so AT velk

[Endarion]

mostly fun but ..sigh.. why an other moster with a OHKO attack that completly ignore guard up?
is there any damn point in having this skill if any end game fight completly ignore it?
is that huge ass shield on CB /lance just for show?

my only problem with the monster (and other monster with the similiar ♥♥♥♥)

[Arxel_z]

agree... i had to changed to evade window 3-5 and roll through the breath... its not how i like to play cb tho...

[Chomp Dude]

Hunt is meh, armor is meh, music is meh. The hunts I had so far, people seemed very unprepared.

[★ Moonlight ★]

Originally posted by Chomp Dude:

Hunt is meh, armor is meh, music is meh. The hunts I had so far, people seemed very unprepared.

Armor is meh? Its Fatalis levels of good. It is one of the best sets of armor in the game

[Rez]

GUARD UP shouldn't be a skill in the first place. You should be able to block any kind of projectiles directly towards you at the least.

I don't get why the developer team decided against that with all shield wielding weapons. Not to mention massive chip damage and knockbacks.

Balancing is indeed their FORTE.

[Maffeketel]

It's pretty fun fight, but I'll admit that it was rough with CB. I adapted my playstyle a bit and I started to roll more instead of blocking which definetly does the trick.
The CB is a really good choice against AT Velkhana, especially the Fatalis CB. I finished the fight a lot faster with the CB then I did with the GS.
The fight is also a bit more difficult then I anticipated and AT Velkhana is definetly tougher then AT Namielle.

I did notice that a lot of people who do this fight online are very underprepared. You need to use elderseal as otherwise you'll be unable to weaken the aura. I also noticed that a lot of people didn't use endgame sets and a lot of people were a bit undergeared for a fight of this magnitude. This is always the case with AT elders though and I always do these fights solo for that very reason.

I've already gotten the armor set and it's a pretty great set! It will be an excellent choice for my frostcraft GS build. It's still a niche set and it certainly isn't better then the Fatalis set, but that was to be expected.

[AfLIcTeD]

Originally posted by Rez:

It shouldn't be a skill in the first place. You should be able to block any kind of projectiles directly towards you at the least.

I don't get why the developer team decided against that with all shield wielding weapons. Not to mention massive chip damage and knockbacks.

Balancing is indeed their FORTE.

Lets face it your fighting huge ass monsters with tonnes of force behind their attacks and you are expecting to block their attacks unscathed with those measly shields.

[Arzog]

guard up not blocking the ice breath is bs.

[AfLIcTeD]

Originally posted by ArzogSama:

guard up not blocking the ice breath is bs.

You just need to dive it. It has a long wind up so it is easy to spot. You could always clutch onto Velkhana and it will miss or get really close.
Unless you mean the one it sprays on the ground then yeah that one is annoying and pretty much impossible to avoid.

[Maffeketel]

Originally posted by ArzogSama:

guard up not blocking the ice breath is bs.

Can you block the breath if the aura is low or is it impossible to block this attack?
Maybe it's got something to do with Velkhana having a high aura as each level of the aura amplifies the breath attacks in addition to making Velkhana more resilent to damage.

[Venix]

Originally posted by Chomp Dude:

Hunt is meh, armor is meh, music is meh. The hunts I had so far, people seemed very unprepared.

This.
I only did it to open up the layered armors.

[Arxel_z]

and people abandoning left and right lol...

[Faust Wither]

Originally posted by Chomp Dude:

Hunt is meh, armor is meh, music is meh. The hunts I had so far, people seemed very unprepared.

yeah, the armor are meh the only thing i spend the voucher are only for waist armor and charm.

[LostArc]

The only annoying thing I find about AT Velkhana is the pin when trying to clutch claw him. The game is balanced around tenderizing and lo and behold they gave Velkhana's charge during clutch claw a pin with a huge amount of damage ticks to destroy your temporal mantle.

[Arxel_z]

when im sheathing my axe, it finished the first big attack, run away far, turn to me, do the big ice spike from ground at me, im still havent finish sheating my axe...

[Ghost Bear]

I used to be a gunlance main, but I sort of quit playing it when I realized just how punishing a lot of the end game fights are to blocking, either you cannot or the chip damage is so big you may as well eat the hit with your face even with guard 5. I realize evasion lancing is a thing, but to me it takes the fun out of the weapon. I pick a shield weapon to SHIELD AND BLOCK if I want to evade I'll just play another weapon.

I started maining Switch Axe, took me a while to master the weapon but once I did, I have never looked back. Soloed Fatalis with it and kicked the hell out of AT velk in my first try with it without carting.