Monster Hunter Wilds | Should the Element System be revamped? 

Agreed for the most part, I do hope we retain the ability to inflict blights on monsters. Similarly I do like the idea of Elderseal, that said it could do a bit of a rework to make it a bit more impactful.

Maybe gives a very slight but helpful slow on the monster. Like they're actually soggy. Flinching easier also makes sense. Maybe the more parts you break the more sluggish the monster is when wey

Cool idea, but I'm against ideas that just limit player choice so drastically. Having specific endgame fights that do so is fine to me, as it can be a great chance to shake up gameplay or create a new challenge (I'm one of the people that like IB Alatreon, and Safi'Jiiva has a similar thing with elderseal). If this mechanic existed across the whole game then I feel it'd be quite restricting. Weapons are already restricted in viability by various means; poor sharpness, no decoration slots, low raw damage, low (or god forbid negative) affinity, ect. Adding another restriction there would just kinda narrow the scope of actually usable weapons. I've been playing through Iceborne again, and I was hoping that greatsword would have fun paralysis weapons since I wasn't familiar with its upgrades. Throughout my playthrough (which has beaten the main story of Iceborne) I haven't used a single paralysis weapon, and each time one looks like it might be worth making there's other weapons that surpass it in every other way. My experience with insect glaive is similar, though in early game Iceborne there is a good paralysis weapon in the form of the kadachi vipertail and paralysis kinsects (such as the bilbobrix velox). While initially fun to use, these weapons don't have upgrade branches to keep them relevant in the mid, end, or postgame. I wish there were the ability to have more options for weapon ailments (especially during the main story), but there really isn't remotely easy to get. This applies mainly to World as I remember there being a decent enough paralysis insect glaive, and Sunbreak allows for weapons to all get endgame upgrades easier than Iceborne. My point with this story is that the games already limit your options quite heavily, so imagine finding an actually strong weapon, only for most most monsters to ignore it or actively punish you for using it. While I do think this could be an interesting tradeoff, increased damage but a more dangerous monster, I'm not really for the idea. Then again this idea is a lot more compelling than negative affinity, so it could be used for something interesting. Considering the fact I think Alatreon and Safi'Jiiva are executed fine enough in this regard (and that Capcom has good reason to improve them due to the amount of backlash Alatreon received) future games could apply this to particular monsters and do so meaningfully.

Oooh, the idea of environmental traps that inflict blights on the monsters sounds neat. I do think that players should have more convenient access to blights alongside this though, as my main issue with RIse's blights were that they were limited to something in the environment that you couldn't just keep with you for future hunts like items.

There also starburst bug too which I really like the idea and it really fun to throw monster into a bugs and see them explode

@@maldivesthegamer9774 they could be neat with a modified clutch clutch claw, or some other way to fling monsters into walls

If you want to offer constructive criticism probably better off not insulting the person with the first sentence

@@turnipmanz1754 In what way is telling a creator to spend more time on a topic an insult. Also everyone else can tell that there was no research on the topic cuz rise let's you blight the monsters and it's not brought up at all.

Well just make bogun needing to use more ammo of the same type of element to get the affliction or make the bowgun make a lesser powerfull version of blight

You have a good point, however I will only say that we already have status effects. Weapons can be elemental or apply a status. So you can already craft weapons that inflict poison AND sleep, though it's true bleed is not available to us, we also have paralysis, blast, and stun from any blunt attack. I'm not sure how we could make crafting better, it already forces you to break specific monster parts during the fight in order to increase your chances at certain materials that are needed for the weapon or armor. I like the idea of mixed elements, and there actually are a unique set of dual blades where one blade deals fire and the other, ice. The obvious difference between elemental and non elemental weapons is that usually, non elemental weapons have the highest raw damage and often have lower crit chance the higher damage they deal, and have lower base sharpness. Elemental weapons will typically have better sharpness to make up for the mixed elemental and raw. Overall I agree that weapons could bave more visual effects, and I think we could absolutely find a way to slip in more status effects or elements than we already have. It's just, the crafting already asks that you gather specific materials, which asks that you break specific monster parts in order to get those materials easier. For hit effects weapons do already show this. Fire weapons cause a mini explosion, water makes splashes, ice is puffs of snow, the status effects like poison make the monster drool purple ooze, blast causes an explosion every now and then that deals damage, sleep makes enemies sleep, and paralysis paralyzes.

@@ghoulishgoober3122 I was just trying to separate elemental blights from physical statuses, I was thinking that could balance it out if raw weapons had their own status effects that didn't/couldn't appear on elemental weapons. I was thinking crafting materials could get their own categories and stuff, you could have say "weapon blade" materials, or "weapon core" materials, "weapon guards", "weapon handles", "shields", and you had to pick from those types of categories to get your desired weapons. For example you want to make a high affinity weapon, you could pick Nargacuga "blade materials", these could be its wing-blade things, or its tail spikes, or feathers, then you need to find something for the core of your weapon, want element on that bad boy? pick a core material from say a Kirin which could be its Horn, and that adds lightning element to your weapon. Don't want element? could pick something from a Tigrex or Diablos. The possibilities for such a crafting system is endless if they put slightly more effort into it than "follow the upgrade path". Imo it could also make the monster materials feel more "real" and not just "yeah I got the right icons in the rewards menu!" Alchemy was just a stray thought, but could be like melding, think of melding parts together to form new crafting materials not just jewels or talismans. Throw in a kirin horn, some teostra gem, some pure dragon blood, some other parts to balance it out, and now you got yourself a new core material to give your weapons "blast-lightning" element or some stupid shit, could be cool. I was just thinking that there should be a lore reason to go for raw weapons other than "it is inconvenient to craft a full element set so I am just gonna get the highest damaging raw weapon I can find and use that for the whole game". I also think there should be gameplay reasons that sets Raw and Element apart from each other other than numerical values in terms of sharpness/affinity. I don't feel like the visual aspect of element weapons are particularly noticeable or gives you any real feeling of "yeah I am playing with this element and it is cool as heck". I think that's really lacking.

​​@@Mr.T-tc7dd it's not that it's necessarily the best option it's just the most convenient option. Most casual players are never going to make the best sets possible. Only speed runners do and when they do element matters more on dual blades and bow then raw ever will.

​​@@Mr.T-tc7ddan example of the response given to you would be my build in world. It uses a lot of agitator, crit eye, boost, and weakness exploit. I get a lot of damage and crit chance when the monster gets mad, and I have some extra bonuses attached to these bread and butter skills. It works well for most weapons. It's not the best though and I still swap out decorations for certain weapons if elemental damage or something else is more important. Whenever I fight alatreon for instance I can't just go in with all raw danage, you need elemental damage, and the skill to apply it to the monster. If I have a weapon upgraded enough that the monster is weak to I will always switch to it even if I don't do a full elemental build because it does give some noticeable boosts to the damage