u/DascSwem

So, so far I've done a lot of the content leading up to omega and mostly solo as well and without upgrading armor ever. Currently running some Ray Dau gamma armor, a few decent decorations and Shatterseal Drakesnest.

I went at omega solo a few times and got pretty far but decided to try multi-player instead since that's what it's designed for? I think?

Anyway, frankly, I'm getting my ass kicked. Is this the point in the game where I should start upgrading armor? What about weapons? Is Shatterseal good enough here? The fight takes absolutely forever even when prioritizing dps, like rotating SCS and Perforate over and over again at it's head when inside the blue shield thingy... WITH mega demondrug AND demon powder. And even with mega armorskin and adamant seed I'm getting 2 or 3 shot by everything.

Is it just supposed to be this tough or am I missing something here? I'm HR 80 or so.

What an absolutely incredible fight... Props to Capcom for designing this absolute masterpiece. This is basically my first MH game (played a little bit of World a long time ago) and my first AT monster as well.

​Learning about how the lightning blast follow-ups work, his openings, and which attacks you can strafe around and punish—it's so crisp. And I mean also, it's freaking Rey Dau, one of the coolest monsters they've ever made in my opinion. The sound design, the lightning storm in the background, the railgun ultimate move, and how the camera kind of distorts like it's almost too much for the player to handle even just looking at—this monster has an incredible aura and demands your attention.

​Then there's smaller details like how his smaller lightning blasts shoot out a little discharge first, pointing to where they are gonna strike, etc.

​It wasn't crazy difficult; it only took me two attempts... BUT! I still think it's very balanced because I had to actually learn the monster and pay attention the entire time, which not that many monsters up until that point have demanded. It feels like a proper high-energy, hard-but-fair boss fight, akin to something like Gael from Dark Souls 3 or Midra from Elden Ring.

​I'm still a bit iffy over how to counter/avoid the point-blank lightning blast that he does after some melee combos. For reference, I main Greatsword.

​Anyway, that's it. TLDR: AT Rey Dau is very cool.