Who's enjoying their Frosted Flakes? (Frostfang Barioth)

[Thirst_Man]

I love the slugger secret on the armor and his hammer as well, but I only use that loadout for when I'm using hammer especially when I'm hunting something weak to ice. Otherwise I'm mainly using the Big Gay AL (Alatreon) armor and weapons for all that elemental dps and resistance.

[Bong-B Rippins]

His armor looks great. Totally fantastic. Probably the best looking armor in MHW. In terms of efficacy, it makes some builds that are not meta but are silly and fun better than they were before. They completely phoned it in on his weapons in classic MHW fashion. His fight is pretty lackluster and once I had enough pieces to make his armor I stopped fighting him entirely. A lot of tail swipes and hipchecks/turning his body into a hitbox. Very lazy moveset.

Originally posted by Thirst_Man:

Otherwise I'm mainly using the Big Gay AL (Alatreon) armor and weapons for all that elemental dps and resistance.

I feel very sad for you.

[Squidvasion]

Heh, I went and built the full Alpha set and his gsword just for fun, and I have to say it is one of the more enjoyable builds I've messed around with. Bonking and getting 3-5 KO's in easily with quick sheath is super convenient, and the gsword itself isn't half bad either.

[Azraelur]

the armor needs to be layered ASAP!

[Maiden Lightlina]

Originally posted by Hymensmasher420:

His armor looks great. Totally fantastic. Probably the best looking armor in MHW. In terms of efficacy, it makes some builds that are not meta but are silly and fun better than they were before. They completely phoned it in on his weapons in classic MHW fashion. His fight is pretty lackluster and once I had enough pieces to make his armor I stopped fighting him entirely. A lot of tail swipes and hipchecks/turning his body into a hitbox. Very lazy moveset.

Originally posted by Thirst_Man:

Otherwise I'm mainly using the Big Gay AL (Alatreon) armor and weapons for all that elemental dps and resistance.

I feel very sad for you.

Because he called it "big gay al"? not the best joke but it wasn't THAT bad.

[Bong-B Rippins]

Originally posted by Element Seraph:

Because he called it "big gay al"? not the best joke but it wasn't THAT bad.

No, I actually think it's endearing when people think of dumb nicknames. I feel bad because Alatreon's equipment is worthy only of the dumpster.

There's a kid in my apartment complex who is out playing quite often when I am coming home from work or on my porch. He has one of those plastic basketball hoops for kids. The ones that are 3 or 4 feet tall and he's always out there with a little basketball.

He doesn't try to get the ball in the net though. He likes to throw it off the backboard and catch it. There's no wrong way to have fun, but he frequently, frequently, throws the ball too hard and knocks the hoop over and has to pick it up. He clearly does not like having to pick it up, and even though he is basically surrounded by walls that are far more suitable for this activity, he continues to use the hoop and knock it over.

Witnessing that is exactly what it's like to see someone hunting in Alatreon equipment.

[Maiden Lightlina]

Originally posted by Hymensmasher420:

Originally posted by Element Seraph:

Because he called it "big gay al"? not the best joke but it wasn't THAT bad.

No, I actually think it's endearing when people think of dumb nicknames. I feel bad because Alatreon's equipment is worthy only of the dumpster.

There's a kid in my apartment complex who is out playing quite often when I am coming home from work or on my porch. He has one of those plastic basketball hoops for kids. The ones that are 3 or 4 feet tall and he's always out there with a little basketball.

He doesn't try to get the ball in the net though. He likes to throw it off the backboard and catch it. There's no wrong way to have fun, but he frequently, frequently, throws the ball too hard and knocks the hoop over and has to pick it up. He clearly does not like having to pick it up, and even though he is basically surrounded by walls that are far more suitable for this activity, he continues to use the hoop and knock it over.

Witnessing that is exactly what it's like to see someone hunting in Alatreon equipment.

Cool story. Now i feel sorry for you.

[ᔑᓭ∴ᔑリ⊣]

I like using Alatreon equipment just because it looks sexy, lol. But anyway, I really enjoyed frostfang. Me & a pal farmed it a bunch and not once did I get annoyed or anything at it. Ok that's a lie, I did get annoyed ONE time... I tried to clutch claw him when he jumped up into his nest to sleep but I got bamboozled by the mantle auto-remove-when-not-in-battle feature.... ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ you game.... But yeah, frostfang is pretty cool, and his armour is also cool, in fact, everything about him is cool. (I'm hilarious.)
I'm one of the few people who actually like barioth though, so, maybe I'm a little biased. meh.

TL;DR, yeah, he's neat

[Bong-B Rippins]

Originally posted by Element Seraph:

Cool story. Now i feel sorry for you.

I can't tell you how to feel but I also can't understand why you would feel that way. It's a pretty nice complex.

[ᔑᓭ∴ᔑリ⊣]

Originally posted by Hymensmasher420:

Originally posted by Element Seraph:

Cool story. Now i feel sorry for you.

