The great jagras farming - can you rush him or do you have to let him eat to become AT to get decos?

[HekiReki]

Anyone know if you have to let him eat the aptonoth (Sp?) before you kill him to get the decos at the end?

[Manticore]

Let him eat, that's the only way he will drop decorations

[Wicked Sick]

When I did that, I used to let him eat, then puke and get around 30 or a few less gems.

[Nope]

Most of his drop is garbage tier 1/2 stone anyway, you want the warped feystone, kill him fast

[mewlynx]

Do The Name's Lavasioth and just speed farm him, it's better imo. Make a water LBG build and always cap.

[Shiverwar]

Originally posted by maelynx:

Do The Name's Lavasioth and just speed farm him, it's better imo. Make a water LBG build and always cap.

That, and if memory serves, it gives you more of the better feystones.

[Space]

Is the event live or what? High Rank or Master Rank?

[Zukabazuka]

Originally posted by maelynx:

Do The Name's Lavasioth and just speed farm him, it's better imo. Make a water LBG build and always cap.

You are better off making a fire version mainly because water make him harder so in return you do less damage unless they changed that. Yeah I know its silly but fire is just better against lavasioth due to it making him have weakspot all over the body.

[Abi Normal]

Originally posted by Pard:

Is the event live or what? High Rank or Master Rank?

High Rank. The only sort of barrier to entry is it being HR50.

[Edifier]

Originally posted by maelynx:

Do The Name's Lavasioth and just speed farm him, it's better imo. Make a water LBG build and always cap.

No ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, bring FIRE weapons. You'll deal full damage because all of his body parts are soft. If you bring water you'll be hitting metal plates and deal crap damage.

[Nope]

Originally posted by Edifier:

Originally posted by maelynx:

Do The Name's Lavasioth and just speed farm him, it's better imo. Make a water LBG build and always cap.

No ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, bring FIRE weapons. You'll deal full damage because all of his body parts are soft. If you bring water you'll be hitting metal plates and deal crap damage.

For LBG, even with the armor, you can drop him in sub 5 minutes

[Greb]

He needs to eat to give you decorations. You can pick up about 30 before they stop spawning.

If I recall, the optimum method is waiting for him to eat in Area 1 and then burning him down in one go with a Glutton / Zinogre HBG. Trip him by breaking one of his legs (you could probably soften it while he's stuck in the eating animation now) and then he'll throw up a tonne of decorations.

Then it's either your choice to grab the drops and then return to HQ, or burn him down until he limps out of there (shouldn't be too hard with a good set) and then capture him for even more bonus rewards of feystones, etc.

Personally I always preferred Lavasioth for decoration grinding though.

[tag545]

the strategy for greatest jagras is to let him eat then do as much damage as possible. if you can beat him in the first zone (by abusing stun, traps, ect) its better to just capture him and grab whatever decos are around on the 20s left. if not then do the usual let him spit his 30 decos then finish the hunt.

for lava fish cluster is the way to go for efficient farming. otherwise you just go for the hardest hitting melee weapon you have or a water ranged weapon. (water element the source of your damage is still strong when hardened so its a non issue). add in how he reheats pretty often (namely his head) and the new softening mechanic and the whole fire gimmick is about as helpful as using water on lunastra.

lava fish is the better of the two (assuming you can do the hunts fast) for getting rare stuff since you get better rewards. jagras gives large amounts of decos so you can get all the common stuff. miasma, vitality, crit eye, ect.

[Edifier]

Originally posted by tag545:

for lava fish cluster is the way to go for efficient farming. otherwise you just go for the hardest hitting melee weapon you have or a water ranged weapon. (water element the source of your damage is still strong when hardened so its a non issue). add in how he reheats pretty often (namely his head) and the new softening mechanic and the whole fire gimmick is about as helpful as using water on lunastra. :lunar2019deadpanpig:

When his armor hardens you'll start to flinch with the hits. Just bring a fire weapon and deal full damage. Even if he's not weak to fire you still deal a lot of damage.

When the hunt is in full speed he won't be having time to reheat himself. If you keeps reheating himself you're obviously not killing him quickly enough and this was before Master Rank gears too.

Originally posted by Nope:

Originally posted by Edifier:

No ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, bring FIRE weapons. You'll deal full damage because all of his body parts are soft. If you bring water you'll be hitting metal plates and deal crap damage.

For LBG, even with the armor, you can drop him in sub 5 minutes

Will he go down quicker with Fire ammo?

[Greb]

Remember you can melt Lavasioth's armour with explosive damage I.E barrel bombs, your Palico's Meowlotov abilities, torch pods (shooting the floor makes a heat spot which somehow melts rock) a Kinsect set to the fire element, or shelling via a Gunlance too.

Easiest are weapons with fire damage especially something like an LBG with flame ammo though, yeah.

[Nope]

Originally posted by Edifier:

Originally posted by Nope:

For LBG, even with the armor, you can drop him in sub 5 minutes

Will he go down quicker with Fire ammo?

No since you lose elemental damage because he resist to fire and it is your main source of damage of elemental LBG