The 10 Endgame Things You NEED to do Before Title Update 2 - Monster Hunter Stories 2!

[@mimaneneko8386]

I've finished the Super Elders Lair a couple days ago, so I'm already ready to clobber goldilocks

[@ContainedBio]

Correction: You don't need to complete the deviants questline to do the elder dragon one, Just beating the first deviant and reporting back is enough.

[@Haos51]

I've tried doing that and it doesn't pop up, only after all the deviants were done did the quest pop up. I think there's something going on.

[@oldmatedave2382]

@@Haos51 I can confirm, I got the kirin quest after first deviant roo

[@oldmatedave2382]

Too*

[@Haos51]

@@oldmatedave2382 then we're at odds since I couldn't despite going to the person who has that quest.

[@AlericGlenn]

I got every monstie a couple days ago. Sadly haven’t fought alot of monsters but i have beaten the elders lair. Special one is next

[@AlejandroRodriguez-cy8ee]

"but we are all new right?" Me: *watches RageGamingVideos, Arekkz Gaming, Weiss Gaming, Paradise Central, TwoSixNine and TagBackTV and their builds of elder dragons of immortal builds and pvp builds* Me: yeaaaah...new. sure

[@QUIICKCLAW]

Finishing the Super Elder Den without being able to craft Dust of Life and Ancient Potions is basically suicide. I did almost the whole thing without both and being able to craft them made everything SO much nicer.

[@lonewolfnergiganos4000]

Having Kulve Taroth as a monstie would be so cool.

[@GageFortniteTM]

Shame they confirmed she's not ridable

[@literalidiotiguess5688]

Rip

[@ryanjohnson1124]

I'd like to know reasons for some of the monsters not being available as monsties, like tetsucabra and Duramboros.

[@GageFortniteTM]

@@ryanjohnson1124 there are no reasons, they just aren't. Plus they aren't that special, Zamtrios would've done Tetsucabra's job but with ice. Whereas Gammoth's Monstie kinda already serves as a mountain monstie you can use. This is just me trying to make sense from it but otherwise, there's no reason

[@literalidiotiguess5688]

@@ryanjohnson1124 the

[@Sessoma2k8]

i would add a recommendation for all those who are quite done with all of the above: use all your normal or rare expedition tickets to pile up some spare bottlecaps. I assume Kulve may need some Tickets just like the palamutes did. We might get a quest, that gets us some to start with but i will definitely farm the s*** out of Kulve and may need some precious bottle caps for that super rare kulve tickets (if they exist)

[@capngeeoff]

Didn't realize the update was so soon. The hard fights in this game are so fun

[@TyrantRex22]

My Talisman is Breaker XL and Tenacity, works well with my Styg armor with The Eternal Hate SnS

[@Eadragonixius]

Me just vibing with my lvl 90-99 team waiting for Kulve to drop 0w0

[@mt_baldwin]

A tip for those new to high rank and perhaps struggling. Running away from a monster unlocks it's eggs in dens. So lets say you want to farm high rank seregios but can't beat him yet(because a punk ass Deviljho keeps invading!), running away from a high rank one will unlock it's eggs. This will also make the health bar visible for any monster you haven't beat yet. Also in high rank the rare high rank dens look exactly the same as low rank, gold, so you have to go up to each one and check what it is. This really tripped me up when I first got to high rank, the first 4-5 I checked were low rank so I assumed that high rank only had red and diamond dens and I missed out on a ton of high rank rare dens by ignoring the gold dens.

[@DevilJhoMama]

the gold dens is a great tip, I've been making the same mistake, thank you.

[@thedumbdumbdoes6976]

I can’t wait for silver rathalos, so that i can have my team from the first game

[@onyx2787]

You actually do not need to do the deviant questline in order to unlock the elder dragon quest line. All you need to do is to do the required quest to unlock it in the first place and then reach 9 star by defeating Silverwind. Once you turn in the Silverwind quest, the clerk will tell you to go see Lilia given you did the Zeramon ruins quest

[@SushiBurritoPapi]

Can’t wait to build that hellblade glavenus

[@SaintAdjacent]

If I lost to Velkana, Teostra and Kirin it wouldn't be a hit to my pride, losing to Aptonoth, Popo and Apceros would though...

