initial threshold is reached. Then, it falls asleep/gets paralyzed/is poisoned. \n\nWhen the status wears off, the threshold is increased slightly, until it reaches a maximum. This makes it harder and harder to achieve the next instance of poison/sleep/paralysis. \n\n## Fixed Damage\n\nSome weapons deal additional fixed damage. This is damage dealt regardless of hitzones, affinity or sharpness. The two most note-worthy weapons with fixed damage are the charge blade and the gunlance. Both weapons have explosive phials that can be made more powerful through the Artillery skill, which increases shelling/impact phial damage by 30% at Level 3. Like elemental damage, this can simply be added onto the attack itself. \n\nFor example, an SAED has a massive motion value in the axe strike, alongside 1-6 phial explosions based on the weapon's raw, Artillery, and how many phials are loaded into the blade (Capacity Boost skill adds an additional phial). The same goes for the gunlance's full-burst, which unloads the entire magazine. Additionally, a charge blade's phial damage is tied to the weapon's raw, rather than being truly \"fixed\"\n\n## Do You Like Big Numbers? \n\nThis is a lot of technical information, but it helps when comparing weapons and testing sets. Maybe you'd like to swap out your Tenderizer jewel for that Attack jewel you just got. But is the jump from 18 raw and 5% affinity to 21 raw and 5% affinity worth the drop from 50% affinity to 30% affinity? Is it better to prioritize white sharpness on a heavy-hitting Diablos weapon, or stack raw? Give it a go and see what you come up with.",
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      "body": "One of the more complicated mechanics introduced early in Monster Hunter: World is the ability to capture monsters instead of slaying them. Any monster can be captured in any mission, as long as that monster is not an Elder Dragon, and the mission objective is to hunt/capture the monster, rather than explicitly slay it. \n\nThere are two components to a successful capture: trapping the monster and tranquilizing the monster. But the tricky part comes from knowing exactly when to trap a monster, where to trap it, and how to capture it. \n\n## All About Traps\n\nThere are two traps in the game: the shock trap and the pitfall trap. A hunter can carry one of each at a time, together with any traps that the guild provides on missions (these are prefixed with EZ, i.e. EZ Shock Trap, and are available from the supply box during certain quests). Shock traps and pitfall traps currently work for any non-Elder Dragon monster, although there were exceptions in the past. While shock traps temporarily paralyze a monster, pitfall traps trap them in a hole, often obscuring the monster's tail, giving you slightly more time to tranquilize them/attack them, but hiding the lower portion of their body. \n\n![Monster Hunter_ World_20180216215930 trap .jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmYCdY7Zi4GWhptfAht1YeX1qHmeytj1uyfZ5gma5DTyLn/Monster%20Hunter_%20World_20180216215930%20trap%20.jpg)\n\nShock traps are crafted with trap tools (available from the provisions market in Astera early on), and thunderbugs, which can easily be found in every map in the game. They can also be requisitioned from the botanists in Astera, harvested from the Ancient Tree sapling (unlocked through story quests). \n\nPitfall traps are crafted through a combination of trap tools and nets. Nets are made with spider webs and ivy, both of which can be found in the Ancient Forest and Wildspire Waste. Spider webs are hidden in small passageways throughout various maps, close to a vapornid (giant yellow spiders). Capture the vapornid with your capture net to add it to your collection of pets, and harvest the sticky web behind it. Ivy can be found hanging nearby the ivy hunters use to climb up walls. It's easily found around the Ancient Forest camp near the Rathalos nest. \n\nTraps are not just useful for capturing. Like status effects such as sleep and paralysis, they give you a small window to deal more damage to the monster by keeping them immobilized. However, traps lose effectiveness the more you use them, and you can usually only hold 4 at a time (One pre-made shock trap, one pre-made pitfall trap, and two trap tools with materials to craft more traps). If you have a four-man team, that makes for a total of sixteen traps, easily allowing you to completely immobilize a monster for most of the hunt in combination with status weapons and bombs. \n\nGiven the massive material cost and the inability to trap the game's most challenging monsters (elder dragons), it's typically not worth the trouble. Do keep in mind, however, that if you're having a lot of trouble with a certain monster, you have the option of trapping it a few times. \n\n## Tranq Bombs\n\nSo, you've laid down your trap, ensnared the monster/paralyzed it, and now it's time to actually get it to go to sleep. But wait - where are your tranq bombs? \n\n![Monster Hunter_ World_20180216221042 tranq bomb.