User blog comment:Plexioth- xD/Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate/@comment-4933023-20130330202143/@comment-1758220-20130330213422

What a coincidence, I just made full brachy armour this afternoon, as well as the hammer and dual swords. The short version?

It's all OP as fuck.

The long version?

Brachydios armour comes with both challenger +1 (The attack and affinity boost you get when a monster goes into rage) and adrenaline +1, as well as bombardier. The armour isn't OP by itself, but when used together with a slime weapon, it's game breaking.

The bombardier skill boosts the damage done by the slime explosions from the weapon. I took the DS out on a Nibelsnarf quest to test them out. One explosion (Which with the duals takes about 10 seconds) and a part is broken. Every time an explosion goes off and you aren't attacking a breakable part/the part is already broke, the monster instantly flinches. Keep in mind that this is happening every 10-20 seconds.

In addition, this is all happening in tandem with the adrenaline and the challenger. When nibelsnarf goes into rage, my already super powerful weapons get both an attack and affinity boost, and when I get below 40% health, I get a massive defense boost. Just try to imagine all of that happening all at once.

I had never killed a high rank monster in under 15 minutes. My time with Nibelsnarf? 6 minutes.

It really does take the challenge out of the game. That quest would have been a lot more engaging and challenging if I had just brought a different weapon.