2013-04-05, 01:45 PM
SuperNerd Wrote:Know what I hate? When after going charm farming or mining/harvesting, I forget an important part of my loadout for hunting and midway through the battle I'm desperately searching through my items only to realize I forgot to put them back in my inventory. My inventory changes dramatically depending on what I'm doing (as most of yours do, too, I assume) but I'm pretty forgetful. Just started the G-Rank quests in the offline port, did my first hunt against the G-Rank Royal Ludroth (wasn't at all bad, barely took any damage) however midway through the battle as my blades got duller, I facepalmed after realizing I left my Whetstones in the chest. So I had to think outside the box and I went to the fishing spot at the starting campsite in the Flooded Forest and fished for about 5 minutes to get some Whetfish, allowing me to sharpen my weapon finally. Naturally after doing all of this I come to find out the Royal Ludroth was literally only a few attacks away from limping, so pft.
That's why I tend to just bring everything with me that I would likely need on a quest, with the exclusion of Capturing supplies. Then I remember the number of item slots I use, so when I go to restock my inventory I don't accidentally forget something. I often spend over a minute trying to remember what's missing though.
Right now every run I go on includes: Potions, Mega Potions, Antidotes, Cool Drinks, Hot Drinks, Well-Done Steaks, a Powercharm, an Armorcharm, Dung Bombs, a Farcaster, Mega Pickaxes, Mega Bugnets and Whetstones if I'm going Blader. As a result I know my inventory should always have 12/13 items, and if it doesn't I scourer my box until I realize what I'm missing. Eventually I'll add a Powertalon and Armortalon, but I don't want to waste the Jho claws I have yet.
As long as you don't need the inventory space, I would suggest doing the same thing. Keeping a page open for carves and what not should be enough, so 12-16 items you always have on you should be fine. If you're going gathering you don't need any of that crap so there's no real big deal about having a 2/3rds full inventory when you start a hunt. It also doesn't hurt to have the items you need in case a second monster shows up, since that's random. I tell you, I've saved myself a lot of headaches by doing this.