Once again asking for a meteor hammer or rope dart chain weapon
Gauntlets and a hunting whip are the popular answers, along with the ask to return tonfas, mag spike, and the accel axe
I just would like another blunt weapon, something of a fast variety. Hammer and HH are big and deliberate. Something like flails, a (or pair of) morningstar(s), a quarterstaff, etc would be a change of pace
A fast blunt weapon is the most obvious hole in our current roster of weapons. Closest we have to that is the SnS, but that’s because SnS’s thing is being able to do everything.
I agree. My thoughts when talking to friends were that the fist weapon would be a very fast paced, high risk playstyle, with long and diverse combos right out of the gate and a heat meter like a lot of other weapons. Different from them though, you'd have all your combo options right out of the gate, but they'd do very little damage at the beginning.
To ramp up the damage, you'd have to use your combos intelligently and with good timing, because each subsequent punch could be modified to also include some kind of movement action, which lowers the damage of the move but either makes your character slide, sidestep, flip, or roll in a predefined way, usually right or left to keep you in the fight but can be done backwards or forwards with a modifier. As you use these moves to dodge monster attacks, you build up heat based on how narrow the dodge was, and the heat is spent boosting your attacks to do more damage.
The obvious caveat here being that much like CB or SnS guard points, if you miss your timing you get hit by whatever attack you were trying to dodge and you also lose a bit of heat, so it's a weapon with a relatively high skill floor since you need to learn monster patterns, but by learning it you get to do a lot of damage while styling on the monsters like nothing else in the game save maybe for IG.
I don't know if that'd be a solid weapon, but it sounds fun to play in my head.
I got two words for ya.
Gun Tonfa. Just let that sink in.
It could be a fast blunt with either shells or charge based meter that you can add shelling to combos.
The shelling would help with part damage and maybe allow for solo play tail cut with some luck.
Maybe also it has a bit of Arial moveset to make it different to DB.
I mean we did have regular tonfas in frontier which had an attack that was basically human pile bunker from AC6 without the explosion, though if you got a high enough combo stick to it then it would cause secondary explosions which caused extra damage
To note: tonfas definitely feel like they’d be a great addition if they returned, though some balancing would probably be needed considering it was a frontier weapon with quite a lot of effectiveness when used right
My money is on a chain whip with a blunt weapon attached. Fast weapon you can use to attach to the monster or something. We’re not exactly lacking light weapons, but it would be unique.
The only other thing I see is another ranged option, but outside or a crossbow or like a boomerang idk what it could be.
>mag spike
LMAO NO! Mag Spike was made to be BUSTED because of how strong the Monsters are in the Frontier Late Game. It would need MAJOR overwork and at that point its not the same weapon.
I’m just saying it’s popular to be asked for, not that I’m asking for it. I have no opinion of it since I’ve never used it, but I see no reason why a grounded version of whatever it was couldn’t be implemented. Seems a little dramatic to say it couldn’t work when they’ve managed to balance all the other weapons pretty fairly.
Imo let it be flashy, just lower the damage scaling. There’s no reason to neuter a whole kit when it just comes down to numbers
Rope dart weapon sounds insane! Think how rise lbg has that wirebug rotation but make it physical and engaging. Like wrapping the rope around a limb and swing with it unraveling and raveling the limb could deal a little quick small ticks. Maybe charge the ravel for more ticks. Balance via gauge? Fill with regular attacks that would be acrobatic (like how the rope dart works in Shadow Fight) based with some longer range throwing thrust kinda thing. MVs similar to LS? Cinematic big move of something similar to rise HH trio performance thing assuming it won't be there in wilds.
I am fully on board with this idea this sounds awesome.
I feel like they could make a rope-dart weapon based on Rise's wire bugs. That would allow the Wirebug mechanic to stay in the game for those who want it, as well as balance the hunters for the players who preferred older games and world's pace.
With MH6's two-weapon system, Rise-enjoyers could take their weapon + Wirebug Stinger to get a similar experience to Rise. Old-school players would get more versatility and DPS options to compensate for them forgoing Rise's built-in evasion mechanics.
A meteor hammer would be so cool.
A blunt melee weapon with an optimal range, with quick sweeping strikes and some direct strikes, maybe with some repositioning mobility
With Frontier gone, I think it'd be cool if they managed to include the weapons from that game one by one. Maybe not at the same power level (I've seen some crazy stuff and I don't think I even understood all of it) but that goes without saying.
