Legiana immune to tranq bombs?

[Beltane]

Friend of mine and myself just had two fights with Legiana. Was managable, but when it came to the capture process she seemed to ignore our tranqs. First time she ignored the tranqs and left the map. Second she ignored them again, but at least we were able to finish her off. And in both cases she had a skull marker and retreated to her lair to recover.

Uhm... yea, are we missing something? So far the very same procedure with stuntrap and tranqmobs worked, every single time.

[Saber]

Every non-elder dragon is vulnerable to tranq bombs.

Try tranq bombing her twice, then trapping her. It should capture her instantaneously.

[dyne2alex]

sometimes skull isn't 100% reliable. When you see skull, try whacking a few more times when tranq fails and try trap again quickly.

[Z]

Originally posted by dyne2alex:

sometimes skull isn't 100% reliable. When you see skull, try whacking a few more times when tranq fails and try trap again quickly.

I always trap first before tranq bomb after notice the skull icon. Why people tranq first before trapping? Any benefit?

[ciel]

Originally posted by HR100:

Originally posted by dyne2alex:

sometimes skull isn't 100% reliable. When you see skull, try whacking a few more times when tranq fails and try trap again quickly.

I always trap first before tranq bomb after notice the skull icon. Why people tranq first before trapping? Any benefit?

less chance for the trap to wear out before you catch it, especially if you've been using traps to stagger it during the hunt and it's built up resistance. also very helpful if it's sleeping on a surface you can't lay traps on and you need to wake it up so it steps on the trap. can't guarantee you won't get knocked away and miss the tranq. in a similar vein it makes trapping more reliable when you've got another monster in the sector (looking at you bazelgeuse)

[Camo]

Originally posted by HR100:

Originally posted by dyne2alex:

sometimes skull isn't 100% reliable. When you see skull, try whacking a few more times when tranq fails and try trap again quickly.

I always trap first before tranq bomb after notice the skull icon. Why people tranq first before trapping? Any benefit?

Some monsters like Devijho break the trap earlier than normal and attack while trapped. Other reason probably is to make sure that it will be captured and not break the trap before they can use tranq bomb

[Stormsong]

Originally posted by HR100:

Originally posted by dyne2alex:

sometimes skull isn't 100% reliable. When you see skull, try whacking a few more times when tranq fails and try trap again quickly.

I always trap first before tranq bomb after notice the skull icon. Why people tranq first before trapping? Any benefit?

Largely habit. However, some small benefits:

- Tranq effect lasts longer than a monster being caught in a trap, if you're dealing with multiple monsters, this is useful because maybe Bazel is sitting there screaming every 2 seconds and had you laid a trap down first he may have made you waste time between tranqs and the monster could have broken out by the time you recovered from the roars. You have more leeway if you tranq first.

- Again on the difference in effect time, if you have a situation where you misread the tells or they were inaccurate and the monster isn't quite ready: if you trap and then 2x tranq and THEN find out the monster needed a couple more hits, throwing down the tranqs already bit into some of your trap time. Compare that to tranq first and now cap, if the hunt doesn't immediately end you have the full duration of the trap to beat the hell out of it and put it over the threshold.

But I'm some similar small benefits exist for trapping first, like making sure you don't miss your tranqs. Anyway, if you have a way that works, I wouldn't worry about it.

EDIT: Ninja'd. Twice. Oh well.