Dear MHW Veterans, I request once again your wisdom on the ICEBORNE DLC /u/HolBlackHole Monster Hunter: World

After reaching the 100+ hours played, dabbling in MHW’S base game for quite a bit, and learning how to use dual blades, lightbowgun, heavy bowgun, and now maining the Hunting Horn, I started playing Iceborne, and I have questions.

I’ll try to be as straightforward as possible.

1. What is the opinion on Barioth’s encounter design? I just fought it yesterday and I felt so much frustration fighting it, I had to know what others think. It moves so much and it’s so aggressive, most of the difficulty of the fight is either finding the patience only to hit it once while breakdancing all across the arena, or trying to run a marathon to try to land a hit when he slides all across the arena attacking.

2. How do you recommend progressing through Iceborne? Same as a base game? Focusing on getting more defenses as new armor gets unlocked? Some of these monsters have HANDS and hit HARD as hell!!! I’m only on MR3 quests atm because I’ve been doing a lot of optional quests, but the Barioth armor seems to have significantly a lot more defense than the armor I have currently (A combination of MR’S Kulu-yaku with Beatodus)

   1. Any general advice you’d give to an Iceborne newbie?

After reaching the 100+ hours played, dabbling in MHW’S base game for quite a bit, and learning how to use dual blades, lightbowgun, heavy bowgun, and now maining the Hunting Horn, I started playing Iceborne, and I have questions.

I’ll try to be as straightforward as possible.

1. What is the opinion on Barioth’s encounter design? I just fought it yesterday and I felt so much frustration fighting it, I had to know what others think. It moves so much and it’s so aggressive, most of the difficulty of the fight is either finding the patience only to hit it once while breakdancing all across the arena, or trying to run a marathon to try to land a hit when he slides all across the arena attacking.

2. How do you recommend progressing through Iceborne? Same as a base game? Focusing on getting more defenses as new armor gets unlocked? Some of these monsters have HANDS and hit HARD as hell!!! I’m only on MR3 quests atm because I’ve been doing a lot of optional quests, but the Barioth armor seems to have significantly a lot more defense than the armor I have currently (A combination of MR’S Kulu-yaku with Beatodus)

   1. Any general advice you’d give to an Iceborne newbie?