BlackTorito

These crowns are the main reason I am not buying this thing at the moment, still salty about this shitty grind in the base game. Just yesterday I tried to help some unfortunate soul who still has to grind this crap after well over 300 hours, we covered twice the ground and did over 50 attempts in total without a single crown, and now we are running short on investigations, without any reliable way to get the specific ones needed. Decent game turned into a terrible experience by bad rng trophies, Iceborne will have to be dirt cheap for me to even consider getting it. To quote a fitting sentence my unfortunate friend uttered yesterday in the most groggiest and defeated voice imaginable after hours of wasted efforts: "This game is doodoo".

@MidnightDragon Can’t say, I got Velkhana both within 4 investigations and Odogaron within 3 (tempered), seems easier, plus you can earn the base game crowns as well since they sadly put most of them monsters again in Master.

@Nighcisama Not sure what method are you using, but you should be measuring the monster, its going to be a pain if you do not. Back in the day, I myself discovered how to measure giant Black Diablos after slaying 164 and 40+ captures, a pain in the ass being the most dangerous monster there is.

I would recommend looking for measure tips, and sticking to 3-5 tries investigations with 1 bronze only at most.

With this grind you need to be smart or else you will lose your willing to live, the only mission you should kill monsters back to back is in the events ones.

We are measuring the monsters, which is the only reason we managed to sit through 25 attempts each in one session, killing only like 10 in total that were realistic candidates to be crowns. Measuring is not reliable though, we killed a few that were clearly as big or small as the ones in the crown videos without getting anything.

The method is this, we both start investigations seperately, we look at the monster, if it is not a candidate for a crown we abandon, if he has one he kills the monster, if I have one I weaken it and have him join at the end so he gets the chance to get the crown. Covering twice the ground for him, yet we still ran out of investigations by now, and there are never any crown events for elder dragons and shitty black diablos, the worst monster in the game in terms of design, which is saying a lot.

I already have the plat and probably would have given up on it if I had his kind of bad luck. Thats another reason I want to avoid Iceborne, just the thought of getting that kind of bad rng with the next crowns is sickening.