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Peco Armor: check. Perfect gun combo: …

Well, I have continued to work on my new lowbie for the Journey over the course of the last two days.  By now, the challenge is definitely presenting itself for me.  For, as a gunner, I need to constantly keep myself supplied.  Thus, after each mission, I spend my hard-earned zenny on ammo.  Luckily, I’m making more zenny than I’m spending on ammo.  I also have a shortage of supplies such as mega potions and regular potions.  So, I rely heavily on the item box to give me the supplies to get me through each challenge.

However, I have made quite a bit of progress during this time.  I have fully created a peco gunner set, which helps gives me a few split seconds extra to successfully evade.  This set also gives me a bit of an improvement on my potions’ healing abilities.  Thus, I am able to heal the hits as well as take them a bit easier.

I’ve also made a few gun parts in these few days.  However, I have yet to find that perfect combination that makes me happy.  I have a combination that can give me strong use of poisons, though it lacks in nearly every other status option.  I also have made a combination that gives me a strong use of sleep.  Then, I have a gun combination that is average on nearly every option.

Furthermore, I’ve discovered that the database for creating gun combinations that I had been using was flawed.  The creator had failed to put in the proper ammo counts for the light bowgun frame.  So, now I am wondering if I should go back and make that frame.

As it is, I think I may be ready to take on Barroth.  However, my gun is strong on fire attacks.  Meanwhile, Barroth is weaker to water than he is to fire due to the amount of time that he stays mudded.  I also would like to make some bombs before I take on Barroth.  With my sleeping abilities, we could sleep-bomb the annoying wyvern with ease.

On a final note, I have no idea what my next target armor set will be.  Perhaps Barroth, perhaps I’ll hold out until I get my hands on Lagi armor.  We shall see.

Let the Journey Begin

For the last couple of months, a few of my hunting partners have been throwing around the idea of making new hunters that will be on-line only characters.  Our target is to only hunt with each other on-line in order to document the challenges and adventures involved in making a new character without the assistance of those with better gear.

Well, last night, the Journey began.  I created my new bowgunner hunter, Nemesis, and jumped into the fray.  After suffering through a few annoying cutscenes, that I had seen before but could not skip, we began our path of quests to give us armor and gear.

After starting with just the standard SnS and no gear whatsoever, we battled the impossible odds of the mighty Kelbis.  Their horns became ours and their pelts were stripped.  We also mined and gathered the materials needed to start off our characters on our chosen paths.

Thus, I soon found that bowgunning is very expensive when you don’t even have 5k of zenny.  However, I will endure.  I will continue to buy ammo, and definitely grab it up when it’s on sale.  Still, I will probably be the hunter that struggles the most with zenny.

I started off with a light-medium bowgun mix.  I made the medium frame, light barrel, and light stock, which created a bowgun with several slots for poison shots.  I also created the wonderful leather armor to help me in not being naked and gathering items.

From there, we tackled our old foes like Great Jaggis, Pecs, and Ludroths.  I also found that monsters love charging gunners.  The life of a gunner is a life of pain.  It also seems that Royal Ludroth may be our wall until we get better armor.  For, two of us got charged and basically one-shotted by the swimming sponge.

For now, Nemesis’s goal is to create the peco armor.  Further updates will be given later on.