Why all this and who is this mod for:

In my personal opinion, the base game is way too easy, especially low and high rank. Even more so if you have already finished the game once. This mod basically is for guys like me, who´d like some sort of NEW GAME +,  as Souls-Like Games have.

I consider this mod balanced, I´ve played it through and loved the new difficulty curve, if you find this too difficult, well, it´s not for everyone. I highly recommend not rushing through this game. Take your time and grind better equipment throughout every rank. Consider the new low rank as difficult as the base master rank.

If u end up liking the mod, consider endorsing it. I´d appreciate it.

READ BEFORE PLAYING:

Within the nativePC I´ve included a save file containing a completely blank character that has finished all of Iceborne.
This character has nothing, no investigations, no armor, no items no nothing. The only thing he has is all canteen ingredients, almost every single mantle, and access to Seliana obviously. Playing with that character allows you to choose your own path throughout low, high, and master rank without having to do all that grind for ingredients and mantles again.

You can implement that save file into one of your character slots using MHWSaveTransfer, change his appearance with MHWAppearanceEditor or you can just copy the save file into 

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\YOURSTEAMID\582010\remote

- Always make backups






Most important changes:


Of all the changes I´ve made, the two biggest and most important are the following:

- drastic increase in damage taken by all large monsters in all ranks ( except for Fatalis and Alatreon ) 

--> stronger monsters even in low and high rank are not pushovers with bad armor any longer

- massive changes in armor regarding skill placement in all ranks

--> each piece has more and better skills, almost any set is now playable, especially in master rank, where each set mostly               contains all the mandatory skills that each weapon uses


- tempered elder drakes in master rank are a bit too strong atm, I´ll have them tested for a bit longer and a patch will nerf them soon



Difficulty Example:

Low-rank: With the starting armor set Diablos or Rathalos will almost if not one-shot you. You absolutely need to grind armor providing better skills and defense stats in order to progress. Each defense stat point makes all the difference. As your defense and skills get better you will obviously no longer get one shot ( not even close )




Weapon changes:

I have changed the elemental values and some sharpness levels of longsword and charge blade in order to make the elemental playstyle viable for both weapons. An excel sheet with all the weapon changes is provided within the nativePC. If you don't like it, delete the files correlating to the changes
Basically, I have chosen two to four monsters for each element, I sorted these monsters according to their difficulty level and balanced the weapon stats around that.

Example:

Fire Element Longsword tree:

Anja least strong longsword
Rathalos stronger longsword
Teostra even stronger longsword
Alatreon strongest fire elemental longsword


Other weapons:

Since my friends and myself only play these two weapons I did not do this for every single weapon. This would result in way too much work. If this mod gets enough attention, I might do it.



Installation:


extract the files out of the archive with your program of choice and drag the nativePC into your Monser Hunter World Folder in steam/steamapps/common/Monster Hunter World




Suggestions or criticism

I'm open to all sorts of things, either pm me or write your suggestions in the comments.





A detailed list of changes:

- all monster changes

- weapon overhaul for longsword and charge blade

- better decoration drop rates
  from melding tickets and feystones

- fortify effect lasts three times as long

- argosy has way better consumable items now

- added steel, silver, gold, astral and 
  gourmet vouchers to bounties


- might pill duration 20 seconds ---  180 seconds 
( same as might seed and other buff items )


- Potion Power35--50
- Mega Potion75--100
- Mega Demondrug Power5--10 attack increase

- Vitality Mantle Health100--150


AUGMENTATION changes

- each level 1 master rank augmentation costs one slot
  followed by two slots for the second level, this way you can max out two skills of your choice


attack boost I5--20
attack boost II10--60
Critical Bonus I10--10
Critical Bonus II15--30
( Life Steal )
Health Augmentation I7,5% --5%
Health Augmentation II9% --15%
Element Bonus I   30--100
Element Bonus II  60--300


#Monster Hunter World 2