User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Zorah Magdaros/@comment-15446856-20180615190005

It's... an okay monster. I feel they tried way too hard to make it an epic monster despite knowing players don't enjoy these types of fights. Like others have said before, Nergigante means nothing as it can be ignored in both quests, why did they even bother adding it the second time? You can't even get parts from Nerg if you manage to break something on it, so theres no point to repelling it other than getting different dialogue.

Its a real shame that most of Zorah's challenge comes from managing to attack its magma cores without getting blasted. That's the only way you'll cart to it. And the biggest shame is that the "fortress defence" is the easiest in the series. The Mohrans at least had enough attacks and speed to present a threat, while Zorah takes four seconds to do a simple slap. Yes, it does have that super fireblast that'll take a chunk out, but by the time it charges it up, it'll be on the verge of a repel.

The only thing this giant volcano turtle has going for it is that there is more to do to attack it, revolving around being able to drop stalactites on it and disabling its magma cores. Good job though with the introduction and the first quests beginning, as they really made Zorah out to be an unstoppable being, watching you hit it with ballistae to zero effect.

Only other good thing, at least it has the decency to have you fight it only once and be done with. Unlike another, added monster...