So, once I finished the story I kinda lost interest.

[Will Report Flying Cars]

I liked the game, got 75 hours now I think. Definitely worth the money.
But idk what to do now. I mean I been playing most of the game solo... So what purpose do I have to do anything else now? It's not like I can join a 10 man raid group like in WoW and try to do late game bosses etc. I kinda feel like even if I got better armor now, why? What's the point? I have nobody to compete with. I can do just about everything with what I have atm. Kinda feels like a single player game and everything else now is just farming for the end game gear, but I already beat the story so where do I use that gear?

I beat Xenojiva, did the witcher story, did the tempered quests, did some tempered investigations.
Now what?
Finding it hard to do anything once I actually log in? I just kinda run around wondering what to do next. I think I'm HR 59 not sure.

I don't have icebourne, but the game was out for 2 years? What were you supposed to do before Iceborne?

[Waffles]

For the casual player like yourself, nothing. You can move on.
I'm happy you liked the game!

For the more hardcore players, decoration grinding, making the best builds possible, helping weaker hunters, trying new weapons, becoming a better hunter, etc. Basically self-made goals.
If you've no drive to become better without guidance then you've no reason to play.

Each weapon is practically an entire game on their own.

[Charcharodonto]

Beating harder versions.

You have the temprered monsters.

Then you have Arch tempered Elder dragons.

You also have the behemoth fight, which works like a WoW Dungeon fight. The recommended strategy is 1 tank, 2 dps and a healer. where you need to watch for mechanics.

Then there are also events which often offer challenges, arena quests where you fight monsters with limited equipment.

And lastly there is Kulve Taroth, another event monster only available at times who you fight differently from most monsters.

But even then that only lasts so long unless you want to Min-max everything. Most people would fight when a new thing to fight popped up until they got the gear and or layered armor set and then wait until the next thing.

[Gordo Ramsay]

Have you fought the elder dragons, have you fought the arch-tempered monsters? Have you done behemoth or kulve taroth? What about the arena quests and event quests? Do you have all the layered armor? Have you completed all the optional quests? There's so much more you can do after the basic story. Granted, it is kind of like grinding but that doesn't mean it can't be fun. You can also try learning a new weapon and getting really good at it.

[Pimers]

Well there is still :
- Arch tempered monsters (Teostra, Lunastra, Kushala, Vaal, Nergigante, Xeno, Zorah) which are the hardest challenge in the normal game, they give tickets to craft a gamma version of their armor with great stats.(Event tab)
- Behemoth & Extremoth if you havent done them, Extremoth is really hard without a coordinated team. (Event tab for Extremoth)
- Ancient Leshen, who is a lot different from the Leshen from the witcher quest (Event tab)
- Kulve Taroth siege, it's fun but need some players, you access that on the bridge

To do all of that you will need a bit of stuff tho, farm decorations via investigations & build a good stuff with defensive traits otherwise you will have a hard time.

If killing monsters isn't your thing you can also find the missing canteen ingredients by doing expeditions with gathering points bonus, they spawn a new node with an ingredient, they are missed a lot because it's explained nowhere that it make you unlock ingredients

You can also hunt for endemic life, there is some trophies for that & some great videos to found them if you don't have the patience.

In the end this game is a lot of grind and exploring the mechanics of the weapons & building stuff for them so if it's not your thing i can understand.

The last thing to do would be to get all achievements but again it's time consuming, especially the gold crowns.

I hope I helped, sorry for the bad english.

[Gouf]

Yes if you was a casual you can go play another game you want but if you want to stay try beat the HR100 quest.

[Narcoleptic Marshmallow]

Originally posted by Will Report Flying Cars:

Now what?

Now nothing. The whole game is beating monsters over and over, to craft better gear so you can beat stronger monsters over and over, until you get the best possible gear and start beating the strongest monsters over and over but faster.

No shame in quitting a game you're not having fun with anymore.

[Unit076]

The actual core gameplay loop of Monster Hunter seems pretty arcade-y in the first place, so answering your question personally:

Originally posted by Will Report Flying Cars:

I don't have icebourne, but the game was out for 2 years? What were you supposed to do before Iceborne?

Make/try more armor and weapons build, help other lower ranks or farming players, hunt more monsters. It's all there is to this game, the story never matters. And considering that, I'm really surprised this game managed to sell 15 million copies since this is definitely not everyone's cup of tea.

[Gin-chan]

Other games still exists. 0 reason to play a game you dont have anything you eant to do anymore. Hell I stopped playing once I reached HR 50 and then waited till Iceborn releases to come back . Pretty sure i'll do the same once I finish Iceborn too and move on to other games. Theres way too many good games out there to stick around playing one game forever

[Will Report Flying Cars]

Okay. I don't feel so bad now for not knowing what to do next.
I think maybe I will grind to HR 100 and take it from there. Maybe try a new weapon.

[NoobMaster69]

It's the actual fight that keeps most MH fans going. I put 300 hours into the base game, 200-ish of those was after completing the story. It's the thrill of the fight, the feeling of satisfaction when you correctly outplay the monster, and the fun of creating different builds and learning new weapons is what it's all about.

I've played 330 hours now and have only used the Charge Blade and Bow. I still have 12 more weapons to learn and master, so much content.