After all this time it still bugs me what some players in this game do. Like, I never understood chasing monster and fighting it in an area where you have no advantage. Why would anyone chase a monster that take up a ton of estate like an elder dragon into a narrow pathway? That’s asking to get carted.
These mother fucking long sword assholes that won’t stop mashing buttons when the monster goes to sleep or someone is trying to capture it.
Hunting horn players who act like white mages when they use a weapon that deals just as much damage as a hammer.
Took me two weeks to convince my friend that team composition really doesn’t matter in this game. Two weeks of “No we don’t need a Tank, DPS, Healer set up, that’s not how this game works.”
Nerfed Temporal Mantle is still very good, but you can’t use it the same way as before. I generally always start fights with it so Clutch Claw a monster and wound the part I want to focus down, usually the tail since I play Great Sword the most. It’s still a great tool, but not mandatory and OP like before. The nerf was very much justified.
Impact Mantle is good is you actually run builds that stun, like Hammer or Hunting Horn, but it has very little impact (heh) for me as a Great Sword user. Evade Mantle is generally a good choice for any raw damage build. Glider is great too because of how long upgraded mantles are. Still, getting Wounded up is very important for me because having 100% affinity on that particular part is very important. Non-wounded parts is a DPS loss.
I really love that armor but it’s so bad unless you’re playing Bow, and even for Bow Silver Rath is better. I hope the Gamma version is a lot better. Same with Velk
Nami waist + legs is nice for Bow.
Pair that with Velk head + body and either Teo/Shara hands and you’ve got a pretty solid interim Bow build with a nice variety of skills…
…Until you manage to make Silver Los set for Bow stuffs.
But even then, you still gonna need some good combo decos for skill(s) utility on Silver Los stuffs, cause outside of CB 3 and set bonus TCE, it’s kinda whatever, lol.