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmUx1wVC9Hw6KQp3GL87UPh26nMdREDKqTfUdhni8bCAFW/Monster%20Hunter_%20World_20180216221042%20tranq%20bomb.jpg)\n\nTranq bombs are provided in every capture hunt as EZ Tranq Bombs in the supply box, but can also be crafted if you ever want to trap a monster in regular hunts. They're made from sleep herbs and parashrooms, both of which are available in the Ancient Forest and in the Wildspire Waste. Simply keep a look-out for them, especially near Pukei-Pukei's hideout, and on the way up to Rathalos' nest. You need to hit a monster with two tranq bombs to trigger the capture. Not one, not three or more. Just two. \n\nThe final touch to capturing a monster is making sure it's ready to be captured. You cannot just jump into a quest, lay down a trap, and slam a few tranq bombs. First, you have to prepare the monster - with a massive beating. \n\nA monster's health value is hidden in Monster Hunter, but you can tell how far along a hunt you are by the frequency of a monster's enraged state, their exhaustion, and limping. A monster will hurriedly limp away from you when it has reached a critical health state - checking your minimap when a monster isn't enraged will show you a little skull over their minimap icon to indicate that they are ready for capture. In previous games, you had to equip a special armor skill to make this blatantly visible, or simply slow down your assault and give the AI the option to snap out of rage and go on to limping. \n\n![Monster Hunter_ World_20180216220955 death icon.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXYvqqf4f6ZkGe3gwkHr5jqJhH9YJfCyjm4s7hA5dVag3/Monster%20Hunter_%20World_20180216220955%20death%20icon.jpg)\n\nA safe way to ensure a capture is to follow a limping monster back to its lair, where it will go to sleep, allowing you to trap it and throw down your tranqs. \n\n## The Order Doesn't Matter\n\nThe one thing about trapping new hunters are guaranteed not to know is that the monster needs to be trapped, tranqed, and limping - but not necessarily in that order. \n\nFor example, you can tranq a monster towards the end of a fight, if you feel like they are getting close to limping, and then proceed to lure them into a trap. If their HP has already been lowered enough without them trying to get away, they might immediately get captured upon hitting the trap. Otherwise, this gives you the opportunity to wail at them with your biggest attacks for a few seconds, potentially hitting that HP threshold that tips the scales and gets them captured. \n\n![Monster Hunter_ World_20180214221805 capture master.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmZvQWXhdB7oq7eJUB38KPBXRV9tuYj5fNce4JEDc7ai1w/Monster%20Hunter_%20World_20180214221805%20capture%20master.jpg)\n\nFight the monster. Get close to them and tranq them twice. Get them in a trap, and unleash your biggest damage-dealing combo. Soon, you'll be a capture master. \n\n## Don't Go Ham\n\nNothing is worse than being on a capture quest, and then accidentally killing the monster. 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      "body": "Monster Hunter games are packed with gameplay, and there's a ton to do besides hunting - especially in [World](https://steemit.com/monsterhunter/@jamthewriter/what-is-monster-hunter), with its extremely rich flora and fauna. But the bread-and-butter of these games is the hunt. Getting used to hunting in Monster Hunter takes a little time, especially because of the game's unique combat and refined hunting system. \n\nTo summarize hunting, you're sent after a monster into a map, tasked to comb it area by area until you come across the monster, and then your job is to deal enough damage to the monster to kill it/capture it, in order to fulfill your mission. \n\nIt sounds simple enough, but there's a lot to consider and a lot to learn if you want to get good enough to unlock the more difficult challenges and more interesting monsters the game has to offer. Before we get into the hunt itself, it's important to talk about progression. \n\nIn MH:W, there are two experiences. The first is Low Rank, a series of monsters and miscellaneous quests designed to get you acquainted to the game, its mechanics, and the act of tracking and hunting monsters with all the tools the game has to offer. \n\nhttp://game.capcom.com/manual/MHW/locale/en/img/page/42_4_2.jpg\n\nThe second is High Rank. This is where the game proper begins, as you're pitted against tougher foes, many familiar monsters (with upgraded stats and a wider movepool), and a more complex list of gear choices and considerations. When High Rank begins, the game stops babying you, and it expects you to know what you're doing. \n\nhttps://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/shacknews/assets/editorial/2018/02/Monster-Hunter-World-How-to-Unlock-High-Rank-Quests.jpg\n\nIf you're new to Monster Hunter, Low Rank does a good job of getting you used to the game - but the game itself does not do the best job of explaining everything to you. This is good, because there is a lot to explain, and it would bog down the action if it pulled you away from combat every two minutes to introduce a new mechanic. But if you're stuck on a particularly tough monster, and aren't sure what you're doing wrong, it's time to take a step back and do some reading. Today, we'll go over the basics of hunting in Monster Hunter, and I'll make sure you're equipped with all the knowledge you need to make it through the game. \n## The Rules \nFirst, the basics. Monsters in Monster Hunter all have a hidden health value and hidden defensive values for each of their body's segments. Every segment, or hitzone, has different defenses for every type of damage in the game ([impact](https://steemit.com/monsterhunter/@jamthewriter/choose-your-weapon-1-melee-weapons-in-monster-hunter-world), [shot](https://steemit.com/monsterhunter/@jamthewriter/choose-your-weapon-2-ranged-weapons-in-monster-hunter-world), cutting). 