User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-2108119-20140204145507/@comment-1758220-20140204223922

@Jade Narga

I went from HR199 to HR630 in frontier in less than a month. It has taken me 6 months now to get from HR39 to HR55 in MH3U.

Honestly, there isn't that much grinding in frontier. ranking up is easy-peasy (You rank up once or twice every quest, three or more with points tickets), and there are usually event monsters out that give rare items more easily. Quests can be done really quickly with a team, and therefore armour sets and weapons can be made quicker (I find) than in MH3U.

Not to mention, the monsters you call "reskins" have literally nothing in common visually with your purported source monster and usually have almost entirely exclusive movesets. For instance, Blangonga is far more of a reskin of Rajang than the Gougarfs are, going by your definition.

Frontier is by no means perfect, and I have my share of complaints with it for sure, but the ones you presented here are in my opinion highyl invalid.