New Player

[splat422]

I just got this on sale because it looks interesting. Never played a Monster Hunter game before but I played similar games like Xenoblade. Any tips people can offer a new p[layer to the franchise?

[Darky Dev]

Hello. I'm new too, if you want to play together, you can add me!

[Darky Dev]

I know a little bit of the game

[overmage]

Originally posted by splat422:

I just got this on sale because it looks interesting. Never played a Monster Hunter game before but I played similar games like Xenoblade. Any tips people can offer a new player to the franchise?

Don't play like Dark Souls, your attacks have animation commitment but so do the monsters', if they are aiming an attack, you can immediately dodge and they will miss - no need to dodge at the last second.

[The Gaming Crooner]

The starting tips i'd give are to try out every weapon in the training area to see which one flows well with you, and to be patient with monsters, try to learn their movesets and how to counter their trickier attacks and not just mash against them. Use the hunter's journal a lot for monster weaknesses, breakable parts etc. Besides that, don't hesitate to look up information on systems that might seem strange to you or where a certain item will drop (kiranico is an extremely good database for looking up stuff like that).

[Airaniiel]

Don't use the Defender gear. It's really OP stuff that was added to the game to help people zoom through the main game and jump into the DLC content, but if you zoom through the main game without learning your weapon properly, learning monster attacks/dodging, learning how decorations and armour skills and upgrades work, etc then you'll have a really hard time with the DLC because the Defender gear quickly becomes obsolete in Iceborne .

Other than that, I suggest trying out all the weapons to see which ones are your favourites. Try to beat new monsters on your own first; if you're really struggling, don't be afraid to fire out an SOS flare so that people can come and join your quest to help you (monster HP scales up as more people join your quest, so having people join doesn't completely trivialise hunts if that's something you're worried about).

Armour decorations and skills are really important. Different skills help different weapons and play-styles, but generally Attack Boost (attack decos are very rare and you likely won't have many of them), Critical Eye, Critical Boost, Weakness Exploit, and Agitator are good on any build. Before you get endgame equipment, Health Boost 3 is basically a requirement on all builds so that you can survive hunts! Recovery Up (not to be confused with Recovery Speed) is also useful early to mid-game to get more mileage out of your potions. Wide-Range (from Friendship Jewels) lets you heal and boost other players and palicos with your items, and is a priority skill on support builds--but don't just sit in a corner and chug potions, or else hunts will take forever due to loss in DPS and because monster behaviour also becomes more unpredictable when someone in the area is far away from the group.

Make use of food skills for hard hunts! You can get quests for more food items by talking to the Head Chef. You will have to walk behind the serving counter and talk to them there. Eating gets you health and stamina bar boosts and can also get you attack and defence boosts that all last until you faint. Moxie lets you survive a hit that would kill you (when your health is higher than a certain amount; hard to explain without a picture of a Moxie'd health bar, just Google it); Felyne Safeguard and Insurance are also good food skills to have, and they stack with each other. Safeguard and Insurance have the same effect, which is that they "prevent your group from being penalised the first time a member faints." (ripped from Wiki) The difference between Safeguard and Insurance is that Safeguard can be gotten almost every time you eat, while Insurance is a random daily skill that won't always be available to you. To ensure food skill activation, you need to use a Gourmet Voucher so that all of your ingredients are fresh and food skill activation is guaranteed. It is possible to get the food skill you want without a gourmet voucher, but without the voucher you're leaving it up to chance. These gourmet vouchers can be hard to come by early game, but tbh these food skills are only really needed for endgameish fights. Your skill will generally be enough!

This is all I can think of right now. Happy to see new people getting into Monster Hunter

[CT-99 STRIKER]

I've 1000h+ and as for tips, well take it easy and slow, build your arsenal/gear lvl up and all you need, since this is a marathon and not a sprint. If you rush you'll get mowed down and piss off others and each hunt has limited lifes and a timer.

