User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: More Elder Dragons/@comment-3195217-20140705123946

Favourite:

Overall: Shagaru Magara

I have not yet fought it but it seems like a fun fight and its equipment is glorious.

What I actually fought: Alatreon

I'm not saying that I love Alatreon. Maybe I even dislike it a little bit, but it has one perk among all other third gen Elder Dragons:

The fight is not boring, long and tedious.

In P3rd, it's actually quite fun to solo Alatreon. The G Alatreon in 3U is a nightmare though. A coordinated team is needed if you want any equipment (of which the armor is not the best).

Hate:

NUMERO UNO: D-D-D-D-DIRE MIRALIS

You know it probably wouldn't be on top of my hate list if it wasn't the Online End Boss of 3U... It would just seep in the back of my mind as a bad, bad memory...

See.. the problem with DM is, as an end boss, it's boring.. very boring. It has good setting, good music, good looks, good armor and decent weapons. It's just extremely frustrating how I want this to be an epic fight and I end up with a fifteen-twenty minute solo run of triple pounding its glowing tumors. And getting no hellwings that are needed to craft EVERYTHING IMPORTANT. At least make it infuriatingly hard like white fatalis.. so I can brag to myself how I endured the sheer bullsh*t that it presents.. But this.. Such epic surroundings, legend, music, armor and everything else is so cool about it.. but the fight is so immersion-breaking and so off-putting that it makes me sad..

2: Ceadeus:

Lao Shan Lung underwater. Don't even try to deny it. It's just as boring and horrible fight. It's even more frustrating since it's equipment can't be replaced with something else like Lao's in Unite.. Oh, and it's underwater.

What I want to see back:

I definitely want to see Alatreon back with a difficulty between its instances in P3rd and 3U.

How would I improve my least favourites:

I'd make their fights more exciting, kind of what they did with Fatalis in MH4. And I would remove all Lao-esque "travel 'till the end" fights.