[@97dusk]

I've gotten all of the monsties just a few days ago, and I'm currently on Z7 of the Elder's Lair (taking some time to finish my Mizutsune's build and get some good Water weapons before I attempt it)

[@Azg4l0R1]

i just need a Mega Barrel Bomb Fyline for 100% monster and 100% quests

[@mychemicalklance4991]

You can find them in the first zone of the Elder's Lair They're in the area with the Azure and Pink Raths They don't always spawn there though, so keep trying! Also, make sure you use a mega barrel bomb on the felyne otherwise it will flee immediately

[@grenveld7015]

Fun fact about the super rare tickets, you can actually find them rarely in those blue chests that appear in expeditions, and as far as I've seen they're available in all rarities of expedition and they're far more comment than super rare dens in the overworld. In fact one time I joined an exposition with another guy and I actually found two chests with super rare tickets but this dude just slid past both of em on his lagiacrus cause he was gunning for the boss, so sad.

[@dragon_undead5261]

Zones 8 and 9 of the Elders Lair are also a fantastic way to farm elder dragons as long as you have made it there

[@electricmessiah3932]

Or deviant parts to max out armor and weapons. Nice that Tigre’s and diablos decided to stand almost next to each other

[@Elysiumsw]

Just a fyi. You do not have to finish the deviant questline to get the elder dragon one. I'm doing them both at the same time. After you hunt your first deviant, the NPC will tell you to go talk to Lilia who will give you the elder dragon questline too. You have to finish the ruin quest though (You get it during the story).

[@ironwolf5802]

I'm about 80% on fighting everything and trying to 100% the game.

[@Riolunator]

you don't need to complete the deviants first, only the pink rathian and azure rathalos quests, i was tackling both deviants and elders at the same time

[@jellyrathalosstudios4719]

I found 3 rare dens in a 6 hour time span. Those were my first three. Teostra out of the first. Velkhana out of the second and grimclaw Tigrex out of the third. For me they aren’t too bad to find. I was playing the game like half the 6 hours

[@Jim_the_Tomato]

Ahhhh, Hellblade Glavenus is coming next week and I've been spending my time building my regular Glavenus...

[@manueljansen6940]

I finished the special elder lair yesterday and now farming bottlecaps to get all my team genes to maximum lvl

[@WelshGiraffa]

Got lucky and 3 super elder dens spawned back to back in the tundra so I got my Thunderlord that I’m personally working on along with my Rajang for the elders lair

[@BlackBeltGamers88]

Considering the fact that you can't level cap your public co op tickets and the fact that it auto launches the mission when someone joins means you can easily get screwed out of your ticket. So, best tip I can give, always save before you do any co op SR den. If you get paired with a scrub and they fail the quest, reload your save to get your ticket back. Until some changes are made to lobby setup, I won't make public tickets anymore unless I know or am playing with someone. When you do a SR den and a level 20 joins in and dies to an Altaroth... So dumb...

[@benracer]

Ayy the update is on my birthday. Honestly looking forward to it

[@ImpeccableZentertainment]

Have you found a fast or efficient way to build up a monsties base kinship level

[@DevilJhoMama]

what is a kinship level, and how do I view it?

[@sirnight6438]

I really the fact that there’s three of you guys that way I have three separate viewpoints on how this game works also keep up good work

[@SuperLuigi1025]

My favorite monstie on my team is Glavenus. So far it is my strongest Monstie in my team. I can't wait for Hellblade Glavenus to come to the game.

[@bladedicedragon]

i encountered a super rare den naturally, so they do show up without tickets, but ive only seen one of them

[@waterslurper664]

Iirc they're like a 0.1 spawn rate, so very very rare

[@bladedicedragon]

not to mention that they look the exact same as a subquest den so its confusing too

[@deinonychus1948]

Yeah, most times I just look around and if I don't see blue, I immediately fast travel back to the same spot again and again till it spawns it works... eventually lol

[@aner_bda]

I'm not sure about everyone else, but to farm Elders and Deviants, I just got to Z8 and Z9 in the Elder's Lair. That seems to be easiest for me anyway. I'm sure not everyone has gotten that far in the game though.

[@miggywiggz]

can we also find deviant dens there too or do we need to use the co op system for the eggs? i’m on z9 but i keep farming z8 to find eggs and deviant parts

[@aner_bda]

@@miggywiggz No, the only way to get deviant eggs is through the multiplayer expeditions using the SR tickets. But you don't need to play online to do multiplayer. If you start a session and choose "Start Now" from the menu and you get paired with a NPC that helps out.

