User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: Dragon Element/@comment-4934817-20140313201948

I would say that Dragon IS my favorite element in the game, due almost solely to how cool it looks. Every monster that has an explicitly dragon-element attack has the black-red aura and it looks cool as shit and intimidating (see Savage Jho's rage mode).

I think Dragonblight certainly adds a level of strategy in a sense. In Tri it didn't do anything noticeable-- I think it would have been better if it maybe lowered your affinity by a fixed amount, so say, 20%. Which, with most of the weapons in Tri, would make them have negative affinity. In 3U, I think that it's certainly a much more devastating blight, even though, to my knowledge, it doesn't affect Slime since Slime is a blight. Rather I should say I haven't had a case of Dragonblight affect my slime weapons.

As for my favorite Dragon-element Monster/weapon, I would say that Alatreon claims the prize since he IS predominantly dragon-element. Followed by Doragyurosu/SR Dora, Stygian, SavageJho, and so on. Weapon goes to probably Black Scythe from MHFU based on, well, looks. Can't wait for Goa Magara and Shagaru's weapons though.

By the way, my friend and I came up with an interesting theory as to some subspecies, like SR Doragyurosu, Stygian, and other aberrations like Zeruerusu, Mi Ru, SilverLos and GoldIan, and Lucent. We figured since all of these (with the exception of Stygian) were fought in some area of the tower, we figured there was something about the tower that either attracted monsters who were migrating perhaps, or mutated ones born there, or both. This would explain the increased hardness of Silver/Gold's scales, their advanced fire breathing, the ability of Lucent to turn invisible as well as have steel-hard FUR, as well as poisonous tailspikes, Mi Ru's superficial resemblance to Dyurgaua and shape-shifting, Dora's dragon element and sheer power and so on and so forth. Perhaps some sort of radioactive element that caused mutations based on overexposure and perhaps some sort of disease, which would explain the apparent long abandonment of the Tower. Perhaps the crystals on Zeru (which glow similar to Cherenkov's radiation) are almost the exact same element, and Zeru is a special case of monster who was exposed for far longer than other monsters.

Long-winded, I know, but that was our theory :3