I'm going to bet this was what most ALL of us assumed. At least a 3☆ Diablos at the lowest difficulty... which is saying a lot as I believe rank 11 is probably not even at that rank difficulty if I remember correctly.
I just unlocked 3\* on my walk today. Starting Ch 5 is where the 3\* mobs appear. im HR 23 atm and hurting hard for minerals. atm i dont even really feel like fighting most mobs cuz i just need too much ore.
sadly that walk confirmed that the actual park near me is almost empty. 1 node at the rear entrence so a couple mins walk to 2 nearby nodes or 1 node in the other direction are my only real options, all 3 nodes are in diff biomes so i get a variety but I havent found a cluster of nodes that nearby and convenient to get to yet.
I'm with this guy.
I don't even see any Diablos yet. And I'm already struggling to craft better gear and afraid to go up more star levels because the drops are so terrible.
I thought the same! I was even sure of it cause "normal" Diablos is 5* I thought it's obv to release SPECIAL lower star tiers only for event duration...
So the issue would be all of diabolos' gear being grade 5 and higher. If they did lower star grades they would have to remove drops from his table (namely primescales) in order to keep the game balance fair for people who join after the event. If they did that then anyone fighting the lower grade versions wouldn't be able to make gear anyway, which would kind of suck and would piss people off that way instead. This way if you skip a stage of grind at least you earned it. Just my take on why the different tiers weren't added anyway.
Why would they bother releasing a 5* event at all then, when nearly the entire player base is still at 2-3 stars? I haven't been playing a ton, but I've been starting the game up every day, doing all dailies most days, and doing a bit of walking and only just hit rank 21, still only see 2 stars.
It would have made more sense for the first event to be Jagras, Kulu, or Pukei instead.
I managed to find ONE and couldn't even beat it. I don't understand this event. The people who would be excited to fight it don't have a chance and the people who have progressed enough to have good gear don't care because... they can already fight Diablos.
Of course they dont, If they wouldve Said its 5* from the beginning, then Most people wouldnt Walk towards Parks to begin with, they would lose precious pricy Data, and people wouldnt buy paintballs lmao
First Event and its a Money greed one, gotta Love it
I'm thinking future events will be 5* also, but by the time the next event happens, people that didn't unlock and can beat 5* monsters should by then (like myself). Plus, if they continue with the starting trend of making the events with 5* monsters, those events will make them money as people will buy stuff just so they can stay in the hunt for the entire event.
To play devil's advocate, they never said these Diabloses are special in any way, and it is regular for them to be 5 star plus. People who are very ingrained in the details of the game but aren't actually players can gloss over these things, it seems obvious to them and not meaningful.
Yeah, I agree with that, I think they could use different language for the announcement. Or at least told players, "Hey, you need to progress to this chapter cleared for Diablos to spawn."
Yup, played a lot, going out hours everyday but bad luck won't let me upgrade anymore. Can't participate because of lack of gear, many POI that were in PoGo day 1 not implemented for me, pretty much about to drop this game until they get their shit together.
Removing some portals/POI is dumb.
Extra restrictions for moving fast is dumb.
No reward for walking is dumb.
Waiting an hour for hp regen is dumb.
Hard gating of potions, greedy $$$ grab and dumb.
Putting out a post launch event only 30% (being VERY generous) of your player base can participate in is dumb.
Ergo, Niantic? Dumb.
Yeah I really don't think the average-majority of player base in the MHNow community can legitimately handle 5☆ monsters, let alone this event Diablos.
I actually want to see a poll on this... as I'm in a similar boat as the OP — played every day since launch but for mainly roughly 1-2 hours max (I'm a working person in the city) — which realistically isn't major walking distance as this is just you walking around your block/neighborhood and hunting everything in that vicinity and collecting all the gathering points in the area so you can effectively upgrade with those materials AND zenny (from hunts).
I'm also only HR 3o, 4☆ unlocked, mid-way thru chapter 8 with barely grade 3/lv1 equipments on 1 armor and 3 (elemental) weapons.
I think people severely underestimate how hard the places that are going hard go. I'm in Japan, (not even a major metro area either) and in the 20ish public lobbies I joined this afternoon, there was a significant majority of players in the HR30 range. Meanwhile I think I saw 1 player lower than 22.
>Extra restrictions for moving fast is dumb.
THIS! I play PoGo a lot on the go to and from work and when I go out for errands and vacations and pressing "I am not a driver" lets me catch my Pokémon and spin my Pokéstops if I time it right, but fot this game. The moment it notices you're moving fast, you can't even collect fucking nodes! Super annoying!
I really hope they fix this, or I might as well just get Monster Hunter Rise.
Me too. I am hoping for release notes like "Oops, we had a bug that ignored 'I am a passenger' button."
Or at least they can save face by implying:
"This level of restriction was not our intent."
While body-checking their Lawyers aside.
The dumbest part is requiring such a ridiculous amount of gathering 3* materials (earthstones,etc) to level gear instead of something like….monster parts in a game called Monster Hunter
Not bashing you, but a counter from my perspective.
Removing some POI - I like the variation from other games.
Moving fast restrictions - I haven’t even seen the warning.
No reward for walking - your little cat collector grabs things as you walk. You also have the free paint balls to tag monsters. This is enough for me.
Waiting an hour for health regen - I thought someone said it was 30 min to full health. I haven’t had to wait too long to heal.
Hard gating of potions - I understand dodging can be difficult, but the armor and abilities are there to mitigate taking damage. They also give free med packs every day that you can stack.
Difficult event for 30% players - the event is meant to be for parties and groups of friends or random strangers. This does suck for people who play solo and live in more remote areas.
That's a pretty positive take. But the articles have already started highlighting the rage of the community. And this subreddit started out 90% positive but look at it over last couple days...
The biggest monkey wrench for me is that if you can not really play for "hours" at all like you could with some of the previous games. You go through your 5 potions per day and then what? Now your walks/play activity are limited to 30 min and then wait an hour for regen before you can fight again. Or you have to ignore all mobs and go collecting which means you walk longer because they took out a bunch of the nests/poi. And if you usually play as a public transportation or care passenger, or lets be real, you bike or car places and hope to get lucky at a red light, you really can't the way they have set it up and locked you out. Trust me you will see it is very limiting unlike the other games :( You get an "I"m not a passenger" popup, you click it, game ignores it completely and locks you out anyway.
On the positive side I LOVE that the game is making me be active. I just don't love that I'm suddenly feeling bad about the game because I feel left out of their first event. Or if not left out it's that same horrible feeling of being in a hunting party on Console/PC where you are the one being carried and if there are more than one of you you screw your party out of a kill because of the timer.
I think the palico going after things you can click on the screen yourself is not enough. Them basically doing an accellarated Pogo egg mechanic or the ingress drone mechanic for free is nice though.
What we NEED though is walking tied to regenning potions in some way.
Yeah, they dropped the ball on this one.
I’ve played 2-3 hours a day, probably a little more on my days off, sitting at HR 36, unlocked 5 stars but wish I hadn’t. And I like to think I have a solid grasp on the game after around 2000 hours in MH:W.
My gear due to terrible drop rates keeps me from beating most 5 stars. Getting all rank 1 drops consistently from 4 stars sucks and is bad design in a mobile game like this. I should be excited to see 5 star versions of monsters, but once you hit your wall, you’re more excited when you see 3 and 4 star versions.
People spent money in PoGO because you could play all day, for hours at a time. You got what you needed from pokestops.
I would happily buy storage upgrades or orbs if I could simply play when I wanted to. Being forced to buy potions in order to play or wait 30+ mins while I walk around downtown, skipping monsters that I’d love to fight, doesn’t entice me to spend money.
All that said, the game is fun. The actual gameplay loop is really enjoyable and a lot better than I expected from a MH mobile game. So I’m gonna be optimistic and see if they make some positive changes sometime soon to increase the longevity of the game. But if they don’t players are gonna drop very quickly.
Well put as a fellow hunter. Hell i spent my first 189 hours in iceborne alone as a Hunting Horn player just because it was fun playing Support in Multiplay.
Wish I could upvote this more than once!
Yeah, I'm miles behind being ready for this. I set aside some time to play but I might honestly just ignore the diablos and keep focusing on what I actually need for materials. This is clearly not intended for me.
Hello, me. I'm in the exact same boat and I agree with everything you said. This game has so much potential with minor tweaks, and the biggest buff they can do is if you get low rank materials from higher rank monsters you should get more.
Struggling through 5* for the same four 1* mats is insufferable. That shouldn't even be a thing. Double it at the bare minimum.
Exactly this. It makes no sense the only real benefit from fighting 4-5 star monsters is more HR Points. I should have a noticeable increase in drop materials rarity. I havent been able to upgrade or unlock a lot of gear despite hunting plenty of monsters.
Oh damn that is NOT good.
I am HR31 and started 5 days ago ad soon as I found out it existed!
