User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-74.193.207.22-20130106164712/@comment-81.159.201.139-20130109181058

The point is it's a brute wyvern so it's shell on it's own would be strong enough without armor other wise it would die out for being too weak befor the species discovered the technique. Also as i said befor its obvious that barroth is stupid. The normal one only uses the mud because it lives in it anyway, it's a no brainer but the jade lives on dry land not in the ice flow so its ulikely for it to discover how to use ice as armor. Another point is that igloos only work if the're compleate not in patches like on barroth and no part of the resident could touch the ice as any insulation provided would be negated by heat lost to convection through the ice.