User blog comment:- MHCaboose -/Monster Hunter Frontier Z Discussion/@comment-7784930-20161109051818

The Z update report, stating every change and addition being made (Their is a lot).

Zenith Zenith Espinas, Daimyo, Hypnocatrice and Khezu will be added first thing, Zenith Rathalos and Blangonga data is being added but no hunts on them will be open until later on. All the Zenith quests will be under the new "Zenith Quest" (辿異クエスト) option which is unlocked at GR200. There are 4 levels of Zenith Quests, GR200, 400, 600 and 800, with a special item only coming from each level. Each level also changes the drop rates of items. Confirmation that when breaking the special part of a Zenith monster, you'll be guaranteed the rare item from the monster. Zenith weapons have a built in "Partbreaker" effect along with the skill boosting effect.

Zenaserisu Zenaserisu will be a G-rank only monster and will be added on the 22nd of November.

Exotics Gore Magala will be huntable at HR5 and G-rank as an Exotic monster, and will be added on the 21st of December. There is no longer a rewards reduction on Exotic Quests or G Exotic Quests. However, the boosted amount of rewards from Exotic Quests has also been removed, no mention if this was also removed from the G Exotic Quests or not.

Painted Waterfalls The new area, Painted Waterfalls will be added on the 22nd of November alongside Zenaserisu.

Extreme Style The new Hunting Style, Extreme Style will be added and unlocked for weapons once you get them to GSR300 by the Guildmaster.

Diva's Hunting Guard The event will be added with this update and will have 3 chapters, Prayer, War and Song lasting one week each. Guild Interception will take place during The War Chapter, meaning you'll only be able to take Interception Quests during that time. Completing Interception Quests will unlock new Interception Points, each point has you defend the Interceptor's Base from waves of monsters. During the Song Chapter, you will be rewarded for the number of Interception Points unlocked and cleared. The Guilds that preformed the best during Guild Interception will be able to use the Special Guild House during the Song Chapter. Here, you'll have all the regular features, special rewards, being able to trade items using special tickers and the Diva herself who will be at service to sing for you with no costs.

Quick Party Frontier will finally add a new search system similar to the one used in main, being able to just look for a certain monster and/or quest conditions and join other players doing the same. This however won't be added until the 22th of November.

Legendary Hunters The Legendary Switch Axe F hunter Chloe will be added. At a cost of GDP, Chloe will teach partners how to use Switch Axe as long as they are above PR120.

Partner Partners are able to be equipped with Zenith equipment, however they get adjusted stats like the other weapons. They don't keep the skill boosting effect, but they will keep their "Partbreaker" effect.

Tutorials On screen tutorials for Heaven, Storm and Extreme have been added for in quest use.

Combinations A Combo List is finally being added, allowing quick combines anywhere as well as all possible combinations being shown in the normal list and the items needed for each.

Status Effects 4 new status are being added to Frontier, Deadly Poison, Severe Thunderblight, Severe Waterblight and a new status, Sound Asleep (熟睡).

Palico New weapons and armor are being added.

Status Screen Personal Guild Card will now show the amount of Npoints you have. In quest, any extra skills or effects that aren't natural to your equipment will be set into a separate screen.

Weapon Features Great Swords feature is being changed, it'll now grant 100% affinity on both draw slashes and the following attack to guardpoints, along with the Crit Conversion (Apart from the bonus 30% affinity) effect allowing the hit to be even stronger.

'Character Creation A ton of new options will be available when making a character, voices, faces, hairstyles etc.

Reward Boxes They're are changing the reward box style from 3 parts to 4, break rewards being shown on their own.

Exterior Armor True fashion sets are coming, you take the design you want, and use a certain item that "releases" it, which you can them put into another piece of armor with the stats you need. Once you "release" a design, you can use that design on as many different armor pieces are you like, not just onto one set, and you can even reset the pieces you change back to their original design.

Skills New skill "Evasion Boost" is a skill that combines the effects of Evasion +2 and Evade Extender. A few old skills that will be changing their activation values;
 * Evade Extender changing from 20 points to 10
 * Drawing Arts +2 changing from 20 points to 15
 * Sympathy +3 changing from 45 points to 25
 * Sympathy +2 changing from 25 points to 15

Moreso, a few other older skills will be altered;
 * Absolute Defense will now lower attack instead of defense while the shield is down, along with it taking longer to regain the shield.
 * Incitement will now also grant an attack boost while targeted.
 * Vampire will now grant an attack boost every time the skill triggers, each buff stacking until a certain point. Getting hit will reset the attack boost.
 * Rising will now increase a hunters attack much faster than before.
 * Vigourous will grant an even larger attack boost than before.
 * Reflection will no longer stagger other hunters
 * Drawing Arts will now have the effects of "Weapon Handling" as a permanent effect.