Arena 03 | Monster Hunter Rise Wiki

I didn't know how to truly play this game until I consistently got S rank with the great sword on this quest.

It took a while to figure out movement and positioning, but it felt like I finally understood MH afterwards.

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This may quite possibly be the worst quest in the game. Why? Because the arena format simply does not work outside the actual arena.

1: The time windows feel unreasonable. I'm not saying it's impossible to slay a Royal Ludroth and a Nargacuga in 6 minutes with the provided gear. However, I think that would only be possible (or at least feasable, there's probably some maniac who has transcended the traditional concept of skill and just kills anything he touches) in the traditional arena, which is to say with the buffs you get from the Prism Spiribird and in a somewhat confined setting where the monsters cannot run away.

2: You don't have the prismatic spiribird and you don't have a petalace, meaning you are at base health and stamina and there's not much you can get from collecting spiribirds, but you still need to collect spirirbirds because base stats just won't cut it without food.

3: Since Capcom made the glorious decision that you aren't allowed to faint anymore, you need to watch out a lot. And here's the kicker: If you do not collect any spiribirds, you are in one-shot range from Nargas enraged tailslam, which is already a move with questionable hitboxes, scary tracking and deceptive range. So spiribirds are both not worth it and utterly obligatory.

4: Since you don't have any buddies, you are a lot slower when it comes to moving across the map, further making the time limits seem utterly unreasonable as moving from Ludroth to Nargacuga already takes over a minute.

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