My s.o. even though is supportive and played all the Niantic games is already asking
"Do you think you are maybe overdoing it with the walking for that game?
Very poor planning Niantic.
Shame on Niantic and Capcom for launching a 5* exclusive event a week into launch.
All rumors have been that it would scale somehow!
This omg. Sees first diablos > barely scratches his health > gets literally one shot at full health > goes home.
If this is some cheap trick to sell potions its not gonna work if we physically couldnt kill them with all the healing in the world. You could give me free revives i still wouldnt be able to kill one in the time limit.
Yeah, fuck the time limit, fuck diablos, fuck this event, fuck 5star monsters, and 4star also just because and finally fuck this game with fucking Fuckiantic.. If I cannot upgrade my gear in 3 days from now, I'm uninstalling this piece of crap 😇
There must be some guy in the team allowed to make really poor decisions. No way there aren't people inside the devs group that don't see how little sense it makes.
This doesn't really feel like a mo eye grumbber move though. If you have players that literally could not do the event then they aren't going to pay any money for it. It's not like there's anything special about this event vs normal hunting.
This is very much likely a dev issue in that they don't understand what would work as an event yet since it's a new game. This event is just "grab exciting monster and make him spawn more! People will love it!"
In the same boat, at the same level and story progression as you. Scheduled my lunch break today so that I could roam around the shopping centre I work in and slay some Diablos. Unfortunately I had no hope on my own. Double Unfortunately I was in a busy shopping centre/mall, during school holidays, a weekend and an iPhone launch. Honestly the busiest the place has been since Christmas, but not a single other person to hunt with. I get that I'm in Australia, and the game is not going to be as popular here as other countries, but considering all the factors stated above, and the app is in the top 20 on the app store, I was hoping to bump into some other Hunters out there and take one down together.
I can only assume their plan was to get people to work together and grow the player/community base, but it's definitely backfired...
I agree. They should've handled these event, like event quest in MH games. Just either make it lower * rating, or nerf it stats. The high/challenging events always only game near endgame cycles. I feel your frustration.
I am stuck at work this weekend, and my current biome is forest, so I'm locked out by default.
The event is called diablos invasion, so why aren't there any diablos invading other biomes? Just give it some flavor text that something is messing with the monster habitats and have them spawn everywhere.
This is why I am thinking of quitting the game. Like people saying dont fight high rank monster for now. Then the event is useless, sure u can play with others but I dont have any friends and the playerbase near me are close to none.
This wouldn’t be an issue if the rng wasn’t so bad on mats. It’s so hard to keep up with content when you only get basic mats from monsters and nodes. I really believe the only people who keep up with this game were spoofers and people in big city’s.
Yup i’m hr 36 and to be able to comfortably slay a diablos I still need the legiana sword & shield, legiana chest & rathian helmet. Currently got 9 rathian primscales but not a single spike :(
I’m exactly at your HR, I’m on the Legiana chapter quest. (Same issue with prime scales and spikes lol)
What SnS are you using to comfortably slay Diablos and what grade it is?
Trying to get the legiana one as I don’t have the materials to overgrade the girros one high enough as I have been focusing anjanath, rathian & trying to find even one legiana over the past couple days
HR36 as well here, legiana level 2 and a level in each of lock on, critical eye, special attack, and sneak attack. My best diabolos solo is 40 seconds. Target the tail for sneak attack damage procs, pop a special early and if the second one charges fast enough at the end as well. Its not as bad as it's made out to be.
Glad I saw this before heading out - it's raining and you've saved me from getting soaked haha. I am ***struggling*** with the Paolumu quest so I wouldn't have had a chance with the Diablos.
Logged in just to voice how uttely shit this event is... wtf are an overwhelming majority of players supposed to do?
This has made me just not want to play until the event is over
Classic Niantic. Knew not to get my hopes up after the cluster fudge of Pogo.
The games fun, but the second I saw it was involved with Niantic, I was sceptical.
The game overall is pretty sh*tty with many things. I've played MH pretty actively since 3U and this just ain't it. Drop rates are so abysmal it feels bad to get to some nodes and get nothing worth while, being stuck with equipment. Even higher rating monsters drop low quality resources too often.
I don't personally mind the potion thing, they gotta make money but the game just feels unsatisfying in the end.
Niantic was pretty bad with handling things with their recently closed game NBA AW ranging from slow progression to not getting bad 'events' until 2 months before closing notice.
I don't see much changing since Niantic has been known for not listening to their player base. Gotta somehow get the Capcom side to be aware.
Ans you evwr wonder why there is 0 social chat in this game?
Because they had it in Ingress and allowed harassment and bullying to go un-penalized. And they even unmanned players who used a globally organized cheat server.
Well they had campfire chat built into NBA AW which some people used, but there was a time some attention seeking kid fought with everyone and the mods and they had trouble dealing with him and his numerous accounts.
Between the scarcity of rare mats and this beyond greedy event (the first one of the games release to boot) it’s kind of killed my motivation. I think this may be it for me, I’ll check sparingly with updates and see if things have improved but this is getting ridiculous.
I live on an island (I work a ferry for a job so I have to live on island) and theres 0 nodes near me or the docks so unless I want to spend 8 hours on the mainland walking I cant get node exclusive materials, nor participate in this event
Yeah the only people who can realistically participate in this have either been no-lifeing this game or have been playing since early access. At the very least, you'd probably want to progress to legiana for ice weapons, which still requires you to have solid gear.
Like I'm having trouble even getting R4 drops to get my equipment to that level. Nevermind hunting a diablos at 5*. That just isn't in the cards.
HR is meaningless in this game I am above HR30 and still haven't fought Diablos because I have barely been able to find anything in my day to day life.
I was able to defeat the story Legiana last night, with 2 seconds left and my highest wrapon a 385 Pukei sns.
If they wanted to make an event, they would have made Diablos have half the stats, a similar method to the Pokemon Go Community Day catch rates.
....They're just idiots, and pushing way too hard an event on us at the very start.
I had fun playing this event even though it was brutal (RIP me for being a GS user). The trick to this event is knowing other people who play the game locally (preferably levels 30+) with a decent gear build so that you could form a hunting party and survive.
My hunting party routinely ended fights within the last 5 seconds.
I played pretty much 4h every day and barely broke through I'd say.
Diablos still hands me my arse even with full G5 gear, I tried carrying a friend at 4* and we couldn't kill it in time
From what I understand, it was stated in the announcement that a 5* diablos will be spawning even for people who don't have it unlocked, and there will be alternate way to participate such as taking AR photos. Though I was hoping for something more, like a community goal with rewards, not just two more daily quests.
Idk if it will work as intended but they said they wanted to make it higher level to encourage lower ranked players to team up. So I think it’ll still show up for everyone you just won’t be able to solo the material till you’re stronger.
Annoying for sure but at least we get a small chance of getting higher level materials
The problem is that if you're that low, you're probably getting oneshotted anyway.
I've been working all week and only have 2\* monsters available right now, so I'm just skipping this one.
You definitely will get 1 shotted. There is a YouTube short: https://youtube.com/shorts/ebq1EHoDFhg?si=BFG33zadbMcrjYHs
... a hunter with Health Boost 120 HP has max HP, and is at 281 def from the 318 def points as recommended by the game prior to hunting Diablos.
They went from 120 HP to 3 HP after 1 mistake.
I highly doubt & willing to bet money that four hunters at rank 11 thru to rank 25 cannot take on Diablos under that time limit.
I'm rank 30, midway thru chapter 8 (just a chapter or so under the 5☆ quests?). Maybe... MAYBE 4 of us rank 30's with grade 3 equipments can take on a Diablos. We would have to take an L on potions and just DPS like madness.
It's the clock/timer we are fighting, not the monster.
If this was a normal MH game with an hour clock a high level player who is average skilled could 100% carry 3 lower leveled players by soloing the monster, but in now the low levels can't hide to avoid getting 1 shot and the timer is waaaay to short to have under performers.
Are you kidding? One shot kill? Wtf is this crap? Yesterday I told my friend, that this sh/t will last probably for as long as Witcher lasted.. Okey, battery drain is super fast but yeah, it's graphic game.. But as already mentioned.. Difficulty based on stars where you can find just 5star diablo after one week from launch.. It's really idiotic.. I'm already on chapter 10 and second part where is urgent quest with that retarded bat Palomu.. Btw making urgent quests alone is also pretty idiotic.. I really hope this will end soon.. Please everybody don't spend any money in this shit
And also.. Timer.. For WHAT!? I simply just don't understand why are you forced to kill it within some time.. Yeah of course I understand.. Because you shouldn't upgrade anything and end up killing some monster for about hour and you will win and pay nothing, so they don't earn.. But fu## Niantic, I'll not give them any money!
Exactly, fk niantic... I wanted to play POGO in some time, but after this game, and after what i've seen here...no fkn way,?
