The Long Road to Victory

Training Session Start!

29 May 2011 Leave a Comment

by immanuelaj in MHP3rd Tags: ドスジャギィ, Great Jaggi, MHP3rd

Alrighty, I just got Microsoft Office 2010 about a week ago and to my surprise discovered it has a blog posting feature. One of the problems I have with posting to wordpress is images. I tend to use quite a lot of pictures when I post something and the interface for getting them INTO the post is definitely quite cumbersome. So I’m hoping that this will make it a lot easier for me.

Okay, yes, I know I haven’t been updating for quite a long time, I think it had something to do with increasing workloads and friends calling me out and stuff on weekends. Anyway, I’ve played a number of games since the last time I posted, but I’ve kind of stopped playing most of them, except for Monster Hunter. Well, I’m actually trying to step up my game for Monster Hunter and it’s been pretty fun so far. What I’ve done is started a training regime, where I have to defeat each monster in the game using every single weapon type. I still haven’t gotten past the first monster yet, so this might actually take a year or more to complete!!!! There are some extra condition that I wrote up in a word document, but I’m not gonna bother going in to all the nitty gritty details. Simply put, if I use a specific weapon against a monster and defeat it, I can’t use it against another monster. The same thing applies to armour, but per each weapon type, so I can use the same armour against the same monster as long as my weapon type is different. And there are no restrictions on items to compensate for the lack of power. Oh yes, I forgot to mention that weapon and armour rarity is capped at HR rank -2. I might be increasing that if the monsters start becoming unmanageable, but I’ll stick with that for now. And finally, all monsters must be defeated at high rank, so starting from HR4. This post is gonna be pretty long so I might just post it up half complete and then finish it off some other day.

First up! The Great Jaggi (ドスジャギィ). I’ll be using the weapons in this order:

• Great Sword
• Long Sword
• Sword and Shield
• Double Swords (Can’t remember English name)
• Hammer
• Hunting Horn
• Lance
• Gunlance
• Strike Axe
• Light Bowgun
• Heavy Bowgun
• Bow

Most blademaster weapons seem to have some kind of powerful attack, so I’ll list them out here:

• Great Sword : Unsheathe Charge Level 3
• Long Sword : Spirit Gauge attacks full combo
• Sword and Shield : None (Just use your longest combo string)
• Double Swords : The multiple slash attack that activates when demonization mode and in normal mode after demonization is active
• Hammer : Charge Level 3 standing attack. Last hit of normal combo.
• Hunting Horn : First and Second performance attack
• Lance : NONE! (Use a Giant Barrel G instead lol)
• Gunlance : Full Burst. Wyvernfire
• Strike Axe : Repeated Slashes. Elemental Burst

So far, I’ve completed everything up to the Strike Axe, so only the ranged weapons left. I guess I’ll start by first talking about the Great Jaggi and its attacks.

Don’t try to look cool, you ain’t so tough!

Well, it’s pretty obvious it’s a raptor like looking monster, and has two other cousins which I won’t talk about here. He’s got about 4 or 5 different attacks, so it’ll be pretty easy to go through them one by one.

Consecutive Bites （連続かみつき）

Yeah, you’ll notice I have the Japanese name up there and I pulled that from the official guidebook. That’s right, these attacks have official names! So I won’t have to make up random names for them. XD

Okay, moving on. It’s a pretty straightforward attack, he just walks up to you, and gives you a bite. It comes out pretty fast and that’s where the danger is. You really have to just expect him to do it every time, so be on your guard for it. If he faces you and you’re in range, just move away. There’s actually two parts to this attack, but he doesn’t always perform the second bit. He’ll actually travel further with the second bite and can again, it is possible to be caught unawares. If he bites the air in front of you and you’re out of range, there’s a good chance he’ll follow up with the second part of the attack. Also, when he’s in rage mode, he tends to do the second part even if you’re not in range. It can make him travel out of your attacks, so anticipate that he’ll do the second attack and attack where he’s going to be after he performs the second bite.

