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DynastyLord

PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 3:59 pm


Do I have a better chance of Getting a plate doing a Hunting quest or Capture quest?
PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 8:45 pm


I think hunting it as long as you wound it's wings and head. But you should make sure that you cut the tail off since there is a chance of carving a Plate from it.

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Arkane

PostPosted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:30 am


It's not necessarily a higher chance when you capture, but when you break her head and cap there is a slightly better chance of finding one.

It's only better to cap because you cannot carve a plate from the corpse. So seeing how as you get a few extra rewards in the rewards screen for capping you potentially get one extra chance of getting one (one from the regular rewards and one from the special capture rewards --- of course it's only 3% a drop sadly, but still).

So!

1- Cut the tail => 3% chance to carve
2- Break the head => makes the plate possible to show up in rewards
3- Capture => plates can't be carved, capturing gives you extra rewards which in turn gives you an extra chance to get a plate.
PostPosted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 4:40 pm


I'm not sure if this is true or not but I noticed that the Rathian plate (at least for me) dropped a little more often in single player. Online I killed at least 10 Rathians and got no plate but offline I killed about 6 and got 2. Just something I noticed

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Luciferin Bandit

PostPosted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 8:26 am


I carved a plate off of the Tail on my first Rathian xD

I was ecstatic
PostPosted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 9:54 pm


Tungsten Shimuza
I carved a plate off of the Tail on my first Rathian xD

I was ecstatic
No way! The same thing happened to me too! :D

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 10:11 pm


Hellter Skellter
Tungsten Shimuza
I carved a plate off of the Tail on my first Rathian xD

I was ecstatic
No way! The same thing happened to me too! :D


We are awesome.
PostPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 6:05 am


Hellter Skellter
Tungsten Shimuza
I carved a plate off of the Tail on my first Rathian xD

I was ecstatic
No way! The same thing happened to me too! :D


happened to me on a rathalos.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 6:53 pm


I spent 3 days and killed/captured over 13 rathians to get the one plate for my Sieglinde.
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