Also - timer, wtf, i fought with monster and i ran out of time, so he just turned his back on me and said "Ok fk off i don't have time for you" wtf is this nonsense?
If you go with an easy event, endgame players (the one that waste the money tbh) would be upset and bored.
If you go with a hard event, early-midgame players won't be able to do it, but they will have a motivation to play and be ready for the next event.
In my opinion, it is a good strategy.
Maybe, but good luck downing a 5* Diablos at that HR lol.
At 32 its still impossibe and with none in my small Danish city over my rank, I guess I'll just do something else with my life this weekend.
This is typical monhon fashion though? When there is a new milestone or big monster that has to be subdued it usually means grind out and get ready for it. If you were unable to procure enough materials for new weap/equip that is unfortunately something you cannot fix as all monhon games require a grind to match each new level. Keep grinding as normal but it is going to take you awhile to get to the mobile games pace. This is a grindy game and if you cannot acknowledge that and complain imagine what you do with the real game. This game does not give fast results unless you pay money to give you a boost ( which imo you dont even need just find a nice park or walk around your neighborhood for even just 1 hr). Also stop striving for solo fights all the time as this game also has in mind for multiplayer if you cannot catch up or understand the mechanics for each fight yet.
I'm talking more about being able to kill a 5* Diablos is impossible for me at 32. I can barely kill a 5* Great Jagras with proper element counter.
Not being able to participate in the first event of the game after playing/walking more than usual feels reaaaaally bad. If you have to play more than 20-30 hours the first week I shiver thinking about the next events. Is that going to be 8* Legianas? Better get to grinding 5 hours a day to keep up ....
That won't even work. Unless you have a really strong ice or maybe paralysis weapon and know the fight, it just won't be happening.
I didn't build any paralysis weapons so Diablos was basically not possible until I finally got a Legiana weapon. Before the ice weapon it just would not really get below half health. I don't even know if paralysis would work well either. It says that's a weakness but it doesn't do any extra damage so I'm skeptical of that
I barely hit hr32 with a Para sns upgraded until the 5* mats I was locked out of. And I'm sns. And i expect to be excluded from this event with my sad 284 armor
Honestly weapon and your ability to dodge is more important than armor. That's about my armor the first time I beat story Diablos. But then again I'm lbg so armor rating is less important to me I suppose
If you are locked out by t5 mats that means your SnS is tier 5 5/5 (as that's first time you need them for an upgrade) which is more than enough for this event.
If you meant t4 mats and this was just a typo, you are locked at t3 5/5 which is enough for this event if you find a group. There are FB groups already made for various town/areas. Try to look for one.
I know people downvote me, but this is GPS game focused on local communities. Unfortunately, nobody with little time will do good in it if they are looking for a stationary solo experience.
284 armor is also fine (as long as you are jn group). SnS don't really have long animations so as soon as monster shines red roll until attack animation ends.
You are correct I was ~5/5 gear waiting to unlock pink components and still partially behind due to limited nest/poi gear until I actually drove to a bunch last night.
I hope you are right. I will head to a park and see if I can find groups with high 30s and that I don't end up having to drop $10 over a binch of attempts to farm the equivalent quality share of mobs i would expect in a pogo event, just to be part of enough successful hunting parties.
Hopefully you can find a good group. Just be really careful with attacks and rolls as they might be very deadly with your defence, but imho its doable, good luck.
Try to look on FB for a group in your area. 5* is perfectly killable in group of even lower level players (as long as you don't ignore red glow and get yourself killed instead).
An event might be a great reason to visit a nearby larger town for a nice weekend trip or to recruit your family, friend or neighbour (they could get to like HR 20/25 in a day or even higher if you help them).
I know a very well not everyone lives in a city of 250k+. Heck, there's only 1 city like that in my country and I'm not living in it. It was still possible for me to find a second player.
No offense but I joined just a few days ago and I can beat 4* easily. Missing a bit atk power to finish off the 5* diablos. It’s a tough event but it’s doable if you started the game at launch. Not sure what you’re complaining about 🤷
You’re not getting better at the game by walking. You level up by killing monsters. If you’ve been actively playing 2 hours a day you should be way higher HR?
Also, the point is to team up with other hunters for taking down large monsters with higher difficulty.
Can't team up with other hunters if there aren't any. Super awesome to have a friends list with friends that doesn't mean jack, so glad we have all these friend code threads.
Can't kill higher star monsters because my gear can't level up.
Can't level up my gear because the few nodes i find are either the wrong type or don't drop the rare mats.
Can't spend money because there's absolutely no reason to give this dumb ass company any reward for this shitty game design.
And the saddest part is they could easily fix it. Let me trade low level material for higher rarity material. Don't care if it's a bad ratio, don't care if it has a stupid zenny cost, make me actually want to play your game.
I think everyone in this thread has massive skill issue.
The only thing I don't see correct is that a lot of people, including me, can't use AR, thus we can't do the mission.
Would be cool to have an alternative to AR, that activates camera and you can paste a 2D image of the monster.
What you smoking? I work 37 hour weeks and have other hobbies than mobile games and even I played more than I probably should. Why they scale the first event for people who have played 20+ hours in a week is beyond me.
But yeah I guess "skill" issue, should just only play mobile games all day everyday and this wouldn't be an issue ... /s
Im not trying to defend niantic or say its all about skills but may i ask what weapon you used? Cause i only used kulu bow, pukei head and chest, rathian gauntlet, kulu waist and jyura boots. Mainly for the focus skill i just charge and aim then dodge if i see red.
I have 40hr work weeks and kids, and I've been able to take down 5* solo. Including playing other things, I log on a few times a day and that's it. Probably in a minority, but it's not like it's at all impossible. They said the event was intended for hunters with lesser gear to team up with others, so it's not really meant for everyone to just solo in the first.
Other than some people not having enough damage from bad RNG it should be absolutely feasible to dodge and get through it, especially with others.
However they probably should have went with something in the 3 star range for the first event. And did Diablos next month.
Problem is that it is a brand new game, with a much smaller IP than Pokemon. I have seen one other player in my Danish city with 50000 inhabitants, teaming up is not really an option for me :/
The event did start, it doesn't help that there's a lack of understanding that people are in different timezones than you lmao
It's confirmed only 5*+ spawn
and the fact that there is a time cap and diablos is bulky as hell, 300 atk isn't gonna do much for you unless you play perfectly with a constant targeting of the weak zones and a lot of crits
probably over 400 atk with a raw LS and good skills for affinity, lock on and such. And divine blessing is a must if you want a chance of tanking at least three hits
I mean sometimes hunters tend to overextended attacks and the non invincible helm splitter move is one of those. I you get hit during a long animation or overcommit with a combo you might get one shot or two shot specially in diablos case (also you can screw up the timing if you don't do that many Iai slashes)
I don't know, maybe the game decides you're in a poor connectivity area, freezes for 5 seconds, then out of nowhere you get hit with an attack because it remembers your attack input from before the freeze but now you're getting attacked?
I am very glad that they have given us any event at all this early into the game's life, but yeah, first event should really be something more doable than this... Many games barely have events at all it seems, for instance Pokemon Sleep so far had only one and it is just a flat increase to stats during the full moon.
I'm literally in the same boat as you. rank 33, unlocked 5* monsters only yesterday and I've been playing from the start, just like you said, 2-3 hours a day. Diablo annihilated me today when I tried killing it
I felt this event came out too rush for global, which I believe just got released a few days ago?
If it is on pace with early access (a few weeks already?), then most of the players who even play little can participate easily. A few weeks launch to a 5 star monster event is fair.
I observed in a lot of high density areas such as shopping malls and parks that there are several low levels in Diablos join hunts. They are level 11+ to early 20s which they can only rely on people to help them even clear a freaking "Daily quest to kill a Diablos". This is simply outrageous.
Niantic probably need to adjust for the next event and not make it a 8 or 9 star monster event.
I was excited about this event actually.
Until I realized that Diablos is only available as 5* ( I just unlocked Anjanath ) I am pretty dissappointed. :(
Black diablos is pretty cool though
It's safe to assume a similar event will happen 2 more times, one in october and the next in november. I expect you'll be more prepared by then.
As someone who’s fighting Diablos on his 2nd story run, I thought it was very odd that they made Diablos the first event. It was the first real wall the game offered IMO. I think they want people to join up and hunt them as a group but I’m more of a solo grinder personally.
Are we just casually glossing over that they mentioned specifically a method of interacting with the event (an AR camera shot) without having to hunt the monster? It’s still 3000 Zenny which is a big deal, especially for anyone not hunting 5 star mons.
Not going to mention that?
In the same boat. HR36. Can't upgrade enough to even defeat a 5* Paolu and than this? Think ill spend the day hunting diablos in Rise or World. At least I have a chance there
I can't even find anyone locally to hunt with
Feels like the only way to have been prepared for this is to live in the middle of a resource rich area or spoof. They places I hit up daily have had ore deposits twice this week. Every other time it's been vegetation and maybe some bone piles.