[@onyx2787]

Anyone have some good build suggestions for Dreadqueen and/or Nergigante? I heard of a build that functions as more of a synergy with your playet character for Dreadqueen

[@Qballiz2kool]

I’ve gotta ask, how do you even get to the elders lair? I’ve been playing for quite a bit, been in endgame for awhile and have finished 3 monsties builds and I’ve never ran into this area 😂. But I’m trying to level a Thunderlord Zinogre and it’s going a bit slow.

[@DevilJhoMama]

it's a main quest after beating the game. there is a marker on hacolo island that'll tell you where to go. if you've already been there then it'll be at the bottom of the last page on your fast travel list.

[@Jihi]

Think end game floor 8 and 9 are also good spots for deviants and EDs (minus Valk)

[@avirei98]

There's so much I didn't even know about I thought deviance were just randomly out in the world I didn't know there was a subquest for them I was going to wait until I had like a strong team before I went and tackled all the quests I skipped

[@skeletonmors2109]

Yooo this was a big help! I was pretty overwhelmed after the story

[@chrisfehn7290]

So do you guys think they are ever going to fix the element problem in the game? I think it would be sick to build a fire valkaina plus it would fix the lack of water monsters in game. Also at some point I really hope they add my favorite monster Vaal hazak to the game. It could have a AOE attack that gives everyone maizma that acts as defense down and give tick damage like poison that would be flipping awesome!!! Plus the Vaal hazak hammer looked so sick!

[@mychemicalklance4991]

I completed both the monsterpedia and monstiepedia It took me a week and a half (mainly to find certain monsters and super rare dens)

[@SharkdoesGaming]

i will mention on the point of levels being uncertain, the special elders lair is still difficult when around level 90 with full bingo full nutriment parties. so i expect they will balance kulve in a similar fashion to needing strategy, but just pure leveling wont be enough

[@superwolfie4061]

The first kulve will be pretty easy. That's why we are getting a hard version later on.

[@SharkdoesGaming]

@@superwolfie4061 fair, forgot about that

[@deinonychus1948]

10:21 yes, because beating the final boss without the recipe for Vital Essense and Ancient Potions ain't fun!

[@DevilJhoMama]

no idea what either of those are but that fight felt like it took forever. it was fun, but it's puts you to one health, and that just feels like stalling.

[@justsomestrangeguys6250]

For the deviants I just went into elders liar zone 8 and farm them just switch area and back they respawn the elder dragons in zone 9 respawn too but I didn't check zone 5 the velkhana one maybe he respawn too it's an easy fight

[@prestonschunter8232]

dude beside the elder dragon quest girl has the ancient potion recipe made sure to slam that quest down

[@yowza2404]

Really awesome video you pretty much covered everything thx 🙏🏻

[@chikenmorris7170]

I’ve completed the monstiepedia and also the low rank monsterpedia but there’s some monsters for the high rank monsterpedia that I just don’t know how to find, like I’m yet to see a high rank aptonoth and a lot of other weaker monsters like that

[@mattiaberti9160]

Some of them like Aptonoth or Popo are all a matter of RNG sadly. Try to visit red nests and pray for RNG.

[@scottycostello7033]

Do you thank add update for normal dlc

[@thesleepless5759]

Are you guys going to be covering all the differences the genes do to all the monsters model in the game?

[@M00nSlippers]

Rage mentions it in the "Can you change your monster's element?" video, but he deduced that since the color model changes were so inconsistent, and the scaling meant high level monsties couldn't keep up the requirements to keep them, it was pretty much pointless doing anything on purpose for a visual effect.

[@thesleepless5759]

@@M00nSlippers no I get that I more meant the stuff like rajang gaining the yellow enraged state or when velcona gains her ice armor. I was mainly curious if any changes like an enraged smoking deviljho or a flame and dust covered teostra was possible?

[@justsomestrangeguys6250]

I'm about to create a deadly yian kutku 😐 fear him... He will bring despair and everyone will perish in front of his might

[@thatscringedawg6535]

What do you do after

[@mylittledarkworldjohn4289]

Tbh i stopped after 120h cause i have over 600 bottlecaps 5M zenny and have my team so theres not really much to do, all quest except for the pedia quest are done the lair is done

[@muninn92]

I am currently collecting the genes to power up my Pukie lol.

