| Mr Khan said: Lancing is my primary run. I'm much more adept at dodging with other things, but i've found that trying to dodge with Lance just gets me killed. Face the source of danger square-on and brace for impact. It stops everything Rathian does dead in its tracks, and will fix most of everything else except for Ludroth's barrel roll, and Gobul's barrel roll too. It works especially well for Barroth and Rathian, because then they end up standing right over you.
Blocking is less effective aquatically, because you have to be dead set on to really block, which is harder in 3 dimensions. |
Late game monsters have attacks that are either unblockable, or which consume most of your stamina to block, or which still do serious damage even when you do block them, so blocking is not a good late-game strategy. If you do need to block though, using advancing guard can be helpful, since it lessens the stamina cost, usually gets you out of the danger zone, and expands the range of your block so that everything that isn't directly behind you gets blocked.
Even so, getting the Evade skills is a huge help for lancers.
| dib8rman said: Best lance for me right now online is gobul+ para owns. |
Gobulu lance, represent!
| RolStoppable said: Switch axe question: I am not sure which path I should upgrade my Bolt Axe. The one that requires Lagiacrus+ parts has the most attack power, but the blade is powerbased while the other two paths have elemantalbased blades. Which option is the preferable one? |
Raw damage is better if you're only going to stock one weapon, elemental ones are better if you plan on switching weapons depending on the monsters' weaknesses.
