Monster Hunter: World

• Try out the different weapon types before you commit. Most people tend to use bow as a secondary since it's very useful against certain hunts.

• Ranged Weapons don't require sharpening, instead they rely on ammo types.

• Weapons have different tiers of sharpness that will reduce with use. Higher levels deal more damage than the ones below.

• Mounting requires you to attack while jumping. Mountable monsters have an armor threshold that you must break before they become mountbale. After a mount, that armor resets and goes up.

• Holding R1 while moving will make jumping to vines easier and is an alternative to sprinting with L3.

• Look for yellow Wedge Beetles hanging on overhanging tree branches as you can "use" these to swing yourself to different locations.

• Trapping monsters requires a pit trap or a shock trap (much easier to make), and 2 tranquilizer bombs or tranquilizer ammo. This can only be done when a monster is near death (has skulls on their map icon) and is easier to pull off when they return to their nest to sleep.

• Pinning map icons with R3 will give you a trail to your target.

• Poison weapons are strong starting weapons, but eventually you will want to move on to owning an element of each type.

• Yellow damage numbers are critical hits. Hitting any weak point will display these numbers.

• Affinity is your critical damage stat. Blue damage numbers means you're hitting below the standard threshold.

• Monster parts you don't pick up or carve will eventually despawn.

• You cannot capture Elder Dragons. Instead, place explosive barrels on them when they sleep.

• Elder Seal is a condition that will nullify or remove buffs/gimmicks on Elder Dragons after so many hits with your weapon.

• Your sling is very important. If a monster is flying, chances are you can use a flash-pod to bring them down or pelt them on their face to stun them.

• Shooting a monster with dung will chase them off.

• Gear with parentheses surrounding elemental damage means it requires the armor skill "Free Elem" before it's useable.

• Your Palico can get new tools/gear. Look for Doodles during an expedition. This means there's a cat tribe you can discover so you can get new tools. The last two will require a guide (knife and bomb).

• You can fish with your net.

• Use items, use the environment, abuse small ledges, kick frogs, etc

• You can create equipment loadouts and customize your item bar in the item poach menu.

• Don't forget to re-sharpen your sword during boss hunts. I stopped doing damage to that big-headed thing in the swamp and couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong for about 10 minutes, then re-sharpened my sword and killed it in like 5 more hits.