Big Gold Crown Hunting

[Zygozium]

Looking for the Big Gold Crown for the following Monsters:

I HAVE FINISHED! PLATINUM!

If anyone is looking for those monsters as well feel free to join my lobby. If we separately run investigations we can double the odds of finding one. Pressing and holding the map button-then switching the recipient to "session" we can contact each other mid mission.

These are the last monsters I need for the Gold Crown Achievement. Any help/advise would be greatly appreciated.

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[Tregrenos]

Go get a mod that forces the monsters to be either small or gold crown. I'm normally against stuff like this, but if it were a purely visible case there wouldn't be an issue. However, thanks to the ABSOLUTELY USELESS LARGE SILVER CROWN looking the same damn size as a large gold crown it's nothing more than a middle finger to anyone who takes the time to kill these things. I had to make an exception because the large silver crowns are BS RNG padding that serve no purpose at all but to piss off anyone crown hunting.

[Zygozium]

Believe you me I have thought about it, but unfortunately I am dead set on doing it legit. I've even thought of using one of the mods that tells you mid mission the details of the monster but I can't bring myself to use that either.

[Pocahawtness]

Originally posted by Zero Sum Chimera:

Believe you me I have thought about it, but unfortunately I am dead set on doing it legit. I've even thought of using one of the mods that tells you mid mission the details of the monster but I can't bring myself to use that either.

Good for you. I honestly don't see the point in cheating to get an achievement. It's just so stupid.

The best thing to do is just forget the crowns and play the game. The problem is that it can take a very long time to just get one crown if you are really trying for it. However the events that mention music have a much higher chance of a crown. I completed my crowns collection for five monsters in a few days doing Wildspire Bolero. So right now you want to do the Effluvial Opera if you want any of the large or small crowns for any of those monsters.

Talking about the Effluvial, I just tried to get the smallest girros and got it in one attempt lol.

[Zygozium]

Originally posted by ｢C❤A｣ Pocahawtness:

The best thing to do is just forget the crowns and play the game. The problem is that it can take a very long time to just get one crown if you are really trying for it. However the events that mention music have a much higher chance of a crown.

I've got all the ones in the current event quest, and I'm trying to get all these asap. 1,700+ hours and I'm ready to move on to a different game but my stubborn brain wont let me till I get all the Achievements.

[Pocahawtness]

Originally posted by Zero Sum Chimera:

Originally posted by ｢C❤A｣ Pocahawtness:

The best thing to do is just forget the crowns and play the game. The problem is that it can take a very long time to just get one crown if you are really trying for it. However the events that mention music have a much higher chance of a crown.

I've got all the ones in the current event quest, and I'm trying to get all these asap. 1,700+ hours and I'm ready to move on to a different game but my stubborn brain wont let me till I get all the Achievements.

I used the Youtube videos for individual monsters. So I would get a load of quests, any rewards, and then just go again and again until I found the monster that was about the right size, ignoring monsters that were clearly average, then hunt it if it was about the right size. I mean I spent two solid weeks hunting Kirin. 50% of the time I didn't actually kill or capture it, just went with the gillie mantel to measure it.

I have 1 large crown to complete that achieve but I have 12 small to get for the other achieve. I WILL COMPLETE THEM!

Tobi incidentally I found to be very hard.

[Zygozium]

Originally posted by ｢C❤A｣ Pocahawtness:

I used the Youtube videos for individual monsters. So I would get a load of quests, any rewards, and then just go again and again until I found the monster that was about the right size, ignoring monsters that were clearly average, then hunt it if it was about the right size.

My issue is only slightly the measuring of the monsters. I do have a little difficulty determining what is slightly above average vs Gold Crown, but mainly my issue is with RNG. I'm only capable of running one quest at a time but if others were also running investigations like me looking for the same monsters, we would effectively be checking 2-4x faster and thus speeding up the process.

Did you notice at all if the mission rewards/criteria played a factor? Online guides suspect that if the rewards include at lease 1 gold and 1 silver reward the likelihood is higher, or if the number of faints is different than the standard 3 etc.

[cruste]

Originally posted by ｢C❤A｣ Pocahawtness:

Originally posted by Zero Sum Chimera:

Believe you me I have thought about it, but unfortunately I am dead set on doing it legit. I've even thought of using one of the mods that tells you mid mission the details of the monster but I can't bring myself to use that either.

Good for you. I honestly don't see the point in cheating to get an achievement. It's just so stupid.

The best thing to do is just forget the crowns and play the game. The problem is that it can take a very long time to just get one crown if you are really trying for it. However the events that mention music have a much higher chance of a crown. I completed my crowns collection for five monsters in a few days doing Wildspire Bolero. So right now you want to do the Effluvial Opera if you want any of the large or small crowns for any of those monsters.

Talking about the Effluvial, I just tried to get the smallest girros and got it in one attempt lol.

come on it is just bad game design and we may see a tool, which helps with analysing crown status in a future game of the series.

What is the point of the binoculars for example?
it had the potential to offer some extra info about the hunted monster.
They could also link the crown status to the tracks, because a huge monster makes bigger tracks.

tobi was my arch enemy and it was awful to measure its size with the help of youtube videos.

