They have a perfect system for this in the difficulty stars. I'd love a 4* or whatever Tempered to stay around 5 minutes for when I want a quick hunt, but 8* Tempereds can take closer to 20 minutes as well as have less (or even none aside from tempered?) wounds, and you have 5, 6 and 7 for middle ground.
Would be neat if beating a wild one would unlock an optional of that star so you don't have to RNG them again.
No wounds on an high-star Tempereds would lock Charge Blade's behind perfect guards to access Savage Axe though.. As well as lock Insect Glaive out of it's free triple buff.
The concept is great, but weapons would have to be rebalanced around the changed wound frequency/availability if your plan goes would be considered.
I think the staggers and topples just need cooldowns. Let the wounds and their damage remain. Just don't let us topple and flinch the monsters for 3 minutes straight where you do like 50% of the damage you will do the entire fight. Once they get to attack and move your dps drops dramatically, which in turn, would extend the fight times a bit.
imo the wounds that appear during specific moves would provide enough opportunity for those, otherwise you can just do your normal extract minigame and tbh I think perfect guards are easy as shit to get anyway.
I haven't played too extensively though with CB and IG, but I think it is a bit of bad design to make some weapons so intensely reliant on wounds as opposed to GS and Hammer just... getting damage so in an ideal world that would change too
I wish they added 8 star versions of the other monsters. Imagine a monster Yian kut ku destroying everyone who hasn't realized there's a difficulty ranking system yet. XD But seriously, those hunts are fun, and I'm tired of Arkveld.
some of my favorite hunts in memory were Special Great Wroggi and Daimyo Hermitaur from Sunbreak because its so funny when their shitty moves do 80% of your HP. I know it's only high rank, but I appreciate those bs hard quests that give you nothing for completion because they're hilarious
Wounds are great design in that they provide a lot of weapons with utility and access to easy buffs etc. I wouldn't want to see them removed for that reason alone.
But they absolutely shouldn't be 0 risk with no possiblity for the monster to stun you/knock you off, nor should they guarantee a stagger or the ridiculous amount of downs that they give.
Should be proportional risk vs. reward for the buff they give most weapons imo on top of just a bit of extra damage.
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u/Shadowgroudon22 MonHun Smash Mod Guy 2d ago
They have a perfect system for this in the difficulty stars. I'd love a 4* or whatever Tempered to stay around 5 minutes for when I want a quick hunt, but 8* Tempereds can take closer to 20 minutes as well as have less (or even none aside from tempered?) wounds, and you have 5, 6 and 7 for middle ground.
Would be neat if beating a wild one would unlock an optional of that star so you don't have to RNG them again.