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Eating cooked meat or a ration will replenish your stamina capacity. \n\nHealth is reduced through monster attacks, barrel bombs, and the consumption of bitterbugs. The health bar is at a minimum a total value of 100, increased to a maximum of 150 through eating a meal before a hunt. The bar itself does not decrease, unlike the stamina bar. You can replenish your health with potions, med kits, herbs, and vigorwasps. \n\nWhen your health drops down to 0, your hunter will faint, costing you one cart and a portion of your reward for the quest. Fainting thrice fails the quest, ending it and forcing you to restart. In short, keep your hunter healthy, or else you'll risk failing the quest. Carts are shared - so even if you've only fainted twice, if anyone else faints it counts towards the total cart count of the quest. \n\nYour palico also has a health value, but if they take too much damage, they simply take a break from the hunt for a while, rather than contributing to the quest failing. \n\nEvery quest starts off with a total reward, awarded to every participating hunter and divided according to the number of participating hunters (a maximum of 4) and the number of carts used (a maximum of 3). One cart costs you a third of the total reward, meaning the quest technically fails when the reward hits zero. Doing quests alone nets you the most money, but if you aren't skilled enough, it will also cost you the most carts. \n## Monster Behavior and Why It Matters\nIn Monster Hunter, monsters have more than just a series of attacks and movement. They have behavior. They stagger, grow tired, take a nap, hunt other monsters, protect their offspring, get enraged, and react according to a wide variety of environmental factors and circumstances. Monsters taunt and roar, and they feel alive in every sense. \n\nhttps://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/monsterhunter/images/f/f3/MHW-Anjanath_Screenshot_001.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170822215241\n\nAt first, this can be incredibly overwhelming. Your first time against a monster will be against an unknown foe, whose movements are organic yet seemingly unpredictable, whose speed might almost make it feel like any effort to attack will ultimately be punished with a counterattack. \n\nBut with time, they become predictable, and their movements and behaviors become a part of you. Our brains are made to see patterns in things, and we survived as long as we have because we learn, very quickly. We instinctively avoid mistakes once they've been made, and we develop and shed habits as they're needed. It takes longer for some than others, and motivation is a big factor of how long it takes, but our ability to learn is nearly unprecedented in the animal kingdom. \n\nAs a new hunter, your ability to read monsters relies simply on one thing: how many you've hunted. And even after the first hundred hours, there will still be monsters you aren't comfortable with, nuances you haven't picked up on, movements and behaviors that happen without you realizing what cue the monster uses to announce them. \n\nLearning to hunt in Monster Hunter means understanding the concept of cues and tells - every action a monster does is foretold by a repeated behavior, no matter how subtle. A Teostra that stops and stares for just a while too long after releasing a blast cloud is going to click and set it off, before stretching its neck for a window of opportunity. Molten and Brute Tigrex inhale just half a second longer before roaring twice in a row. Silver Rathalos will dive in with its talons, then back up, inhale, and throw a fireball. \n\nBut beyond the simple cues, all monsters share a few different behaviors that help you understand how the hunt is going, how far along you are, and how much further you've got to go. \n### Rage\nEvery monster gets enraged, and in some cases it's more obvious than in others. Most monsters become more energetic, and their movements are coupled with furious attacks that typically deal more damage. Some monsters have tell-tale signs, such as wreathe of flame around Rathalos' mouth, enraged slime on a Brachydios, or glowing veins on a Molten Tigrex. \n\nEnraged monsters not only deal more damage, but take a little more as well. They're aggressive, but it's an opportunity for skilled hunters to finish the fight faster. In addition, a certain armor skill gives hunters a massive boost to overall power during rage mode (Challenger in previous games, Agitator in World). \n### Exhaustion\nMonsters become naturally exhausted over the course of the hunt, and as their stamina depletes faster and faster, they become sluggish and trip often. Some monsters simply drool and stop to \"catch their breath\" every now and again, while others downright fail to execute certain attacks: a tired Rathalos will try to breathe a fireball and will instead only cough up a few sparks of flame, while a Tigrex will attempt to charge you across the map, only to trip and fall in exhaustion afterwards. This gives you a sense that the hunt is slowly coming to an end, as the monster is having trouble. \n\nAnother telltale sign of a tired monster near death is the continuous switching between an exhausted state and an enraged state. As their hidden health value drops into the lower percentages, monsters will constantly get angry and tired. \n\nCertain weapons deal impact damage to make monsters tired faster, speeding up the rate at which they grow sluggish and making them easier to fight.