[Pocahawtness]

Originally posted by cruste:

come on it is just bad game design and we may see a tool, which helps with analysing crown status in a future game of the series.

What is the point of the binoculars for example?
it had the potential to offer some extra info about the hunted monster.
They could also link the crown status to the tracks, because a huge monster makes bigger tracks.

tobi was my arch enemy and it was awful to measure its size with the help of youtube videos.

But a mod is not part of the game. I think it's fine to use any trick or trap that came with the game, but it's not fine to use anything that is a separate mod. If you want to that's fine, but I rest peacefully at night that I didn't cheat to get the achievements ( or at least I will when I get them, lol ).

[Tregrenos]

Originally posted by ｢C❤A｣ Pocahawtness:

Originally posted by cruste:

come on it is just bad game design and we may see a tool, which helps with analysing crown status in a future game of the series.

What is the point of the binoculars for example?
it had the potential to offer some extra info about the hunted monster.
They could also link the crown status to the tracks, because a huge monster makes bigger tracks.

tobi was my arch enemy and it was awful to measure its size with the help of youtube videos.

But a mod is not part of the game. I think it's fine to use any trick or trap that came with the game, but it's not fine to use anything that is a separate mod. If you want to that's fine, but I rest peacefully at night that I didn't cheat to get the achievements ( or at least I will when I get them, lol ).

Would this include save scumming to not waste investigations?

[JPM岩]

Originally posted by Zero Sum Chimera:

Believe you me I have thought about it, but unfortunately I am dead set on doing it legit. I've even thought of using one of the mods that tells you mid mission the details of the monster but I can't bring myself to use that either.

Theres 5 event quests that rotate out, theyre all musically themed, they have all non elder monsters, and have an increased chance of large and mini crowns; the only monster that isnt part of those quests is Black Diablos

[Zygozium]

Originally posted by JPM岩:

Theres 5 event quests that rotate out, theyre all musically themed, they have all non elder monsters, and have an increased chance of large and mini crowns; the only monster that isnt part of those quests is Black Diablos

Of that I am aware. I am trying to get this done very soon, and would prefer to not have to wait for those event to rotate back in.

[cruste]

Originally posted by Zero Sum Chimera:

Originally posted by ｢C❤A｣ Pocahawtness:

I used the Youtube videos for individual monsters. So I would get a load of quests, any rewards, and then just go again and again until I found the monster that was about the right size, ignoring monsters that were clearly average, then hunt it if it was about the right size.

My issue is only slightly the measuring of the monsters. I do have a little difficulty determining what is slightly above average vs Gold Crown, but mainly my issue is with RNG. I'm only capable of running one quest at a time but if others were also running investigations like me looking for the same monsters, we would effectively be checking 2-4x faster and thus speeding up the process.

Did you notice at all if the mission rewards/criteria played a factor? Online guides suspect that if the rewards include at lease 1 gold and 1 silver reward the likelihood is higher, or if the number of faints is different than the standard 3 etc.

doesn't really help imo,
because the metering of the monster is awful

Think about the scenario where you leave your mission, which had maybe a goldcrown monster to join the mission of someone else, who thought he had found a goldcrown monster, but ends with a normal one ...

[Tregrenos]

Originally posted by cruste:

Originally posted by Zero Sum Chimera:

My issue is only slightly the measuring of the monsters. I do have a little difficulty determining what is slightly above average vs Gold Crown, but mainly my issue is with RNG. I'm only capable of running one quest at a time but if others were also running investigations like me looking for the same monsters, we would effectively be checking 2-4x faster and thus speeding up the process.

Did you notice at all if the mission rewards/criteria played a factor? Online guides suspect that if the rewards include at lease 1 gold and 1 silver reward the likelihood is higher, or if the number of faints is different than the standard 3 etc.

doesn't really help imo,
because the metering of the monster is awful

Think about the scenario where you leave your mission, which had maybe a goldcrown monster to join the mission of someone else, who thought he had found a goldcrown monster, but ends with a normal one ...

OR if you think you have a gold crown because it's obviously larger, but instead have a silver large that's visually the same damn size because ♥♥♥♥ you, that's why!

This... This is why you should use the mod. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ large silver crowns... -_-

[cruste]

Originally posted by Tregrenos:

Originally posted by cruste:

doesn't really help imo,
because the metering of the monster is awful

Think about the scenario where you leave your mission, which had maybe a goldcrown monster to join the mission of someone else, who thought he had found a goldcrown monster, but ends with a normal one ...

OR if you think you have a gold crown because it's obviously larger, but instead have a silver large that's visually the same damn size because ♥♥♥♥ you, that's why!

This... This is why you should use the mod. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ large silver crowns... -_-

capcom loves to troll its players

[McMurphy]

Tobi-Kadachi and Azure Rathalos

take the event quest that gives higher crown chances
you dont need to kill evry monster to get the crown. You can also join late and the monsters that are allredy dead still can give you a crown.


Black Diablos

you need investigations with some silver or better minimum 1 gold box
i got it in a 2 monster investigation after around 160 black diablos


good luck