User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: More Elder Dragons/@comment-8874090-20140629104806

Jhen: My favourite of the 3 giant boss fights (excluding 4th gen). He is leagues ahead of Lao, and more fun than cea IMO. The design is pretty unique and interesting, and the sandships are cool. Feel's the most epic out of the trio.

Cea: Cool design, I like the pale white shine he has, but the fight is boring and frustrating (still much better than lao though).

Ala: I'm have mixed feelings on this one. He has really cool attacks that are only seen on him, the ice spikes, fire tornadoes etc. But his design doesn't really reflect his fight very well. He's just a bland brown color with some horns thrown on. And he's a bit too hard. Also, 4 elements on one monster feel a bit too over the top. I'm not really a fan.

Daren: Meh. The design is kinda OK but nothing special... It just feels like a cheap jhen remake. Dunno, maybe I'm wrong, I'll see when we get MH4U, but he doesn't seem interesting.

Dara: Now THAT's more like it! I LOVE the design, snakes are awesome and he just has a stunningly awesome look. The fight look's cool too, but I'll wait to fight him before I can safely judge it. But I feel like this might be my new favourite boss-elder ever.

Shagaru: Amazing, but I still somehow prefer the original. And I'm still strongly annoyed by the fact Gore is not classified as an elder. DUH! And counter to  the common wishes, I don't want another sub of him.