Is this game beatable without minmaxing?

[Literally Guts From Berserk ?!]

I play mostly solo, I see all these combos and weapons and it puts pressure on me. Is it possible to beat the game without having to perfect all the combos?

[Lochlann]

I can't speak for the end-game stuff but for everything else: Absolutely. In every single MonHun game I have avoided grind the best I can and still get by

[JPM岩]

Yeah

[ominumi]

People are able to see the credits with no armor. It's possible. How long that's going to take is a different story.

[patawad amanai]

ITS OKAY BRO! JUST PLAY THE GAME ON HOW YOU ENJOY THE MOST.

[Chaos]

Sure, most of the game is enjoyable without min-maxing
But the last two boss does need you to either git gud or min-max to make up for your skill (or lack thereof) however.

[HoneyDrake]

there are damage checks for a few monsters, if you meet them then you are fine, if you don't it's another story.

But no Min-Maxing is required.

[Seth Abercromby]

The only monsters that need extensive amounts of preperation to properly beat are the very clearly communicated 'this is a raid boss, you will get your ass beaten' monsters at the very tail end of Iceborne (and Behemoth Extreme, back when World didn't have an expansion yet), and the Archtempered fights.

[Eratoneir]

you are expected to be able to see two sets of ingame credits, with very minimal understanding and skill. you will die sometimes however, that's just part of learning

[kranken]

For the vanilla campaign: no, it's a pretty straightfoward linear progression from monster to monster. You don't have to min-max at all, but you might need to kill a few monsters 2-4 times just for some materials to build some basic gear.

For the IceBorne campaign: same as above. There is a huge difficulty spike when moving from vanilla -> IceBorne but it is immediately offset by just making your first set of equipment from the first (few) monsters in IceBorne

Optional quests and extra bosses: Only the last two monsters in the game (from the IceBorne expansion) really require any degree of thought into your gear and how good you are at the game. There are also unique fights, akin to raiding in MMOs, which are played differently than simply just loading into the map and killing the monster, but these are game mechanics than can be learned easily.

[[SacKy]]

U dont have to be that good to beat the game except you fight Fatalis which is true final boss of the game

[overmage]

Absolutely. Even the final boss can be beaten with gimmick builds.

[Maguflis]

Originally posted by Chaos:

Sure, most of the game is enjoyable without min-maxing
But the last two boss does need you to either git gud or min-max to make up for your skill (or lack thereof) however.

You are talking about base game blue dragon? Because that one was easiest compared with all basic monsters tbh. I am very casual player. It is big of course but i was surprised how easy it is with a bit of awareness

[overmage]

Originally posted by Maguflis:

Originally posted by Chaos:

Sure, most of the game is enjoyable without min-maxing
But the last two boss does need you to either git gud or min-max to make up for your skill (or lack thereof) however.

You are talking about base game blue dragon? Because that one was easiest compared with all basic monsters tbh. I am very casual player. It is big of course but i was surprised how easy it is with a bit of awareness

No... That's the base game and it's only the final story boss

He's talking about the black dragons in the expansion

[Smaugi]

Yes , not all that hard tbh , you can make a half decent build and it will be enough for 99% of the content.

[Mr. September]

Not required, but the game expects you to grind and min-max to some extent.