MHW Guiding Lands Fast BIOME Levelling 'Exploit' (possible solo)

We talked about doubling your shinies for the materials. We talked about capture-quitting for materials, MR and biome levelling. Now we finish the trifecta with a dedicated area levelling method that can reach insane speeds if you have a team, while still being perfectly possible solo.

It's not really an "exploit" as much as it's just an overpowered strategy, but it definitely fits the mould of "unintended use of legitimate and properly functioning game mechanics to gain unintended results/advantages" which is what I see as the common definition of "exploit"

All you do is spam traps lmao, it's that simple. Bring a set with scholar, and bring both traps and the combines for two more shocks, and go to town. If you get 4 people doing it together, the growth rate is insane, but even if its just solo it's still pretty fast for what it essentially 0 effort. Use farcasters to return to camp quicker, and the tailrider to get to the monster faster. Additionally, the closer the monster is to a camp, the easier it is to maintain a full lockdown, which can even prevent the monster from fleeing the expedition I'm pretty sure

Don't forget, I have a spreadsheet which collects all sorts of data on MHW Iceborne that people ask about a lot - things like the materials needed to upgrade the best charms (e.g. handicraft, expert etc), a list of all the guiding land monster drops and gathering nodes (plus it's searchable), what materials you need for every possible augment (attack, affinity, defence, health, slot, element/status) in the game, etc:
Feel free to point people to this doc if you think they would find the information useful :D

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[ConsOA]

i accidently pressed "hide user from channel" to someone and I can't figure out how to undo it D:

[lagideath]

The volcano is actually really close to the second camp. Just use the drop instead of the crawl space and you land right in front of the entrance to the lava area.

[densetsux]

I usually play solo but have been using the shock trap from the Flashfire Cage Palico Tool as extra traps. Not as efficient as a team run but still a little faster when going alone.

[ramigilneas]

The first group I joined used this tactic... and of course I always carry 4 traps myself.
Unfortunately I had a disconnect after an hour... but the area already was at level 5.

[gaaradasavage]

You can all so bring your palico with the flash trap lvl 15 that helps the palico can put down 3 to 4 shock traps per hunt in the guilding lands it helps alot trust me try it

[HighHeNah]

You should also use food skill fylene exchanger. It adds 20%

[Robophill]

If you use camp 3, there is a hole/drop to the left of it's exit which takes you right next to the volcanic region.

[monhanchile]

In volcano you can follow uragan and collecting his tracks, he leave so many, and with schollar is very good

[goatseatchili]

So apparently if you don’t have room for your region to advance it won’t decrease another region if you use this method. You have to decrease it manually to see any progress. I thought they patched it but it turns out this was the case.

[zahrawi]

This still works. Tried it yesterday.
Don't feel discouraged if you cannot get people to do it together with you.
Even by doing it solo, the lvling up rate is pretty impressive.
Max 4 traps before you go farcast back to camp (1 shock trap, 1 pitfall trap, 2 trap tool for crafting in item pouch)

[azurastar]

Have u tried to kill a barroth and Radoban, if u break them they give tons of points!!! Any mud you take off baroth is 40 points without scholar

[junclj]

There have a faster way to go into volcanic region. Just jump down from the cliff (beside the cooking area) at the left side of your camp 3 entrance.

[KaguyaEne]

you could follow certain monsters that leave a large amount of tracks that are exclusive to an area and sniff their feet with scholar on. so monsters like uragaan and lavasioth for the volcano, diablos and black for the waste, radobaan for the vale and so on. but that's more so if you don't have the expendable materials for traps.


and from eastern camp you can jump down, turn around, and go down the right to get to the volcano region.



 and i can hear phantom in the background thinking it was my own playstation

[MarcMaka]

Still works
I can only recommend you to do this 😅

[glaiveking]

I got the notification just now and then i see comments from 22hrs ago 🤦🏻‍♂️

[JohnnyDefh]

May I ask if this still works for now?

[navigatn]

Might wanna add to do this with region exclusive monsters like the kulu in wildspire. I did this with Savage jho and barely got any gains.

[ttfcrith]

Did capcom patch this? I did it on fulgur anja at coral for like 20min. When i leave GL, all i got was research point

[nicksbordone]

I think there's a quicker way to the volcanic area. I can't check right now but I think that from one of the camps you can drop straight down near the new zones

[xandroid]

You should make a guide on maxing 3 areas. My tip is just to smack silver rathalos in coral area and odogaron in rotten area. This way you can max coral, rotten, and volcanic.