2013-04-09, 07:33 PM
Polantaris Wrote:The first Duram you do is horrible, and I think his HP is higher than it should have been.
Not that it's ever low, he'll still take a while, but once you have your Shakas back it helps a lot too. The biggest issue is that he has a lot of HP and you have neither of them to help you out. Outside of that, use the element he's weak to (Fire as mentioned), and a great thing you can try to do is trip him while he's spinning. If you are able to do that your life gets a lot easier because his weak spot is the mounds on his back. There should be a small (then larger) safe zone right next to him when he's spinning so you can do damage and potentially knock him over.
I'm really glad it is only this bad the first time. Thanks for the tips on his weak spots, I did get him to trip a few times but didn't realise mounds was his weakness. (Was mostly aiming for legs and face when possible)
On a semi related note I'm really enjoying this game now, I like how the learning curve has been fair and now all the badass monsters start to come out to play. I found lagiacrus, rathian and gigginox quite challenging but managed to take them down after noticing how they behave.
I imagine things only ramp up from here too, which is awesome.