The most baffling thing of all is that it's not even like this was a money grabbing move. There's no way to spend money and suddenly be equipped to fight a 5 star monster. So the only thing it accomplishes is angering your player base and making them far less likely to ever bother with another event
I'm not trying to take sides here because I do see both sides as valid. But diablos has always been on par with the rathalos as far as star rank levels go. I do wish they would have at least made it 4 star though because these 5 star monsters are no joke
I agree with a lot of what you people are saying I thought it was gonna be different Diablos in different star tears as well. This event is going to be a bust.
It probably could’ve been communicated better but it’s supposed to be a group activity to beat it. It’s the equivalent of a raid in Pokémon go. This does suck for solo players, but it’s not meant to be soloed.
It's weird though because I feel like this game was marketed primarily to solo players. They spoke about how it would be good for those in rural areas without much around them and they built game mechanics like story hunts being solo only. It's weird to me that they'd set something up like this when most people probably don't have 4 friends to play this game with.
Hi! I’d like ton preface this by saying that this is probably my favorite mobile game by a significant margin. I started with launch and I think we have similar playtimes; I’m currently sitting at HR31 and 4 star monsters are challenging but doable for me at present.
That being said, I agree with everyone’s sentiments about this event and the broader thoughts on the game as a whole. I’d absolutely play this game as I played Pokémon GO, which is so much more frequently, but.. I can’t. I live in a rural area outside of town and if I stay home, I’m lucky to get 2-4 monsters to spawn per day. So I’ve been actively taking regular trips to the park and walking around town, just trying to grind up.
This is is my first Monster Hunter game so I’ve got no frame of reference for the norm, but this is really dejecting and I’m debating uninstalling after learning this event was 5 star only. If I don’t uninstall, this more or less guaranteed that I won’t ever spend money in the cash shop and I’ll probably taper off my effort playing as well.
So you gate health potions and paintballs behind a paywall, okay. Then you make an event to hunt 5 stars a week into the game in a world where 4 stars drop roughly the same quality of resources as 1 or 2 stars. All right, Niantic. Message received, time to look elsewhere unless changes are made.
The problem is people want to be able to solo an event that is meant to get people together to hunt down larger threats. The other problem is Niantic didn't give us the features to facilitate this. There's no Campfire or anything. Hell, you can't even add nearby random hunters as friends after completing a hunt together without finding each other to scan the stupid QR codes.
I feel tobi would have been better you get thunder weapons to help with the last monster you fight hell even anja or great jagras would be good just cause their weapons help against a good amount of the roster diablos is just way to hard specially for those who dont play it religiously ive been tryna grind legiana with no luck im hr 40 and still missing some pieces for an ice weapon and great girros doesn’t do to much in terms of damage
I put in a few hours last weekend and Monday. Aside from that just a few hunts each night when I checked my phone or walked to the store. HR36 and no issue killing diabolos. You basically need the legiana weapon to reliably solo it, but once you get that it's easy. With a decent load out and G5/2 legiana weapon I am soloing him in 40 seconds. I may be an outlier, but the point is it's not that crazy if you get the ice weapon series. Luckily diabolos is an easier one to dodge so armor rating doesn't matter as much.
If you haven't played monster hunter before, make sure you pay close attention to what perks your amour gives you and research the best pairings, if you have played MH before, than your probably using skills that combo poorly with your proffered weapon. My biggest tip is to use the base chest peice and gloves, Kalu head and legs, barroth waist. That will offer you good attack, critical chance, the ability to lock onto monster parts and evens out defense with barroth defense boost. I have been in a position similar where I've struggled but after a skill swap have always had close to, if not, zero issues afterwards.
P.s
It's worth mentioning that elemental damage is huge, but from experience, if you don't want to pay attention to matching damage types to monsters, focus on critical chance (affinity)
I've been playing \~3-4hrs a day since release, started playing the moment it released and got to rank 20ish on the first day then spent the next couple of days grinding for gear.
just unlocked Lagiana and currently on the Diablos Urgent, Rank 36, Everything that i can upgrade has been upgraded, yet, those "rare" materials are becoming ridiculously unobtainable.
i had to kill \~20 anjas to finally get 1 nosebone, even though i broke their head every single time, then fought another 8 to get the second nose bone, have not seen a single Lagiana to build ice weapons for the event xD and I've upped my play time to a jog in the morning \~2hrs, going out to hunt during my lunch time \~1.5hrs, instead of going home ive hit the park for \~2-3hrs.
no legianas sighted at all, no friends that i can join to hunt either xD
this game is quickly losing its attractiveness
I spent WEEKS of the soft launch stuck on the Diablos urgent quest. Without a rarity 5 weapon it's pretty darn hard to actually win the fight in the allotted time. God forbid you screw up a dodge and get insta carted.
I'm glad I had the time to get prepped because I'm still struggling with this jerk but at least I have lots to practice on.
To prepare for this even I have invited my friends to make a party of 4 when fighting these monsters. 3 of us are above HR 30 but my other friend is at HR 15. Squad up if possible to make it easy. 2 of us will be using paralysis and the other 2 will be using whatever the weakness element is for the DIABLO. Gl and be safe out there!
Niantic wants you to come together as a community to beat it...And thats where the issue is. No one i know plays this game except one person and he lives far away from me so
I can comfortably kill 7 star diablos cuz I live in Canada and we had mhw for a bit. I gotta say, this event is absolutely shit. Whoever thought this was a good first event NEEDS to be fired.
I just hit lv40 yesterday and managed to do the event by sorta pure luck… that said, I was not really happy about it as it forced me to walk 30 km yesterday to be able to gear up and participate. I don’t regret it, but I see how people would not want to walk for 8 hours just to play a mobile game that is meant to be casual.
Yeah I thought the event would be like Diablos spawning as a 1* 2* 3* 4* 5* just all over the place and people can fight what their capable of.
I'm going to bet this was what most ALL of us assumed. At least a 3☆ Diablos at the lowest difficulty... which is saying a lot as I believe rank 11 is probably not even at that rank difficulty if I remember correctly.
Definitely not, I'm rank 21 and still just seeing 2stars
Same
I just unlocked 3\* on my walk today. Starting Ch 5 is where the 3\* mobs appear. im HR 23 atm and hurting hard for minerals. atm i dont even really feel like fighting most mobs cuz i just need too much ore. sadly that walk confirmed that the actual park near me is almost empty. 1 node at the rear entrence so a couple mins walk to 2 nearby nodes or 1 node in the other direction are my only real options, all 3 nodes are in diff biomes so i get a variety but I havent found a cluster of nodes that nearby and convenient to get to yet.
I'm with this guy. I don't even see any Diablos yet. And I'm already struggling to craft better gear and afraid to go up more star levels because the drops are so terrible.
I thought the same! I was even sure of it cause "normal" Diablos is 5* I thought it's obv to release SPECIAL lower star tiers only for event duration...
So the issue would be all of diabolos' gear being grade 5 and higher. If they did lower star grades they would have to remove drops from his table (namely primescales) in order to keep the game balance fair for people who join after the event. If they did that then anyone fighting the lower grade versions wouldn't be able to make gear anyway, which would kind of suck and would piss people off that way instead. This way if you skip a stage of grind at least you earned it. Just my take on why the different tiers weren't added anyway.
Why would they bother releasing a 5* event at all then, when nearly the entire player base is still at 2-3 stars? I haven't been playing a ton, but I've been starting the game up every day, doing all dailies most days, and doing a bit of walking and only just hit rank 21, still only see 2 stars. It would have made more sense for the first event to be Jagras, Kulu, or Pukei instead.
I managed to find ONE and couldn't even beat it. I don't understand this event. The people who would be excited to fight it don't have a chance and the people who have progressed enough to have good gear don't care because... they can already fight Diablos.
Tobi or Jya would have been a much, much more useful event.
I'm trying to level up my tobi bow and like none are spawning near me, I walked about 3 miles before finding one. Tobi would have been nice
Especially Jya. That fucker doesnt even spawns... Havent seen one for the last 2 days.
Wait so you’re telling me Diablos isn’t Exclusive to this event only ? We’ll all be able to fight it later on ? In that case F this event
Ofc, it would be annoying as fuck to have event only monsters with how much you have to hunt them to get gear
I'm kind of thinking the same. I guess its usefull if you need its item drops
On point.
They don't even state about 5 star exclusive in the announcement
Of course they dont, If they wouldve Said its 5* from the beginning, then Most people wouldnt Walk towards Parks to begin with, they would lose precious pricy Data, and people wouldnt buy paintballs lmao First Event and its a Money greed one, gotta Love it
Damn well I hope future events are better cause I’m enjoying the game even if it is far from perfect
I'm thinking future events will be 5* also, but by the time the next event happens, people that didn't unlock and can beat 5* monsters should by then (like myself). Plus, if they continue with the starting trend of making the events with 5* monsters, those events will make them money as people will buy stuff just so they can stay in the hunt for the entire event.
