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So you want to be a Hunter but not just any hunter - you want to be a Monster Hunter. Well I'll snap you into shape, although I can't actually do the snapping; I bet that the monster will do it for me.
1. Rule one of Monster Hunter is be prepared, always pack your potions, the demo gives you an idea of the kind of consumables you should keep in stock.
2. Know your weapon, each weapon plays differently, you have to feel it out, the weapon affects you which means it affects everything.
3. Camera control, this game isn't for ninnys, you don't have any magical helper keeping tabs on where your quarry is and what is trying to kill you other than your quarry. Figuring out which controller fits you the best with what weapon your using helps with this.
Optimally it's best to adjust the camera any time you can, the times you can are usually when your doing anything but attacking. With some weapons the attacks take long enough or are predictable enough that you can adjust the camera while attacking.
4. Keeping track of your target only helps you some of the times, some times you may have two wyvrens or three in a map and you need more than sight, use your hearing and listen to the howls and calls of the monsters, they are dead give aways to what will happen next. Master this and even DevilJo won't lay a tail on you.
That's enough for now, when the game is finally available this section will have a summary of tips from you and your fellow hunters.
Part 1.
Normal Flow -
In Monster Hunter your not always spending time on deaths armchair, you also spend time at home or in town, you can do quite a few things, but the most important has to be requesting the hunt.
In offline mode you do this in a village but in online mode you have to go to the Hunters Guild and request your hunt.
But don't think because your a hunter you automatically qualify for anything, you need to earn your rank, Hunters Rank 1 to 7 are fairly easy as the offline mode has you going through Hunters ranks 1 to 6 but to have access to the ranks beyond that you need to prove yourself.
Missions can range from.
Collection of Wyvren eggs, to taking on the or capturing the Wyvren itself.
Once you've got your gear set and your consumables made or purchased head to the nice lady giving out missions and take a step into Hunterhood.
Here's a good source for more details on town affairs and some on even the quests: http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=171691
Very kind of him.
But I'll give you a tip you wont find anywhere else, now while each weapon is unique they do have learning curves heres the easiest to pick up to the hardest list.
1. Sword & Shield 2. Great Sword 3. Long Sword / Switch Axe 5. Hammer/Maul 6. Light Bow Gun 7. Mid Bow Gun/Spear and Shield
8. Heavy Bow Gun
That's the order of weapons by how easy they are to pick up and how hard they are to master "1" being the easiest.
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Part 2.
Your on the field
So your going to finally do something, the order of things is to first go to the blue bin and pull the resources that someone, probably the chief or the last hunter left for you to help you out. Rations, Ammo and so on can be found here. Take a look and enjoy the 10 seconds of music.
In the field if your not hunting your getting resources, from herbs and mushrooms, to meat and rare ores and maybe even bug collecting. Though your agenda may have nothing to do with a particular thing something will be there to make your life harder if you don't go prepared. Nothing like catching butterflys while a Great Jaggi tries to eat you alive or worse yet, hunting a Kurrupecko while a Rathian tries to eat you alive.
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Part 3. The Nitty Gritty
Every one of these beastys are hiding something, and although you may think your job is to kill it if it walks your purpose is a little bit trickier than that. In Monster Hunter yar not just slashing away an HP guage like other games yar pickin' yar spots and poke'n em twice. Now here's your check list!
The monster list is kind enough explains it self well enough no need for me to add much to this one, at least this picture is meaningful.
But here's a tip You can tell by the colors what is weaker, blue is weakest the dark areas are the next weakest and the light areas not so weak.
What's that!? Too small??? Well just right click it then click view image then why don't ya!?
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