Crabstick anyone???

Its been like 3 days since my last hunt, my hands been itching for some action. Well little did I know, that is what I'll get. After scrolling through the elders list of quest...I randomly picked a hunting quest. And I've got... Kill or capture Zazami. No idea whats a Zazami, guess I will find out soon.

This time around the hunt takes me to the harsh barren land of the desert. Pop in some rations and Cool Drinks and I'm off. . .


Pretty sight isn't it???? Sand dunes galore. . . ok, move along no time to be sight seeing.

Haha this time around I mange to get hold of an essential hunting/survival item, the *psychoserum*, with this you'll be granted instant autotracker skill for a few seconds, enough to tell you where should you be headed, Hmmm area 5, right lets go.


.Like the previous MHF, The desert is huge, and as u can see like the previous map they made
Area 2 and 5 huge and vast.

Anyway the path led me to an open desert area, it was swimming with chephalos (great, lotsa nuisance just what I need.) Oooooh and what do we have here? A huge oversize Hermit Crab named Zazami, and its using a monoblos skull as it shell.

Righto, the moment I painted Zazami, it immediately charge at me with unstaggering speeds, lifting up one claw ready to give me a good swing. As with any new monsters that I come across, I'd go into an observe mode, basically just letting the monster attack, while I try my best to figure out how to dodge, ultimately looking for openings and weakness of its attack and exploit it.

Ok, so here's what I've observed. Zazami has a wide range of attacks, here's a rough list of it:

• Left/Right Swipe
• Forward shove
• Power clamp (2sec charge)
  
• Backward charge
• Burrowing Attack
• Giant Leap/Stomp
• Water Spit
• Curl up (defensive maneuver)
  
  *Left/Right Swipe, Front shove, and Powerclamp are easily avoided, by either running side ways or rolling thru its legs.
  

Death from below, Zazami burrows into the earth and unleash a series of upward thrust beneath the ground (think Diablos/Monoblos) , and thanks to the huge horn at the end of its ass... any contact by it, and you'll be "flying without wings" followed by a painful bone crushing crash. Ouch.


Backward charge, Zazami has a Monoblos skull/horn at its rear and is not afraid to use it. Stand too close to Zazami's rear, you can bet your gonna get rammed by that massive horn.


Water Spit....kaaaaaaaathuuiiiiii (Beware any contact to the claw while Zazami is executing this move will send you flying in a distance with a good chunk out of your life.) But this is also a perfect opportunity to pummel Zazami's claws...unleash your fury to the claws, legs or the shell at the back.


Giant stomp, Zazami will launch itself high into the sky and then lands painfully back to earth...get caught by this attack, you can be sure you'll be kissing dirt very soon. Watch out for signs when its about to make this move, it will bend its legs and leap high. . . you have about a second to roll out of the way before this huge behemoth comes crashing down on you. Right after the stomp Zazami will stagger to get up, rush in and attack~!!!

Curl up, sometimes Zazami will stop attacking and uses its Large claws to shield itself, causing any attacks to bounce off its tough exoskeleton. Note: a way to counter this is to chuck a Sonic bomb while it is in this state. It will flinch and give you ample time to introduce Mr.Pain to it.


Tip: At the moment I found that stay to the side of Zazami and attacking its legs is the best way to bring him down...also staying too near, too long at the rear of Zazami will cause it to Charge, and the charge animation is pretty quick and hard to avoid if your standing directly behind it.

After about 20mins of fooling around I managed to bring Zazami down...
hmmm gotta work on the time. Anyway Quest Cleared~ Wooohooo!!




Back at Pokke Village. . .
Using the parts I got from Zazami, I made the fullset of it. LOL I look an American football player. Not bad though... hmmm somehow it resembles Metroid Sam's Armour. Oh yeah, from the extra part I made the GiantClaw GS too... now that's what I call a set lol.
The armour gives DEF +20, Thunder resistant -10 and another skill which I don't
know what it means.

Hmmmmmm so its weak against thunder, I'll probably need to forge The Eagle Cleaver...Time for some Khezu farming. Untill the next hunt.