Chapter 4: Page 110
Treewalker hunts are no easygoing affair. Just finding the treewalker can be troublesome and time-consuming, but once the beast starts moving through the trees, the action ramps up by about a thousand percent.
Tamian scouts are required to not only keep up with the beast, but rely on a trio of special roles to overpower and fell it.
Most treewalker hunts employ a number of carvers, archers, and trappers to whittle the beast’s stamina down, slowly chipping away at its armor over the course of several hours if need be.
In the case of this page, the treewalker has been half-blinded, giving the unnaturally small scouting crew a small (very small) chance to take down a beast this size. Carvers work to get their specially curved blades under the treewalker’s brittle carapace, cracking it open like a lobster.
Teams of trappers use their grappling hooks to quickly improvise net traps that can either slow or divert treewalkers towards a more optimal hunting area.
And of course the archers use their arrows for all sorts of things during the hunt–whether it’s to distract the treewalker, deal small amounts of progressive damage (classic DPS build here!), or make a bold attempt to land a shot in its eyes or an exposed weak spot, their arrows carry many different responsibilities.
But of course, as we can see, even with the most trained treewalker hunters, it’s still incredibly dangerous!
Oh yeah Crim, real helpful there! Got any other advice?
Look for a glowing sigil and stab it until it fades! You might not have an ancient magic sword but it’s better than nothing!
And after you kill it, don’t forget to run away in terror while spamming the Call Horse button in a futile attempt to avoid the curse!
I know that, of the creators, at least Rachel really likes Monster Hunter. I commend your self restraint for holding off on a monster chase sequence for this long.
Damn, dropped his sword! Too bad they don’t have a flamethrower. ;)