User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: Water Element/@comment-5020152-20140408002044

I swear that this DotW has already been done recently...

1) I don't like Water as much as Ice, but I still think it's a great element. It's common, its realistic... pretty much every game with the word "element" in it has a Water element. Water is a staple concept both in real life, and it's only natural for such a substance to be utilized in games.

2) See above.

3) As with all blights, Waterblight was a good addition. It is caused by some substance (not necessarily water) getting into the lungs, making it harder for stamina to recover. Not as bad as Iceblight, which has a similar yet deadlier effect, but still a great way to make Water-element monsters that much harder to defeat.

4) My favorite Water monster is... well, you all know it. It's Plesioth. Not because I like broken hitboxes, but because I like the actual monster itself. There was a Plesioth MAW when MH3U was released here in the West - go search it out for the whole story.

Besides Plesioth, I like Generu Serutasu. While she is probably the absolute last monster I would expect to have the Water element, she's still epic and has amazing... pretty much everything about her is amazing, actually. She hits like a tank and has great attacks, and of course, she has an awesome roar as well.

Gurenzeburu is another good one! The Barbarian Wyvern still remains one of the most frighteningly badarse monsters in the Frontier series, with its ferocious pecking attacks and its brutal fighting style. The HC version strikes fear into me like nothing else does (with Baruragaru being an obvious exception).

5) More varieties of Waterblight would be nice. Perhaps a gooey, sludgy, mucus-like liquid could inflict an ailment that drains stamina and causes the hunter to become stuck to the floor - essentially a combination of Waterblight and the new Web-Bound ailment that Nerusukyura has.