Oh boy, that Viper Tobi Kadachi

[Tourette's Guy]

wiped the floor with my face like 7 times before I was finally able to kill it. I'm having a wonderful time playing Iceborne, it's like playing from zero again. Definitely it's an excellent DLC.

[AfLIcTeD]

I've not really struggled that much, MR7 and still using HR gear lol. I lance main and that health augment is just too good to give up. The defender lance is still just as powerful as some of the early MR weapons.

[mewlynx]

Originally posted by AfLIcTeD:

I've not really struggled that much, MR7 and still using HR gear lol. I lance main and that health augment is just too good to give up. The defender lance is still just as powerful as some of the early MR weapons.

Barioth slapped me around pretty good with my HR stuff. Was using SA, and it took 27 minutes and all my mega/max potions. Am moving onto MR stuff before the next assignments.

[AfLIcTeD]

Originally posted by maelynx:

Originally posted by AfLIcTeD:

I've not really struggled that much, MR7 and still using HR gear lol. I lance main and that health augment is just too good to give up. The defender lance is still just as powerful as some of the early MR weapons.

Barioth slapped me around pretty good with my HR stuff. Was using SA, and it took 27 minutes and all my mega/max potions. Am moving onto MR stuff before the next assignments.

I struggled a bit with him, still didn't cart though. I'm guessing going further I will start to struggle if I don't upgrade. Gonna upgrade palico gadgets first, then slap on vigorwasp and choose a MR lance.
I thought they would be 1 or 2 shotting you but they only do a bit more damage than HR monsters. So far.

[Kebab Kawasaki]

Lost 1 Round againmst him, farmed then a MR Set with Poison Imunity Gems and wiped the floor with him

[awanderingswordsman]

Yeah just beat barioth but definitely feeling the lack of new gear catching up with me. The thing is, I feel like this is how much damage I SHOULD be taking in G rank so I'm not sure if I'll upgrade to make it easier or just try to dodge more. Still haven't actually failed a quest but I have died several times.

[mewlynx]

Originally posted by AfLIcTeD:

Originally posted by maelynx:

Barioth slapped me around pretty good with my HR stuff. Was using SA, and it took 27 minutes and all my mega/max potions. Am moving onto MR stuff before the next assignments.

I struggled a bit with him, still didn't cart though. I'm guessing going further I will start to struggle if I don't upgrade. Gonna upgrade palico gadgets first, then slap on vigorwasp and choose a MR lance.
I thought they would be 1 or 2 shotting you but they only do a bit more damage than HR monsters. So far.

Ye, didn't cart either, just had a really hard time trying to get clutch claw opportunities in, and it was hard being aggressive with SA without trading.

[amathy]

barioth was pretty rough for me as gs
didn't fail the quest but i'm not gonna say it wasn't close

definitely feels good to struggle through things again though

[puzzlefox]

I beat him on my first try, but I almost failed that one. Fainted twice. Which came as a surprise cause up until him, nothing had carted me yet. Even the saber tooth dragoncat didn’t give me as much of a run for my money.. I didn’t pack antidotes tho, so that’s probably why..

But I’m 6 monsters in, so that will likely change lol..

Perhaps you would be interested in learning of the salvation of our doot and savior, the hunting horn?
(I’ve been using HH exclusively, and it has been a fantastic weapon for everything so far. Using the mad bone horn, so I can enjoy free earplugs, attack up XL, free evade window/movement speed, and the oh-so glorious muck/deep snow movement resistance)

[Deneviel]

I'm using bow ( Lance Main ) and it was a piece of cake. Glavenus till now has been the only one that killed me twice ... got litterally oneshotted with the charged Tail Swipe.

The Viper only issue to me was following up with the camera we he start to jump around you. I hate the lock on target

[mewlynx]

Originally posted by puzzlefox:

I beat him on my first try, but I almost failed that one. Fainted twice. Which came as a surprise cause up until him, nothing had carted me yet. Even the saber tooth dragoncat didn’t give me as much of a run for my money.. I didn’t pack antidotes tho, so that’s probably why..

But I’m 6 monsters in, so that will likely change lol..

Perhaps you would be interested in learning of the salvation of our doot and savior, the hunting horn?
(I’ve been using HH exclusively, and it has been a fantastic weapon for everything so far. Using the mad bone horn, so I can enjoy free earplugs, attack up XL, free evade window/movement speed, and the oh-so glorious muck/deep snow movement resistance)

Have you been getting much use out of the impact waves? I messed around with HH since I was excited for that, but the range of it seems small, and setting up a chain of impacts seemed finnicky.

[Serolithia]

I've had my struggles with it but I had managed to beat first try (story one) without carts. It however was quite a pain when it stacked the poison and made it so lethal. Just forced myself to learn how and when to dodge the tail attacks to avoid the poison and smack it hard with my hammer.

[Juliane_L]

beat it on first try with dual blades without carts. didn't get lethal poison at all, but nearly used all my potions. a very fun fight.

[NikemanBOOM]

The fights are definitely what I was wanting from MHW:IB. Running with DB and Bow has been a blast.

Originally posted by Juliane_L:

beat it on first try with dual blades without carts. didn't get lethal poison at all, but nearly used all my potions. a very fun fight.

That was, for the most part, my experience, too. I took a cart due to poison only because I wasn't able to drink it in time. Got slapped twice and wasn't able to get up before the sweet sweet embrace of death.

[Geist]

Almost carted to the venom status(damn that stuff is nasty). Still got him(and the others before) on the first attempt, gotta see how far I get before my first cart.

[Pain]

Just get the poison resistance charm, then viper is easier. It's the venom that makes him very dangerous. The flappy tail nonsense is super annoying as he does alot of AoE sweeps with truly bs hitboxes but, mind the tail and he isn't hard. Banbaro is more annoying but that's because he always faces you if you doing it solo.