User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Arch-Tempered Monsters/@comment-35010436-20190901214450

After the overall neat but often frustrating viral outbreak overcoming Apex Monsters, the story crucial and fun Frenzied Monsters, and the out of nowhere but alright with a few extremely glaring exceptions variations known as the Hyper Monsters what does Monster Hunter World bring us to test our hunting capabilities for its endgame? Well...

Okay so starting off with the Tempered monsters, I don't like them. Period. It's just the normal monsters but with a strange metallic shine and boosted stat numbers. The lore about them and the confusing shenanigans that is Bioenergy not really helping much either.

Atleast the Hyper, Apex and Frenzied monsters had something else going on to spice things up a bit.

But let's move on to the real "stars* here, the Arch Tempered monsters.

I'd call them a mixed bag at best, and worse than the most frustrating Hyper quests around at worst.

AT Kirin is... World Kirin, doesn't seem to have anything different exception the shine and numbers again, and I hate Kirin in World with a passion so I think that sums it up.

AT Vaal'Hazak, I hate the start of the hunts with it so much, the start is just chip damage carting incarnate. Otherwise I'd call it alright, atleast there's new stuff happening.

AT Teostra is nice, not much else to say, my personal favorite of the bunch.

AT Kushala... Can rust and than go die in a fire, not much changed besides the usual and it being immune to flashing making the fight even more frustrating than before, yay...

AT Zorah, solo luck based time limit aside I wish this was what the fight with the normal one was like.

AT Xeno'Jiiva, same as Zorah plus damage numbers. Also how does this thing exist? Same way the other AT's do? Energy overload? Idk.

AT Luna, I may not mind Lunastra as much as I did before, but AT Luna is almost as annoying as AT Vaal at the start of its hunts, only difference is Luna is like this the entire time.

AT Nergi, nice besides the slam.

AT Kulve, I like her a little more than normal Kulve, but I still really don't like her.

See you in Iceborne everybody whether physically or spiritually, I shall await the absolute mess that'll be the MAW's for IB monsters like Beo. It'll be "Glavenus vs Abiorugu" all over again.