Some HaT/intercept advice/PSA/minirant/but actual advice
Obviously through te event people were crushing HaTs and intercepts, and a lot of people were joining 8\* events with clearly no idea what they were doing (or were intentionally joining and dodging). Here's a few things I noticed, and how you can skill up and crush the silly monsters to get the bestest loot.
caveat: play however you like, i aint your waifu. Just know hundreds of players are psychically screaming for your demise and that of your entire bloodline.
**Hunting 8\* Kushala Daora**
* If you have a ranged weapon, attack the head. If you have a zinogre LBG, really attack the head because sticky. * If you are breaking the wings, you're doing it wrong unless you have nothing else to attack. * If you are running way back at the start of the fight, you're killing your team by making kush charge around the map, you should be aware of where the team is, where kush is, and why you arent there too. * If you have a bashy, choppy or pointy stick of some kind, attack the head. * If you are breaking the wings, you're doing it wrong. * If you're using dual blades, you're forgiven for having short arms.
Kush usually likes to stay on one target for a couple of attacks, if you have 'the agrro' and you've made him spin around, circle back to the team.
The head can't break in phase one, but you can (and must) stack on the damage or it won't happen at all.
If you learn the timing of the phase 2 cyclone you can stand in it and special at the right time to avoid getting hit... this is way safer, leaves you in a great spot with your team, and you will almost certainly not cop a face full of windy death because you ran back to the edge of the map and, as previously mentioned, killed your team.
Dont let him pin you to the edge of the map, he can, literally, body block you (also he has a really cheap stunlock/doom vortex combo but you cant do much about that if it catches you)
**Hunting 8\* Mizutsune**
* If you have a ranged weapon, shoot it in the head, if you can, use your special on its tail (or if you have slicing; tail) * You can get 2 perfect dodges off its spinny water laser, mmm, two perfect dodges. * If you are melee with a slicing weapon, your only job is the tail, ranged and non-slicy melee can deal with the head.
Watch for sleep, mizu is pretty easy to put to sleep so if you see it yawn and start going down, special it or let someone else special it (or a weapon like a greatsword or charge blade smash it good)
**Special barioth edition**
spike, spike, head. That's it. Dont just keep hitting the orange bit, unless it's 4/5\* most barioths should be able to have all three broken by any mid/high level team... its also a stunlock... poor guy.
**Special gunlance edition**
We get it, gunlance OP right now, also, many of you suck with it. Don't come into 8\* group hunts shooting your terrible pew pew, people like part breaks, you aren't helping. If you learn to use the weapon and wyrmstake, you are blessed.
edit due to controversy - Yes you can shell parts... you can also lock on and stab parts, or use gyro aiming to make sure you're shooting something that matters, like the head on Kush. Or run an element and stabbity stab stab \_stake\_