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Whats the Advanced Server for anyway?

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Jerov

Well, if you go there before rank 31, it's just like any other server. But if you're rank 31 like I am, you're put there. What it unlocks is the upper area of Dondoruma, which contains the 31+ quests.

To put these quests in perspective, they're basically hard mode quests, where enemies have more health, more defense, and hit harder as well (a hard boss Fang hit me while I was wearing my damage armor [117ish defense] and took half of my life away).

The reasons for doing these quests is to get the stuff you need for the best equips in the game. You can still do normal quests anytime you want to by going into the bar, and you can take your super-equips with you for some good, fast farmin.

Finally, to really put things into perspective as to how hard the enemies become, here's a Rathalos (Rioreia) in hard mode with full party:

10000 HP
300% attack modifier
50% defense modifier

and it in normal mode:

6500 HP
160% attack modifier
75% defense modifier

So all I can say is, once you move here permanently, get your hands on some good armor pronto unless you like being one-shotted a lot

Edit: Here's a tip for anyone that's having trouble doing the final rank up hunt before rank 31, here's what I've noticed from my only two successful hunts.

A) The best party configuration I've seen are three range users, preferably a mix of bows and heavy bowguns and one melee user, either a hammer or dual blader (you need to be able to do heavy damage and still be able to move away in time).

B ) Bring plenty of explosive barrels, barrel traps right where Shen Gaoren is going to enter the area from is excellent, make sure one of the range users has penetrating rounds to make hitting the barrels easier

C) Speaking of penetration rounds, range users should only aim for two spots on the crab. If they have penetration rounds, shoot it in the back where the arrow will hit the weak spot inside its shell. Otherwise, aim for its big head. As for melee users, either hammer away at one of its legs in order to make it really weak or when its thrashing around, hit its chest area. When its knocked down, either keep chipping away at the leg to keep it weak or if you're close, go for the head.

D) When Shen gets up and starts walking towards a bridge and the range users get to the top. Melee fellow, please don't attack the legs. When it opens its shell to fire, someone can jump into it to plant the special bombs while the other range users can fire explosives/dragon-element darts into it for maximum damage. But if it gets stunned from enough damage to the leg or the head, it'll get back down and that's a blown chance to do major damage to it.

E) During the final part of the fight at the castle, here's a quick tip to make life easier. The melee user just hammer away at one of its legs, and the range users just unload on its head and keep it down. There's even a little pedestal bowgun users can climb on to in order to get closer to its head for more damage. Also, you can collect ballista rounds from the rack right next to the crate with the cannonballs in it (you gather them the same way you gather the cannonballs).

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Defiro

I'd lke to chat a bit ingame, but i donn't konw how !
I press the "Insert" button and a chat window appears....
I only can write european letters like i am using now.
But if i try to post with japanese letters it also don't work!
What i have to do !?!

_BlackDragon

I recently started Monster Hunter Frontier(ive played every other Monster Hunter game and the language barrier has never stopped me) but now on these starting missions im puzzled as to what i have to gather.

Could someone give me a list of what to do on a few of the starting quest?

XeoDX

The First Quest, Not tutorial is: 6 Special Mushrooms to complete but to add bonuses is B: 2 Raw Meats and A: I'm not sure yet >.<

and the second quest is Gathered that to complete is 3 Iron ore? or some type of ore you mine in Area 6

_BlackDragon

Thanks mate!

I think you should make a list of just the required items for the first gathering quest but im just a retard and one person.

XeoDX

No Time for making a Guide but heres a translated page from one of the Monster Hunter Wiki's I'll make a guide soon but this should help ALOT

http://translate.google.com/translat...%3Den%26sa%3DG

_BlackDragon

I cant thank you enough
^_^

Jerov

Actually, here's a really simple guide on what to do with what based off of symbols (you're comp needs to be able to read JPN, or else this won't help). Anywho, usually with the quest details you'll see blahblahXXのsomethin. Here's a simple way to convert:

blahXXの納品 = gather and deposit XX of blah
blahXXの討伐 = kill XX blah (usually normal mobs)
blahXXの狩猟 = eliminate XX of blah by means of either death or capture (putting critter into critical, paralyzing or pitfalling it, then finally hitting it with two tranq. bombs)
blahのsomethin破壊 = break/cut off blah's somethin. Usually this involves either breaking some armor, shells, or cutting off the tail. The somethin part of the target name is what needs to be destroyed. You MUST use bladed equipment to cut off things and blunt equipment to break things (explosives will do this as well).

Also, some more tips. Whenever you go out on a hunt, you'll notice you have 3 lives. These lives are shared by the whole team, so if one person dies three times, the whole team fails. Also, that little zenny extraction comes out of the main reward, so every time you or someone else dies, that's less money when the quest is over.

Now for people wondering why elemental is so good if its hit by a divide by 10 modifier and then lowered even further by usual reasons (including sharpness), here's why. Elemental damage is constant, no matter where you hit, it's usually constant so you can effectively kill a boss by elemental DPS if you have trouble hitting their weak spot (フルフル comes to mind). Also, the elemental damage ignores the damage percentage from the combo, so what dealt 100 elemental and only 10 raw damage will do the same for 100 elemental and 20 raw damage. This is very good for sword and shield and dual bladers, which rely more on sheer number of hits to deal damage than raw power ala hammer and greatsword

That's my 2z

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_BlackDragon

Ive played other monster hunter games but the decphiering of the quest is going to help me.

I am aware of damage formulas since it is the same as almost all the other games etc. But thank you for your help Jerov!