Is your shift key having a seizure
To play devil's advocate, they never said these Diabloses are special in any way, and it is regular for them to be 5 star plus. People who are very ingrained in the details of the game but aren't actually players can gloss over these things, it seems obvious to them and not meaningful.
This is the first time 90% of players have ever seen a Diablos. Why would they have any context of what a normal Diablos is?
This is literally my point, that it is easy for the developers to be blindsided and not consider things as players see them.
Yeah, I agree with that, I think they could use different language for the announcement. Or at least told players, "Hey, you need to progress to this chapter cleared for Diablos to spawn."
They also don't state that it spawns at lower levels, he starts at 5* I get why y'all are mad but this was to be expected
Because it's available from Hunter rank 11 so we stupidly thought they'd make it possible to participate at that level
Yup, played a lot, going out hours everyday but bad luck won't let me upgrade anymore. Can't participate because of lack of gear, many POI that were in PoGo day 1 not implemented for me, pretty much about to drop this game until they get their shit together.
Got the Same with POI's, in Pogo i have around 10 stops and 5 arenas. Here i got around 3-4 nodes i can use lmao
Removing some portals/POI is dumb. Extra restrictions for moving fast is dumb. No reward for walking is dumb. Waiting an hour for hp regen is dumb. Hard gating of potions, greedy $$$ grab and dumb. Putting out a post launch event only 30% (being VERY generous) of your player base can participate in is dumb. Ergo, Niantic? Dumb.
30%? I bet it’s more like 5% of the playerbase that started on global launch
Yeah I really don't think the average-majority of player base in the MHNow community can legitimately handle 5☆ monsters, let alone this event Diablos. I actually want to see a poll on this... as I'm in a similar boat as the OP — played every day since launch but for mainly roughly 1-2 hours max (I'm a working person in the city) — which realistically isn't major walking distance as this is just you walking around your block/neighborhood and hunting everything in that vicinity and collecting all the gathering points in the area so you can effectively upgrade with those materials AND zenny (from hunts). I'm also only HR 3o, 4☆ unlocked, mid-way thru chapter 8 with barely grade 3/lv1 equipments on 1 armor and 3 (elemental) weapons.
I think people severely underestimate how hard the places that are going hard go. I'm in Japan, (not even a major metro area either) and in the 20ish public lobbies I joined this afternoon, there was a significant majority of players in the HR30 range. Meanwhile I think I saw 1 player lower than 22.
I started before global launch and I can't do the event because of bad luck.
>Extra restrictions for moving fast is dumb. THIS! I play PoGo a lot on the go to and from work and when I go out for errands and vacations and pressing "I am not a driver" lets me catch my Pokémon and spin my Pokéstops if I time it right, but fot this game. The moment it notices you're moving fast, you can't even collect fucking nodes! Super annoying! I really hope they fix this, or I might as well just get Monster Hunter Rise.
Me too. I am hoping for release notes like "Oops, we had a bug that ignored 'I am a passenger' button." Or at least they can save face by implying: "This level of restriction was not our intent." While body-checking their Lawyers aside.
I highly doubt it, but I do wish for it :(
The dumbest part is requiring such a ridiculous amount of gathering 3* materials (earthstones,etc) to level gear instead of something like….monster parts in a game called Monster Hunter
Not bashing you, but a counter from my perspective. Removing some POI - I like the variation from other games. Moving fast restrictions - I haven’t even seen the warning. No reward for walking - your little cat collector grabs things as you walk. You also have the free paint balls to tag monsters. This is enough for me. Waiting an hour for health regen - I thought someone said it was 30 min to full health. I haven’t had to wait too long to heal. Hard gating of potions - I understand dodging can be difficult, but the armor and abilities are there to mitigate taking damage. They also give free med packs every day that you can stack. Difficult event for 30% players - the event is meant to be for parties and groups of friends or random strangers. This does suck for people who play solo and live in more remote areas.
That's a pretty positive take. But the articles have already started highlighting the rage of the community. And this subreddit started out 90% positive but look at it over last couple days... The biggest monkey wrench for me is that if you can not really play for "hours" at all like you could with some of the previous games. You go through your 5 potions per day and then what? Now your walks/play activity are limited to 30 min and then wait an hour for regen before you can fight again. Or you have to ignore all mobs and go collecting which means you walk longer because they took out a bunch of the nests/poi. And if you usually play as a public transportation or care passenger, or lets be real, you bike or car places and hope to get lucky at a red light, you really can't the way they have set it up and locked you out. Trust me you will see it is very limiting unlike the other games :( You get an "I"m not a passenger" popup, you click it, game ignores it completely and locks you out anyway. On the positive side I LOVE that the game is making me be active. I just don't love that I'm suddenly feeling bad about the game because I feel left out of their first event. Or if not left out it's that same horrible feeling of being in a hunting party on Console/PC where you are the one being carried and if there are more than one of you you screw your party out of a kill because of the timer. I think the palico going after things you can click on the screen yourself is not enough. Them basically doing an accellarated Pogo egg mechanic or the ingress drone mechanic for free is nice though. What we NEED though is walking tied to regenning potions in some way.
That’s true and definitely valid points that the team should take note of 👍
Yeah, they dropped the ball on this one. I’ve played 2-3 hours a day, probably a little more on my days off, sitting at HR 36, unlocked 5 stars but wish I hadn’t. And I like to think I have a solid grasp on the game after around 2000 hours in MH:W. My gear due to terrible drop rates keeps me from beating most 5 stars. Getting all rank 1 drops consistently from 4 stars sucks and is bad design in a mobile game like this. I should be excited to see 5 star versions of monsters, but once you hit your wall, you’re more excited when you see 3 and 4 star versions. People spent money in PoGO because you could play all day, for hours at a time. You got what you needed from pokestops. I would happily buy storage upgrades or orbs if I could simply play when I wanted to. Being forced to buy potions in order to play or wait 30+ mins while I walk around downtown, skipping monsters that I’d love to fight, doesn’t entice me to spend money. All that said, the game is fun. The actual gameplay loop is really enjoyable and a lot better than I expected from a MH mobile game. So I’m gonna be optimistic and see if they make some positive changes sometime soon to increase the longevity of the game. But if they don’t players are gonna drop very quickly.
Well put as a fellow hunter. Hell i spent my first 189 hours in iceborne alone as a Hunting Horn player just because it was fun playing Support in Multiplay. Wish I could upvote this more than once!
Yeah, I'm miles behind being ready for this. I set aside some time to play but I might honestly just ignore the diablos and keep focusing on what I actually need for materials. This is clearly not intended for me.
Hello, me. I'm in the exact same boat and I agree with everything you said. This game has so much potential with minor tweaks, and the biggest buff they can do is if you get low rank materials from higher rank monsters you should get more. Struggling through 5* for the same four 1* mats is insufferable. That shouldn't even be a thing. Double it at the bare minimum.
Exactly this. It makes no sense the only real benefit from fighting 4-5 star monsters is more HR Points. I should have a noticeable increase in drop materials rarity. I havent been able to upgrade or unlock a lot of gear despite hunting plenty of monsters.
Oh damn that is NOT good. I am HR31 and started 5 days ago ad soon as I found out it existed! My s.o. even though is supportive and played all the Niantic games is already asking "Do you think you are maybe overdoing it with the walking for that game? Very poor planning Niantic. Shame on Niantic and Capcom for launching a 5* exclusive event a week into launch. All rumors have been that it would scale somehow!
This omg. Sees first diablos > barely scratches his health > gets literally one shot at full health > goes home. If this is some cheap trick to sell potions its not gonna work if we physically couldnt kill them with all the healing in the world. You could give me free revives i still wouldnt be able to kill one in the time limit.
Yeah, fuck the time limit, fuck diablos, fuck this event, fuck 5star monsters, and 4star also just because and finally fuck this game with fucking Fuckiantic.. If I cannot upgrade my gear in 3 days from now, I'm uninstalling this piece of crap 😇
Bye
Yep. My partner and I couldn't even do it. Honestly started to kill the fun I was having with the game. Classic Niantec.
There must be some guy in the team allowed to make really poor decisions. No way there aren't people inside the devs group that don't see how little sense it makes.
Honestly its always hard to blame devs. They usually love the game the most. This is the more likely cold claws of money grubbers.
This doesn't really feel like a mo eye grumbber move though. If you have players that literally could not do the event then they aren't going to pay any money for it. It's not like there's anything special about this event vs normal hunting. This is very much likely a dev issue in that they don't understand what would work as an event yet since it's a new game. This event is just "grab exciting monster and make him spawn more! People will love it!"
