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"Are you gonna re-boost this every day until the game comes out?"

Me:

Less than twelve hours now

Stayed up until 2:30am playing #MonsterHunterWilds

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sleepy

more later

The schedule for today is #MonsterHunter

And that's it :3

#MonsterHunter just straight up showing off with the food animation now :P

Okay, initial impressions:

-It does feel like the first couple of monster fights are a little easier than you'd expect. Maybe it's because there's no gathering or small monster quests to start you off? It feels like the Balahara quest is where the first large monster fights were in previous games. It does ramp up pretty quickly after that, tho.

-I love the variety in monsters, your first fights are all incredibly different, it's great :D

-The plot feels like it rockets ahead without much regard for what you want to do. There's not much chance to stop and improve your armor and weapons, or gather freely.

-That being said, the plot is LEAGUES better than anything we've seen in a MH game before. Like, someone actually understands rising and falling action and what a plot beat is. Holy shit.

-Speaking of variety, can I just say I *genuinely appreciate* how many black and brown people there are in this game? And the variety in physical builds, gender, and things. Like, I appreciate that this game can be normal about people who don't fit the Buff Hunter Badass stereotype.

-And there hasn't been ONE meathead alpha male character, it's great! The stolid hammer user is a butch lady, she's awesome.

Anyway apparently the armor with Wide-Range comes from the goddamn TICK WYVERN so I've got a little ways to go before I get really set up. Whee! :D #Gaming #MonsterHunterWilds #MonsterHunter

Oh also, check out the most dangerous monster I've found so far; the dastardly camping tent! :o :o :o #MonsterHunterWilds #Gaming #MonsterHunter

There we go, got my first Wide-Range set. Now I can be an actual support character :D #Gaming #MonsterHunterWilds #MonsterHunter

So when you take a picture with the in-game photo mode -- since there aren't any cameras in the world of #MonsterHunter -- a Palico comes in and *paints* your picture instead. :3

The Jin Dahaad fight is pretty great, it's like beating up a living radiator :D #Gaming #MonsterHunterWilds #MonsterHunter

Stupid octopus won't give me its brain fluid >:( #Gaming #MonsterHunterWilds #MonsterHunter

So the mainline story is only about 20 hours long. Honestly I don't know what people were on about when they said it "feels unfinished," that felt like a solid ending to me. #Gaming #MonsterHunterWilds #MonsterHunter

Would you believe I saw someone complain the story was too similar to Lord of the Rings? I want to watch the version of LotR THAT person was watching :P #Gaming #MonsterHunterWilds #MonsterHunter

Also I like that Alma, your Handler, specifically has to authorize you to hunt things. Points up that you're not there just casually wiping out species because they looked at you funny.

'Course that does create a little friction later in the game when you're just seeing what pops up in a given environment and running off to kill it for a new pair of shoes, but :P #MonsterHunter #MonsterHunterWilds #gaming

Minerva's taken to sitting next to me while I hunt. Nice to have an IRL Palico :3 #MonsterHunter #MonsterHunterWilds #Gaming

I think Xu Wu may be my favorite new monster. A leech octopod with extendible needle-like blades at the tip of each arm that it can fire off at you, plus it's got a mouth like a big glowing blue W and a nice hat :D #MonsterHunter #MonsterHunterWilds #Gaming

Ha ha oh man the best post-hunt victory screen yet :P #MonsterHunter #MonsterHunterWilds #Gaming

Anyway that's a three-hour session and no crashes, I'm calling that a win. Hopefully no further annoyances crop up.

Mark my words, they're gonna add Rajang to #MonsterHunterWilds and have an arena quest with all the great apes at once. They're gonna call it A Barrel of Monkeys. I'm bookmarking this toot, I am absolutely 100% right about this. #MonsterHunter #Gaming

Okay, I've got all the farms unlocked, finished most of the plot stuff so we're not getting weird weather lockouts, so I'm getting a constant stream of Herbs and Bitterbug Broth and Adamant Seeds and Might Seeds. Now I just need to find a consistent source of Nourishing Extract and I'll have my support build's item pipeline totally sorted :D #MonsterHunter #MonsterHunterWilds #Gaming

And they're starting up the event quests, too :D https://info.monsterhunter.com/wilds/event-quest/en-us/schedule #Monsterhunter #MonsterHunterWilds #Gaming

The Quematrice quest is short and sweet. Nice source of a solid ingredient, too. It's fun to see if I can paralyze the monster twice and cut the tail before the fight ends :P #MonsterHunter #MonsterHunterWilds #Gaming

Man I don't know whose idea it was to put actual tiny little timers on buff emblems on the buff bar, but I would like to open mouth kiss them on the observation deck of the Seattle Space Needle on New Year's Eve, while I nervously finger the engagement ring I'm about to present to them in my off-hand.

