Stop capturing Gold Rathian

[spazwazza]

You only get spikes from carves, not rewards. I mean, bronze/silver/gold investigation bonus rewards can be whatever, but as far as regular capture rewards, you will NEVER get any surspikes.

So if it's an Optional or Event quest rather than an Investigation, and you aren't in dire straits where you're down to your last available faint and your options are capture or risk failing the hunt...please just murder her. Thank you.

[Numeriku]

Cut the tail, then capture.

[cruste]

Originally posted by Bash:

Call it brain-dead or whatever but the moment the monster starts limping is the moment you won. There's no reason to prolong the fight any further. In terms of rewards, capturing has the same quality but a better quantity. So as long as the monster can be captured, there's no reason to not capture it.

sounds like you never fought a goldi, which is literally nonstop enraged and can only be caped at real low hp

i already deleted all cap investigation for certain monster because it always ended in same scenario "accidently killed" or you waste 5 extra min by playing super safe while wasting lots of traps.

@op In grinding land it is even better to cap, if you need normal rewards, but it is still hard to cap goldi or silver, normally killed by accident, while carving grants gl materials.

[⚙ I'm doing my part! ⚙]

Ah people too lazy to carry 2 items in their pouch strikes again.

[sirkudjon]

??? Gold Rathian? Where? I had never encountered this monster. You mean Kulve taroth?

[Juliane_L]

Originally posted by Sirkudjon:

??? Gold Rathian? Where? I had never encountered this monster. You mean Kulve taroth?

Iceborne DLC, you need to be at least MR 70 to encounter her. drop some of the best weapons for a lot of categories.

[War Criminal Arc]

I won't bother reading the comments

I'll just straight up say capturing and carving pull items from the same item pool

They're the same, except you get 4 carve rewards for capturing the monster

[Shift]

I don't agree with capcom's decision to make it the same for one or another, same as melee/gunner armor being the same and unified SP/MP quest line. Now you just gotta be braindead and capture one after another with no second thought about which one gives the mat you're after. Run with the times, I guess... that special arena needs mosters to be slain after all.

[sirkudjon]

Originally posted by Juliane_L:

Originally posted by Sirkudjon:

??? Gold Rathian? Where? I had never encountered this monster. You mean Kulve taroth?

Iceborne DLC, you need to be at least MR 70 to encounter her. drop some of the best weapons for a lot of categories.

ah ok. I don't have IB so that;s why i never seen one. Thx for explain.

[Aelin Galathynius]

Why are people still arguing about this.

Here is how you get maximum rewards:

1: Do an investigation for the target monster
2: Break every part and cut/carve the tail when possible
3: Capture the monster
4: Bring the Palico with Plunderblade



Given what OP was specifically talking about Surspikes are carved from the tail AND available as investigation rewards. So there is no reason to kill the monster, if you're purely after a Surspike your best option is to cut/carve the tail then capture it to end the hunt faster.

[Tenebris]

Originally posted by Suzaku:

Originally posted by spazwazza:

You only get spikes from carves, not rewards.

8 words in and you're already wrong. Carve and capture rewards are the same; the in-game info in the handbook is wrong.

Not really wrong. Just misleading. Which is what leads to stupidass posts like this where people have the misconception of capturing giving different rewards than capping.

PSA: 'Rewards' in the Hunter's Notes are for QUEST REWARDS, capture rewards ARE NOT the same thing, they use the same reward table as Carves, difference is, you get 1-2 more materials for capturing.

Stop telling people to not capture for reward related reasons.

[SaadGoblin]

Originally posted by spazwazza:

You only get spikes from carves, not rewards. I mean, bronze/silver/gold investigation bonus rewards can be whatever, but as far as regular capture rewards, you will NEVER get any surspikes.

So if it's an Optional or Event quest rather than an Investigation, and you aren't in dire straits where you're down to your last available faint and your options are capture or risk failing the hunt...please just murder her. Thank you.

Rewards are the same no matter what, quit ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ when you understand how the game works 🙄 yall act like this ♥♥♥♥ hasn't been out for a while now, this ain't news to anyone but you apparently. We're not playing the old school games anymore kiddo

[RaRa]

you get surspike from event rewards that is currently on i can confirm that much

[Slyme]

Originally posted by spazwazza:

You only get spikes from carves, not rewards. I mean, bronze/silver/gold investigation bonus rewards can be whatever, but as far as regular capture rewards, you will NEVER get any surspikes.

So if it's an Optional or Event quest rather than an Investigation, and you aren't in dire straits where you're down to your last available faint and your options are capture or risk failing the hunt...please just murder her. Thank you.

I play on console and your like those people who want Greatswords and such to go for only the tail when in a group hunt, but at the same time most of base game and iceborne give me those materials when I capture a monster. Also I've gotten lucky enough through out all my time fighting Gold Rathian to capture it and end the hunt with 2-4 surspikes including the ones I manage to break off. So I'll continue capturing them as much as I use weapons that can cut off tails on where ever I please thank you very much.

[Franz]

Originally posted by Juno Brier:

Originally posted by Franz:

killing is never better than capture.

Aside from Guiding Lands where the extra fighting provides potential extra shinies since that's where the real loot is at for Guiding Lands.

I'll concede that, tho I think it would still be ideal to beat the monster to one inch of its life and capture. I don't know if there are thresholds for GL shinies like for the slinger ammo drops, If that's the case one could actually do it ;)

[Vandals[UK]]

Again.

If you need Surspikes, the best is to forget about Capture or Slay but actually do some Gold Rath investigation.

To increase your chance of obtaining surspikes, you really should break Gold Rathian's back (30% reward chance). Pitfall traps would help you on this.

Curving the tail (after you slice it off) is also a possible option, but since its only 10% so its less attractive.

This week's Event Quest contains Gold Rath, so for those do not have investigations, this is your chances.