Elder Melder

[DaTank]

Hey I have been having a tough time finding a good answer for this.

The Elder Melder you can use to create crafting materials, but from my understanding they only appear once you have obtained at least one of the items. I am trying to craft some weapons but they require low rank materials which I don't have anymore and I was going to meld them but yea. So I was wondering if there was a point the Elder Melder started collecting the items I can meld at a certain point so now I have to go back and get these items or how exactly does it work?

[cruste]

nope you can't craft low rank material.
It is only possible to meld augment materials from grinding land + monster gems and plates for celestial and gold prints

enjoy killing lr monster in 1 min.

if you want to skip the lr grind install all item shop mod/cheat.

[DaTank]

Ahh ok that makes sense. I want to skip using mods as they seem to break things but thanks for the info.

[ElementEvo7]

You can only really use the elder melder to craft the rarest drop of a specific monster per rank(low Rathalos Plate, high Rathalos Ruby, master Rathalos Mantle). Beyond that, guiding lands monsters all drop one specific material for tempered and normal versions of each monster(normal Rathalos King's Scale, tempered Rathalos Tempered Red Scale).

If you help low rank players as a master rank player you get silver tickets for low rank rare materials

If you help high rank players as a master rank player you get gold tickets for high rank rare materials

If you want things like Vaal Hazak Fang you have to actually kill high rank Vaal Hazak since even though that is a rare material, it's not the rarest material that monster can drop so the elder melder can't make it for you :(

One cool thing about the guiding lands is that tempered materials can trade 1 for 1 with non tempered materials, 1 Tempered Red Scale for 1 King's Scale. It has to be from the same monster for that 1 for 1 trade though, mixing materials costs more. Kind of useful since you eventually stop seeing non tempered monsters in the guiding lands.