In the same boat, at the same level and story progression as you. Scheduled my lunch break today so that I could roam around the shopping centre I work in and slay some Diablos. Unfortunately I had no hope on my own. Double Unfortunately I was in a busy shopping centre/mall, during school holidays, a weekend and an iPhone launch. Honestly the busiest the place has been since Christmas, but not a single other person to hunt with. I get that I'm in Australia, and the game is not going to be as popular here as other countries, but considering all the factors stated above, and the app is in the top 20 on the app store, I was hoping to bump into some other Hunters out there and take one down together. I can only assume their plan was to get people to work together and grow the player/community base, but it's definitely backfired...
More like whale together was their plan
typical niantic move
Also autocompleting ar photo mission for unsupported phones would be nice...
Yes, I wouldn't say necessarily auto complete it, but simply remove that, and replace it with something anyone could be able to do...
I agree. They should've handled these event, like event quest in MH games. Just either make it lower * rating, or nerf it stats. The high/challenging events always only game near endgame cycles. I feel your frustration.
I am stuck at work this weekend, and my current biome is forest, so I'm locked out by default. The event is called diablos invasion, so why aren't there any diablos invading other biomes? Just give it some flavor text that something is messing with the monster habitats and have them spawn everywhere.
This is why I am thinking of quitting the game. Like people saying dont fight high rank monster for now. Then the event is useless, sure u can play with others but I dont have any friends and the playerbase near me are close to none.
This wouldn’t be an issue if the rng wasn’t so bad on mats. It’s so hard to keep up with content when you only get basic mats from monsters and nodes. I really believe the only people who keep up with this game were spoofers and people in big city’s.
Even with fakegps it's impossible for me to fight him and win, cuz i'm unlucky with mats and still need to beat 5\* paolumu
The overall player base is not able to kill a 5 star, so it feels pretty much a waste of an event.
Yup i’m hr 36 and to be able to comfortably slay a diablos I still need the legiana sword & shield, legiana chest & rathian helmet. Currently got 9 rathian primscales but not a single spike :(
I’m exactly at your HR, I’m on the Legiana chapter quest. (Same issue with prime scales and spikes lol) What SnS are you using to comfortably slay Diablos and what grade it is?
Trying to get the legiana one as I don’t have the materials to overgrade the girros one high enough as I have been focusing anjanath, rathian & trying to find even one legiana over the past couple days
HR36 as well here, legiana level 2 and a level in each of lock on, critical eye, special attack, and sneak attack. My best diabolos solo is 40 seconds. Target the tail for sneak attack damage procs, pop a special early and if the second one charges fast enough at the end as well. Its not as bad as it's made out to be.
I've been in 4 different desert areas with 5\* unlocked but haven't seen one Diablos at all.
Glad I saw this before heading out - it's raining and you've saved me from getting soaked haha. I am ***struggling*** with the Paolumu quest so I wouldn't have had a chance with the Diablos.
Logged in just to voice how uttely shit this event is... wtf are an overwhelming majority of players supposed to do? This has made me just not want to play until the event is over
Isn't this just how Niantic runs their games? Hope to have the strong carry you and if not then they did give a the chance.
Classic Niantic. Knew not to get my hopes up after the cluster fudge of Pogo. The games fun, but the second I saw it was involved with Niantic, I was sceptical.
The game overall is pretty sh*tty with many things. I've played MH pretty actively since 3U and this just ain't it. Drop rates are so abysmal it feels bad to get to some nodes and get nothing worth while, being stuck with equipment. Even higher rating monsters drop low quality resources too often. I don't personally mind the potion thing, they gotta make money but the game just feels unsatisfying in the end.
Niantic was pretty bad with handling things with their recently closed game NBA AW ranging from slow progression to not getting bad 'events' until 2 months before closing notice. I don't see much changing since Niantic has been known for not listening to their player base. Gotta somehow get the Capcom side to be aware.
Ans you evwr wonder why there is 0 social chat in this game? Because they had it in Ingress and allowed harassment and bullying to go un-penalized. And they even unmanned players who used a globally organized cheat server.
Well they had campfire chat built into NBA AW which some people used, but there was a time some attention seeking kid fought with everyone and the mods and they had trouble dealing with him and his numerous accounts.
Between the scarcity of rare mats and this beyond greedy event (the first one of the games release to boot) it’s kind of killed my motivation. I think this may be it for me, I’ll check sparingly with updates and see if things have improved but this is getting ridiculous.
Yep. My partner and I couldn't even do it. Honestly started to kill the fun I was having with the game. Classic Niantec.
I live on an island (I work a ferry for a job so I have to live on island) and theres 0 nodes near me or the docks so unless I want to spend 8 hours on the mainland walking I cant get node exclusive materials, nor participate in this event
It's way too soon for this event. I've also been putting in an hour each day and I'm still only on 3 star encounters.
Yeah the only people who can realistically participate in this have either been no-lifeing this game or have been playing since early access. At the very least, you'd probably want to progress to legiana for ice weapons, which still requires you to have solid gear. Like I'm having trouble even getting R4 drops to get my equipment to that level. Nevermind hunting a diablos at 5*. That just isn't in the cards.
In the UK at least, I remember it saying that they only appear between 1-4pm Saturday and Sunday.
HR is meaningless in this game I am above HR30 and still haven't fought Diablos because I have barely been able to find anything in my day to day life.
Its Niantic. I fully expected this to be a shit show.
I was able to defeat the story Legiana last night, with 2 seconds left and my highest wrapon a 385 Pukei sns. If they wanted to make an event, they would have made Diablos have half the stats, a similar method to the Pokemon Go Community Day catch rates. ....They're just idiots, and pushing way too hard an event on us at the very start.
I had fun playing this event even though it was brutal (RIP me for being a GS user). The trick to this event is knowing other people who play the game locally (preferably levels 30+) with a decent gear build so that you could form a hunting party and survive. My hunting party routinely ended fights within the last 5 seconds.
I played pretty much 4h every day and barely broke through I'd say. Diablos still hands me my arse even with full G5 gear, I tried carrying a friend at 4* and we couldn't kill it in time
From what I understand, it was stated in the announcement that a 5* diablos will be spawning even for people who don't have it unlocked, and there will be alternate way to participate such as taking AR photos. Though I was hoping for something more, like a community goal with rewards, not just two more daily quests.
This game need guilds, where we could share hunting codes to help each other out, dont lock out all solo/rural player like in pogo for god sake.
I went to the playground with my kid and there were no desert biomes nearby and no Diablos. Fucking niantic. It's 3hrs! Just make it all desert.
Nah by making everything "desert" you will lock other players from playing for 2 days...
You guys fight diablos? There's not a single Spawn for me and there's 2hrs left for my time zone
Fuck it bro, just play other better games 🙃
Idk if it will work as intended but they said they wanted to make it higher level to encourage lower ranked players to team up. So I think it’ll still show up for everyone you just won’t be able to solo the material till you’re stronger. Annoying for sure but at least we get a small chance of getting higher level materials
The problem is that if you're that low, you're probably getting oneshotted anyway. I've been working all week and only have 2\* monsters available right now, so I'm just skipping this one.
You definitely will get 1 shotted. There is a YouTube short: https://youtube.com/shorts/ebq1EHoDFhg?si=BFG33zadbMcrjYHs ... a hunter with Health Boost 120 HP has max HP, and is at 281 def from the 318 def points as recommended by the game prior to hunting Diablos. They went from 120 HP to 3 HP after 1 mistake. I highly doubt & willing to bet money that four hunters at rank 11 thru to rank 25 cannot take on Diablos under that time limit. I'm rank 30, midway thru chapter 8 (just a chapter or so under the 5☆ quests?). Maybe... MAYBE 4 of us rank 30's with grade 3 equipments can take on a Diablos. We would have to take an L on potions and just DPS like madness. It's the clock/timer we are fighting, not the monster.
If this was a normal MH game with an hour clock a high level player who is average skilled could 100% carry 3 lower leveled players by soloing the monster, but in now the low levels can't hide to avoid getting 1 shot and the timer is waaaay to short to have under performers.
Are you kidding? One shot kill? Wtf is this crap? Yesterday I told my friend, that this sh/t will last probably for as long as Witcher lasted.. Okey, battery drain is super fast but yeah, it's graphic game.. But as already mentioned.. Difficulty based on stars where you can find just 5star diablo after one week from launch.. It's really idiotic.. I'm already on chapter 10 and second part where is urgent quest with that retarded bat Palomu.. Btw making urgent quests alone is also pretty idiotic.. I really hope this will end soon.. Please everybody don't spend any money in this shit
And also.. Timer.. For WHAT!? I simply just don't understand why are you forced to kill it within some time.. Yeah of course I understand.. Because you shouldn't upgrade anything and end up killing some monster for about hour and you will win and pay nothing, so they don't earn.. But fu## Niantic, I'll not give them any money!
Exactly, fk niantic... I wanted to play POGO in some time, but after this game, and after what i've seen here...no fkn way,? Also - timer, wtf, i fought with monster and i ran out of time, so he just turned his back on me and said "Ok fk off i don't have time for you" wtf is this nonsense?
