Hunting Gold & Silver Raths: Clearing the Dual Quests

Gathering Hall ★8 (G-Rank - HR 5): The next targets are Gold Rathian and Silver Rathalos.

Queen of the Jungle (Gold Rathian, unlocks at 30 Rathian hunts)

Rathalos Orders (Silver Rathalos, unlocks at 30 Rathalos hunts)

After that,

Wrath of Heaven and Earth (Dual Gold & Silver, the one with the 19,200 zeny reward)

I think I was around 17 Rathalos and 12 Rathian hunts by this point. You can buy monster info from the traveling merchant and check your stats under Game Data - Monster List - Hunt Log.

For hunting the two in the Forest and Hills, ledge-trapping is super efficient. Hitting both of them together with Spread Shots from the Rain Bullets (White) can sometimes clear both in under 5 minutes. It's a bit of a hassle, but I pushed through for the final quest.

The main event: the individual Gold & Silver quests, and then the duo. I'm a bit worried about the attack power of the Rain Bullets (White) light bowgun, but I'm going in with it anyway. The next pierce light bowgun I want is the Silver Spark, which requires materials from this exact Silver Rathalos anyway.

Hunting them individually actually takes longer. I looked it up and Spread is apparently weak, so while I used the Rain Bullets (White), I mainly relied on Pierce Lv 1. I brought maxed-out Pierce Lv 1 and Flash Bombs along with crafting materials. Since I'd already been forced to hunt Rathalos and Rathian countless times up to this point, nothing was an issue except their massive health pools. I'm pretty sure both solo quests took me about 45 minutes.

The image is from clearing the dual Gold & Silver hunt. As things played out, I happened to run into the Silver Rathalos first and took him down. They never converged. Because they have less HP in this quest than the solo ones, I was able to take down each monster in about 15 minutes.

The exact moment of victory. That's me, the hunter, in the bottom left.

Take that! Next up is Lao-Shan Lung!