I can't tell you how to feel but I also can't understand why you would feel that way. It's a pretty nice complex.

you're pitying someone for having fun, lol

[Bong-B Rippins]

Originally posted by ᔑᓭ∴ᔑリ⊣:

you're pitying someone for having fun, lol

What is fun about using Alatreon's equipment? It looks very dated and the female armor is also very janky in appearance. The set bonus from the armor is a pretty lame no cost stat boost that you don't interact with in any way, and the weapons not only look ugly but also do lower numbers than their better looking counterparts.

[Maiden Lightlina]

Originally posted by Hymensmasher420:

Originally posted by ᔑᓭ∴ᔑリ⊣:

you're pitying someone for having fun, lol

What is fun about using Alatreon's equipment? It looks very dated and the female armor is also very janky in appearance. The set bonus from the armor is a pretty lame no cost stat boost that you don't interact with in any way, and the weapons not only look ugly but also do lower numbers than their better looking counterparts.

Yeah that sucks man, people using sets you don't like? i mean the audacity. I hope you get through those days of seeing someone in that set. I know you want to give them a stern talking to on how to be a top pro player.

[Bong-B Rippins]

Originally posted by Element Seraph:

Yeah that sucks man, people using sets you don't like? i mean the audacity. I hope you get through those days of seeing someone in that set. I know you want to give them a stern talking to on how to be a top pro player.

Why do you think I want to make other people "top pro player(s)"?

[𝓇𝒾𝓃𝒶𝒶𝒶𝒶𝒶]

Solo is fun and easy.
With other people frosty is a pain and the "floor is glue" gets old really quickly, stop spamming it!
The gear is quite mediocre even for GS, I saw no improvement over a regular TCS build but it looks amazing as layered.

[Greb]

He fights like a low tier monster, I swear his basic version does more damage with his teeth-impale attack...being able to do it twice in a row doesn't really add anything to his threat level. It's annoying how Velkhana and Alatreon can't freeze you to the degree Frostfang Barioth can, Velkhana at least can use a concentrated AoE attack but apparently Frostfang is just that good with ice that all his attacks have the slow down property. Kinda steals some thunder from Velkhana, lol. Velkhana doesn't need any thunder stolen from him, he's already a pretty awful flagship as it is!

He needs more health, he doesn't even feel like a Tempered monster lol. I think the fact he spawns in that tiny room was a last ditch effort to add a bit of difficulty to the quest, but anyone who is anyone just flinches him into the walls twice and then lures him down into the big ice room instead.

I didn't think much of his gear. A few pieces look somewhat handy, but Slugger is a useless skill outside of solo or sticky ammo, his weapons are straight up inferior in a lot of ways although some of them are interesting at least too. I couldn't find a comfortable way of combining Frostcraft and Punishing Draw + Slugger together, although it's probably a lot more comfortable if you use a Safi'Jiiva weapon with Velkhana Divinity. Critical Draw goes with Punishing Draw, but his gear has Critical Eye in it, which feels like a waste if you combine it with Critical Draw 3...you'll have 100% Affinity from that anyway and if you're buffing out your draw attacks you'll probably want to be using them a lot anyway...etc etc.

I'm probably narrow minded as usual but I just fail to see the potential his armour set or his weapons have, novelty use aside. Maybe when Velkhana Y equipment comes out it'll be fun to synergise into a Punishing, Crit Draw, Frostcraft weapon of some description...but at the moment it feels like you lose too much and have to jump through too many hoops to make it feel "nice" especially thanks to all the Critical Eye they dumped on his armour. I know you don't need to use Critical Draw with Punishing Draw especially if you reach 100% Affinity anyway, but it just feels so...ugh.

His armour looks kind of nice though, I suppose.

[Thirst_Man]

Originally posted by Hymensmasher420:

His armor looks great. Totally fantastic. Probably the best looking armor in MHW. In terms of efficacy, it makes some builds that are not meta but are silly and fun better than they were before. They completely phoned it in on his weapons in classic MHW fashion. His fight is pretty lackluster and once I had enough pieces to make his armor I stopped fighting him entirely. A lot of tail swipes and hipchecks/turning his body into a hitbox. Very lazy moveset.

Originally posted by Thirst_Man:

Otherwise I'm mainly using the Big Gay AL (Alatreon) armor and weapons for all that elemental dps and resistance.

I feel very sad for you.

I know I'm a little late on this, but why do you feel sad for me? I have loadouts for his gear for specific conditions. I read everything else trying to understand what you mean and the basketball analogy basically you're saying if you use the Alatreon armor your trash. So using an armor set that has decentish stats that has great elemental resistance means you're trash? To even have the armor you have to NOT be trash that is hard earned parts. Idk why you don't like nicknames but if you don't like them then thats ok. The origin of this nickname is a reference to one of my favorite characters from South Park and how Alatreon threw me around on my first hunt against him in GU. I like the way the frosted flakes armor looks and I use that as well as my other sets to screw around. If u don't like the armor thats fine too. I kind of don't like some of the stats on it us the appearance, but it is very useful for an elemental build because of very high elemental resistance and very high elemental dps. I had some of my guys splice it with Safi for a metabuild. The weapons with over 1000 raw dps and (with a build and augments) over 1000 dragon element, gonna get really high damage numbers which will be useful for Fatalis. Hope the prep for him has been going good, ik I'm ready :)