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[WHMZakeri]

Versus Rathian, that blade is the tenth best weapon statistically, and is the final upgrade of the Ludroth GS Path, having 768 Raw with 450 Water, and blue sharpness (White with Sharpness+1)

compared to the blade I have now, which only has 720 Raw, 330 Dragon, and green (Blue with Sharpness+1)

I'm sort of Jealous...

[Nobu]

I'm not even past rank 3 yet. :< Still HR27. Haven't had much of a chance to play in the past few days..

[Jana]

Nobu should help me with the Lagiacrus Urgent and get me to HR 18 later today. That is, if Val and I don't do it first. >;3
Actually, I should play more with my HR2 female gunner, Jana. I want pretty armors~

This brings me to another point. Since a lot of my online play has been with random groups, I've found Tri's online play to be kind of like an MMO, except without me able to type very quickly. I've been in some great groups, and a few terrible ones. A couple that stand out would be the two-man (well, 1 man and 1 woman) team I first took down Barroth with, as well as the lousy gunner who thought two lancers should do something other than cover his ass underwater. How've you guys dealt with bad groups, and do you remember any really good ones?

[Cadmas]

I don't usually get bad groups. Sometimes bad players. They usually leave of embarrassment when they die 3 or 2 times in a row.

[Nobu]

I actually haven't done a single quest with anonymous people from the net, all the people i've been playing with have been my friends. With the exception of a few random people who have joined us from time to time, but they've usually been pretty decent.

Sorry about not being around to help you with the Lagia urgent, Jana. :< I passed out really early last night.

[Cadmas]

WHEEEEEEEEEEEE

Hr 50
Rusted SnS

So I have killed the mighty butt bag Alatreon. Boy is he really fun. Just great fun. /sarcasm

[KOA]

It was great hunting w/ you, Cadmas... even though I was heavily distracted during the Barroth quest.
Hopefully you can drop by at an earlier time of the day so we can actually hunt moar. :V

[Cadmas]

I'll be back on at about 10pm for today. nvm way too sleepy sry.

I'm almost done with my lagi set just need 1 horn+ and some scale+
I did about 7 lagis after you left SF.

Boy farming baggis with a HR 71 that wears armor just for the colors.
Got Plunderer title.

[Valentinya]

I'm usually not so blunt, but you are completely mistaken. Demonic Blessing increases damage *you* take, not damage you deal to the monster. It's the inverse of Divine Blessing, which gives you a 25% chance to reduce damage you take.

Think about how ridiculous that is. That's a skill that would give 25% affinity+ flat, with no drawback, as part of getting a skill in the negatives? On Rath armor no less?

There's a reason you don't see people with that skill on their armor, because they gem it out. It's a drawback, not a benefit.

Check Reign of the Rathalos's Damage Calculator. Check any and every faq, guide, damage equation calculator, and any places that has people talking about Monster Hunter, good armorsets and skills, optimum damage, or anything. There is absolutely nothing out there i've seen that would even suggest that that demonic protection does what you claim it to do. Hell, even the in-game description doesn't even support your statement.

I'm sorry if I'm being rather adamant about this, but from my viewpoint it's like you're trying to tell people that Mega Potions don't recover HP.

Actually Cadmas is right Nobu. I was just taking a look at the MH3: Armor Skill List on the Monster Hunter Wikia and according to this it does in fact give you a 25% chance of doing 30% more damage with your attacks. While Divine Protection on the other hand is a 25% chance of doing 30% less damage. Either way both seem pretty lousy to me. I mean having a chance of increasing the damage you take against an enraged monster (unless it's much weaker than you) sounds pretty suicidal to me. It's really more of an offensive skill while Divine Protection is defensive. Although despite that I'll probably wind up using it anyways as I love the Rathian armor so it's a given that I'll be using the + version when I'm finally able to get it.

Sort of unrelated but I was just checking out all the Rank 3 armors and noticed the Ceadeus Armor gives Demonic Blessing and Blunt Edge. So I was wondering what they do since it's been awhile since I last played Monster Hunter. Anyways, when I saw it I was reminded of this thread and how Cadmas had said it does have a chance to increase your damage output.

Scroll to the bottom of the list here if anyone wants to see for themselves http://monsterhunter.wikia.com/wiki/MH3:_Armor_Skill_List

[Nobu]

Actually Cadmas is right Nobu. I was just taking a look at the MH3: Armor Skill List on the Monster Hunter Wikia and according to this it does in fact give you a 25% chance of doing 30% more damage with your attacks. While Divine Protection on the other hand is a 25% chance of doing 30% less damage. Either way both seem pretty lousy to me. I mean having a chance of increasing the damage you take against an enraged monster (unless it's much weaker than you) sounds pretty suicidal to me. It's really more of an offensive skill while Divine Protection is defensive. Although despite that I'll probably wind up using it anyways as I love the Rathian armor so it's a given that I'll be using the + version when I'm finally able to get it.

You're still reading this wrong. ~_~; The exact wording, from the Wikia is "Sometimes increases damage taken. 25% chance of attacks doing 30% more damage" The first part describes the effect, the second part describes the *mechanical* part of the effect. As in, 'What does 'sometimes increases damage taken' actually mean?

Pay attention to the effect of having divine protection/demonic protection sometime. Once in a while when you get hit (25% of the time), you'll get sparkles around you to note that the protection ability procced. And you take more/less damage. If pretending like your *negative skill* deals more damage as a tradeoff makes you feel better about not gemming it out, then by all means.

[Valentinya]

You're still reading this wrong. ~_~; The exact wording, from the Wikia is "Sometimes increases damage taken. 25% chance of attacks doing 30% more damage" The first part describes the effect, the second part describes the *mechanical* part of the effect. As in, 'What does 'sometimes increases damage taken' actually mean?

Pay attention to the effect of having divine protection/demonic protection sometime. Once in a while when you get hit (25% of the time), you'll get sparkles around you to note that the protection ability procced. And you take more/less damage. If pretending like your *negative skill* deals more damage as a tradeoff makes you feel better about not gemming it out, then by all means.

Oh, well naturally I'm going to test this out for myself when I get my Rathian + armor. Since I love the Rathian armor so much I'm going to get it for sure. So we can see what the real truth is in Tri then when I get it.

[Cadmas]

The Speak of the Deviljho Event quest is a sick joke. To let Hr 31+ do a quest that's normally hr 51+.
They likely don't have the gear for it or the experience. What were they thinking?

~ Uggg just wanna play with my gun set, but ppl keep coming in my town.
  Guess I need to go onto a server with no people.

~ Hr 70 & Dark Haunter title.

[Cadmas]

~BuBump

July month
New Arena Quests
New Event Quests coming up soon, but still unconfirmed.

Also like to ask who are those people you play with SF?
Are they motk members or just friends?

[KOA]

They're all local friends. I should definitely be on tonight to attempt some 6*s
Thanks again for helping me out with Alatreon.

[Cadmas]

Yeah that was pretty fun. Was the fastest Alatreon I ever did.

They're all local friends

Ah so it still seems you and zak are the only motk members I have played with.

Sea power event quest is up. Gets you a thunder LS. Yawn LS's. Me no likely.