[@wigglergodempire1725]

Is it possible to get a talismans for non element boost XL

[@meowier]

If there is, I have not seen in yet. This is me 500 random charm buys in. I did get a crit xl-crit kin-xl charm though

[@M00nSlippers]

I don't recall seeing straight damage boost talismans at all, honestly. But since those come on a lot of armor, it's probably more worthwhile to have something else anyway.

[@primalchaotix3715]

On the deviants part for the special elders :3 so almost done with that.

[@03081996]

S lair z9 can only be quick finished at lvl 98

[@laquedibuja2003]

how do i beat velkhana?

[@nickcampbell3812]

I just got to endgame a few days ago.

[@klissattack]

I wish the sorting was better in this game. Like for the quest or the monsties

[@stgoose]

Hollow said the Elder Dragons are farmable after the quest line, and that doesn’t seem to be true for me, anyone have thoughts?

[@meowier]

You finish the side quest for them? That unlocks the multi-player player quest where you just hunt the elders, no need to find dens or use Sr tickets.

[@stgoose]

@@meowier ah, didn’t realize it was a co-op quest. Of course, I just found floor 8 of the Elders Lair so now it’s kind of moot, but thank you!

[@tonguepunch88waffles22]

I want meowsculer chef as a monstie

[@hiromasaki9436]

I reckon there's no silver ratha and gold rathi. I really want to have them in the near update

[@Stories-ji7lz]

The metal raths are coming on the last update.

[@hiromasaki9436]

@@Stories-ji7lz nice

[@tonguepunch88waffles22]

Wish we could get equipment from oltura

[@jellyrathalosstudios4719]

Would be to good when upgraded to max

[@yostinator81]

I’m still not done with the story.

[@godofsquirrels494]

Take your time. Have fun.

[@Nijonibi]

ive been struggling to get enough High-Grade ore and bones, anyone got any tips?

[@meowier]

Dens usually have a good cluster of all the mats, get a egg and mats at the same time

[@Nijonibi]

@@meowier thats what ive been doing, but its slow progress.

[@meowier]

Skipping the egg does speed it up some, don't forget to use the expeditions as well, check what you want and set your monsties to find specific mat

[@Nijonibi]

@@meowier i only pick up an egg to get out of the den quicker. do you mean the monsties expeditions or the co-op expeditions?

[@meowier]

Monstie expedition

[@star-gazer1829]

Just unlocked end game today!!!

[@dakota4892]

Super bummed. I only wanted a kulve monstie, don’t care about anything els in future updates beyond kulves addition.

[@sephirian688]

I have a tendency to absent mindedly grind for hours and hours when it comes to rpgs like this like I hit 40 hours of gameplay within the first 2.5 days (took vacation from work) and I’ve done this fairly regularly in post game,at least one off day is dedicated to some form of Monster Hunter every weekend lol. So there isn’t much I don’t have outside of a full *redacted* set. Speaking of *redacted* I have no idea how they are going to top that fight. Like Kulve is either going to be a push over for the hardcore players or an absolute nightmare for the casual players and I’m not sure which I would prefer. Like they KNOW there’s a lot of people out here with full max level min/maxed teams, but there’s also a lot of people who are just now getting to post game and due to their being no Ranking system there’s no way for them to really limit people that may not be strong enough. So idk, seems like putting *redacted* in the game before any planned expansions is going to make balancing difficulty of post *redacted* content awkward for at least a few months.

[@ImsorryAnakin]

I'm 40 hours in and not even at the 5th area yet. I've got some fully bingo royal monsters though. I just soloed a green nargucuga as I'm in between areas so no battle buddy. I think I'm overleveled. I replaced my fully bingoed monobolos with a black diabolos so we'll see.

[@luisemoralesfalcon4716]

Man this is an awesome video.

[@hydr0_opt1cal26]

I haven’t even got the game yet Edit: GUYS GUESS WHAT

[@literalidiotiguess5688]

I just finished a build for velkhana and this is uploaded poogie

[@tyruku18]

I wish there was Steaks Recipes

[@brightclaw2373]

I just completed my monstiepedia

[@brodywunsch7223]

I wish I could have pvp matches but there's never anyone for me sad face

[@ImsorryAnakin]

Most don't care about PVP. I know I don't.

