For the love of all that is holy, bring the damn powders!

[Dmaii]

Hey, I get it, support is not always fun.
Don't wanna use wide range? I get it, it's only available on not so great gear (from what I've seen).
Don't wanna bring the health booster? I get it, a mantle may be more appropriate for the situation.
Hunting horn? It's actually not a bad weapon, but if you don't enjoy it, why would you (I don't either).
But the god forsaken healing powders, why are you not using them? You can even bring the ingredients (2 space) to use 10 of them. Even if everyone brought only 3 of them, I am positive death would almost nerver happen.
Is it a space issue? Are you always full?
Is it too much of a bother to configure loadouts and radial menu?
Is the farming an issue? Once High rank putting god bug and blue mush in the garden should not be a problem, or if it is you must be really using a lot of something else, in which case tell me what so I can understand.

A bit of a rant I suppose, but also a legitimate question, why not use them?
Also pardon the synthax and or grammar.

[Umbreon™]

Lifepowder is too good to pass up on. Way too little people actually bother to bring it when it's actually better than it used to be in previous games. Not just lifepowder either, Demon powder is also a great one to bring specially while waiting for a mount to be over or something of the like. More people need to add supportive items to their loadouts.

[Dmaii]

Yes it might be some sort of past prejudice. They were deemed not useful enough at some point by new hunters, but they need to understand that if the entire party uses them, no one dies (unless one shotted I guess).

[SolidusPrime]

I think there are just a lot of newer hunters that just haven't quite caught on to all the "must-brings" yet. There are soooo many items :P A lot of people don't know about the armor and power charms, for instance, either.

Keep spreading the word brother.

[Colonel]

Lifepowder is a must have

[Moga CMDR]

i dont have the recipe for dawn powders. but I do bring life powders.

[Greb]

Great gear comes with lots of slots. Friendship Jewels are only size 1 slot. It's a hefty thing, slotting up to five in one go, but you can make it work and still rock some effectiveness. Getting five Friendship Jewels though? That's the hard part.

If you wanna use a Hunting Horn make sure your character has a crazy name, it just goes hand in hand with a Hunting Horn user, you have to be crazy to want to use it. I was Hunting with a guy called Spazwhacker earlier, for some reason his name just did me in and I was laughing for the entire hunt. Perfection comes in many forms, and first impressions last forever.

Life Powder is MEH though man. MEH. Three uses, a moderately long animation, a mediocre heal, and if someone actually needs it to stay alive chances are they're screwed anyway - you see a guy get stunned, you know he's gonna get carted, you reach for your Life Powder and yey, what's this? You have to stash your weapon and then begin a not-so-instant animation to throw some Life Powder into the air, which can be interrupted very easily! Your friend is now dead, and your Life Powder is just adding insult to injury

It's terrifyingly easy to manage poison (antipoison items, or just keeping your health topped off with your own healing items) and being on fire (roll three times, damn it) and if you're being stunned by attacks, you're being hit too much, which means you're being hammered into the dirt, which means you're probably a lost cause anyway. A stray stun here and there is easily corrected with a mega potion and team mates taking the aggro, as opposed to having another team mate drop out of combat suddenly and pop a Life Powder.

Even Armour and Demon powder is near worthless - anyone who wants to buff will be using Mega Demon / Mega Armour potions, which is superior to the powders, and anyone who doesn't buff is likely not going to notice, not going to care or appreciate it, or not going to make adequate use of it - usually all of those three at once.

I GUESS if you were using Free Meal, Quick Sheath 3, Recovery Up 3 and Speed Eating 3 in a combo it MIGHT be a great item to bust out and use religiously, but if you're gonna invest that much time into those skills, why not just rock Wide-Range 5 and chug endless Mega Potions, damn it?

Also, sure it's easy to farm mass amounts for, but there's always something better. You could serve your team much more if you spent that farming time growing cobwebs, ivy and thunderbugs to mass produce traps and grant everyone lots and lots of DPS - the best defence is a good offence, amirite?

Besides, I've never seen anyone using it for other people. They just bring it as an extra heal for themselves and take the bonus ally AoE healing as just well, a bonus. Times I've seen it being used, three people saying "Yo! Thanks mang!" in the shout out...but no one needed it but the guy, lol. I guess that's more a complaint than a point against it though.

I had this discussion the other day. I'm not going to have it again lol, I'm gonna leave my views, and leave, and let everyone else tear them to shreds.

End of the day lol, as always, everyone can play however they like, and do whatever they like, everything is viable, everything is fun, this game is flexible and diverse, and everyone who plays it are WONDERFUL creatures full of potential and alacrity.

