No weak spots while enraged?

[[B- 178] Klank]

I've just finished a hunt against Nargacuga(Master3) with the bow.
In addition of taking a monstruous amount of damage on every hit I take while wearing a M2 armor, his weak points just vanished while enraged. Is this the new trop of Monster Hunter Sunbreak...?

Because if it is it severely sucks ass.

[cruste]

weakpoints of certain monster switching all the time depending on their status
yeah narca is wierd his tail only works sometimes, so keep shooting at the head

imo hitboxes in rise are awful.

[Pook and Pie]

Sometimes monster weak zones change when enraged. Crimson Valstrax, for example, reduces all of its elemental hit zones to 0 when enraged except for the one on its front legs.

Nargacuga losing its tail hit zone when enraged sucks, but it's just something you have to power through using a thunder bow. I know bow armor isn't great at M2, especially because you're probably still wearing Mighty Bow Feather so your defense isn't up to snuff either, but taking Tobi or Khezu's bow at him should definitely help because he takes good amounts of thunder damage on his head and cutwings when enraged. In fact, while his tail shot hit zone goes from 45 to 40 so it's no longer a zone that triggers Weakness Exploit, the element weakness of its head actually increases when enraged. And the cut wings are a constant 35 thunder weak zone, in spite of being a poor raw shot hit zone, so that helps make up the damage from arrows that hit those spots.

so yeah, Narga's a monster you're going to want to focus element on, if you're bow (well, you want to do that for *all* monsters, but I understand it's annoying to craft all those
bows while you're ranking up). Tobi/Zinogre/Khezu are the best thunder bows for each shot type, for what it's worth (I find pierce works pretty well on Nargacuga, because its abdomen is a 30/20 shot/thunder zone).

If you're not still wearing Mighty Bow Feather, you probably should be since most bows while you rank up won't have the fourth level charge shot, so you're dropping your own damage substantially. It sucks, but that's what we bow players have to deal with to have one of the more busted weapons at end game.

Also, make sure you're dash dancing, not just firing arrows in place, so you maintain your shots at the highest charge level for the longest time. It also gives you much more survivability against Narga in master rank, too.

[[B- 178] Klank]

Originally posted by Pook and Pie:

Sometimes monster weak zones change when enraged. Crimson Valstrax, for example, reduces all of its elemental hit zones to 0 when enraged except for the one on its front legs. [...]

I'm not unfamiliar with monster switching weak points or even element weaknesses on body parts during a fight. However, it's the first time I see a monster completely turn off his weak points, giving you that terrible feeling of tickling the target to death...

I was using the Tobi bow with +4 thunder so I did notice the "weakness" on his head. I've also droped the feather a while ago, passed some level getting hit once is a death sentence (or maybe I should upgrade even my leveling gear). Regarding dash dancing that's how I got through, the fight wasn't complicated, but felt longer than it should and unrewarding.
A bit like artificial difficulty...

I'll try to reintroduce the feather in my set, any chance there's just a gem of that talent later on?

[Pook and Pie]

Yeah, the Mighty Bow Jewel 4 is waiting for you at once you reach the elder dragons and the first batch of afflicted monsters.

Just keep at it. It's a bit more rough for bow in mid MR but once you can optimize your set a bit, you'll be rocking it.

[[B- 178] Klank]

Originally posted by Pook and Pie:

Yeah, the Mighty Bow Jewel 4 is waiting for you at once you reach the elder dragons and the first batch of afflicted monsters.

Thanks!

[Juliane_L]

https://mhrise.kiranico.com/data/monsters/1047302063

From Kiranico:
The head becomes slightly weaker when Narga is enraged
The tail becomes slightly more vulnerable to Slash and slightly more resistant to everything else when enraged
The tail Tip becomes more vulnerable to everything when Narga is enraged.