The Harvest Festival event is now live in Monster Hunter World on PC and last night I spent for the most part the entire evening doing event quests. The PC community appears to be significantly smaller than the Playstation 4 one, I am assuming in part because there are likely fewer Japanese players available to group with. I know a lot of my SOS Roulette nonsense was done with Japanese players… which seem to have a culture of opening up their events to other players as a matter of course. There have been many times when I tried to find an SOS for a specific monster and came up completely empty, so instead I have started filtering my session by specific types of quests. So for example I am filtering for groups specifically doing Event quests during the Harvest Festival, and that seems to give me a session with a bunch of players participating in the sort of events I have been trying to.
I am still not nearly as progressed as I am on the console, but I did manage to get far enough to do the “Every Hunter’s Dream” quest which rewards the crafting bits needed to make Wyvern Ignition… aka the Greatsword you can see in the above image. I decided to spend all of my harvest tickets on making the Palico Armor, because not only is it awesome looking… but it was actually a pretty reasonable upgrade to the Zorah set mine had been wearing. My goal in coming back and playing a lot is to also get me ready for the inevitable release of the Kulve Taroth siege event. For whatever reason I was expecting the Greatsword quest to be High Rank… which is why I was pushing lately to get there… however it is only a 5 star so that last tier before you actually transition into High Rank.
This event also allowed me to catch up on a bunch of the other quests that I had apparently missed… namely the Wiggler Head, Kulu Head, Eye Patch and Shades. I need to run through everything available and make sure I have crafted everything, but for now I think my focus is going to be doing the daily bounties so I can gather up enough tickets to craft some of the harvest gear… or at the very least get the layered armor set. I probably fall in the Fashion Hunter territory in that I tend to be way more interested in Layered Armor sets than pretty much anything else because I can equip them over top of whatever gear I happen to be wearing.
I am still very much digging the Zorah hammer, but also now branching out into Switch Axe and Great Sword. I need to do a bit of farming because I want to craft a Gunlance and a Lance to play with those as well. On the PS4 I was pretty much laser focused on only caring about Longsword. This time around however I am trying to branch out and try new weapons, because it is very clear that certain encounters just work better with certain weapons. Lance/Gunlance seem rediculously powerful so I want to try my best to figure out how to play each of those. For whatever reason swapping weapons seems to be easier for me when I am already playing using the much more comfortable keyboard and mouse sort of interface. So much of my time on the PS4 was me eating up brain cycles trying to remember how to use a controller, since that is not a mode I play in regularly. Whereas with the Keyboard and Mouse I am in my comfort zone and can sort of dedicate those brain cycles to other things.
If you are around and doing stuff ping me and say hey. I will warn you though that I don’t regularly play with the chat overlay on through Steam because it has caused graphical issues in the past, and as a result it might take awhile for me to actually respond.