User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Nakarkos/@comment-5569775-20170314034622

Nakarkos has a great design, but the fight is easy, IMO, both solo and especially in a group. Some of his drops(namely the LR bones) are a chore to get due to it being a repel quest and I tend to get subpar rewards; also I rarely get them from the HR version. However, because of how easy he is in a group, he's the best monster to farm for Heavy Armor Spheres(has an 8% chance at 2 instead of the 5% to 8% chance at 1 other quests have.  Which gives one reason for people to farm it even though they dislike the gear.

Speaking of gear: It's pretty nice that Nakarkos has 2 different sets. First up is the Skeletal/Decayed set, made of bone and looks pretty cool, for both genders and weapon types. The LR skills aren't really liked, but they do have some use for new players that might cart frequently. The HR set is less helpful, but it did give me a mix set idea that while ugly(Fashion Hunter here) is fun, unless playing with any one who can heal everyone else constently(looking at you, Healing HH, Wide Range SnS, Balance Kinsect users).

The other set, made from Nakarkos' actual body has nice colors, but only the female version looks nice IMO. The positive skills let you build up your HA gauge faster and increase the effects of HA's if used within 1 minute of a monster being tripped/mounted/trapped/paralyzed/etc. While Trumpcard increases either the damage of offensive HA's and duration of Buffs, it also has some added effects on a few other HA's. 1 example is Dragon's Breath, which gains an increase to the fixed damage buff of shells. Usually people pair the set with Striker, to maximize the use of HA's, but personally I've found it very useful with Aerial DB's and getting the most out of Wolf's Maw; with a nice Mounting +10 Talisman and the slots on the set I can get Airborne & Mounting Master. And the skills might prove useful in XX with Alchemy as well.

As for the weapons: there's also 2 different types, Bone and Non-Bone. The Bone weapons have high Raw, but low Sharpness and negative Affinity, for blademaster weapons. The Bow has the negative Affinity and High Raw, but low shot levels and is a good bow for Load Up. As such those aren't that great. The LBG & HBG have Raw at an appropriate level for endgame, but don't have the negative Affinity and both have a good shot types/clips, at the cost of bel.avg reload and some Recoil. The LBG also RF's P2, and has Tri Blast Internal Ammo.

For the Non-Bone weapons: All the Blademaster weapons max at 190 Raw and have an insane amount of Blue Sharpness(hopefully that upgrades to White in XX ^_^) and 2 slots(IIRC). The Bow gets higher shot levels and the 190 Raw, but still sucks with Load Up. The LBG has a comparible Raw for end game, while the HBG is a tad low, but both have Abv.Avg Reload, Short Recoil and +15% Affinity. And the shot types/clips are pretty nice, as is the Internal Ammo.

Also the weapons all look goo IMO.