We shall have a spring wedding.

The most complimentary thing I can say about the food in #MonsterHunterWilds is, this just straight up looks like something I'd eat on a normal day. #MonsterHunter #Gaming

Me: It's weird the final upgrade of this sword is so weak, I've seen stronger stuff out of the low end of the RNG weapons. Weird balance.

Me: *pushes right once on the upgrade tree*

Me: ...Oh.

...Huh. Gore Magala is now classified as a "Demi Elder." That's odd, usually it gets a ??? classification, since it's *technically* an Elder but only gets fully classified as such once it evolves.

...They straight up made a junk taxon for their junk taxon, wow this game's ecology IS realistic huh :P

Normally I'd be kinda miffed about the way Magala shows up in like every #MonsterHunter game in spite of it supposedly having a hugely long reproductive cycle that only completes every couple hundred years

but MH4U was my first MH game and I've got this headcanon about that game being my hunter's first assignment so she ended up helping to discover Gore. So now when it shows up she's like "we must stop meeting like this. Just send me a letter next time." #monsterHunterWilds #gaming

My hunter's being followed by a nigh immortal nonbinary edgy dark knight monster who keeps causing problems to create reasons to meet because they're too shy to just ask for a date

"Kut-Ku shouldn't be this annoying" you fool. Kut-ku is always annoying. This is but a fraction of his obnoxious potential. #MonsterHunter #MonsterHunterWilds #Gaming

It's nice when you're appreciated in a party :D <3 #MonsterHunter #MonsterHunterWilds #Gaming

I keep wishing they'll buff Mushroomancer and they never do :/ #MonsterHunter #MonsterHunterWilds #Gaming

Here's the thing; whenever people talk about a support build in MH, there's SOMEONE who recommends Mushroomancer. But honestly, it's not that great.

Yes, it takes less time to eat a mushroom than to drink a potion. And yes, it lets you double up on the items whose effects the mushrooms mimic -- so, for example, 20 Potions! And yes, it's a relatively cheap skill -- only three Lv. 1 gem slots.

But.

For a start, the mushrooms duplicate the *weaker* items -- Potions, not Mega Potions, Demondrug, not Mega Demondrug -- or items you really don't need that many of to begin with.

Secondly, three Lv. 1 gem slots becomes a bigger deal the further into the game you get. This is *especially* true for a support build, where you still have to slot in offensive skills in addition to your support skills -- you still have to contribute to DPS, after all.

Never mind the fact that, in most MH games, it's not actually that hard to scrounge up the full list of items required to combine into the full-strength support items. It's easier than ever in Wilds, with the gathering support you get from the villagers. You should have an easy pipeline for everything except Nourishing Extract by the time you hit endgame without really trying very hard. #MonsterHunter #MonsterHunterWilds #Gaming

So yeah. Avoid Mushroomancer. Use that space to slot in Free Meal or Speed Eating. Hell, I'd rather run Defense Up. #MonsterHunter #MonsterHunterWilds #Gaming

Anyway, my ACTUAL advice for people who want to run a support build?

Don't stop at healing and buffing. Look for other ways to help the party.

Bring the stuff to build extra traps. Run a Paralysis or Sleep weapon. Use a blunt weapon to inflict KO and Exhaust. Focus on the legs to get trips. Learn when and where to use Flash and Sonic Bombs. Every flinch is free DPS, my friends. #MonsterHunter #MonsterHunterWilds #Gaming

Tail cut so smooth it makes you forget he immediately turned and bit me in the ass after this <3 #MonsterHunter #MonsterHunterWilds #Gaming

When the game came out a week ago but you're obsessive and you've already run through like 90% of the content and now you're waiting for updates that are like a month away

...Which is exactly what happened with Rise when it first came out and, I feel certain, will also happen with the NEXT MH game to release.

What can I say, I'm predictable.