User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Dalamadur/@comment-26421638-20160229140655

Time to talk about The Thousand Blade Dragon... Aka Dara Amadyura in Japan... Along with Laviente and its Variants, this Oversized Snake is the Biggest Monster of the MHUniverse... For Now... Honestly... This Monster could be better... It's a Mixed bag for me, it has a lot of good sides, but also horrible downsides...

Prepare some Coffee, take your time to read my Appreciation ;)

The Design is Absolutely Amazing! An Oversized Snake covered with Black blades all around the body, A metallic Silver Skin with some Blue/Green Shaders, Red Eyes, Red Veins in the Body that also appears in the Tail Tip and in the Face when is in rage, three forked tongue, Twisted forked Tail, a pair of Arms... The Design is Really great! The Only thing that I Dislike about the Design, are the Arms... Too small compared with all it's body... Yeah, it's true that is snake like and snakes shouldn't have Arms... But could have bigger Arms imo...

The Concept works... This Dragon is the Responsabile of the Design of the Heaven's Mount, by simply moving this Monster can Dig or even destroy entire mountains! And can actually show this during the Battle itself! Due to its size, it's amazing too see this Massive Elder Dragon moving around the Speartip Craig...

I Love the Roar, all the noises that Dalamadur makes and I also like the First part of the Theme Music, the Second one is pretty much forgettable...

The Battle is the Big Deal... It's were is a mixed bag for me... The Experience of facing this Monster changes dramatically if you face it Solo or Online... Solo is Boring, Online if Fun... Untill you don't meet unexpert players, but I'll cover it later... Dalamadur have a lot of Breakable Parts... And that's good... And you can Climb it on it's body (or even jump in the Head) when it Coils in the twisted rock... And every time that I walk on its body... I almost feel like Kratos when it faces a Titan XD... Oh yeah... When game lags, it's Hilarious to see People that Sometimes "Walk in the air" instead of walking in the body... This Monster have a very poor Moveset, but most of the Attacks are great! Only a Simple Claw Swipes, Tail Slams or Bites made by this Dragon are scary... And then is also able to Do Some Attacks with an Unknown Element that looks like a Blue Fire and thoss ones are Really Spectacular into my Eyes! The Huge Fireball, the Blue Meteor Shower and the (Un)Popular Massive Flamethrower... The Claw Swipes and the Tail Slams aren't that dangerous due to being extremely predictable... The Huge Fireball... I dunno, I've been hit only once by that attack... But I want to Focus on Three Particular Attacks...

But is Also true that A Dalamadur without Meteor Shower could be extremely easy... At least the Meteor Shower Doesn't hurt too much compared with most of the Dalamadur attacks...
 * The Bite... It's extremely predictable and can be easily avoided with a necessary panic dive but... It hurts a lot... And this is one of the Reasons why I don't like it too much to face Dalamadur Online... Most of the Players online Doesn't know how to Panic Dive and Every time that Dalamadur Does the Bite... Well... Prepare to waste some Lifepowders or Dusts of Life...
 * The Massive Flamethrower... Pretty much the Same Thing of the Bite... But the Flamethrower covers pretty much all the Area... With the Bite you could have some safespots, with The Flamethrower you must to Panic Dive to evade it... But people online, as always, doesn't know How to Panic Dive and get ready to Update the "Cart Counter" with 1 or even 2 at once!
 * The Meteor Shower Between the "Attacks that randomly covers all the area with Random Explosions or Things that Fall from the Sky" this is the Worst one... Those are aimed, difficult to evade and appears Everywhere! Until you walk, aren't a big issue, but are something of Extremely Annoying when you're attacking or Trying to use items!

As I Said Before, this Monster gives a completely different experience if you Solo it or Hunt it Online... Solo is Extremely Boring and this Monster reveals to be a huge HP Sponge! At least it's kinda realistic, but still annoying... Online is Fun if you are with Expert Players, but if you are with the "Popular" Noobs, get ready to Update you "Swearing Vocabulary" with a couple of new insults ;P

Excluding the Meteor, this Monster is Not that Difficult, until if is close to death... In that moment doesn't waste anymore time and turns really aggressive! The Meteor Shower combined with the Dalamadur attacks is the Reason why this Monster is One of the Most Feared Monsters for me!

Oh... Almost Forgot that it's tongue can Inflict Paralysis...

The Equipment is Nearly Useless... The Weapons have a Good Design, excluding GS and SnS, All of them are Good Looking (I love the LS, SA, Hammer, Bow and the IG)... But the Stats aren't the Best one, I don't recommend Dala Weapons if you don't have Awaken... The Only Good one is the IG... It's strange that Some Weapons (with Awaken) have Paralysis, and others have Blast... The Armor ir Garbage... Bad Skills, Weird Design (I hate Viking Armor)... Some of the Pieces are Useful for some Mixed Sets... That's it...

Fun thing: I Cannot Forget when I was on the Dalamadur Head (while was alive) and I've carved the Head and I got a Dalamadur Eye...

Overall: This Big Dragon is a Mixed Bag... The Design is Amazing, the Concept works and it's a Unique experience to Face this Monster... But the Equipment is meh and the Fight turns boring very soon... The Experience changes if you hunt this Monsters solo or Online, but Long Story is Short: There is Something wrong with the Battle... It should be Reworked, Imo. I've preferred if the "Unknown Blue Fire Element" did less damage but inflicts an unique Ailment instead (Something similar of Fireblight, but stronger?) I dunno. Although It's a Mixed bag for me, it's a shame to hear that Dalamadur is not in MHX...