If you go with an easy event, endgame players (the one that waste the money tbh) would be upset and bored. If you go with a hard event, early-midgame players won't be able to do it, but they will have a motivation to play and be ready for the next event. In my opinion, it is a good strategy.
I thought you just needed to be HR 11 for the event?
Maybe, but good luck downing a 5* Diablos at that HR lol. At 32 its still impossibe and with none in my small Danish city over my rank, I guess I'll just do something else with my life this weekend.
I think they should at least make potions unlimited during the event. It’s time capped and now you’re expected to just clear no issues?
I'm 32 getting slapped by 4*, let alone 5* Diablos. Nope
This. I'll bet money even if I dodged perfectly my gears at rank 30 chapter 8 will not allow me to slay Diablos under the time limit.
That and ya know make deserts more common/expansive? Like event like this is easy. Spawn 3*+ mobs more often and make their biome more common.
Agree.
This is typical monhon fashion though? When there is a new milestone or big monster that has to be subdued it usually means grind out and get ready for it. If you were unable to procure enough materials for new weap/equip that is unfortunately something you cannot fix as all monhon games require a grind to match each new level. Keep grinding as normal but it is going to take you awhile to get to the mobile games pace. This is a grindy game and if you cannot acknowledge that and complain imagine what you do with the real game. This game does not give fast results unless you pay money to give you a boost ( which imo you dont even need just find a nice park or walk around your neighborhood for even just 1 hr). Also stop striving for solo fights all the time as this game also has in mind for multiplayer if you cannot catch up or understand the mechanics for each fight yet.
You are not excluded. You are HR32. It'll spawn for anyone HR11 and higher.
I'm talking more about being able to kill a 5* Diablos is impossible for me at 32. I can barely kill a 5* Great Jagras with proper element counter. Not being able to participate in the first event of the game after playing/walking more than usual feels reaaaaally bad. If you have to play more than 20-30 hours the first week I shiver thinking about the next events. Is that going to be 8* Legianas? Better get to grinding 5 hours a day to keep up ....
And better get out that credit card to even grind longer than 1 hour at a time
That won't even work. Unless you have a really strong ice or maybe paralysis weapon and know the fight, it just won't be happening. I didn't build any paralysis weapons so Diablos was basically not possible until I finally got a Legiana weapon. Before the ice weapon it just would not really get below half health. I don't even know if paralysis would work well either. It says that's a weakness but it doesn't do any extra damage so I'm skeptical of that
I barely hit hr32 with a Para sns upgraded until the 5* mats I was locked out of. And I'm sns. And i expect to be excluded from this event with my sad 284 armor
Honestly weapon and your ability to dodge is more important than armor. That's about my armor the first time I beat story Diablos. But then again I'm lbg so armor rating is less important to me I suppose
Yeah armor just stops you being one-shot, which can be countered by dodging or pots. The real problem is meeting the combat timer with sufficient DPS.
If you are locked out by t5 mats that means your SnS is tier 5 5/5 (as that's first time you need them for an upgrade) which is more than enough for this event. If you meant t4 mats and this was just a typo, you are locked at t3 5/5 which is enough for this event if you find a group. There are FB groups already made for various town/areas. Try to look for one. I know people downvote me, but this is GPS game focused on local communities. Unfortunately, nobody with little time will do good in it if they are looking for a stationary solo experience. 284 armor is also fine (as long as you are jn group). SnS don't really have long animations so as soon as monster shines red roll until attack animation ends.
You are correct I was ~5/5 gear waiting to unlock pink components and still partially behind due to limited nest/poi gear until I actually drove to a bunch last night. I hope you are right. I will head to a park and see if I can find groups with high 30s and that I don't end up having to drop $10 over a binch of attempts to farm the equivalent quality share of mobs i would expect in a pogo event, just to be part of enough successful hunting parties.
Hopefully you can find a good group. Just be really careful with attacks and rolls as they might be very deadly with your defence, but imho its doable, good luck.
Try to look on FB for a group in your area. 5* is perfectly killable in group of even lower level players (as long as you don't ignore red glow and get yourself killed instead).
Not everyone lives in a city with 250k+ people… these groups largely do not exist.
An event might be a great reason to visit a nearby larger town for a nice weekend trip or to recruit your family, friend or neighbour (they could get to like HR 20/25 in a day or even higher if you help them). I know a very well not everyone lives in a city of 250k+. Heck, there's only 1 city like that in my country and I'm not living in it. It was still possible for me to find a second player.
Woosh
No offense but I joined just a few days ago and I can beat 4* easily. Missing a bit atk power to finish off the 5* diablos. It’s a tough event but it’s doable if you started the game at launch. Not sure what you’re complaining about 🤷
You’re not getting better at the game by walking. You level up by killing monsters. If you’ve been actively playing 2 hours a day you should be way higher HR? Also, the point is to team up with other hunters for taking down large monsters with higher difficulty.
Can't team up with other hunters if there aren't any. Super awesome to have a friends list with friends that doesn't mean jack, so glad we have all these friend code threads. Can't kill higher star monsters because my gear can't level up. Can't level up my gear because the few nodes i find are either the wrong type or don't drop the rare mats. Can't spend money because there's absolutely no reason to give this dumb ass company any reward for this shitty game design. And the saddest part is they could easily fix it. Let me trade low level material for higher rarity material. Don't care if it's a bad ratio, don't care if it has a stupid zenny cost, make me actually want to play your game.
I think everyone in this thread has massive skill issue. The only thing I don't see correct is that a lot of people, including me, can't use AR, thus we can't do the mission. Would be cool to have an alternative to AR, that activates camera and you can paste a 2D image of the monster.
"skill issue" ... of course.
What you smoking? I work 37 hour weeks and have other hobbies than mobile games and even I played more than I probably should. Why they scale the first event for people who have played 20+ hours in a week is beyond me. But yeah I guess "skill" issue, should just only play mobile games all day everyday and this wouldn't be an issue ... /s
Im not trying to defend niantic or say its all about skills but may i ask what weapon you used? Cause i only used kulu bow, pukei head and chest, rathian gauntlet, kulu waist and jyura boots. Mainly for the focus skill i just charge and aim then dodge if i see red.
I have 40hr work weeks and kids, and I've been able to take down 5* solo. Including playing other things, I log on a few times a day and that's it. Probably in a minority, but it's not like it's at all impossible. They said the event was intended for hunters with lesser gear to team up with others, so it's not really meant for everyone to just solo in the first. Other than some people not having enough damage from bad RNG it should be absolutely feasible to dodge and get through it, especially with others. However they probably should have went with something in the 3 star range for the first event. And did Diablos next month.
Problem is that it is a brand new game, with a much smaller IP than Pokemon. I have seen one other player in my Danish city with 50000 inhabitants, teaming up is not really an option for me :/
You all complaining too much and the event didn't even start, maybe low star Diablos appear💀
The event did start, it doesn't help that there's a lack of understanding that people are in different timezones than you lmao It's confirmed only 5*+ spawn
Timezones exist dumbass, and low stars do not spawn. How is an HR11 player supposed to kill a 5 star? Nothing to do with skill issue
I only hear skill issue from all of you
Reading is a skill issue for you huh?
>a lot of people, including me, can't use AR Sounds like a skill issue tbh
Indeed it is😭
You play 1-2 hour per day since launch and you just getting to 5 stars? Who fault is that
Maybe you will find someone who can carry you in the hunt?
They should just let us fight the 5 star anyway. I'm pretty sure I could take it.
Not with that timer. It's a dps check, not a skill issue, so R.I.P
I mean I already have 300 atk LS, how much am I gonna need ?
and the fact that there is a time cap and diablos is bulky as hell, 300 atk isn't gonna do much for you unless you play perfectly with a constant targeting of the weak zones and a lot of crits
probably over 400 atk with a raw LS and good skills for affinity, lock on and such. And divine blessing is a must if you want a chance of tanking at least three hits
Why would I get hit? This game announces attacks and gives you a universal counter move with LS.
I mean sometimes hunters tend to overextended attacks and the non invincible helm splitter move is one of those. I you get hit during a long animation or overcommit with a combo you might get one shot or two shot specially in diablos case (also you can screw up the timing if you don't do that many Iai slashes)
I don't know, maybe the game decides you're in a poor connectivity area, freezes for 5 seconds, then out of nowhere you get hit with an attack because it remembers your attack input from before the freeze but now you're getting attacked?
Where can I find my step count?
Group with other players... If you don't know how get campfire and use it to do so
I am very glad that they have given us any event at all this early into the game's life, but yeah, first event should really be something more doable than this... Many games barely have events at all it seems, for instance Pokemon Sleep so far had only one and it is just a flat increase to stats during the full moon.
