are you using the spear emcee? spear let you block attacks instead of dodging which is a lot,lot,lot easier... i found myself sucking at the game a lot less after learning to use the spear
I still can't figure out how to effectively use charms/decorations or what or what does have a slot or how to influence this 'skill tree' I can't seem to find .
allright it works like this,each piece of your armor comes with a skill and a number... for example the qurupeco helm comes with "Defense +4" that doesn't mean it increase your defense by 4,that means it just gives you 4 point in the defense skill and when you reach a certain threshold that skill activates,for example the defense skill give you a small defense boost when you get to a total of 10,a medium boost at 15 and a large boost at 20
so let's say you wear the whole qurupeco set,that will give you a total of 11 point in the defense skill,well now thanks to decoration you can gem the remaining 4 points and bring it to a total where it triggers medium instead of small and if you are lucky and got a charm with Defense +5 you can bring the total to 20 where it will trigger the large boost
And then weapons have affinities but hellifiknow what any one monster is weak to.
there is no precise way to know other than checking a guide but it should be pretty obvious for some monster... what do you think is the ice monster weakness? i'll tell you it's not ice
And does a negative number mean the element is resisted or susceptible
negative means it's susceptible,positive means is resisted but i wouldn't worry too much about it,monster don't really use elemental attack that much
and ehy while it's not exact science,usualy if an armor set is susceptible to an element that means the monster that armor set come from is most of the time susceptible to that element too
They literally will bounce off their hide 99 percent of the time.
well sharpness matter as you said but where you hit also matter,for example you say you want to try barroth? well hitting barroth in the head will always result in a bounce so your best bet is to hit him on the tail or the body
some attack will never bounce,the spear charge attack for example,or the hammer charge attack,or the longsword special
Money kinda hard to make atm.
you are not abusing the farm,give them some honey,make some day pass around,get back your 10X 15X free honey,watch your profit grows
the fisherman too,send them to search for treasure and they will return with a lot of high-priced stuff
what weapons are you using right now?