Forum:Element Gems

I've been thinking about this concept for a while and I can think of no major drawback to it, aside from possibly making some weapons slightly redundant (and/or overpowered).

Say if you have a pure raw weapon (I'll use Velocidrome Bite as an example.) VB has 168 Raw damage and no element whatsoever but it does have 1 open slot. You could, if you so wished, craft and attach an elemental gem to the sword to give it say, 50 element of your choice (fire, ice, etc.) To bring the VB's stats up to 168 Raw & 50 Fire Element. The gems would be reasonably expensive and require (maybe) some high rank materials from certain monsters to create certain gems. There could also be several different effectiveness of gems, like you get in MH anyway. You could have the regular rarity 3 gem that adds 30 element that takes up 1 slot (requires low rank mats), a rarity 4 that adds 100 and takes up 2 slots (requires high rank mats) and a rarity 5 that 200 adds and takes up all 3 slots (requires mostly G-rank mats, some high rank).

A few things, these gems are seperate from skill gems and go in their own slots (but there are still the same amount of slots for each gem type, i.e. 2 slots for skill gems = 2 slots for element gems and so on.) Another thing, once you've chosen and imbued your weapon with your desired element, that weapon is now permanently that element, you can't remove the E. gems like you can with the S. gems. Another thing, you can't add opposite elements together (i.e. water & fire, unless the weapon already allows it :See Daora DS:) If a weapon is fire element you can only add more fire to it and so on for each element.

N.B. I am aware that there is a skill called 'Element Attack Up' that does the same thing as the gems I am proposing but this is an idea that caters (I hope) to the hunters who don't want to make another armour set that might be weaker than their usual and lose their familiar skills just to raise the elemental power on their weapon(s).

I appreciate not all of you might agree with me on the usefulness of this idea but I do ask that you at least try and remain mature in your criticism.

Regards --CollinsonOfSam 23:23, January 6, 2011 (UTC)