**** Glavenus's tail

[zennight]

I'm only saying this because iv'e had a long day and i just spent 5 quests in a row hunting him, and i'm not complaining about his tail mechanics or it's attacks or anything like that, just the fact that no matter what i ever do i can never cut his tail, literally any other monster i can do it easily, but its just his that i cant, so i'm just ranting here about it to blow off some steam and my rage at its stupidity.

[mewlynx]

Glav's tail can only be severed when it's glowing red hot (for Acid it has to be clear of any acid build up). Dunno if you already knew that or not, but that could explain why you're having so many difficulties.

[Narcoleptic Marshmallow]

You can only cut his tail when it's glowing.

[Greb]

You have to chip it with any attacks, and then sever it while it is glowing (clean for Acid Glavenus)

I'm not sure if you can do like 10,000 sever damage to his tail when it is cold and it will pop off when it turns heated to 1 sever damage, or if it only takes tail-cut damage while heated, but I can assure you it is very weak and easy to sever.

The hard part is landing those stuns / immobilising him in the small window of opportunity you have when it is glowing red hot.

[zennight]

Thanks for the advice but i already know about that, ive managed to do it before, it still annoys me to hell though

[Greb]

I play Hammer so I'm used to never getting any tail but yeah, I think I've only seen Glavenus tail get cut like maybe three times in the last 300 hours of play. It's not one you'll see get cut very often unless you've got people extremely focused on doing it.

Might be easier with Slicing ammo on an LBG / HBG though, I suppose.

[mewlynx]

Originally posted by zennight:

Thanks for the advice but i already know about that, ive managed to do it before, it still annoys me to hell though

Trap spamming is popular, too. A lot of the time people will temporal/rocksteady to soften a cleaned tail and then pop shock traps just to get it to hold still for a moment. I also usually save mounts specifically for these moments, but yea I feel you on Glav's tail being a pain to cut.

[Sekaro]

U know, it'd be really cool if u can force it to become hot and glow by wacking it with a fire elemental weapon.

[Yian Yan]

Everyone knows the whole can only cut while hot/sharp(acid) thing but I've heard from someone that was testing things that the tail will remain at 1 HP and not cut if the Glav is knocked over (at least from a Flinch Shot in the scenario they gave).

So it needs to be hot/sharp and not knocked over, theoretically.

Can anyone show a Glav tail cut on a downed Glav to deny this? Most google searches for glav tail cuts involve flashy cuts on attacking glavs.

Also: damage done to an unbroken tail that is currently hot/sharp will count as damage towards both the break and the cut. Again according to this report.

[Gin-chan]

Only ever managed to do it consistently while playing solo. Almost impossible to do it in coop from the attempts i've had so far. then again everyone I played with so far doesnt really care for the tail

[CourtesyFlush09]

Have you ever flinch shot Glavenus into his own tail?

[Warlord Ron]

Originally posted by Greb:

I play Hammer so I'm used to never getting any tail :glukkon: but yeah, I think I've only seen Glavenus tail get cut like maybe three times in the last 300 hours of play. It's not one you'll see get cut very often unless you've got people extremely focused on doing it.

Might be easier with Slicing ammo on an LBG / HBG though, I suppose.

Take a bumerang with you on the hunt... Hammer does damage to the tail so you only need 1 slicingdamage. Bumerang is your friend then