User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: End-Game Quests/@comment-3315689-20120822090733/@comment-5043481-20120831111656

Monster hunter freedoms Yian Garuga is definately not easy.

You fight it first as the 3* urgent for 4* quests. He is 6*. You fight it in 20 minute bouts, and it takes 4-5 bouts to kill him. Damage carrys over on each quest, like the later elder dragons.Being killed (because hunters were still killed in freedom) 3 times was commonplace for me on this quest. Probobly one of the most difficult monsters EVER in this game.

In freedom 2 they saw sense and nerfed garuga to a resonable difficulty.

I can tell you have never played freedom 1 as otherwise you would not say such a thing.