[@ryanjohnson1124]

Does anyone know how to get an egg for a dreadqueen rathian? I've been doing the Terga super rare co-op quests and the egg won't "drop".

[@StellarRetribution]

It looks almost exactly like astalos, so you might be confusing them

[@armedcuga2930]

Thats unlucky because dreadqueen only spawns in the volcano or terga sr dens.

[@ryanjohnson1124]

@@StellarRetribution Astalos eggs don't drop in the main egg nest, but all other deviant eggs only drop in that nest, so why wouldn't Dreadqueen?

[@ryanjohnson1124]

@@armedcuga2930 I thought that might be it

[@StellarRetribution]

@@ryanjohnson1124 in that case i have no clue

[@berserk3956]

I haven't completed the story yet, I have school.

[@T-REX-KNIGHT]

Me still using Ratha after the story til dreadking comes out: ouo

[@Ryodraco]

One nice thing about this game is that if you build them the same way, there's not really that big a difference between the weakest and strongest monsters of a given element and attack type. Thus you can be successful even when not using the "best" monsters, provided you build them well. Maybe not in PVP but I have no experience there.

[@T-REX-KNIGHT]

@@Ryodraco ratha still serves me well once i gave him blast blight genes he is very neat.

[@R7AWSUM]

I am actually kinda bummed that PvP is so laid back. People don't take it seriously enough if there isn't some risk involved.

[@sephirian688]

It’s just not that kind of game. The post game and pvp content from the first game and this one is primarily “because you think it’s fun”. Plus what risk would they use? Zenny? Bottle Caps? That just creates unnecessary toxicity. Give it time and just like with the first game, pretty soon the only pvp matches you’ll get will be with the people who take it VERY seriously and matches will generally end in one or two turns.

[@R7AWSUM]

@@sephirian688 it's kind of disheartening that we have to essentially wait for it to die in order to play it. I'm a competitive person. I don't much like the idea that people are just willy-nilly jumping in and "having fun" because there is no real risk to losing. Especially because I'll still torture myself over a loss, regardless of game penalty, so it'd be nice for other people to at least somewhat understand the gravity of the situation.

[@itaycohen3274]

we need the stories 2 immortal build

[@shiny619]

On paradise central or someone from their group made an immortal nergi

[@itaycohen3274]

@@shiny619 their group didn't but someone else did. but josh is known for his immortal builds

[@shiny619]

@@itaycohen3274 I know I'm just saying if you were really looking for one

[@voltageRex]

Today I accidentally got a gamoth and a blue ratholos. U know it's not called blue ratholos but I don't know how to spell that other word

[@Blazicle]

Azure?

[@Bornagainvillain]

I just want ELDERS...

[@geodude404]

Lol, haven't touched Stories since I finished the story🥶

[@LostAc]

You’re missing out on some of the more fun stuff

[@superwolfie4061]

Missing the best part of the game

[@GizmoTTV]

Almost done with special elders lair, fatty keeps kicking my ass.

[@brianlegrand9825]

Have health regen XL +2 Gene on Nerg, recovery charm....ride him to victory. Rinse and repeat

[@RiceBoy1996]

How hard is the special? Just finished the normal one.

[@brianlegrand9825]

@@RiceBoy1996 I did it around level 67-70ish. It's not harder just more health meaning longer fights. Almost every S8 fight took around 30 turns (Except Nerg, rajang finished him in around 19). Fatty took 58 turns

[@ozakawamariajane9258]

is it just me or he's voice is abit different?

[@danielharris1825]

So the only thing I can do now then is pvp which like you said is boring as pvp's generally are

[@Neos4500]

I can't wait to get a Hellblade Glavenus.

[@ThePuppet]

Eyy I was like 666 Now to farm the shit out of this game.

[@gruggedup9083]

I love how much skill is required to phase through monsters. So realistic IMO

[@papper3629]

Hi

[@Rhobeni]

Hello

[@lonewolfnergiganos4000]

Hi

[@joshduehr2898]

PvP is both fun and annoying.

[@OTBASH]

The gold digger herself is back again. I farmed her so much to get her kjar CB's, her entire moveset was burned into my head. I stopped playing once I got to the endgame because it was incredibly boring and underwhelming. Hopefully these new updates add better content to the base game.

[@raptirredangel1336]

hmmmmyep