9★5✦ Tempered Arkveld Vs. Hammer - 歴戦アルシュベルド ハンマー ソロ【MHWilds】

Since 9★ Arkveld is the first new Arkveld we've got since release, I figured that he was the only new monster worth making a video for.

There is absolutely nothing different with it in terms of moveset or AI ; anything you see about that on the 9★ monsters is all placebo. This one just has about twice the amount of HP of 8★ Arkveld.

Despite some poor Counterstrike or Agitator uptime during the first two KOs, this run was absolutely nuts. I was grinding like crazy and struggling to get consistent sub 7:30 runs and I got this 6:42 out of nowhere.

For some insane reason, the only thing I can tell is different about 9★ Arkveld is that it's scripted, yes scripted, to move to the Quematrice nest at, I'm almost certain, 30% HP. I don't know why, but I guess the devs thought "let's make them fight this bigass monster in the tiniest area possible, that'll teach those people who complain about difficulty".

In my other runs I would use this scripted area change as an indicator that I should use a Lure Pod and deal a bit more damage to bring him down to about 25% and then try to capture before the skull icon appears to gain a lot of time.
In this run however the flow of combat was so perfect and I pinned him down so well that he ended up wanting to leave when he was already capturable. As such, I really believe there is no way I can get a better completion time as this run without having some kind of overlay.

While I've been extremely negative on Wilds, I must admit that the 9★ monsters are moderately difficult and more interactive, making for interesting fights.

While some issues with the combat persist, such as Focus Mode and Wounds staggering, most of my resentment towards the game now mainly comes from its awful release, amount of bugs and badly QA tested features, the low rank experience, the "story" and a general and complete distrust in Yuya Tokuda for directing future titles.

Small thing: this is a freestyle run unlike what the thumbnails says (I'm lazy to remake it), I brought my Palico for this.

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