User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Kulve Taroth/@comment-4899131-20181221213926

The first few days of Kulve were amazing, had many successful hunts with both friends & randoms, and owned the golden para hammer by the end of the first weekend.

BUT......... then the connection issues started, couldn't stay in a multiplayer KT quest for more than 2mins, and I still hadn't cracked a single gem. I therefore spent the 2nd week of her first appearance & most of the week of her 2nd appearance using boulders & dragon piercers to break the horn plating over & over again, until I finally cracked the 2nd gem I needed for the aplha armour set 2 days before my birthday. My joy was unbeholden!

Even though she's basically a giant horned gold plated great Jagras, I find her design beautiful, very regal & quite imposing. The seige system could maybe have been better, but overall I enjoyed the battle & loved how her speed drastically increases once she sheds the several tonnes of golden armour. The last 2 stages in particular I found visually stunning too.

The armour set was more than worth the many, many hours I put into farming those gems. I use the Drachen waist, DK eyepatch, KT alpha for the other 3 pieces with either of my Luna switchaxes to give max Crit Eye, Weakness Exploit, Power Prolonger & stun res, plus Peak Performance & Partbreaker level 2. This set will zero sum most things into oblivion pretty damn quickly and looks well badass & blingy too.

To conclude, I'll congratulate the devs for trying something quite different & doing a decent job. KT may not have been perfect, but she does show there's plenty of innovation in the team.