reliable way to gauge a monsters health?

[Greywolf]

Besides limping when the monster is nearly finished, is it possible to see what level a monsters health is at before they start limping or get any indication of what their health might be?

[Rogue]

The EKG heart monitor at the bottom left, a skull icon on the monster icon on minimap, limping action.

[zero]

they drop red parts when you beat on them, first 1 is half..ish? second one is when within capture range, other then that no real obvious tells besides limping

[[HI5]Turbine]

Originally posted by zero:

they drop red parts when you beat on them, first 1 is half..ish? second one is when within capture range, other then that no real obvious tells besides limping

It is just broken part that can be used as ammo for slinger.

[zero]

Originally posted by HI5Turbine:

Originally posted by zero:

they drop red parts when you beat on them, first 1 is half..ish? second one is when within capture range, other then that no real obvious tells besides limping

It is just broken part that can be used as ammo for slinger.

that drop at specific health%'s, which makes it an easy way to get captures long before they run

[Azael Ijima δ]

Yep no real indicator except knowing their average health.
And even with that, i believe HP of monsters of the same specie can vary in function of their size, so, meh.
I just know that they usually flee and go somewhere else when their health reach a certain point, something like 1/4, 2/4, 3/4 then limping and going to sleep i guess.

[Frosty]

The EKG sort of helps, but sometimes it goes "almost flat" even before the monster starts limping/showing a skull. Can't say I have tried to capture a monster at that point (sorta don't want to waste the shock trap and have to recraft if it fails).

[Captainn]

Textures change after you damage a part enough. Other than that, people have already said it

[Greywolf]

Originally posted by Frosty:

The EKG sort of helps, but sometimes it goes "almost flat" even before the monster starts limping/showing a skull. Can't say I have tried to capture a monster at that point (sorta don't want to waste the shock trap and have to recraft if it fails).

Yeah I can't really tell what the EKG is supposed to be keeping track of? Because sometimes it will be almost flat then jump back up to a higher pulse.

Do monsters heal in any way during a hunt?

[Juno Brier]

The most reliable way to gauge a monsters health is with this simple question:

"is the monster dead yet?"
If the answer is no, its health is still too high and you should hit it more.

[DantE]

they drop slinger ammo at 30%, 20% and 10%. you can trap most monsters at around 25% and they start fleeing at around 19%.

this was true for anything but jyuratodus for me, or i just suck at spotting his slinger ammo, but he drops the first one really early, dunno, figure it out and come back to me ;)

[Jynn]

Originally posted by Greywolf:

Originally posted by Frosty:

The EKG sort of helps, but sometimes it goes "almost flat" even before the monster starts limping/showing a skull. Can't say I have tried to capture a monster at that point (sorta don't want to waste the shock trap and have to recraft if it fails).

Yeah I can't really tell what the EKG is supposed to be keeping track of? Because sometimes it will be almost flat then jump back up to a higher pulse.

Do monsters heal in any way during a hunt?

it drops to the higher pulse when they are Enraged. Once that runs out, it'll go back to the flat lining

i've captured monsters with a almost flat line but no skull on mini map, just FYI, so it is possible. Bsically if it's nearly flat lining and limping, you can try to capture it. But you can wait for the skull on the mini map if you want to be really sure

[Hare+Guu!]

If they suddenly keel over in quick succession, that means they're gonna die in a couple of hits. Best to stop attacking and use a trap then.

Another way is if they suddenly start running back to the place where they just ran away from. This happens when you do so much dps that their normal run away hp threshold is ignored and it switches to a time based one. They only realize that they went down enough hp when they get to the next area and starts running back immediately without even limping. For example: You try to hunt Diablos in his lair, he runs away, you sharpen and as you run out, he comes charging back in. That means he's gonna die soon.

[VIOR ~]

for me, the easiest way is to collect target monster traces. open ur world map and see at the bottom left corner if the gauge is full, ur scoutflies will mark the dying monster with skull icon on the map

[D's Journal]

limping is the best way to know.
the flatline thing is iffy

[Sygmaelle]

Originally posted by Greywolf:

Besides limping when the monster is nearly finished, is it possible to see what level a monsters health is at before they start limping or get any indication of what their health might be?

ekg monitor and the pod the monster is dropping. at the 2nd red pod (red material) hes at very low health