User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Discussion of the Week: Secondary Rage Modes/@comment-5020152-20170415035802

1) It's so hard to pick one monster, but just based on Rage Modes themselves, I'm going to go with the Massacre Demon. Yeah, the Unknown might be scary with her eight different escalating levels of rage, but the MD Diablos somehow manages to truly EMBODY the concept of the Rage Mode.

But I have to mention Gogmazios as well. Holy crap, I've never seen anything more dramatic than Gog revealing its hidden wings and just leaping into the sky to burn away the shell-shocked hunters below. It's totally channeling Otachi from Pacific Rim.

And, okay, Amatsu's Rage Mode is up there as well. The music is beautiful and I love how the environment changes.

2) Hyujikiki is a monster that I was never too blown away​ by.

3) Yep, I like seeing the monsters break their previous limits and just pull out all the stops in their efforts to murder you.

4) What's to be improved on them, really? It's just a second Rage Mode.

5) Hyujikiki. Poison, Paralysis, AND Sleep just like that? Ok then...

6) Molten Tigrex. It's a Tigrex Rare Species. No further explanation needed.

7) I've got nothin'.

8) Rajang. Because it's Rajang.

9) No. Otherwise, the second Rage Mode concept will become stale. People will stop being impressed. Two Rage Modes for one monster will become the standard. When I look at secondary Rage Modes like those of MD Diablos and Gogmazios, I don't want them to lose the drama and the capacity to terrify the players.

10) As long as the "weird mode" in question keeps the fight alive and makes the monster more unique, I'm fine with it.