This is actually the reason why I wish they'd cycle out Rathian and Rathalos. This franchise doesn't need mascot monsters, just keep the felynes as mascots since that's what they're there for to begin with. It's getting really old seeing the Raths constantly and their fights are terrible anyway due to awful AI and cheap attacks. (Devs, please for the love of god remove "instant" attacks from all monsters. It's cheap damage, frustrating and has nothing to do with skill whatsoever)
I disagree tbh. I'm fine with them being in the game. Apart from there being 6 of both, and they're all virtually the exact same, except each subspecies is more aggressive than the last, rathian is more likely to poison you, and rathalos has more air-borne attacks, I'm happy with them in the game. they're pretty iconic, and they make some pretty decent fire/poison weapons, and good armor sets with pretty good skills. Also I've never found their fights to be that challenging, though I've only played 3U, which was apparently dulled down in difficulty to attract new players, so maybe they were harder in older games? idk. Also being able to mount onto the monsters makes me even more excited to hunt rathian/los.
Not really relevant to anything you've said but its lead me to one annoyance I had in 3U, which was clone monsters - not subspecies, but entirely new species which were virtually clones of other species, which is the main reason I hated water battles so much. Excluding plesioth and ceadeus; lagiacrus, ludroth and gobul were virtually clones of each other - they all had the same attacks (with little variation to each species), the only thing that made them different were their ailments, body structure and appearance.
they all had tail swipe, rush, sweep, and roll attacks. lagi/ludroth had projectile attacks. it just seemed that they all had the same move pool, and each time I went to fight a water monster, no matter what species it was, I felt that I was virtually fighting the same monster again, just differently. If there were more water monsters in the game this probably would've been better and not annoyed me as much - which is probably why It think they removed water battles from 4, there weren't enough water monsters to make UW combat worthwhile; like I get it was their first try at water battles, but if they wanted to improve it, then why not include it in 4??? I remember talking to VD about this ages ago and he said something about how it was weird it wasn't in 4 since the main big feature in 3 was underwater combat, and it seems like a step back. but I guess if they removed it, they removed it for a reason right? that said, I think once plesioth becomes fightable again, UW battling will return.
And don't get me started on nargacuga/barrioth, apart from bari's projectiles coming from the mouth, and narga's coming form the tale they're literally the same monster... WHY
not sure why I felt the need to include this but the previous post made me think of this, and if I didnt type it out i'd be going over this in my head for the next 3 hours lol
Anyway, what are some good G rank armor sets to get in 3U. The only ones I've got right now is Uragan X and gold Rathian (which sucks since its got like -55 thunder fml). I'm thinkin of getting silver los/stygian/regluar zinogre/abyssal lagi/lucent narga but not really sure on which one to go for. I'm also looking to make at least 2 more armor sets feel free to suggest more than one armor set. I'm just getting really bored of 3U lately, I'm on a pretty big MH4 high, and 3U just seems boring in comparison (lol), plus I've pretty much completed everything I want to in 3U so far, apart from weapons and armor sets.
