Like most entries in the franchise, Monster Hunter Rise boasts an extensive catalog of monsters for hunters to tackle throughout their playthrough. Players can battle one monster in Monster Hunter Rise, the Bazelgeuse, an intimidating and aggressive Flying Wyvern that will crush those unprepared for a tough fight. Before challenging this boss, make sure you’ve got the right gear and weaponry.

When fighting this beast, it’s good to know what it’s weak against or where to inflict that good old damage to slaughter the foe quickly. So here’s Bazelgeuse’s weaknesses, resistances, and drop rates.

All Bazelgeuse Weaknesses

Bazelgeuse Elemental Weakness

The main weakness of Bazelgeuse is thunder, but if you have ice or dragon elements, those will still be relatively effective. But do not use water, as it does very little damage, and fire weapons are ineffective. Here are the locations where you should attack Bazelgeuse for extra elemental damage.

You should focus if using an elemental weapon on its Head, Leg, and Tail areas for the most damage, especially if you’re using thunder weapons. If you’re using ice or dragon weapons, aim for the wing and abdomen as well.

Bazelgeuse Location Weakness

If you are not wielding an elemental weapon, you want to attack places where you deal extra damage. These places on a monster differentiate depending on the weapon type you use—Cutting, Impact, or Shot.

  • If using a cutting weapon focus on the tail and leave the head for impact damage users.If using a blunt weapon focus on the head.If using a bow weapon focus on shooting the wings and tail.

Bazelgeuse Resistances and Ailments

Bazelguese is strong against most ailments. The only ailment that has any lasting effect on this titan is Thunderblight, so make sure to get in and deal damage repeatedly with quick thunder weapons if you’ve got them.

Bazelgeuse Drop Rates - Carves, Capturing & Breaking

Depending on your quest, you can get different rewards to forge armor and weapons, but each has a drop rate percentage, ultimately RNG. It is pure luck what you receive.

  • There are multiple ways of gaining itemsYou can carving three times once the monster is dead. You can capture the monster instead of killing it. Or carving the broken appendage of said monster.From looting the drops from the monsterAfter successfully compleing your quest

Most monsters have breakable/sliceable parts, and Bazelgeuse is no different. You can break the following parts of this monster—Head, Back, Wings, and Tail. If you break these monster parts during a hunt, you will earn extra rewards after completing the quest.

  • Or carving the broken appendage of said monster.

The tables below are the percentage and drop rates of each material from Bazelgeuse, High rank.

High Rank

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