2015-02-20, 10:31 PM
Hypermug Wrote:Yeah, after doing some reading online, apparently I just suck at those two for whatever reason. I just can't seem to keep up with their raged modes. Gold Rathian from 3U felt more bearable and she was constantly pissed off.Shagaru and Gore both have some pretty scary rage modes when you first start. I remember when I was playing MH4, my friend and I weren't even really bothering to upgrade our armor, because we didn't really need it...until Gore. He could one-shot us with the horizontal blasts in his rage mode. It was pretty crazy. But after having fought both of them a fair amount, I'm no longer really concerned about fighting them. I definitely think that they're the biggest case of scary-looking in a flagship monster to date. He looks scary, his attacks are scary...but once you learn him, he's so easy you wonder what you were scared of.
It also helps that their unusual moveset throws you off a lot at first. It's like the first time you fought Brachydios (or at least I did). His very unusual moveset threw off how you dodge most things. Unlike Gore and Shagaru, though, Brachy's rage mode is still total bullpomegranate in my opinion. Those explosions have too much range for his mobility.
Hypermug Wrote:P.s. I pronounce "gore" as "go reh." Wonder if that was the translation's intention from changing it from Goa.That's interesting. I never really considered it that way. You might be right. If we had in-game voices it would help to determine how it was intended to be pronounced. I kind of like that over plain "gore". Although, I'm pretty sure ゴア directly translates to "Gore" as well, so there's that. I dunno, Goa just sounds a lot better on the tongue than Gore, but Go-reh sounds good on the tongue as well.
For everyone's reference, I found this on the Monster Hunter subreddit: http://i.imgur.com/vresnJV.png It's a Gathering Point Map for each area. Do note that a lot of points are random. They may not be there, but they sometimes appear later. I'm sure you guys have noticed...when the points disappear the second you get to them. Happens all the damn time.
Also Blue(Gold for mining points in the Heaven's Mount map) colored gathering points are where you get the rarer materials. It's important to remember that later on when you're charm hunting, because the best Non-Guild Quest charms only come from the rare points.