Elder dragons investigations?

[Jotun]

So, I really want my Daora set but I just realized that the optional quest gives very little materials (mostly trash stuff like dragonvein whatever and elder dragon bones and few Daora materials). S

So I guess I'm supposed to farm whatever points in Elder's recess to MAYBE if RNGesus is with me get a half decent Daora investigation (and there are 3 ED in there... and I'm out guaranteed an ED investigation just by farming ED tracks)? So... I have to farm in order to get a quest that allows me to farm... How stupid is that? Oh sure I can also hope that someone hosts one, but I wouldn't bet on that seeing that 80% of players I see are hosting trash tier investigations.

P.S: I don't even need the gem, since I can use my gold ticket for that.

[DaBa]

- You can farm without going on investigations

- Investigations are meant to be random quests you get during normal play, they are not meant to be farmed

- If you want to farm them, you can, that's your own choice.

So, what's the issue OP?

[Luna]

Step one. Make a couple parts of the Legiana Set.
Step two, kill Daora and loot a lot of stuff.

:)

[Jotun]

The issue is that back in older MH you were actually getting materials from a monster as a quest reward when you killed it during a quest, and not 70% of useless crap like dragonvein ore. Here, the only reliable way to farm are expeditions.

[DaBa]

I played this game for 200 hours on Ps4, and 50 hours here, and never have I had this problem. Pretty sure you're just projecting.

[Jotun]

Originally posted by Yamasandwich:

Step one. Make a couple parts of the Legiana Set.
Step two, kill Daora and loot a lot of stuff.

:)

Yeah well... I do happen to have both the torso and the gloves on my main set. And yes RNGesus is always screwing me over (I get tons of gems I don't care about and have to kill 10 rathians to get 5 spikes ). There was no need to make optional quest rewards THAT bad by giving tons of ore instead of actual scales or carapaces (not even talking about horns, tails etc).

[Jotun]

Originally posted by DaBa:

I played this game for 200 hours on Ps4, and 50 hours here, and never have I had this problem. Pretty sure you're just projecting.

Did you play older games?

[TheRolfgar]

If you have a Nerg investigation, let him wander around in his area for a awhile with the stealth cape. He drops tons of tracks and you can hope you get a Daora one.

[DaBa]

Originally posted by Jotun:

Originally posted by DaBa:

I played this game for 200 hours on Ps4, and 50 hours here, and never have I had this problem. Pretty sure you're just projecting.

Did you play older games?

I played MH4U, Gen, and XX. It feels just about the same here. If you capture monsters you even get guaranteed more rewards at the end than if you would carve, where you had to get capture skills previously to get real benefit from that. And then you have investigations, which are godlike for farming rare mats. Maybe you're killing things on investigations and that's your problem? Anyway, I[m outa here.

[Jotun]

Thanks I know that. Somehow it's a bit hard to cap ED... /s

Also no, in MHGen it was always better to cap unless you had the skill to carve more (master Carver? Something like that) or a very specific part in mind (still remember that from endless farming of skymeralds).