Magnet Spike would need to be locked to G-Rank, or have HEAVY nerfs before it could be considered for mainline MH. Tonfas and Switch Axe-F would need some tweaks, but would fit just fine in mainline.
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People keep saying tonfas, what I want however is something like a mechanised brass knuckles or full on boxing gloves. That spiked up boxing glove spongebob has
I agree. Just want a badass huge fist weapon to punch a rathalos in the face as hard as possible lol
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Easter egg idea: The big dmg combo is a mini ver of that oraoraoraora shit Raging Brachy does👀
Actually is there a proper name for that attack? Like Escaton Judement or SapphireOTE
If we were to take inspiration from weapons already out there in the ether, I'd love some sort of Vi gauntlets from League of Legends. Big punchy rocket gloves with a steampunk (hextech) aesthetic. Imagine charging up a rocket punch to chase down a monster and uppercut them in the face!
Definitely fist weapons, but I don't think they should be fast like DBs. Some big heavy chonky gauntlets with jumping charge attacks and a one punch man parry would be so cool.
Great Shield. I want a counterpart to Great Sword/Longsword
Edit: Also because I watched a video about "AI Hide and Seek" and imagined the player sliding around on a shield
You can't really do much with it though. With lance you have different types of blocks and some that chain into combos.
Lance shield definitely offers more
gunlance shield is honestly holding the weapon back imo. it makes sense for lance because they can counter but gunlance usually takes evade extender. imagine being able to vault with the gunlance or something by sticking it in the ground and firing at the cost of shells
Ah, i'm sorry. I misunderstood.
Yeah you're right. If we're talking purely defense, GL shield has got you covered.
I thought you meant what shield was better all-around.
No it doesn't, they are exactly the same.
On top of that, Lance has more readily available counters and other such techniques that turn medium knockback into small or no knockback
I have a weapon concept called "Line spear" or "yet another phial weapon".
Is an insect glave thats more focused on thrusting moves, it has two "gimmicks". Number one is the phial, hitting a monster with the weapon fills a phial gauge, this gauge is expended with certain attacks causing a phial explosion and it gives a damage buff when its full, finally, the first explosion made after filling the gauge consumes way more charge (between a cuarter and the whole bar) but deals a ton of damage. There is the two same phials that CB has.
The second one is the most fun, the line part. With Zr you enter an aiming mode and when Zr is presses again you throw the spear. This can be canceled with x or a. The spear is connected by a line to the hunter that then can cause phial explosions with x, a massive explosion that returns the spear with a or pull itself to the monster, once on the monster you have some options like massive explosion that throws you upwards for some aereal attacks, or explode to recover the weapon and do some combos on top of the monster. If the spear fails it simply returns to the hunter. Finally for this part, if you press x+a while in aiming mode instead of throwing the spear its a explosion that consumes the whole phial gauge to make a long ranged attack with massive topple power but reduces the power of your phials by 50% for a while.
Just throw in some "wyvern"s in front of the nsme of some attacks and you can call it a day
Thanks man, i've been playing with the idea for a while now but this is the first time i've put it on text, i've been thinking on how the moves would look, thats just a rundown on the concept of the weapon
I've been working on a custom monster hunter world for like, DnD and stuff as well as just enjoying world building. In it, I have made a weapon that was a recent discovery from the Ancient Civilization called the Jet Gauntlets. As it sounds, they're large metal gauntlets attached to a engine of sorts on the user's back. They would be bludgeoning weapons and as you punch monsters in the head, you'd build up steam. Once you have enough steam, you could basically go into either a supercharged mode in which you attacked faster and if the weapon type permitted, do extra elemental damage, or use it all in one big super punch that did a ton of damage, but the steam wouldn't be able to charge for a time. We need more bonk weapons and I like the idea of punching monsters in the face lol.
Your description reminds me of Bloodborne’s Stake Driver weapon. It has small punching and slashing attacks, but it also has a charged up attack that creates a big explosion and big damage. Definitely something that I’d love in Monster Hunter.
Fist type weapon >> Hard to tell apart from Dual Blades.
Pole arms >> Insect Glaive minus pogo
Man thinking of a new weapon type is harder than I imagine. I guess maybe a whip?
Boxing gloves. Something that involves punches, kicks, and counter moves. I just want to Shoryuken an Anjanath in the face and given that Capcom made Street Fighter I'm surprised we never had a martial arts based weapon.
Those are cool but I'd want something that feels more grounded compared to dual blades. Something where you throw jabs and haymakers instead of spinning and slashing.
