User blog comment:Mckrongs/Monster Hunter 4 for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-67.185.134.172-20120811230259

I've been reading a lot of posts about new weapons lately, yet there's one thing that hasn't been touched yet. That of course would be a new element class to weapons and monsters, specifically wind. The visual effects of the weapons would be swirling air currents around the weapons as they hit monsters and other objects.

There would also be a ney type of blight that could be inflicted onto the hunters called Windblight, which would put a shroud of wind around any weapon and drastically reduce the sharpness of them, no matter what kind of sharpness level they had. As for bowguns and bows, their range would be reduced and their deviation increased.

The kinds of monsters that would inflict this blight would be any kind of monster that can perform a wind tunnel attack like Akantor, Yama, and Jhen. Tigrex could inflict this with his roars like a sonic boom if the hunter was too close to it. Kushala Daora, Amatsu, Barioth, and Barioth Sub would be perfect candidates for the wind element as well.