\n### Limping\nWhen a monster starts limping away, they're near the end of their life. This is the only time at which you can successfully capture a monster (more on that later), and it also means the hunt is almost over. Often enough, a limping monster can be easily finished off with a little patience and preparation, which leads us to the next tip. \n### Sleep\nSleep is a state a monster naturally goes into when they've taken massive amounts of damage and need to \"sleep it off\". A sleeping monster will replenish their stamina, and regenerate minute amounts of health, effectively providing a little bit of a challenge in the monster's final moments, but nothing substantial. They also do not regenerate a lot of their health.\n\nSleeping monsters won't react to sound - so you can freely kill small monsters around them - but they do wake up when hit. Any damage dealt to the sleeping monster is doubled if it hits first, but only if it hits first. This counts even if multiple sources of damage go off at once - only the \"first\" is registered as a double hit. To capitalize this, place large barrel bombs around the monster (it does not matter where) and wake it up with powerful single hit, such as a greatsword's true charged slash. \n\nSleep is also a status applied by some weapons. While difficult to coordinate properly in multiplayer, with a skilled group of hunters you can easily put a monster to sleep several times and utilize a number of bombs and strong hits to dispatch it efficiently. \n### Turf Wars\nMonster Hunter: World introduced a new mechanic regarding monster interaction - the ability for monsters to engage in a unique battle with one another. In the past, two monsters in the same area would both focus their attention on the hunter. Their attacks would deal damage to the other monster, but they would not actively fight against each other. \n\nhttps://i.ytimg.com/vi/E_2KEkXfOTE/maxresdefault.jpg\n\nIn Monster Hunter: World, there is a unique interaction between every monster, a particular display of strength or prowess. It seems to follow the rules of the food chain - a Great Jagras won't have the strength to fight an Anjanath, and Anjanath can't hope to kill a Rathalos without help. So they pick each other up, fling each other around, stomp and chomp and slash their way through the area until one monster flees, or dies. \n\nDo not get into the middle of a turf war. It is not a good opportunity for you to look for cheap shots - while ranged hunters might have a chance to dish out a little extra damage between bouts, it's not a good idea for a single melee hunter to draw the ire of two enraged monsters at once, without a solid escape plan. Instead, let the monsters do the hunting for you, and pick off the winner. \n### How Not to Get Hit\nEvading in Monster Hunter is as simple as pulling your analog stick in a certain direction, and tapping the evade button (cross on the PS4). However, unlike Dark Souls, the invincibility frames on the dodge roll are miniscule. You're invincible as long as you're in the air, which isn't very long - a few frames at most. This isn't enough to roll through attacks, but it is enough to roll through the stagger from most roars in the game, and to roll through tremor/some attacks in previous games. However, dodge rolling through roars/tremors and certain attacks without evasion skills (which boost your invincibility frames) is very, very tough. Evasion skills and the inclusion of a late-game item vastly improve your invincibility frames, but they are not necessary for skilled or efficient play. \n\nSo for most people, the advice is to use the evade roll for spacing/dodging away from attacks, rather than through. When a monster is about to tackle you, don't think of rolling through its face - get away from it. You don't need to spam your rolls either, most attacks can safely be avoided simply by circling around the monster. It's a good idea to learn which side you're more comfortable with when it comes to circling. For example, some monsters are safer when only fought on their right side, rather than the left, due to how they attack.\n\nOver the long term, the key to not getting hit is to play cautiously, and take risks only to learn from them. Start by watching a monster, and moving around it to see how it reacts to your spacing. What moves does it use? Does it have projectiles? Flips? Wild cards? Then, dive in and take risks, learning from faints and adapting accordingly. At first, you'll have a good idea of when to stay away and wait. With time, you'll be able to perfect your timing, attacking a monster even as it is attacking you due to proper spacing. \n## Every Monster is Soloable \nMonster Hunter: World is unique in the series for many reasons, yet one of its biggest changes is that all missions can be done either solo or with a party, scaling to those two. In the past, you could go through the entire game alone, but there were quests geared towards single-player and quests geared towards multiplayer, available only through the gathering hall. 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