I love you all. Thanks for taking the time to look after me with your Life Powder. Despite my opinions of using it MYSELF, it's certainly never going to be something I turn my nose up at lol. So...wahey!

I will point out one situation I found myself in recently, I was Lancing it up, I'd been reduced to like 20% health, Kushala was bearing down on my constantly, I couldn't move or I'd die, and someone ran over to me and dropped a Healing Booster, which healed me up enough that I could run out of that terrible situation without getting carted. I imagine if someone in the group had had Life Powder, they coulda used that to get me out of my sticky situation without needing a specialised tool or putting themselves in danger, for sure!

So it DOES have its uses. I suppose.

THANK YOU for not wording your post like some elitist prick making it sound like if you don't bring Life Powder you're not playing the game right, or you're putting the hunt at jeopardy though lol. THANK YOU SO MUCH from the depths of my heart. And I mean that.

[Dmaii]

Originally posted by Guild Sweetheart:

i dont have the recipe for dawn powders. but I do bring life powders.

Fixed, thanks a bunch x)

[PabloV]

I use a health booster, but I personally don't see much use in lifepowders, at least in MHW. They heal less than a potion and you can only carry 3. I prefer calling the monster's attention and tank hits while the teammate heals him/herself.

[Moga CMDR]

Originally posted by PabloV99:

I use a health booster, but I personally don't see much use in lifepowders, at least in MHW. They heal less than a potion and you can only carry 3. I prefer calling the monster's attention and tank hits while the teammate heals him/herself.

Because you can heal your teammate when they may not be able to heal, or move for that matter. And you can cap off the rest of the team in the process. They work very well. You can keep potions for yourself, use the powders to help the team.

Powders take effect immediately, tanking isn't guaranteed or instant.

Health boosters require them getting over to it, and again you can have both. so there isn't an issue there.

[Callyste]

The effectiveness of the life powder is way too low really. I prefer to simply flash the monster if I notice a teammate is in trouble, to give them room to breathe and heal better than powder would (especially if they're pinned down and can't reach the powder).
Much faster and efficient.

[Vanessa]

Originally posted by Greb:

Even Armour and Demon powder is near worthless - anyone who wants to buff will be using Mega Demon / Mega Armour potions, which is superior to the powders, and anyone who doesn't buff is likely not going to notice, not going to care or appreciate it, or not going to make adequate use of it - usually all of those three at once.

Mega drugs give +7 raw, powder gives +10 raw to the whole team, AND THEY STACK WITH THE DRUGS.

Even if you chug a drug before every quests, the powder is going to give more, both to you and the whole team, for a total +17 raw. They give the same amount as seeds, but to the whole team.

[Moga CMDR]

Originally posted by Callyste:

Much faster and efficient.

Maybe, but its situational at best. You assume you are in a position to flash, and that flashing would be enough.

If they are pinned down, you can run closer to them so the powder effects them. The range is decent though.

And when multiple people use a powder the whole team ends up completely capped out on health.

[Roland]

Never once in my 14 years of Monster Hunter have I wished someone would use a powder of any kind. I have a ~95% success rate and never rely on anything but what I bring to the fight.

Maybe you should stop relying on other people...

[San-Kyu]

I just finished a bunch of hunts with a new Wide Range SnS build I made actually. No one could cart even if they wanted to and might pills near continuously XD

Lifepowders really don't heal nearly enough to save you from another nergigante swipe, diablos charge, or teostra firebreath. Plus with randoms unless everyone decides to be altruistic lifepowder from everyone isn't realistic.

[Moga CMDR]

Originally posted by Roland:

Maybe you should stop relying on other people...

You are reading it wrong. If you bring powders, you help other people. The more people helping the team the better.

The op wasn't begging for a carry, the were calling out what should be obvious. its a team game.

However, I know a lot of wanna be "vets" and elitist hunters really only have a lone wolf mentality. The OP was saying, don't think that way.

But its a lost cause for many.

Originally posted by San-Kyu:

I just finished a bunch of hunts with a new Wide Range SnS build I made actually. No one could cart even if they wanted to and might pills near continuously XD

Lifepowders really don't heal nearly enough to save you from another nergigante swipe, diablos charge, or teostra firebreath. Plus with randoms unless everyone decides to be altruistic lifepowder from everyone isn't realistic.

That sounds fun :)

I don't think lifepowders solve every scenario, but they sure can help. And I don't think it has to be everyone doing it for it to be helpful. I know I'm often the only one doing it, but you can see a measurable impact on the gameplay because of it.