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Axl_Rose_85 posted...

- At what point in the main quest do I need to start grinding for optimum gear so that the monsters don't kill me in 2-3 hits or takes almost the entire time limit (50 mins) to kill?

Honestly, I wouldn't grind for armor at all in Low Rank or early High Rank. It's going to be outclassed later on, so you shouldn't spend too much time on it. Just make whatever has the strongest defense that you have materials for and swap it out for new armor you unlock at your convenience. For weapons, I also wouldn't spend too much time in specific monster paths on the tree because getting the best weapons on each path will take a lot of work. It's better to just focus on the Bone or Ore trees since it's really easy to get those materials, so they'll be the strongest weapons you can make early on. As you progress through the game you'll expand the weapon tree, so you'll find it much faster to just make a new higher rarity Bone/Ore weapon then instead of having to grind again for specific monster materials. Save that for the end game.

As far as getting better at fighting monsters, make sure you're using Armor Spheres to upgrade your defense (I had a friend who went through the whole game without realizing you could do this, and was wondering why he was being one shot by everything), and that you're using your tools and items to their full potential. Make sure you're bringing and using lots of traps, bombs, that you're making use of the slinger ammo and environmental hazards, that you're boosting your stats with meals (and paying attention to meal skills) and buffing your stats (fyi, seeds, pills, drugs and powders all stack with each other, so you can buff your attack and defense by a ton with them alone). In the end though, in order to speed up your quest times, the only real thing you can do is just learn the monsters attack patterns and be more aggressive. In time you'll be able to anticipate and avoid attacks while laying on the damage constantly, whereas early on a lot of new players will have to dance around the monster and look for openings which of course will take a lot of time.

Axl_Rose_85 posted...

- I absolutely hated Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate because it started becoming too grindy and it simply became a game of killing previous monsters for materials until you get the best gear to the face the next Big Monster, rinse and repeat. Is this game more or less the same?

Not really. It's much easier to make new armor in this game than previous ones, and each individual armor has more value skill wise. Obviously the core gameplay is about getting materials to make better gear, but it's more manageable in World. Don't forget that if you need materials really badly, you can do Investigations to earn more rewards. Investigations that have Gold rewards will have the best materials. And you can use the tickets you get for completing Bounties at the Elder Melder to simply buy rare materials you need.

Axl_Rose_85 posted...

- Currently my aim is just to finish the main quest i.e finish the story. Is it a huge time investment to do just that? I know MH games have massive content. I just wanna know how long it takes to beat just the story portion and how much of it requires grinding?

Honestly, not that long. I can't really judge because I spent a lot of time doing sidequests and getting a variety of gear, but I think there's around 30 main quests in the game, so if you're really focused on just clearing the story, you can get through it fairly quickly.
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