Is Gore Madala supposed to be harder than Arkveld?

[Ben]

Running Tempered Arkveld is now casual, but today i decided I want to farm Tempered Gore Magala, and im mostly playing multiplayer cause im a healer.

The thing is, i had 3 batches on team mate dying very early in that monster fight in 2hours. More than what im used to with Tempered Arkveld. Is that boss considered hard or something? He does not seem to kit me harder than Arkveld does. I do have 446 armor tho..

[Casval Zem Daikun]

I find the camera to be the biggest obstacle when fighting Magala

[Djeeta]

Sometimes, people just go too hard on meta and equipped Corrupted Mantle and procs their own Virus but then accidentally got hit by Tempered Gore before curing it and die instantly.

[Wraith]

Gore is quicker then Arkveld and has delay attacks that are pretty much awareness tests.

Randoms and awareness test = half the player base is gonna get hit.

[Ben]

As a healer, i usually run around and stack my songs, maybe that's why i tend to live longer.

[JaredOfTheDead]

Tempered gore magala seems to hit a lot harder for me. I play gunlance and I can block all of the attacks from tempered arkveld with minimal chip damage. Tempered gore magala will take 20% to 30% of my health with the heavy hits while blocking.

[Brynub]

I initially had trouble with Arkveld because I didn't play the betas and was still learning it's moveset, whereas Gore I've been hunting since the 4U days so I've already learned all of it's shenanigans. Once you learn both and fight them a lot, I'd say Gore is the harder of the two, if only slightly.

[Dr. Raven]

Part of this is most people could practice against arkveld in the beta, making him far easier for everyone to predict in the actual game. He feels much more telegraphed with his attacks, even when tempered which just speeds things up a bit.


Another part of this is that people first build an Arkveld set as their first late game set before seeking out specific armor for a build. Makes sense, he's easy to farm because he's in all maps. You then find out that burst aka Gore Magala is key to every meta set in the game.

You join the Gore fight, in what else but your Arkveld set. This gives a massive penalty to dragon resist, which gore magala hits you with, hits you hard. Majority of these people are probably getting 1 tapped.

[Siebzhen]

Gore is a more challenging fight imo, He has some nasty moves designed to make you think hes doing after someone else when in reality hes winding up a 180 degree turn haymaker straight into a cart. He more often that other monsters seems to have 1-2 combos that funnel you into a bad position for the next move. That said I love fighting him cause hes fast af and am loveing the challenge!

[Glimmer]

Gore kicks my ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ass so hard. Knocked me to 0 HP more than a few times now. (Good thing I have a meal that revives me, and my Palico can, too).

I am yet to cart on any other tempered boss. Gore is HARD.

[uriel8462]

Gore is definitely harder but the average player will get used to his attack pattern. i do hate how easy he one shots if your not prepared. i survive hits form tempered Jin Dahaad but gore typically one shots me, sounds stupid but its honestly " just don't get hit" XD

[Goosetave]

Part of the difference in challenge i think is how cramped some areas are in the iceshard cliffs. And he's got some crazy range on a lot of his moves, compared to arkveld only having range on a few whip attacks (and the tail stab).

[ᔑᓭ∴ᔑリ⊣]

i think its mainly his 180 attacks that surprise people, arkveld's only attack that goes behind him is his tail, both the tail stab and spin and theyre quite obvious, unless he does that then he needs to turn/jump to face you. at least one of gores arm attacks is almost instant, and theyre brand new too which is my excuse to getting hit by them so often. his explosions seem to do a lot of damage too but probably because im getting hit by all of them when i try to block, ive died through my shield multiple times due to that (thankfully it doesnt seem to do the repeated or T-shaped explosions but maybe that'll be in master rank lmao)

i haven't maxed out my armour yet either though, maybe he is easier after that but so far he is the most difficult monster in the game. arkveld in comparison doesn't have too much downtime but his attacks are very easy to get used to and are quite obvious about where they can hit

[Riukensei]

Originally posted by Dr. Raven:

Part of this is most people could practice against arkveld in the beta, making him far easier for everyone to predict in the actual game. He feels much more telegraphed with his attacks, even when tempered which just speeds things up a bit.


Another part of this is that people first build an Arkveld set as their first late game set before seeking out specific armor for a build. Makes sense, he's easy to farm because he's in all maps. You then find out that burst aka Gore Magala is key to every meta set in the game.

You join the Gore fight, in what else but your Arkveld set. This gives a massive penalty to dragon resist, which gore magala hits you with, hits you hard. Majority of these people are probably getting 1 tapped.

you say this and I see people getting 1 shot by Ark every day. Is kinda sad tbh. 8million+ copies, and 50% of the playerbase dying to Kut Ku in story.

[Wraith]

Hey kut ku was a menace back in 1st gen

He was the gatekeeper lol

[WizardCawk]

It's because he does more damage than Arkveld which you probably don't notice since you have 446 armor. So he can 1 shot people that aren't fully geared yet with a lot of his attacks, while Arkveld 2 shots. (I know this because I farmed them both out in LR armor).

Also, a lot of newly finished quest players go to farm gore and arkveild due to those armors being BIS for a lot of builds, and gore is the only monster that 1 shots with a lot of his attacks before you have a high armor value. People probably aren't expecting anything to literally 1 shot them with most attacks, when nothing else did, including tempered arkveld up to that point.