Gaming Monster Hunter 3 Beginning Guide.

[Jiggah]

Another pro-tip. If you're doing it online with other players, you should try to catch it in area 6. The reason is that there's a ridge that you can safely jump off of if things get too crazy and let you recover.

 

[Dharmaboy]

Online First Star Quests. The Unique mushrooms thing has been killing me. I cant find enough mushrooms to finish the quest. All my gear is set for gather and whim and nothing. What's the deal with this quest?

 

[rauthelegendary]

You should be able to find enough for the main quest and one of the subquests. If the spots you can gather are empty, these are mostly at area 2, area 1 and area 4(not sure if it's 4 or 3, but I mean the one to the left of area 1), just wait till they respawn. The ripened mushrooms (or something like that) take longer since they're dropped by the ants I believe. I just skipped that part so I'm not actually sure.. Anyway, just make sure you deliver the 10 mushrooms before you continue searching for the rest of them because you can't carry more than 10 at one time.

I found them without too much trouble and my armor didn't have gather and whim skills.

 

[killeryunran]

How beneficial is it to have a complete set?

I mean it does give you extra stats and such but is it recommended to have a full set instead of some random armor that you could make at a moment?
I'm like wearing all kinds of different armor, but I don't have a complete set. Is it really better to have a complete set to gain the extra stats from it. Or could it be better to combine different armor so that you wouldn't have a elemental disadvantage?

Thank you

 

[rauthelegendary]

Wearing a full set of armor will give you skills. Some of those will make your health go higher, others will make your weapon lose less sharpness, etc. Wearing all kinds of different armor parts might make your resistance to elements better, but it's better to farm different kinds of sets which will have a great resistance against a certain element and give you skills. The Barroth armor, for example, has 15 thunder resistance and -15 ice resistance, which probably makes it better than whatever combination of armors is out there when fighting wyverns with thunder attacks, especially since the Barroth armor will give you stronger attacks and other benefits. If you would fighting against a wyvern with ice attacks than you might want to switch to something like Baggi armor which has a great Ice resistance. It might take more time, but skills plus a high resistance for certain elements will do you better than wearing armor parts which will make you neutral to each element. After a while you should be able to dodge most, if not all, attacks an enemy makes anyway. Resistance won't matter a thing then, but until then resistances are still a helpful thing to have. Skills are more helpful though, so I'd just focus on getting full sets with skills you like having.

You can see a full list of what skills do and which armor will give you the skill on:
Monster Hunter Wiki - Armor Skills

Later on you might find combining armors a good way of getting more skills that you like, but combinations like that are quite hard to find in the beginning of the game.

 

[Cyan]

I don't think wearing a full set gives advantage (it's not like diablo where wearing a full set got bonus you couldn't get another way).
In monster hunter, there are 5 by 5, or 10 by 10 scales you need to have to unlock different powers.
if an armor gives you +2, that doesn't make any sense until you reach +10 to activate it.
same, if you are +12, you don't need it, just equip something else which could unlock another power instead.

It's not the full set which you need to look for, it's what you are equipped at a particular moment (equipment, jewels, decorations etc.)
check which abilities are almost unlocked, and which element stats you need for each particular quest. Reequip if needed. (don't keep a good armor with ice protection against a fire boss, if a less defensive armor but with better fire defense exists for example)

 

[DarkWay]

I don't think wearing a full set gives advantage (it's not like diablo where wearing a full set got bonus you couldn't get another way).
In monster hunter, there are 5 by 5, or 10 by 10 scales you need to have to unlock different powers.
if an armor gives you +2, that doesn't make any sense until you reach +10 to activate it.
same, if you are +12, you don't need it, just equip something else which could unlock another power instead.

It's not the full set which you need to look for, it's what you are equipped at a particular moment (equipment, jewels, decorations etc.)
check which abilities are almost unlocked, and which element stats you need for each particular quest. Reequip if needed. (don't keep a good armor with ice protection against a fire boss, if a less defensive armor but with better fire defense exists for example)

This is where your deadly wrong, you get set SKILLS which can greatly help you out.

Armour look at the SKILLS the set's give you for wearing them.

 

[Cyan]

ok :
Leather armor : Gathering +12, Whim +13, attack +4 ?
The exceeding +2 and +3 doesn't help at all, right ?
and it's even missing +6 to have an attack bonus. what's the point having these skill on that armor set if not for mixed equipment ?

Leather Headgear is not needed at all to unlock any other skill if you equip a decoration with gathering speed.
Letting you equip another armor part with better defense, or unlocking attack no ?

Or is there an "extra" bonus for equipping all the same set you couldn't get any other way ? additionally to each skill given by each parts ?

I agree it could help to have all of them, for element resistance, or unlocking a given skill, but you can get that with a different way (decoration or jewel), no ?
(sorry, I didn't play a lot, maybe I'm completely wrong, but I thought it could work that way too)


I thought only the unlocked skills were important, not the few point not reaching the stair to unlock a new one.
if you can compensate, I don't see the problem. (not saying it's easy, it might be hard to find a good equipment combination)

 

[Jiggah]

The +12, +13 don't help, but at +10 you're getting some skills and most armors are slotted so you can always improve those skills by throwing in some gems to hit the magical +15 or +20. The #1 noobie-ish thing I've seen is incomplete armor sets, which means you're not bring your A game to the show. Unless you're an experienced Monster Hunter player that knows which piece go together, stick with complete armor sets.

