Created by: gundamalpha (aka P.J. Chang)
Only available for LYN
This guide is intended for LYN users for free and absolutely not for money making. Please PM me if you wish to use this guide beyond LYN.
Objectives:
1. guide for veteran hunters on quest objectives
2. personal opinion on this game
3. input from fellow hunters including translation requests
Credits:
MH JP wiki
Foreword:
The craze is finally here, again! I have been playing MH since Freedom, and later P2, P2G, FU, Tri and 3. I had written FAQs on P2 and P2G before but they were never released due to personal and legal reasons. Hope that this time everything can go smoothly (FAQs and game). JP language is like an alien language to me, but I have self taught myself to read and understand some of the basics in this game.
The FAQ is based on my own progress in the game, and also based on tackling the game solo (although I do play with friends on occasion, a quest is not cleared until I managed to solo). Due to family commitments and work, the progress may be slower than you may have wished. Also I won't be covering the training school section, so if anyone wish to contribute on this section please be my guest

Hope this guide can help you to progress in this game.
Legend:
Blue - key questsRed - urgent questsMHP3 BEGINNER'S FAQS» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «
Q. How come I can't take on any quest?
A. In the beginning talk to everyone inside the hall, go out and talk to everyone with yellow bubble, visit the farm in the south-west, training school in the west, talk to village elder (the lady sitting on the bench at the center of the town) again.
Q. Where to eat?
A. Felyne kitchen has been replaced with hot spring. You need to clear hot sprig quests in order to utilize it. The quests are given out by the hot spring guard at the hot spring entrance.
HOT SPRING FAQS» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «
Q. What are the hot spring quests?
A. Here's the list:
1. Slay 5 Burufuango (HP +10)
2. Slay Dos Jagii (HP +10) - After clearing 2* urgent
3. Slay Roarudorosu (Stamina +25)
4. Slay 2 Dos Bagii (HP +10) - After clearing both Rathian quests
5. Slay Dos Burogii/Rangurotora (HP +10) - After clearing 4* urgent
6. ??? (Stamina +25)
7. ??? (HP +10)
Q. What are those quests in the second options for?
A. Work in progress
Q. I'm in the guild hall and realized there are "+" signs for my health and stamina, but other people don't have. Why?
A. The health/stamina buffs for everyone in the same hall are based on the person who has the most improved hot spring.
HUNTING TIPS» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «
Q. I got pinned down by monster, what to do?
A. You can either roll your analog or throw a dung bomb to escape
Q. 2 boss monsters in 1 area, WTF?
A. Use dung bomb on either one, recommend to use it on the one which had stayed longer.
Q. Traps/flash bombs are so weak now?
A. Capcom has decided to stop flash/traps spamming, the items will be less effective the more you use them in the same quest on the same monster.
MEMBER'S CONTRIBUTION» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «
Pakumon
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Just been a lurker now and then around here, but then i see this and no one here seem to actually know how it works, i can't let this misinformation go uncorrected. Switch Axe's phials/coating/vials, whichever you wanna call it is not the same as bow's coating at all.
Each switch axe's phial is FIXED, just like how a gunlance's shell type i.e. normal/long/spread types is FIXED for each gunlance. You don't go loading and changing gunlance's shells with bowgun bullets now do you?
The phial's effects only come into play when in sword mode, and your gauge depletes as you use sword mode. The gauge auto regens in axe mode and if it extremely low it says RELOAD you can press R in axe mode that will refill the gauge instead of switching to sword mode.
There's 6 types of phials:
power (boosts the raw)
element (boosts sa's innate element and status effect values)
poison, para, exhaust(deals ko if hit head and fatigues boss and makes em goes drool status like hammer), dragon(adds some dragon element)
Now for example the difference between SA with innate para attribute that has element phial and raw SA that has para phial, for the former you'll be doing para status attacks in both axe and sword mode but the para value is boosted more when in sword mode. For the latter tho, you'll only be doing raw damage when in axe and does para in sword.
In general, an elemental SA will either comes with power or element phial, status ones comes with element phial and raw ones can come with any one of em cept for element.
A noteworthy early SA, the yukumo lookalike one that is made from red ticket given to you by the elder, it comes with very long green bar and good raw and has dragon coating. It's probably one of the easiest and earliest way to get some dragon element weapon for dragon weak stuff.
This post has been edited by gundamalpha: Feb 25 2011, 01:39 PM