Trying to make use of poisoned/drugged/tinged meats

[Frubidore]

I can't find a reliable source of info and how these items are supposed to work, or which monsters they work on, or where you are supposed to place them. I just want to see one of them work on a rathalos or some other monster. If I want to use one on rathalos in the ancient forest, how do I know where to put it? I saw its drooling mouth icon once, but it didn't fly to the egg nest at the top (where I placed the meat) it flew somewhere further east.

[Hex: Oni's Plaything]

You put down a trap and then put the meat on the trap. I haven't used it on monsters that can be trapped...I've only used it on a kirin, not knowing it was an elder dragon. LOL

Unsure of other uses, but that is what I think it is for too.

[Ho Say Yung]

Unlike previous MH games.
You just put the meat down and they'll eat it, but for MHW you want to place it down when you enter the area before they see you. So that when they are exhausted they will go for the bait instead of leaving to eat something else.

[Ancient]

• Only carnivores will eat baits.
  
  
• They need to be fairly close to the bait to see it.
  
  
• Their fatigue and your proximity to the bait affect whether they will eat it.
  
  
• They don't seem to eat very easily while aggro'd on you or another monster so you need to wait until any other monsters flee the area, place it and then get out of sight by crouching in bushes or using ghillie mantle.
  
  
• You can place them in traps to try and trick them into the trap but it's often much easier to just place the trap and stand behind it so they trigger it while charging you (obviously a different tactic is needed with flyers).

[Timbermaw]

Why would you place it on a trap when tinged meat already paralyses?

[Ancient]

Originally posted by Timbermaw:

Why would you place it on a trap when tinged meat already paralyses?

You can just use raw meat for traps.

[Timbermaw]

Originally posted by Ancient:

Originally posted by Timbermaw:

Why would you place it on a trap when tinged meat already paralyses?

You can just use raw meat for traps.

Oh duh completely forgot. I'd rather just use tinged tho

[Chippawaffen]

Thebest use for meats was always for deviljho, but he doesnt work like he used to with the MEATS

[Frubidore]

what if I use weapons that emphasize exhaust damage? Does the sleep status effect build up exhaust?

[Timbermaw]

Originally posted by Frubidore:

what if I use weapons that emphasize exhaust damage? Does the sleep status effect build up exhaust?

Sleep from the meat causes instant sleep, like the tinged meat. It won't build up anything, but i'm not sure if it will erase what you accumulated since it caused the status.

[Greb]

Monsters with that little icon that looks like a drooling (or crying, lol) dinosaur head are hungry / low fatigue, and more likely to seek out a food source to gain some energy back. If they detect raw meat or any other form of meat bait along the way, they'll target that and eat it instead.

As far as I know, placing it without a monster being tired or hungry does nothing except look a bit cute, tiny meat parcel on the floor. It's certainly not going to be much help when placed inside a trap, not in the way they're used anyway.

In zones with pest creatures like Shamos and Jagras, it will cause them to swarm at the meat and eat it. I haven't bothered testing it dropping a drugged meat near say, a Great Girros, would cause all of his little cronies to rush over and eat the meat then fall asleep, leaving you to deal with the big guy. They presumably would though, right?

The only real monster worth using the tinged or drugged meat against is Odogaron - usually towards the end of a fight, he'll rush off to devour his little meat parcel which will power him up and let him enter a heightened rage state for a while until it burns out, but he does target other meats placed nearby as well if it happens to be closer than his original meat parcel.

I can't say if it stops him from entering rage mode, or if he enters rage mode but then becomes temporarily paralysed or falls asleep, countering it, or what though. I almost never use meat bait. It's just a throwback to the older games at this point.

I guess MAYBE you might be able to use regular raw meat to heal your Tailraider Jagras / Girros / Shamos...maybe? I doubt it though.

[Timbermaw]

Originally posted by Greb:

I guess MAYBE you might be able to use regular raw meat to heal your Tailraider Jagras / Girros / Shamos...maybe? I doubt it though.

I haven't tested it but i can safely say that wouldn't work.