User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Discussion of the Week: Multiple Elements/@comment-5020152-20170514125144

1) Light is probably my favorite, mostly because it looks absolutely gorgeous on Zerureusu.

2) Black Flame and Crimson Demon are literally just the Blaze element with more emphasis on Dragon and Fire, respectively.

3) Oh yes. It's cool to see what kinds of crazy things monsters are able to do in a world with only five main elements. And what better way to add some diversity than combine those elements?

4) It'd certainly be interesting to see! I'm sure it'd provide more of a challenge to hunters, such as picking armor sets in order to hunt certain monsters. You'd need two elemental resistances in order to stand the best chance, not just one!

5) I've got nothing. I think all the combinations of the five main elements have been used, anyway.

6) I actually like a lot of these names. Blaze sounds like a deadlier version of Fire, Light and Darkness are just classic, and Frozen Seraphim sounds pretty badass. The only one I'm iffy about is Sound. How does Water+Dragon equal Sound?

7) I'm not quite sure how they'd expand upon it.

8) Probably. Heavenly Thunder sounds likely, on account of G Fatalis and Crimson Fatalis being a thing and having their own unique elements. And I wonder what Blazing Black could be. Maybe all four of the elements that Alatreon uses?

9) I don't know. I mean, having an element made up of two existing ones sounds rather inefficient if you're hunting a monster that isn't weak to one of said elements. And not to mention that, often, both components of the dual-element weapon tend to be weaker than they would be if the weapon only had one of them.

10) I'd love to see that. After all, combinations of elements IRL tend to have different properties than their constituents, don't they? Maybe Lightblight could have a blinding effect, for example.

11) Know what? If Gigginox or any other ailment-heavy monster shows up in Frontier, I would not be surprised if this happened. Fuck that noise.