2013-05-12, 11:23 AM
Arrol Wrote:God, how many HRs are there in this game!? I'm only on HR5 now!
I too finished all my quests except Mark of the Hero because I die in two hits by the Ivory Lagi, and seeing that Brach is next, I'm not gonna bother. I may have to wait a while so I'm gonna do my HR quests. What armor choices should I look towards too?
Right now, I done at least a week's time in the game.
The ranking system changes up when you hit HR8. Between HR1-7, it works like the normal Portable games, where you do quests, unlock an urgent, and do it to rank up. Once you beat Dire Miralis for the 8* urgent, the HR system turns into how it is in the non portable games like Tri and Frontier, where you get Hunter Rank Points by doing quests and rank up based on how many points you have. The max HR is 999, but you finish unlocking things at HR100, and you unlock all the monsters by HR70. No worries about doing a lot of quests before you unlock this change in HR, because the game is secretly keeping track of all your HRP gained, it just doesn't tell you. When you beat Dire Miralis, you will receive a giant HR boost. Personally, I went straight to HR34, if I remember correctly, from HR7.
G Rank changes the playing field a lot. The monsters start hitting like trucks, which is why Mark of the Hero is giving you issues. It's also when all the new armor skills (and some old ones) show up, it really is the bulk of the game. Skills like Awaken, Sharpness+1, Wrath Awoken, Honed Blade, Silver Bullets, and several others are only available in G Rank. They really didn't put a lot of effort into changing up the game from Tri aside from new monsters before G Rank. Low Rank Moga is almost exactly the same, with some exceptions (Like the Kayamba stuff, and a few new monsters). Nothing gets new moves that they never had before until G Rank either. You don't really notice these things unless you've played Tri or P3rd before.