Is it pointless to aim for the tail with anything other than sever?

[Ragosta tin Dei]

Was told by a friend. Can anyone confirm?

[Furrows]

if your looking to cut off a tail yes, only slicing damage works towards the cut. so Hammer, Hunting horn, Bow and Guns should pretty much ignore tails.

[JPM岩]

I mean youll deal damage, but tail wont come off without cutting

[FinallyLoading]

Dealing damage to parts with any weapon will contribute to sever on tails but to actually sever it you still need sever.

[Furrows]

Originally posted by FinallyLoading:

Dealing damage to parts with any weapon will contribute to sever on tails but to actually sever it you still need sever.

false. you can dump all the blunt and shot damage into a tail but the cut won't get any closer. first time i did Safi i thought it was a tail break like KT, so my friends and i put almost 30k damage onto the tail with 1 person on a slicing weapon, got no cut. as a note Safis tail has about 19k HP to get cut.

[cruste]

you check it out on your own over there for every monster
https://mhworld.kiranico.com/monsters under part breakability
value dmg can be done by every weapon and sever dmg has to be done by the blades
so you have two pools for the tails

for safi you can do 400 dmg to its tail but you still need extra 5500 sever dmg for the cut

[Poothoottoot]

In some cases the tail is a decent secondary hitzone for shot damage if the head isn't available Rathalos comes to mind as well as Kushala but you won't be cutting any tails with shots.

[Zhou Yu]

Fun fact, hunting horn's butt stab is slice damage. No reason to ever actually try to sever a tail with it, but still.

[Katitoff]

Originally posted by FortyBass:

if your looking to cut off a tail yes, only slicing damage works towards the cut. so Hammer, Hunting horn, Bow and Guns should pretty much ignore tails.

That's incorrect - you need final hit to be slicing, all weapons deal damage to the part, but you need sever damage to take it off.

You can "easily" take tails out with hammer and boomerang throw.

[Hare+Guu!]

Originally posted by Katitoff:

You can "easily" take tails out with hammer and boomerang throw.

Or is it? Monsters don't have much hp in solo. A cat can easily cut stuff on it's own. Maybe you just think you're contributing to the cut when in reality, you did nothing.

[cruste]

Originally posted by Katitoff:

Originally posted by FortyBass:

if your looking to cut off a tail yes, only slicing damage works towards the cut. so Hammer, Hunting horn, Bow and Guns should pretty much ignore tails.

That's incorrect - you need final hit to be slicing, all weapons deal damage to the part, but you need sever damage to take it off.

You can "easily" take tails out with hammer and boomerang throw.

i highly doubt that when you see some big numbers for certain tails
rathalos had lowest number with 200 sever damage and 200 normal if i remember correctly which means you need around 200 bomerang swing keep dreaming of this mighty tool,
while your cat helped with the cutting ...

[Ragosta tin Dei]

It became an issue for us and Safi, since tail counts for 200 I think and we're doing p1 runs. I just wanted to know if I was wasting time instead dealing real damage I was chasing tail (no pun intended) hoping I was contributing to the sever.

[sirkudjon]

Originally posted by FortyBass:

if your looking to cut off a tail yes, only slicing damage works towards the cut. so Hammer, Hunting horn, Bow and Guns should pretty much ignore tails.

I don't know about bows but lighbowguns have a cutting ammunition for cutting parts. You need to damge it first with different ammunition and then use cutting.

[Ragosta tin Dei]

I'm asking for this specifically, Safi. Can you help your pals cut the tail by dealing damage to it yourself or are you wasting time? What I've been told is only sever damage counts.

[cruste]

Originally posted by Ragosta tin Dei:

I'm asking for this specifically, Safi. Can you help your pals cut the tail by dealing damage to it yourself or are you wasting time? What I've been told is only sever damage counts.

you can do 400 dmg to the tail
5500 sever dmg is additionally needed for the cut
i wouldn't focus at the tail with a non blade weapon there are enough other parts need to be broken