Weapon crafting?

[Vakula]

So far lots of weapons have question marks for materials, even though I have hunted every single monster that was available to me and tried to pick up most stuff on the maps. I am currently just past the Zorah capture quest, in the new area past that. The issue is that I am not able to constantly make new weapons, and the hunts are becoming less rewarding as a result. Ive had my tier 2 guardian Charge Blade for ages and I cant make anything better. Help?

[Vakula]

Messaggio originale di PyroShark_:

You are using a deliberately overpowered weapon. NOTHING you can make before very late High Rank will be better than it. It was an incredibly stupid addition to make it so returning players could play the base game really fast and unlock the Iceborne DLC content. But they made it available to every player... But if you're looking for why the trees are all ??? it's because you haven't progressed the Assigned Quests enough to find the materials they require. There are 2 Zorah Magdaros quests, after the second one you unlock High Rank and get the same monsters but tougher. They also can have new moves but they will drop another tier of materials and the gathering spots for ores and bones have new drop as well which should unlock the ???s for you. There are also some Event Quests which drop special tickets and materials but they are part of their own separate trees.

Thats the thing… I am not using it. I was asking why it takes so long to craft new weapons… I stopped using guardian/defender/whatever and switched to normal stuff but the progress for making new stuff takes ages. It sucks a bit of the fun out of the game for me.

[Tiom]

Messaggio originale di Vakula:

I was asking why it takes so long to craft new weapons… I stopped using guardian/defender/whatever and switched to normal stuff but the progress for making new stuff takes ages. It sucks a bit of the fun out of the game for me.

Usually you don't have to make a new set/weapon after every monster you beat. Its perfectly fine to stretch your gear to last a few HR/MR ranks. You should still keep an eye out for upgrades though.

If you are in high rank then you would start at rarity 5 weapons and eventually be able to craft up to rarity 8 before going to iceborne and unlocking rarity 9-12. Make sure you are gathering mining nodes and bone nodes from all locales as some of the ??? materials may be stuff from those.

[PyroShark_]

Messaggio originale di Vakula:

Thats the thing… I am not using it. I was asking why it takes so long to craft new weapons… I stopped using guardian/defender/whatever and switched to normal stuff but the progress for making new stuff takes ages. It sucks a bit of the fun out of the game for me.

You did say that is what you were using but ok. Well if there's any ??? then you just have to do your assigned quests to unlock them. It's as simple as that.

[Vakula]

Messaggio originale di PyroShark_:

Messaggio originale di Vakula:

Thats the thing… I am not using it. I was asking why it takes so long to craft new weapons… I stopped using guardian/defender/whatever and switched to normal stuff but the progress for making new stuff takes ages. It sucks a bit of the fun out of the game for me.

You did say that is what you were using but ok. Well if there's any ??? then you just have to do your assigned quests to unlock them. It's as simple as that.

Yes I was using it, but I am not now after I found out that its overpowered. Not sure whats up with the weird passive aggressiveness.

[Tiom]

Messaggio originale di Vakula:

Messaggio originale di PyroShark_:

You did say that is what you were using but ok. Well if there's any ??? then you just have to do your assigned quests to unlock them. It's as simple as that.

Yes I was using it, but I am not now after I found out that its overpowered. Not sure whats up with the weird passive aggressiveness.

In post number #3 of this thread you say that you don't see the point of crafting the regular weapon since its 200 dmg lower than the defender weapon. The numerous posts by persons since that post have been trying to set the expectation for you that your gear will not be anywhere near as good as defender gear until you reach the end of high rank hunts.

If you just started high rank you can expect at least a couple dozen hours into the game before you hit that point. High rank is rarity 5-8, thats 4 rarity levels that encompass a good 75% of the base game. You need to throw out any expectation that you will be crafting new weapons/armor after each hunt. The game just isn't designed that way.

[AI]

Messaggio originale di Tiom:

In post number #3 of this thread you say that you don't see the point of crafting the regular weapon since its 200 dmg lower than the defender weapon. The numerous posts by persons since that post have been trying to set the expectation for you that your gear will not be anywhere near as good as defender gear until you reach the end of high rank hunts.

If you just started high rank you can expect at least a couple dozen hours into the game before you hit that point. High rank is rarity 5-8, thats 4 rarity levels that encompass a good 75% of the base game. You need to throw out any expectation that you will be crafting new weapons/armor after each hunt. The game just isn't designed that way.

Exactly, this,

Messaggio originale di Vakula:

Ive had my tier 2 guardian Charge Blade for ages and I cant make anything better. Help?

was the point of interest for me at least, so, you either gonna need to willingly downgrade yourself, or keep going until the set is obsolete

[brewedjuice]

the ??? are monsters you either havent fought, or, if you're still in "low rank", the materials the monsters drop change when you get to "high rank" so if its from a monster it could be from a rank of it you havent fought yet. i think rank effects things like ore too? so if you're in low rank, getting to high rank and fighting stuff/mining will unlock a lot of the ??? materials to let you see what you need. pretty sure the defender weapon ranks up as you complete the story, i think for rank 3 you have to do the quest where you repel zorah out to sea. (2nd zorah assault quest)

though yes, i wouldnt expect to make a new weapon after every monster. the defender weapon is just designed to be stronger than the other items you can access at the same time, so most of the things that compete with it will need you to rank up to fight stronger version of monsters.

and dont be scared to build something kinda bad from scratch and upgrade it as you go. some weapons eventually let you directly craft something further down the upgrade path, some dont.

best advice anyone can give is just keep progressing tbh. mh fights are long. its okay for it to start taking longer. its supposed to. as long as you arent bumping into the 50 minute timer you're doing fine.