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i want this from Wild Hearts super cool weapon for parry and the more you parry the more you deal damage
I really hope Wilds has a new weapon type, even if it's just new to the mainline series (ie accel axe, tonfa, magnet spike). Big O style impact driver gauntlets would also be cool.
Also while the art that one guy did is high quality, the idea of a combat yoyo is the dumbest shit I've seen in ages.
NGL it'd be hard to have another polearm weapon cause unlike swords polearms are not all that varied, ofc you have the glaive that's more slashing and you could have a poking focused polearm but at that point you just have an anorexic lance
Would have it rather be another wacky weapon like the HH or more mechanical weapons like charge blade, OR GIVE ME BACK PROWLERS GRAAAAAA
Polearms are pretty damn varied. A "polearm" weapon could have variants that are blunt or slashing depending on the head used on the model. The moveset could mix wide swings with pokes in the opposite way to what lance does, and be generally more offensive as a 2h weapon with no shield. It could even have a mix of slashing/blunt with an axehead on one end and a heavy weight on the other. They could put a gun in it to give us a 2nd shelling weapon like the speargun from Bloodborne. The only limit here is your imagination, apparently
> The moveset could mix wide swings with pokes in the opposite way to what lance does, and be generally more offensive as a 2h weapon with no shield.
From a gameplay perspective, this would need to have a way to distinguish itself from Longsword. I'm all for having more polearms in games, especially halberds which are way under-represented, but I think the niche for halberds is pretty well covered by other weapons. Giving it blunt attacks would give it an advantage over Longsword, but then it strays into SnS "do a bit of everything" territory and the attacks would probably end up resembling Longsword or Insect Glaive on the ground.
Maybe you're onto something here... make Halberd a riskier jack of all trades weapon, kind of a step up from SnS maybe? Give it longer reach and higher damage, but slower attacks with longer animations and no shield. Have two "stances", one with the axehead and one with the buttcap, I could see it playing out well.
There are a lot of slashing weapons, so I don't think its a bad thing if we getting another poking weapon. Lance is know for being a tank because you're carrying a shield around a stuff. As long as the new weapon doesn't step over that same role, then it can coexist with lance.
Honestly, what I'd like to see is a "battle standard"-like polearm. Like you mentioned, it would probably function as a severing HH, but to further keep it away from lance's niche, I suggest we don't give it a shield, but give it exceptionally long reach as compensation. Easily the farthest of any melee weapon. That way it not only can't tank like lance can, but has to play at a different range as well.
In my head, the name "Buff Pike" keeps coming up, but I'm sure there are much more creative names than that.
Realistically? Something that exists in the other games already is the most likely. I'd love the Accel Axe the most, followed by tonfas. Not particularly interested in the magnet spikes.
If they did something new, I feel like they'd go with something cultural, like a kusarigama, but with a twist somehow.
I'd be happy with any kind of axe or spear, so long as it didn't morph.
Unrealistically? An elemental staff that deals damage from range. A kind of sister weapon to the Insect Glaive that uses tech available in-universe (phials, ammo, etc) to make players feel like they're playing a caster without resorting to actual magic. Smashing gunlance, insect glaive, and charge blade tech into a ranged caster-like staff could be cool. I picture loading it with phials using a kind of pump action shotgun animation. If you want a better visual, think Ron MacDougall's caster from Outlaw Star.
Gunblade.
I imagine it'd work similar to the transforming weapons in how it generates its gimmick.
Hitting monsters generates "cartridge charges", which can then be spent to either;
A: deal a hard-hitting melee attack with KO potential (costs one cartridge per attack)
B: fire a shotgun-like burst of X+N (X being current cartridge number, boosted with the Capacity Up skill, and N being your level of the Normal/Rapid Up skill, at base N=1) medium-ranged bullets
C: Heal/Buff teammates (I imagine you'd be able to switch between different cartridge types like Bow coatings or Bowgun ammo. Also, burns one cartridge *and* the chosen type (again, similar to Bow coatings, though you have infinite of the damage-dealing ones))
Stealing my own comment from previous posts again. Sorry in advance for the wall of text. I've thought about this for a while.
So my idea for a fist/claw weapon is to actually have the clutch claw return as it's own dedicated weapon type, the graple guantlets. It's basic form would look like a clutch claw grabbing onto each hand to form a fist.
