User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Gogmazios/@comment-26421638-20160610084821

Last but not Least... Time to cover the Giant Halberd Dragon, well known as the MH4U Online Final Boss... Gogmazios! Maybe is not the best Final Boss that we have, but is still a well done Monster. Unfortunately it has a couple of cons but this doesn't mean that is bad at all! I still like it!

The Design is Great, a massive dark-blue Dragon that drops oil that use is as a weapon... Wait Wait!? It uses Everything as a Weapon! Wings, Tail, Oil, and Fire and all combined with its massive size and an elevated mobility! This Monster is very dark themes, ao I'm forced to like it... But it has 2 minor things that I don't like it Otherwise is OK.
 * The Face under its chin: it's supposed to be creepy, but looks derpy.
 * The Area: Battlequarters doesn't look exactly the Best area for a final boss, as suggested by its Ecology, I wish that was encountered in a Swampy like area...

I like the First Theme, while the Second one is underwhelming to me...

The Fight isn't bad... It's an enjoyable hunt to do with 3 or 4 (Expert) Hunters... Unfortunately after a while it turns quite boring if you are in 2 or even Solo... That's why is not recommended at all to Solo this Monster unless if you want to Challenge yourself... Solo it once and is more than enough. This Monster hurts, but its attacks are really Predictable. The Second Phase is the real deal: it turns more aggressive, the oil that drops explodes and is capable to do something that, in a first instance, seems unbelievable: this huge beast can fly and perform and insane attack where it shoots its Fire beam pretty much Everywhere! Seems an attack that came from Frontier XD

But now I want to Focus on the Few things that I Dislike of this Monster 1) The Huge Amount of HP, makes it a nightmare to Solo 2) When it Flies and performs the Aerial Fire Beam, there is an insane Lag which is not helpful at all..and it's a huge waste of time. 3) the Fire Beam Explosion seems a bit broken to mee... I don't understand why even if you Panic Dive it, the Explosion still Gets you... And if the Beam hits you directly, without 700 of Defense and 15 Fire Res... Get ready to visit the Base Camp with your pride (and bones) completely broken.

I absolutely love it's Weapons, yeah the insane negative Affinity is weird, but the great Raw Damage combined with a good Sharpness and a Few Sleep Status (Sleepbombing is the way, except for the IG that needs Awaken) makes them really Efficient! In terms of Design, excluding a few of them like the GL... They Are all great! The SA is the best one IMO, but the GS, LS, Hammer and the CB does look bad at all! Unfortunately the Armor is a bit less important, I'm not saying that is bad, but excluding for Enlightened Blade, the other Skills aren't really that Interesting... At least the Design is Good in any case both for Blademasters/Gunners and Males/Females

Overall: MH4U offers an Interesting Final Boss with a Great Design and Interesting Equipment, the Battle is quite good but it turns tedious to farm/solo for Various reasons, but the Most Important is the Amount of HP... I'm not Surprised at all that it doesn't appear in MHGen... But I want to See this Monster again in a Future MH Game... Because even if is not perfect, I still like it.