Rotating Bite （旋回かみつき）

A bit devious, this attack, he’ll turn his head around and look backwards for about a second before biting in that direction to the back. So it gets you if you’re attacking at his sides. He can either do it to the left or the right and it’s pretty obvious which way if you watch his head. The tricky thing about this attack is that the attack seems to appear out of a direction that you’re not expecting. If I’m too close to him, the block angle becomes really weird. Dodging away towards his tail tends to not work if I’m close, but dodging past his neck seems to work fine. Unfortunately, that goes against natural instinct, so it’s pretty confusing and I tend to get hit by this.

Body Slam （体当たり）

Not a very special attack since you can see it coming a whole 2 seconds away. He’ll make a unique sound that he only makes before he does this attack. It travels for quite a distance and does hurt quite a bit if you get hit, but it’s really quite avoidable.

Spinning Tail Attack （回転尻尾攻撃）

Probably his deadliest attack, and he always does it in multiples of 2. In fact, a LOT of monsters seem to have this attack in some form or another. I guess they learnt it from watching each other or something. Once again, he makes a unique sound that sounds like 2 short laughs and 1 longer one when he does the attack. It’s quite easy to get hit by the tail since it’s hard to predict the attack area, so just stay away. Since it’s always done in a multiple of 2, you tend to know where he’ll be when the attack ends, so get ready to be there when it ends and get in a hit or two!

Movements

That’s all for the attacks so I guess I’ll talk about how he moves. By the way, this is for the high rank version, the low rank one tends to be less aggressive, so you don’t need to think as much. When at a distance, he tends to just walk straight up to you, waits a second, then performs an attack. If it’s going to be a body slam, he’ll do it from a greater distance. In high rank a few monsters seem to have gained this “shadowing” movement ability. Most MH players develop a circle strafing style of playing to keep themselves on the move, not too far away from the monster and just wait for an opening. The shadowing move these monsters gain was made to counteract that by making it seem like they’re following you. It’s not ‘smart’ movement, though. Once they start doing the shadowing, if you stop moving they’ll keep doing it. The best way is to just counter it. The monster will turn at specific intervals, so if you can predict when it’s going to turn just hit it when it does so. They tend to move and turn one or two more times after you hit them, so it’s actually quite safe. If you don’t feel like attacking, just run towards the monster, past it and it’ll break the shadowing. Finally, he can do a long backstep which puts him out of your range.

Taunt

The Great Jaggi will leer with his head quite close to the ground when taunting. He’ll also make a unique sound that he only does while taunting. Remember this since you can get in a free attack when he does it.

Group Attacks

The main annoying thing about this guy is that he calls the rest of his family to attack you. And in high rank, he can call the bigger Jaggis as well (females, I think). They are very disruptive especially if you have a shield. There are occasions where I was blocking, the Great Jaggi starts an attack and I get hit from behind by some small monster. This breaks my block and makes me take the full brunt of the Great Jaggi’s attack. The females also have a body slam move that can send you flying. The danger of this is actually getting cornered by them. It is possibly to get body blocked, preventing you from dodging an attack simply because there’s no space. Basically, if you have a high mobility weapon, keep yourself on the move and away from corners, attack the Jaggis if you see an opportunity, but always prioritise the Great Jaggi. If your weapon is slower, you will need to take down a few of them to ensure that you don’t get cornered too badly, having one or two around is still manageable. You should attack the smaller ones but only when the Great Jaggi is away from you.

Attack Opportunities

I’ll be talking about attack openings in this section. After his bite (or second bite), rotating bite, body slam and second spinning tail attack, you have an opening to get in one to two hits. The opening can be wider depending on what he decides to do after, but it never hurts to play it safe. If he does a backstep, sheathe your weapon and wait for an opportunity to hit him with an unsheathe attack (blademasters only). In fact, sheathing is the key to this (and many other) battles. You can also get it in one to two hits when he does a taunt, so learn what it looks like.

When he calls for support, he puts his head up high and makes some dog like noises. This actually gives you a huge opportunity to get in your strongest attacks. Finally, when he enters rage mode, he’ll stomp his feet on the ground and then give out a howl. And THEN he does a taunt after that. You can actually get in TWO of your strongest attacks when he does that, depending on how far away you were from him when he started.

Right. That’s all for now. I’ll be posting more when I have time, but consider this part done! I should be done with the Great Jaggi by the next time I post so that means I’ll have a huge backlog of updating to do since I will be going through how I did it for each of the weapons. XD