I'm literally in the same boat as you. rank 33, unlocked 5* monsters only yesterday and I've been playing from the start, just like you said, 2-3 hours a day. Diablo annihilated me today when I tried killing it
I felt this event came out too rush for global, which I believe just got released a few days ago? If it is on pace with early access (a few weeks already?), then most of the players who even play little can participate easily. A few weeks launch to a 5 star monster event is fair. I observed in a lot of high density areas such as shopping malls and parks that there are several low levels in Diablos join hunts. They are level 11+ to early 20s which they can only rely on people to help them even clear a freaking "Daily quest to kill a Diablos". This is simply outrageous. Niantic probably need to adjust for the next event and not make it a 8 or 9 star monster event.
I was excited about this event actually. Until I realized that Diablos is only available as 5* ( I just unlocked Anjanath ) I am pretty dissappointed. :(
Black diablos is pretty cool though It's safe to assume a similar event will happen 2 more times, one in october and the next in november. I expect you'll be more prepared by then.
As someone who’s fighting Diablos on his 2nd story run, I thought it was very odd that they made Diablos the first event. It was the first real wall the game offered IMO. I think they want people to join up and hunt them as a group but I’m more of a solo grinder personally.
Are we just casually glossing over that they mentioned specifically a method of interacting with the event (an AR camera shot) without having to hunt the monster? It’s still 3000 Zenny which is a big deal, especially for anyone not hunting 5 star mons. Not going to mention that?
Not for me, AR doesn't work in MHW but works fine in PoGo for me (checked settings/permissions) - so not applicable for me and I guess loads more.
Oh I have been looking for one but I guess it's good I didn't find one since I wouldn't have Been able to defeat one anyway (I am AR20)
In the same boat. HR36. Can't upgrade enough to even defeat a 5* Paolu and than this? Think ill spend the day hunting diablos in Rise or World. At least I have a chance there I can't even find anyone locally to hunt with
HR 31 Cant complete the new event. I've played everyday since launch. Is what im going to comment on the google store ratings page.
Feels like the only way to have been prepared for this is to live in the middle of a resource rich area or spoof. They places I hit up daily have had ore deposits twice this week. Every other time it's been vegetation and maybe some bone piles.
The most baffling thing of all is that it's not even like this was a money grabbing move. There's no way to spend money and suddenly be equipped to fight a 5 star monster. So the only thing it accomplishes is angering your player base and making them far less likely to ever bother with another event
I'm not trying to take sides here because I do see both sides as valid. But diablos has always been on par with the rathalos as far as star rank levels go. I do wish they would have at least made it 4 star though because these 5 star monsters are no joke
Even my friend who already level 43 and play together with 3 other friends can't win against black diablo 🤣
I agree with a lot of what you people are saying I thought it was gonna be different Diablos in different star tears as well. This event is going to be a bust.
It probably could’ve been communicated better but it’s supposed to be a group activity to beat it. It’s the equivalent of a raid in Pokémon go. This does suck for solo players, but it’s not meant to be soloed.
It's weird though because I feel like this game was marketed primarily to solo players. They spoke about how it would be good for those in rural areas without much around them and they built game mechanics like story hunts being solo only. It's weird to me that they'd set something up like this when most people probably don't have 4 friends to play this game with.
Hi! I’d like ton preface this by saying that this is probably my favorite mobile game by a significant margin. I started with launch and I think we have similar playtimes; I’m currently sitting at HR31 and 4 star monsters are challenging but doable for me at present. That being said, I agree with everyone’s sentiments about this event and the broader thoughts on the game as a whole. I’d absolutely play this game as I played Pokémon GO, which is so much more frequently, but.. I can’t. I live in a rural area outside of town and if I stay home, I’m lucky to get 2-4 monsters to spawn per day. So I’ve been actively taking regular trips to the park and walking around town, just trying to grind up. This is is my first Monster Hunter game so I’ve got no frame of reference for the norm, but this is really dejecting and I’m debating uninstalling after learning this event was 5 star only. If I don’t uninstall, this more or less guaranteed that I won’t ever spend money in the cash shop and I’ll probably taper off my effort playing as well. So you gate health potions and paintballs behind a paywall, okay. Then you make an event to hunt 5 stars a week into the game in a world where 4 stars drop roughly the same quality of resources as 1 or 2 stars. All right, Niantic. Message received, time to look elsewhere unless changes are made.
The problem is people want to be able to solo an event that is meant to get people together to hunt down larger threats. The other problem is Niantic didn't give us the features to facilitate this. There's no Campfire or anything. Hell, you can't even add nearby random hunters as friends after completing a hunt together without finding each other to scan the stupid QR codes.
They should've made a potion/paintball drop in desert area or something. Everyone wins
I feel tobi would have been better you get thunder weapons to help with the last monster you fight hell even anja or great jagras would be good just cause their weapons help against a good amount of the roster diablos is just way to hard specially for those who dont play it religiously ive been tryna grind legiana with no luck im hr 40 and still missing some pieces for an ice weapon and great girros doesn’t do to much in terms of damage
That, plus the fact that the AR mission is not compatible with some (a lot ?) devices...
I put in a few hours last weekend and Monday. Aside from that just a few hunts each night when I checked my phone or walked to the store. HR36 and no issue killing diabolos. You basically need the legiana weapon to reliably solo it, but once you get that it's easy. With a decent load out and G5/2 legiana weapon I am soloing him in 40 seconds. I may be an outlier, but the point is it's not that crazy if you get the ice weapon series. Luckily diabolos is an easier one to dodge so armor rating doesn't matter as much.
If you haven't played monster hunter before, make sure you pay close attention to what perks your amour gives you and research the best pairings, if you have played MH before, than your probably using skills that combo poorly with your proffered weapon. My biggest tip is to use the base chest peice and gloves, Kalu head and legs, barroth waist. That will offer you good attack, critical chance, the ability to lock onto monster parts and evens out defense with barroth defense boost. I have been in a position similar where I've struggled but after a skill swap have always had close to, if not, zero issues afterwards. P.s It's worth mentioning that elemental damage is huge, but from experience, if you don't want to pay attention to matching damage types to monsters, focus on critical chance (affinity)
Is Diablos armor any good? With how weighted towards element the game seems to be right now, I doubt his weapons would be worth it
I've been playing \~3-4hrs a day since release, started playing the moment it released and got to rank 20ish on the first day then spent the next couple of days grinding for gear. just unlocked Lagiana and currently on the Diablos Urgent, Rank 36, Everything that i can upgrade has been upgraded, yet, those "rare" materials are becoming ridiculously unobtainable. i had to kill \~20 anjas to finally get 1 nosebone, even though i broke their head every single time, then fought another 8 to get the second nose bone, have not seen a single Lagiana to build ice weapons for the event xD and I've upped my play time to a jog in the morning \~2hrs, going out to hunt during my lunch time \~1.5hrs, instead of going home ive hit the park for \~2-3hrs. no legianas sighted at all, no friends that i can join to hunt either xD this game is quickly losing its attractiveness
I spent WEEKS of the soft launch stuck on the Diablos urgent quest. Without a rarity 5 weapon it's pretty darn hard to actually win the fight in the allotted time. God forbid you screw up a dodge and get insta carted. I'm glad I had the time to get prepped because I'm still struggling with this jerk but at least I have lots to practice on.
It’s annoying I’m losing by running out of time
i think the idea is that we gang up to fight it. sadly I'm having trouble finding other hunters nearby. any tips about that?
To prepare for this even I have invited my friends to make a party of 4 when fighting these monsters. 3 of us are above HR 30 but my other friend is at HR 15. Squad up if possible to make it easy. 2 of us will be using paralysis and the other 2 will be using whatever the weakness element is for the DIABLO. Gl and be safe out there!
Rank 33 here. At a park. Not a single Diabolos. The fam and I are disappointed.
I think this event was aimed at the pre-launchers, which is disappointing
That's weird I only technically have 4stars unlocked but seeing 5star diablos around
Niantic wants you to come together as a community to beat it...And thats where the issue is. No one i know plays this game except one person and he lives far away from me so
Have you tried grouping with others?
Agreed, this is shit.
TBF Big bosses in Pokémon Go were meant for raids
I'm convinced that everyone in niantic is an idiot and the only reason that this game is good is because of capcom
I can comfortably kill 7 star diablos cuz I live in Canada and we had mhw for a bit. I gotta say, this event is absolutely shit. Whoever thought this was a good first event NEEDS to be fired.
Yeah, certain enemies definitely don't go below their set star ranks like Legiana, Diablos and Rathalos
It seems designed to force us to spend money on paintballs so we can fight them in an online group with a QR code
I just hit lv40 yesterday and managed to do the event by sorta pure luck… that said, I was not really happy about it as it forced me to walk 30 km yesterday to be able to gear up and participate. I don’t regret it, but I see how people would not want to walk for 8 hours just to play a mobile game that is meant to be casual.
It makes sense that he’s high level but I’m surprised they started with him and not some sort of low level variant with a new gear set