Monster Hunter World has received a new monster, Kulve Taroth. Learn more about unlocking, the armors, and relic weapons of the Elder Dragons here. Also, get some initial tips for fighting Kulve Taroth in the siege quest.
Kulve Taroth is a new Elder Dragon in Monster Hunter World that you can only encounter in a special siege quest. This quest has certain features of a raid, as you can participate with up to 16 players and work together on the progress of the quest. However, you also have the option to fight Kulve Taroth alone.
The fight is also divided into different phases, during which Kulve Taroth changes its behavior. Additionally, you must achieve certain goals through a points system to improve your rewards.
The “Kulve Taroth” quest is a time-limited quest that will disappear from the game after two weeks.
Unlocking Kulve Taroth and the Siege Quest
To access Kulve Taroth’s quest, you must meet the following requirements:
- The main story is completed, meaning you have defeated Xeno’jiiva
- Hunter rank 16 is reached – This is how you level up your Hunter rank
- Collect Gold Pieces from Kulve Taroth in Optional Quests or Expeditions
Finding Gold Pieces from Kulve Taroth easily:
- Ancient Forest, Area 1
- Simply start an expedition in the Ancient Forest.
- Here you will find the Gold Pieces from Kulve Taroth approximately in the middle of Area 1
Unlocking the Siege Quest “Feast in the Earthen Hall”:
- Once you have found the Gold Pieces, talk to the Admiral at the Trade Yard. He has a blue exclamation mark above his head.
- Now speak in the Skywatcher (gathering hub) with the site girl at the quest counter.
- Now you can head to the new quest area “Eldorado Caves”.
How does the new Siege Quest work?
The siege quest is a completely new form of investigation. Collect traces during the quest with up to 16 hunters, destroy body parts and inflict damage. Each participant contributes to the successful completion of the investigation.
The more tasks/goals you complete in the investigation before Kulve Taroth retreats, the better the rewards will be. Once the horns of the Elder Dragon are severed, the quest is successfully completed.
This is how the group play with 16 hunters works:
- The siege quest can be played with up to 16 hunters, but also alone.
- You will enter the quest in groups of four times four, but cannot see other groups. You only see your own group
- However, you work with each group on the progress of the quest. If group A breaks a part of Kulve Taroth, this information will appear on group B’s screen and vice versa.
- You will earn points for specific goals. Everyone in the team receives the same points when someone achieves the goal.
Kulve Taroth’s goals and points determine the value of the reward
- You will need to achieve specific goals to improve your reward.
- Goals can be: right chest plate – plating broken, area reached, pursuit points X reached, etc.
- The system works through a points system that you can also check in the lobby at any time.
- In the end, you achieve a reward level through your collective progress. The highest level seems to be 17. You increase this by completing goals.
You collect the points in the investigation, which determine how much time you have.
- You collect points for the goals in the investigation itself
- The more points you achieve, the more time you have to fight Kulve Taroth, as it can disappear
- With each successfully completed investigation, the points are reset
- If you fail in the investigation, you keep your progress
The fight against Kulve Taroth is divided into 4 phases: Fire resistance is a must!
Kulve Taroth is located in the Eldorado Caves and will go through four phases here. Here is a brief summary of how these phases look.
Phase 1: In the first phase, the Elder Dragon is in the first area of the map. Here, it takes random paths, and you must follow it. In this part of the map, there are barricades everywhere, and you will need to use Clutch Claw to move. Kulve Taroth will gradually break through the barricades here. You will also find large cannons here, which you can use to shoot at it.
Phase 2: Kulve Taroth runs to the next area, where you will encounter three elevations, similar to the Xeno’jiiva. Here, too, you can use Clutch Claw to move. In this phase, the Elder Dragon also begins to produce a kind of lava puddle, which becomes stronger in the remaining phases. Additionally, it spews a fireball that goes straight up. You are generally safe on the elevations from it, which is interesting for ranged fighters, but you must be careful of the fireballs.
Phase 3: From here, you urgently need fire resistance, as everything in this area is filled with lava. So use a cool drink, a fireproof mantle, a vitality mantle, and health boosters. In front of this room, you will also find frost mushrooms, of which you only need one to make a cool drink. Additionally, you will find many rocks in this room that you can make fall.
Phase 4: In this phase, you have broken Kulve Taroth’s parts enough that its gold shell has fallen off. The Elder Dragon is now smaller, but also significantly faster. It will perform rapid attacks, and its lava puddle can knock you out in one hit.
Note: It can certainly happen that you break the gold shell in an earlier phase. If that happens in the second phase, Kulve Taroth will run straight to the fourth phase area.
The more hunters, the better
In each phase, you must try to break as many parts as possible and read traces of Kulve Taroth. This way, you can maximize your rewards. Therefore, it is also highly recommended to travel with 16 hunters, as this can significantly boost your quest rewards.
Additionally, Kulve Taroth can disappear in every phase if you do not achieve enough goals by breaking body parts. This is already challenging to accomplish alone.
Quick Tip: Bring Flashpods for the golden Gajalaka found everywhere. These are extreme nuisances and annoy you while looting. Additionally, they draw you into combat, causing you to quickly lose track of Kulve Taroth. You will have peace from them only in the last phase.
You cannot send SOS signals, by the way.
Kulve Taroth’s strengths, weaknesses, and rewards
Here are the images from the Monster Encyclopedia to show you the strengths and weaknesses of the Elder Dragon. Interestingly, it can gain any abnormal status, allowing you to put it to sleep. Its weak points change when covered by its gold mantle.
Elemental weaknesses:
- Fire: X (1)
- Water: 2
- Thunder: X (3)
- Ice: 3 (X)
- Dragon: 2 (1)
In parentheses are the weaknesses when it is covered in gold.
Status weaknesses:
- Poison: 1
- Sleep: 1
- Paralysis: 1
- Explosion: 1
- Stun: 1
Rewards and breakable parts of Kulve Taroth
As a special reward, you can receive parts that grant you access to the special relic weapons. Which weapon that is, is decided by chance. However, the statistics for the various models are the same.
Kulve Taroth’s armors are extremely strong
Kulve Taroth’s armors are among the strongest that you can currently obtain in the game. The Alpha set has strong abilities, and each armor piece includes a level 1 slot for decorations.
The Beta set has a level 1 slot on each armor piece and additionally a level 2 slot or a level 3 slot. In the image below, you can individually see the skills and statistics for each armor piece. To enlarge, you can click on them.
The randomness determines which relic weapon you receive
As a reward, you obtain the special relic weapons from this quest. The value of these must be assessed first, and from this, you will receive your weapons.
- In the gathering hub, you can have the weapons assessed and find out which weapon you have drawn.
- The relic weapons are golden, and the different weapons will always have the same stats.
- If you obtain the “Taroth Hammer Ice” and another hunter does as well, both weapons will have the same stats.
- There are some better and worse relic weapons. For example, some have rarity 6, but also 8
- You can further upgrade the weapons with decorations and augment
- The relic weapons frequently have hidden elements
Currently, the Monster Hunter World community is working together on a relic weapon spreadsheet. In this, all weapons (in English) found by hunters worldwide from the quest are collected. The list may be temporarily closed in between. If that happens, just try again later to get in.
Below is an example of what such a relic weapon may look like.
“Kulve Taroth” quest explained in a video guide
Charles has put together a video for you, in which he explains the goal system and rewards step by step.
Learn more about the new update here:
Hunt Kulve Taroth with 16 hunters in the 2nd DLC of Monster Hunter World
A thank you goes to TaffyMe, who provided us with information and screenshots for this article.