DO NOT BE A LONE HUNTER when playing with others, heal, aggro if needed, be a TEAM.

It is ok to retreat if needed, do not go full rambo if things get a bit crazy since as mentioned before there is a lifes limit and its for the whole party and not just for each player.

Communication is key, and also i would reccomend to watch on youtube each creature fight to learn the mechanics (in special for the special version of each creature that appears on the late game/iceborne).

Grind low level creatures and do farm runs for materials only, you'll need plenty of mats to craft and upgrade and often some have some enfuriating rng %.

Also the drops on mats on this game unlike others, isn't just dependent on kill X creature, some mats drop from dmg specific areas of each creature to drop, in short there is the general drop and the drop from a specific part of each creature, hence you might see often people heavily targetting a specific part of a creature during combat.

BE READY FOR A CREATURE BATTLE ROYAL. Yes............ you'll often find yourself on the middle of a 3 creature fighting each other, pro-tip: let them dmg each other (if you've enough time left on your hunt timer) its free dmg dealing and often you'll get part drops from each one for free.

CRAFT POTIONS CRAFT POTION CRAFT POTIONS !!!

[Fortitude of the Night]

So to begin, I am a great sword user, wouldn't have it any other way.

Learn your combos, if you smash buttons, you are committed to perform those actions until you complete the 33 times you just smashed the attack button, or you get hit by a monster.

Turn dodging into a reflex that you do after every attack. Get in close, roll towards the monsters, you can discover many evasion tactics. Some are incredibly painful to learn as you get trampled a thousand times.

Sheathing your weapon is also a reflex you need to master, remember not to smash attacks and sheathe with grace after dodging. Usually dodge before sheathing, especially for those of us who use the great sword.

You can outrun almost any monster, use this to lure them or just run and heal.

Call in SOS's only after you try your hardest.

Plan your vouchers our on the best paying quests, don't keep more than three stored as you can earn two in a day, but have a max cap of 5.

Always eat a meal before going out to hunt/gather. Once you master your weapon, get as many versions of it crafted as possible.

Do expeditions to focus on gathering only herbs and honey if you struggle to keep healing options available. Turn auto crafting on for herbs into potions.

Meta build against the monsters that kick your ass.

Grind grind grind

[Suzaku]

Everyone else covered pretty much everything, but still: Don't use guardian and defender gear if you want the original experience.

Do your optional quests. There's plenty of nice things to be unlocked through them. People ignore them all too often and then wonder why they're missing a dozen nice things.

[○SoZa○]

world is for new player rise is for who like the good old MH games;P

[Brians bowls]

make sure to take your time, and try not to use defender gear if you own iceborne.

[splat422]

Thanks everyone for responding with all the helpful advice. I hope this is a little more laid back than Dark Souls.

[Abacus]

game takes a while. so take time to learn, but not to grind until the highest rank.

You will unlock mechanics 100 hours into the game, with plenty to still play.

It's ok to rush to master if you have Iceborne, if not rush to high rank. There isn't much of a reason to build a bunch of armors or weapons until you are at the last ranking, as the previous gear will be totally obsolete.

Also....the people trying to "compete" them against each other, are newbs who have only played World. Morons who don't seem to have a full context of the monster hunter lore.

[Black Hammer]

Play in order, learn to play, and generally, avoid fighting new monsters in multiplayer. It's much easier to learn a monster's moveset at your own pace, without lag, that it is online with monster aggro bouncing between people.

[Canadian Normandy]

welcome to the fleet, hunters! if youre still looking for help and hunting partners, join my tutoring group, we're new and looking for members, both new players and experienced hunters for tutoring!
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/MHWTutors

[Mu'Ammar of Carthus]

If you have to heed one advice and ignore everything else, it's this:

Do not use Defender Gear.
And do not use Guardian gear either.

They're both built in cheats designed to make you rush through the game to get to the expansion faster.