r/MonsterHunter • u/Imagine_TryingYT • Mar 05 '25

MH Wilds Now that Shockproof is a skill

I better see every one of you longsword weebs sloting this on your build. No more "just slot flinch free bro". Slot this level 1 deco and you can no longer flinch your teammates with that 8 foot flagpole of a weapon.

For every longsword main I catch not using this skill I will eat 1 baby Seikret for dinner. No exceptions.

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u/honato Mar 05 '25

How is the glaive in wilds? Haven't gone experimenting with a lot of the weapons yet.

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u/Lanko Mar 05 '25

Honestly its a lot of fun. I had heard people complaining about it during the beta so i avoided it assuming it was bad, but nope its actually a lot of fun. Landing a focus strike gives you all your nectar, landing healing nectar seems easier. They removed the ability to spam homing attacks with your kinsect to collect nectar. You can still spam the kinsect, but it doesnt home so you need to aim. Its harder to collect the nectar you need, but overall id argue thats an improvement.

Also, its satisfying AF to land a focus attack when mid vault over the monsters head.

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u/SoupRyze Mar 05 '25

You can collect nectar if you're in focus mode doing attacks (doesn't have to be a focus strike) onto whatever part you need. I've been tilting my gyro controller like I'm playing Need for Speed or something to aim my attacks as I zoom through the air, honestly it's been a lot of fun since it's a much more active way of getting nectar than actually aiming and firing your slow bug.

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u/Lanko Mar 05 '25

Yes, but in the old games, you could do this without aiming.

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u/SoupRyze Mar 05 '25

Well.

The future is here old man 😎👍

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u/brokenskullzero Mar 05 '25

Honestly having assist kinsect improves the feel of the ground combos immensely, and having it also still work with no essense does make you feel like you have more synergy with the bug compared to how assist worked in rise

That on top of Charged Harvest being able to pierce and grab 3 essenses does change up your approaches

you from the side get its Head and wing for only 1 red and 2 whites, well you can just focus foward stab and get an orange and contine to ground blend

Aiming straight down a monster and it got all 3 in one go? Noice now time to blend

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u/VisibleDraw ​ Mar 05 '25

Did someone say nectar?

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u/SnarKenneth Mar 05 '25

I was more concerned that they took out the air mobility from it. In world, I was a fucking helicopter of pain and spent a lot of time mastering it to kill monsters as early as 5-10 minutes (with about half that time being just in the air), but I avoided it because I heard they removed the ability to stay in the air.

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u/SoupRyze Mar 05 '25

With 3 nectars collected (or maybe just the 3rd one?) you can definitely perma stay in the air.

https://www.twitch.tv/souptelevision/clip/GracefulTolerantWolverineJonCarnage-VcXgJKYVjIwcHLJx

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u/Lunafeather Mar 06 '25

Apparently they removed the bouncing in the betas, but it seems like enough people bitched about it that the bouncing absolutely exists in the final game, although I've never played another MH game before so I'm not sure if the bouncing is different? You can bounce as long as you have the stamina for it.

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u/main135s Mar 05 '25

My only complaint is that they flip-flopped the inputs for advancing and descending attacks in the air with no way (that I have found) to optionally swap it back.

I get that it's for usability on controller but I would much rather have descending be on M1 and advancing be on M2, how it was the last two games.

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u/Lanko Mar 05 '25

Omg! I thought it was just me! Muscle memory has me constantly mixing up my swings! I thought i was just dumb!

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u/main135s Mar 05 '25 edited Mar 05 '25

Yeah, it's not you, it's entirely the game!

With the new charged descending attacks, they made it so that the button you hold for them (B/Circle) is the one with the easiest access to both A/X and Y/Triangle.

I get why they did it and the advantages it has for PC, since you can carry the charge between the ground and vaulting into the air, they don't want to change which button is tied to the attack while on the ground, but it'll take getting used to and I'm not the biggest fan of what it'll mean when I decide to start swapping between games.

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u/brokenskullzero Mar 05 '25

Tho honestly it makes a bit more sense this way, Triangle was your basic combo on ground and O is the stronger attack to finish the combo, so it makes sense the button to keep a combo up is the same in the air

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u/DovahKing604 Mar 05 '25

Yeah, as a SnS user when I get a mount. I move all over the monster opening the 2-3 wound spots. Use a focus strike while still mounted to the monster. Beat the shit out of it while it is down. Then use the charging jump attack and focus strike while airborne. When I first started SnS in wilds (switch axe main in previous series) I thought I would just have a bunch of mobility and focus on elements and statuses. Nope. Been rocking straight raw damage and bullying everything.

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u/Darth_Senpai Mar 05 '25

I disagree with the statement that it's harder to collect essences. They added a cheeky little kinsect boop to every bouncy air attack, which gives you the ability to be more aggressive while collecting them. Add to that the fact that we can send our kinsect through the entire monster to collect all of them at the same time, we get all of them back from landing a focus strike, and potentially get all three from our new big flashy essence attack, and I'd say it's easier than ever to harvest all the essence we'll ever need.

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u/DrunkEngland Mar 05 '25

Yeah it's so much easier to collect the essences now, especially when you can collect all 3 by popping a wound. It's honestly just best to stay in focus mode, you keep up your essences and when you see a wound you can just pop your fully charged attack, pop the wound and be back to full essence instantly.

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u/Darth_Senpai Mar 05 '25

Yyyyyyyyyup

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u/Ok_Statement7261 Mar 05 '25

I grind it, and i love it. As always, took some time to get used to all combos, but after a while you delete the monsters - if you get alma‘s permission

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u/WayyOutThere Mar 05 '25

It's cinematic af, love landing the midair focus strike and bug shoryuken

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u/honato Mar 05 '25

Welp this has convinced me to learn it. SHORYUKEN!

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u/DrJProtobum Mar 05 '25

It's got this charge attack now if you have all the essences, it's really fun to use

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u/honato Mar 05 '25

So far that seems to sum up most of the wepaons. Not liking the bowguns as much as world/rise(rise was amazing. launching yourself 40 feet into the air to orbital cannon the poor poor monsters)

So many new weapons to learn ;.;

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u/Quietsquid everything but guns Mar 05 '25

It's pretty fun, but some asshole decided to swap all of the buttons so they could watch all the veterans fuck up.

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u/JaketheSnake2005 Mar 05 '25

So none of the controls are the same as in world or rise? My hunters gonna have a hell of a time getting back into his main

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u/Quietsquid everything but guns Mar 05 '25

They switched y and b in the air and all of the kinsect stuff is now on the right instead of left. It's closer to rise, but still enough to throw you off.

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u/JaketheSnake2005 Mar 05 '25

Why? For what purpose does it make sense to change the controls of a weapon that has relatively been the same through the more recent instalments. Rise had the tiniest change but was still easily memorable. Have they changed the controls on many of the weapons? I know there are some new moves but to change the controls makes no sense