Ancient Leshen is terrible

[Malakith`4f]

Just want to share my opinion on this one. I've done every monster in this game including Extreme Behe and this is by far the most annoying and unfun monster in the game. His birds chip so much HP that you need a health augment and a booster under your feet to not be eaten alive, and these jagrasses hit like a truck. To top that off, his HP pool is insane, no clue why they gave this tree more than Behe has.

It's just unfun, I bet I'm not the only one with this opinion. I really hope they shed this BS in iceborn and make monsters challenging in a non cheese way.

[Das Big Hippo]

He has the same HP as Extreme Behemoth.

[Malakith`4f]

Originally posted by Bowsie:

He has the same HP as Extreme Behemoth.

Extreme behemoth has 51.8k hp, ancient leshen has 67.5k.

[Greb]

There's a Tempered version of the Ancient Leshen?

Is it a modded quest or have I overlooked something? What do you get for completing it if it's not a modded quest?

Just to be clear the only monsters I know of are the basic quest Leshen and then the Ancient Leshen from the Woodland Spirit quest.

[Malakith`4f]

Originally posted by Greb:

There's a Tempered version of the Ancient Leshen?

Is it a modded quest or have I overlooked something? What do you get for completing it if it's not a modded quest?

Just to be clear the only monsters I know of are the basic quest Leshen and then the Ancient Leshen from the Woodland Spirit quest.

I meant the Ancient one, my bad. Just called it that because it's icon looked like that due to flux being on. I'll change that.

[Greb]

Oh, right.

Yeah Ancient Leshens fight is pretty depressing. My only real gripe with it though is the fact you can have 20 minutes of progress wiped because he only becomes a real threat in the last 5 minutes.

I'd rather have his end of hunt phase from the start, where he's fully powered up and ready to drop one hit party wipes at a moments notice fought for like 10 - 15 minutes, than having to sit through 20 minutes of wearing him down in a pointless repetitive dance, to be honest. Give him like, 25,000 HP and put him in end hunt mode from the start, for some fun.

Waste less time to squad wipes that way.

[Corrodias]

I found it a nice change of pace. If you have a support player (healer), its not so bad. Save all your CC for the final phase; using it before that is a waste. You have mounts, flashes, and paralysis to work with.

[Timmy]

I'm new to MHW, playing on PS4, only about 90 hours in at hunter rank 11. I'm playing solo, can the Ancient Leshen be soloed? I love the Witcher games and I've been looking forward to this part of the game.

[Noeat]

Originally posted by Savitr:

I'm new to MHW, playing on PS4, only about 90 hours in at hunter rank 11. I'm playing solo, can the Ancient Leshen be soloed? I love the Witcher games and I've been looking forward to this part of the game.

no idea, but yesterday i beat normal Leshen in Witcher part of this game

[Penetrator]

Originally posted by Savitr:

I'm new to MHW, playing on PS4, only about 90 hours in at hunter rank 11. I'm playing solo, can the Ancient Leshen be soloed? I love the Witcher games and I've been looking forward to this part of the game.

Impossible at your rank and gear. I'm sure some tryhards will tell you that its possible but for your sanity don't even try until you've maxed out everything.

[River Victor]

Originally posted by Savitr:

I'm new to MHW, playing on PS4, only about 90 hours in at hunter rank 11. I'm playing solo, can the Ancient Leshen be soloed? I love the Witcher games and I've been looking forward to this part of the game.

Ancient Leshen is BARELY possible. It's not meant to be fought that way. You need a dedicated healer or you will barely have any up time to deal damage. You'll be only chugging potions and dodge, while being able to do little else in the mean time. All of his attacks are AOE that spread to the horizons, zigzag, or hit two targets. It's just insane. And if you're cought by the root trap, you're dead if you're alone.

[Remi]

Originally posted by River Victor:

Originally posted by Savitr:

I'm new to MHW, playing on PS4, only about 90 hours in at hunter rank 11. I'm playing solo, can the Ancient Leshen be soloed? I love the Witcher games and I've been looking forward to this part of the game.

Ancient Leshen is BARELY possible. It's not meant to be fought that way. You need a dedicated healer or you will barely have any up time to deal damage. You'll be only chugging potions and dodge, while being able to do little else in the mean time. All of his attacks are AOE that spread to the horizons, zigzag, or hit two targets. It's just insane. And if you're cought by the root trap, you're dead if you're alone.

If you commit enough time to learn all his garbage aoe attacks you can find small openings, that's how 20-30 minute kill times are feasible, but even then it's only with LS, DB and the such.
Doing it solo is a waste of time and sanity, but so is doing it online.

[DaBa]

He suffers from having a bloated HP pool, but that's just about his only problem. The fight otherwise is alright. Not my favourite monster design for sure, but it's not terrible. There's absolutely no problem with it hitting you really hard. Just don't get hit, or as you said get health boosts, no problem.

[Shichiya]

What Ancient Leshen get on my nerve is the constant teleporting across the map, especially the last stage. With the chip damage and the teleportation, it's almost impossible to beat without a healer or some sort. And it takes so many unnecessary time due to not being able to land most of the hit without him running away