User blog comment:Mckrongs/Monster Hunter Frontier Season 10/@comment-180.190.217.22-20110124152018/@comment-163.251.128.2-20110125065547

HC monsters are available only after you unlock SR's (Skill/Style ranks+new moves) and that's HR500+. The game pretty much goes into hard mode and sets some horrible handicaps on you like -50% defense and -20% elemental res which go away little by little as you rank up and you're restricted to a single weapon type of your choosing while doin SR related quests. There's more stuff to it, but I'm not gonna get into it. Easy you ask? NOT!