Yes, but they've added plenty of catch-up mechanics to make that easier and significantly faster.
My favorite thing is the new moves. They're amazing at giving more meaningful options during a fight.
I feel like they want to keep folks interested in the endgame, so it doesn't make a ton of sense to throw in someone like Nerscylla after folks like Rajang and Safi'jiiva, as deserving as she is to be in the game. That said, I wonder if they'd be crazy enough to do the likes of something more exotic for an encounter, like Dalamadur (he's kind of in the game already, given that most of the Rotten Vale is his remains) or, RNGesus willing, Ahtal-Ka for the folks that think that Shara Ishvalda is an impressive and crazy final boss fight.
All the more reason for her to come back: to conquer one's arachnophobia.
Oh, I'm sure they've had some crazy ideas for new insects since MH4. It may finally be time to traumatize people further with a centipede that adopts Najarala's skeleton.
I'd love to see Gore (and Shagaru... and chaotic), but I'd be skeptical that they bring back frenzied monsters when they've already got tempering doing something similar.
Chaotic is such an awesome idea for a variant in terms of visuals. Would absolutely love to see it get the makeover it deserves.
I do hope that they bring back some of the long dormant subspecies as bonus releases. It's pretty crazy that some of them haven't been in a game since MH3U, and even something crazy like Lucent Nargacuga could stand to make a comeback.
I never faught the lucent one, but I'm sure it's better than the Silverwind.
Oh, Lucent is nowhere near the fuckery that Silverwind is, as it's a fight that's based more of guesswork on where it moves to next (he has the gimmick of turning invisible on a set interval) and dealing with some nasty strong poison attributes to its tail spikes. The real fight begins for the grind on its ultra-rare mat, the notorious Cloudy Moonshard.
I farmed Tempered T3 investigations for most of the holidays and I finally managed to get a Handicraft +2 deco from a Tempered Barioth.
Yeah, i really wish there was some way to guarantee better decorations. Like, let me destroy 20 rarity 10 decos at the melder for 1 rarity 12 or something. Granted there are garbage rarity 12 decos too...
Ha yeah my first one dropped earlier today. I have a bunch of Crit/Vits but just 1 Tenderizer/Vit.Lemme flex a 'lil...
But I'd say Vitality/Tenderizer is currently the most sought after level 4 jewel. Attack jewel, not so much anymore.
Let me guess... They were a Gun Lance user?
I'd say only because Vitality/Tenderizer and Vitality/Critical Boost are actually attainable. Pure level 4 attack jewel is definitely more valuable though.
People tend to dislike subspecies as being hardly new content but I'd be fine with Jade Barroth and Blangonga to increase the amount of monsters that dwell in the hoarfrost reach.
My least favourite thing about Raider Ride is how, the first time you mount, you get a cute animation. I want to sharpen my weapon and pop a might seed, not lurch around until my Palico says "it's going to track the monster!" I know it is, mate. We've done it a thousand times.
That only happens to me if I started the hunt from Astera, or if I did an HR story quest (which I've done a few times to get the trophy for helping lower rank hunters).