Another thing is learning elemental weaknesses and switching armor sets. If you're wondering why you're getting one shot by Rathian's and Rathalos' fireball while wearing Lagiacrus armor, it's probably that -15 Fire elemental.

 

[killeryunran]

So the best thing is to just look at which skills are beneficial and such. But what about decorations and elemental damage then?
Say I've got a Leather Armor set and each piece of it has 1 DEF(lol

)
That would give me 5 DEF in total, and a -5 fire, +15 thunder and +10 dragon resistance.

Would that mean that when I'm attacked by a fire attack that my DEF would be as good as 0?
And that when I'm attacked by thunder that my attack would be 20?

And what if I put a swimmer decoration on 1 of my armor pieces and I would equip the rest with attack decorations(+1 each)
Would this mean that my +1 swimmer doesn't even help because it's not the +5/+10/+15?
And that my attack deco also doesn't help because it's just +4?(Neglecting the fact that the leather armor gives me +4 attack)

Because if that's so then I need to revise which armor I should be using...

 

[Cyan]

Part1
So the best thing is to just look at which skills are beneficial and such. But what about decorations and elemental damage then?
Say I've got a Leather Armor set and each piece of it has 1 DEF(lol

)
That would give me 5 DEF in total, and a -5 fire, +15 thunder and +10 dragon resistance.

Would that mean that when I'm attacked by a fire attack that my DEF would be as good as 0?
And that when I'm attacked by thunder that my attack would be 20?

Part2
And what if I put a swimmer decoration on 1 of my armor pieces and I would equip the rest with attack decorations(+1 each)
Would this mean that my +1 swimmer doesn't even help because it's not the +5/+10/+15?
And that my attack deco also doesn't help because it's just +4?(Neglecting the fact that the leather armor gives me +4 attack)

Because if that's so then I need to revise which armor I should be using...

For Part1, I'm not too sure if phisical defense and magical defense are counted additionnaly.
I would say : pysical DEF : 5, for a thunder atk you are only protected by a +15DEF and not a 20. Your defense can be negative, and then you would take more damage than 0DEF.

That's only what I think, I may be wrong. Wait for an expert answer

For Part2 : You are right !
if the total points doesn't activate an ability, you don't have any advantage to equip that decoration.
The decoration are mainly for completing a few missing point to activate the ability.

Push "Z" to see the needed points, and which one are active (they are on the left side of the screen) with their descriptions. You benefit only from the ones at the left.
When buying or upgrading equipment, you can see which "active" skill you will have/lose before buying it.

 

[Am0s]

I tried to find the part your referring too I coul;dnt but I am using classic controller

 

[Cyan]

Ah, I don't know which button you need to push for the Classic Controller.
But, it's written on all the menus, at the bottom of the menu "push xxxxx" to see the stat etc.,

 

[DarkWay]

ahhh I need some decent people to do Jhen Mohran with

we killed it once then everyone left

it's so easy and so much fun

 

[killeryunran]

ahhh I need some decent people to do Jhen Mohran with

we killed it once then everyone left

it's so easy and so much fun

I would like to help you, problem is that I can't connect my wii to the internet >.>

 

[DarkWay]

muhaaa I discovered the recruiting servers

teams dedicated to a boss

 

[Immorality]

I'll Come for a go, tried him before but there was some random guy in Jaggi gear that died 3 times.
What's your code (dunno mine, havent written it down).

 

[DarkWay]

Im on PAL =/ if your american we can't connect.

EDIT:-

ahhh had a good time beating down on Jhen Mohran

it was fun. I managed to make the Longsword you get from his materials aswell

it's AWESOME sooo powerful and the sharpness last FOREVER...well almost....

I need 4 more Sturdy Fangs so I can make the Sword and Shield and the Head piece from Jhen Mohran's set

then the rest is a easy...except 1 or 2 other peices which need Earth Dragongem which has a 1-2% chance of being carved

and I need 2 of them and I need a quest where you actually kill him aswell

so that I can carve him

the Event Quest is just repelling him

 

[Dharmaboy]

I was finally able to kill Barroth with help of some higher HR 10 players. I made a Barroth Armor Chest piece. Need to kill it a few more times so I can get the carves needed.

Loving the hammer btw. I was able to take out the Offline Royal Ludroth pretty easy. Just takes alot of time.

 

[Immorality]

Im on PAL =/ if your american we can't connect.

EDIT:-

ahhh had a good time beating down on Jhen Mohran

it was fun. I managed to make the Longsword you get from his materials aswell

it's AWESOME sooo powerful and the sharpness last FOREVER...well almost....

I need 4 more Sturdy Fangs so I can make the Sword and Shield and the Head piece from Jhen Mohran's set

then the rest is a easy...except 1 or 2 other peices which need Earth Dragongem which has a 1-2% chance of being carved

and I need 2 of them and I need a quest where you actually kill him aswell

so that I can carve him

the Event Quest is just repelling him

I'm not american (still have to change my profile). But i am playing NTSC version i think, so bummer.