Yes, Master Rank hunts will take that long when you first get to Master Rank. You will not have great weapons, armor sets, nor skills available right away. By the time you get to the end of MR, you will be back to 5 to 15 minute hunt averages again.

Welcome to the game!

Make sure you do the clutch claw tutorial mission.

It'll help your damage capabilities quite a lot.

Also there are certain combo(-extenders) for every weapon that make using the claw much more intuitive and fluid.

You'll get there.

Have fun hunting!

My biggest challenge of Iceborne was, when I faced Viper Tobi Kadachi with defender armors and weapon.

If you are unsure about the progress, you can always go back to the base game content, and one spoiler I highly recommend you to pay attention;

GET TEMPORAL and ROCKSTEADY MANTLES before too late. Why I use the term too late, one NPC will be missing for obtaining one of the mantles when you will face Barioth.

What I love about Iceborne is that it teaches players to come prepared instead of just facetanking. For viper, bring poison resistance and less importantly paralysis resistance to counter it. Without poison he's not as much of a treat. For nightshade, make sure to bring sleep resistance and use flash pods to bring him down but MAKE SURE to space them out because if you spam them he'll gain a resistance and become immune to flash pods. So use them when it is flying and only after like 2-3 minutes have passed since you used the last one. You can also bring him down with pods by flinch shotting the head if it's not enraged, saving a flash pod.

Get your temporal and rocksteady mantle as those will allow you to facetank the beggining of the fights by tenderizing / flinch shotting without issue.

Originally posted by djneffii:

I feel like theres no way hunts are supposed to be lasting 30-40 minutes.

in the beginning, or rather at your progression point, they absolutely are. that's the nature of the game. take your time to upgrade your gear (decorations are super important as well), and the killtimes will go down. until the next progress monster comes around.

Originally posted by spliff:

Originally posted by djneffii:

I feel like theres no way hunts are supposed to be lasting 30-40 minutes.

in the beginning, or rather at your progression point, they absolutely are. that's the nature of the game. take your time to upgrade your gear (decorations are super important as well), and the killtimes will go down. until the next progress monster comes around.

That's right Iceborne is not made for tourists and babies who only play FS games !

On that note, OP, try to get Weakness exploit to level 3 and crit eye to level 7. That'll boost your damage immenssely, trust me. You will cut your hunting time by at least 15 to 20 minutes.

Bow main? What playstyle are you using? Are you spamming Dragon Piecer? Do you see orange damage numbers? Or grey? Are you matching monster's elemental weakness?

Originally posted by Deffy:

Originally posted by spliff:

in the beginning, or rather at your progression point, they absolutely are. that's the nature of the game. take your time to upgrade your gear (decorations are super important as well), and the killtimes will go down. until the next progress monster comes around.

That's right Iceborne is not made for tourists and babies who only play FS games !

On that note, OP, try to get Weakness exploit to level 3 and crit eye to level 7. That'll boost your damage immenssely, trust me. You will cut your hunting time by at least 15 to 20 minutes.

FS as in FromSoft?

Originally posted by ominumi:

Bow main? What playstyle are you using? Are you spamming Dragon Piecer? Do you see orange damage numbers? Or grey? Are you matching monster's elemental weakness?

I dont spam dragon piercer, I go for orange damage numbers (essentially targeting wounded parts). I haven't looked much into elemental weakness to be honest...

Originally posted by djneffii:

Originally posted by ominumi:

Bow main? What playstyle are you using? Are you spamming Dragon Piecer? Do you see orange damage numbers? Or grey? Are you matching monster's elemental weakness?

I dont spam dragon piercer, I go for orange damage numbers (essentially targeting wounded parts). I haven't looked much into elemental weakness to be honest...

30 minute hunts means you're damage is pitiful. 20 minute hunts mean you're wasting time somewhere.

Originally posted by ominumi:

Originally posted by djneffii:

I dont spam dragon piercer, I go for orange damage numbers (essentially targeting wounded parts). I haven't looked much into elemental weakness to be honest...

30 minute hunts means you're damage is pitiful. 20 minute hunts mean you're wasting time somewhere.

I think the issue was crit boost. Actually, it seems that was the entire issue was my crits. I'm doing good now.