Helpful Tip: DON’T grind for armor in Low Rank

[Kokonattsu]

Grinding for armor in Low Rank will just lead to wasted time when every piece of low rank armor becomes unusable once you hit High Rank. Trust me.

Just use armor spheres and upgrade a set of armor you make at the start (like Bone or Alloy)

[TH3xR34P3R]

Yup this is what I have been doing just working on augmenting the bone set at the moment to max it out for the sake of it before I work on the next main set I want to make since by that point I will have all the resources for it anyways.

[Omniwrath]

No time was ever wasted while having fun. Kill what you want, craft while you can. Grinding isn't required.

[GamingWithSilvertail]

Originally posted by Yurine-chan:

Grinding for armor in Low Rank will just lead to wasted time when every piece of low rank armor becomes unusable once you hit High Rank. Trust me.

Just use armor spheres and upgrade a set of armor you make at the start (like Bone or Alloy)

Dont sell the mats, and use the mats for high rank gear once you get HR. AKA save the mats for weapons.

[Hobocop]

Do look out for Low Rank armor pieces with gathering skills like Botanist so you don't have to worry about farming for consumables as much early on, but don't go out of your way for them.

[Jupiter Pulse]

Originally posted by Omniwrath:

No time was ever wasted while having fun. Kill what you want, craft while you can. Grinding isn't required.

Pretty much this, People say don't bother with the low level skills, but I'm in no rush and doing skills around my play style. nothing like having ♥♥♥♥♥♥ earbuds(1) and getting out of Monster shouts over a second sooner than everyone else without.

[jscjml]

Yeah I rushed straight to high rank, killed Nergigante with ♥♥♥♥ LBG and some Low Rank mishmash armor of pukei, kulu, bone gear lol. If you can handle it, dont waste time in LR.

[Kittysune]

Originally posted by Yurine-chan:

Grinding for armor in Low Rank will just lead to wasted time when every piece of low rank armor becomes unusable once you hit High Rank. Trust me.

Just use armor spheres and upgrade a set of armor you make at the start (like Bone or Alloy)

basically if you think like this like rushing through High rank thats is hard for every newcomer
since there is so many stuff they had to learn on High rank while they had chance to learn most of that stuff on Low rank
farming sets never been waste of time on MH
unless they intended to use ughh those builds and how to kill video

[Vahnkiljoy]

You know you can upgrade your low rank armor right?

[flyingturtle]

First time I play MHW (on PS4) I took my time in Low Rank. I made several sets and farming them HELPED a ton. It made me learn the game mechanics of the game better, especially farming Low Rank Anjanath.

By the time I hit High Rank, the HR versios of most of the monsters were easier for me because I was used to their move sets.

But also taking my time helped with not getting burnt out too fast. My friends who rushed to HR, all of them quit the game because they just grinded TEDs (before any of the DLCs came out).

Yeah, if you're a MH pro, rush through Low Rank -- this is what I did on my PC play -- but if you're a newbie, just take your time.

Learning how to farm and craft stuff at Low Rank is super easy and that experience will help you prepare of the harder encounters in High Rank. There isn't any DLC yet so why rush.

[Mako Ruu]

Helpful Tip: Don't tell me how to live my life.

*struts around in Anja armor*

[Pinkels]

Originally posted by Yurine-chan:

Grinding for armor in Low Rank will just lead to wasted time when every piece of low rank armor becomes unusable once you hit High Rank. Trust me.

Just use armor spheres and upgrade a set of armor you make at the start (like Bone or Alloy)

But my full baroth set looks cool though 😑

[SubTonic]

I'll be interested in optimising my playstyle to the meta later on on future characters. First playthrough of an MH game, let alone World, and I'm going to do it at my own pace.

[Duxa]

If you are hunting monsters you arent wasting time. 99% of the fun of this game is killing big monsters, wether you do it at low rank or high rank its still fun and not wasted time. No one is trying to fly through the game here, no point.

[No' Name]

So, basically, what the OP is actually saying, is to let others, who have done the work to obtain low rank gear that's better than what you can obtain from Armor Spheres, is to "Carry" their asses, because, they were too lazy, and didn't want to spend the time to actually contribute to helping those that carried them.

That's a fantastic idea!

[TheMap]

If you want to maximize your time and play High Rank, I'd suggest the same as the OP. Get a decent set from the start with a weapon your comfortable with until High Rank.