| dib8rman said:
Example is I could say I have the highest offline dps in the game using the mid BG, on adrenaline I can and have 2 hit killed a great jaggi. |
You either have the highest offline dps in the game with a mid BG, or you don't. If Great Jaggis are 2 hit killed by the mid BG, then it very well may be the top tier weapon, for that particular boss anyway.
"...anyone can aim at the head and pull the trigger." - This has no relevance to tier lists, which are not used to show what weapon is best for each individual. If the Lance or Long Sword is top tier, it does not mean they would be the weapons you'd be best with. It simply tells us what weapon has the most potential.
I may be a noob at Monster Hunter (with 60 hours so far!), so I won't pretend to know what order these weapons would be placed in a tier list, or how big the gap between each weapon would be (in potential). The tiers do exist, though, as they do in every game - whether it be shooting games (best guns), fighting games (best characters), RPG's (best anything), etc.
Implying otherwise means you think the weapons are perfectly balanced, which is obviously never the case.
Of course, for a game like MH (online), it's much tougher to "calculate" usefulness of each weapon, as their value changes based on the team composition.
On another note, is it always visible when a monster is weak? I've accidentally killed the target in capture quests one too many times, because I never saw it limp. It seems like there's a common area the monster will retreat to when it's weak. Do I just have to guess (trap) if they're already in that area when they become weakened?
Tempted to build a perception set just to be safe, I'm always paranoid in capture quests online (harder to judge with others since I don't quite know how much damage they're putting out).