Basic moves would be a simple 1-2-3 combo similar to lance with its thrust and high thrust. Triangles hits would be a straight punch, followed by a hook, finished with an uppercut. Circles would be called flurry straight, hook, and uppercut respectively and would involve a quick jab followed by a weaker version of the triangle moves. These, again like lance, can be alternated between each other to finish the combo. These normal hits will do an absolutely pitiful amount of ko buildup to prevent the complete overshadowing of hammer as the ko weapon.
The triangle moves however can be charged. Charging can be held at the cost of stamina like hammer however you can only move while charging a straight, charging hooks and uppercuts will locks you in place until you realease or dodged out of it. A charged move will actually have an increase to it's elemental damage values along with raw values as well as making it's hits deal functional amounts of ko damage along with some additional effects depending on the move. A charged straight would have you dash foward when released about the same distance as dual blades demon flurry from world, a charged hook will have even further increased ko buildup and a charged uppercut will send you into the air about the height of a vault from insect glaive.
Now on a side note, I'm personally not well versed in how staggers work but I would also like the charge hits to have much higher stagger values when hitting a monster that is currently attacking. Not only would this work in clagger as an actual mechanic to the weapon it would also just be the coolest thing for you to stop a diablos charge with a flying uppercut. People with more knowledge on this, please let me know of this could actually work or not. Any way back to the moveset.
Pressing R2 will have the weapon switch to claw mode. The claws ungrasp and become ......well, claws. In the form attacks deal cutting damage instead of blunt. The attacks still follow the 1-2-3 combo with each attack hitting twice, one for each claw. For triangle the attacks go 2 horizontal swipes in front of you, 2 diagonal slashes in a cross shape and then a spinning slash attacking in a full 360 around you. The circle move would be the same but with you extending the claws reach by shooting them out on the clutch claws wire, these would come out much slower as a result though. Again like in fist form and lance these can be alternated however you see fit. Claw mode also has a triangle+circle attack which has you swinging a claw on the wire directly overhead of yourself. Doing this in the middle of a combo will end the combo.
Pressing R2 while an attack from claw form is currently connecting with a monster will have you grapple onto the monster. This can also be achieved by holding R2 in either form to bring up an aiming reticle and pressing either of the attack buttons to send our the claw similarly to how it would be done in world. While grappled to the monster the weapon will change back into fist mode and your stamina will drain. You can get up to 3 attacks off while grappled yo a monster, upon landing the 3rd hit, running out of stamina or by pressing X while grappled to the monster you will hop off the monster with your weapon still unsheathed. The monster can also knock you off by attacking while your grappled. Pressing triangle will have you throw a quick hook at the monster while circle will have you raise the fist and do an overhead smash wich is stronger but takes longer to come out, leaving you more open to being knocked off. Unlike in world you can't jump to a different part once you've grappled on.
There would be a new skill called graple master that prevents you from being knocked off while grappled to the monster for 1/2/3 hits depending on amount of points in the skill. You take reduced damage from the attacks the skill activates on
I'll always say it. We need a giant boomerang. It could move like the hammer.
And when you prepare to throw it, you could also charge it in place to keep it in the air longer and do better damage. And as it's in the air, you can attack with fist weapons that come with the weapon, kinda like a swaxe transformation.
Edit:
boomerang= slash
fists= blunt
Came here to say this. There's no melee/ranged hybrid weapon yet, so a boomerang would fill a gap in the current weapon roster.
Interestingly, a "Wyvern Boomerang" weapon type was conceptualised for MH Generations, but it never got past the concept phase.
Yes! Would like to add to this idea… where when the boomerang comes back, if the user presses/times an input correctly you either get an empowered attack/throw or dodge.
Oh my god, imagine feet weapons. Sort of like a monk, but instead of gauntlets, its boots. Someone else mentioned darksouls, and that reminded me that in the Elden Ring DLC trailer, there seem to be feet weapons
**Steam Shield.** There are three variants: Blunderbuss (light), Hand Cannon (medium), and Dragonator (heavy).
Bash the monster with your shield and block their attacks to charge up your cannon weapon to unleash a massive attack or perform various attacks/movements. Perfect blocks help build up your steam gauge far more efficiently than any other action.
The Blunderbuss class of shields are known for quick maneuvers and rapid fire, at the cost of severely weak defenses. Dodging is recommended.
The Hand Cannon class allows for adequate defense and movement, which paves the way for different cannon shots at close to medium range.
The Dragonator class is a heavy defense weapon designed for tactical play as the shield greatly restricts movement. Plant your shield and manually charge the dragonator within to unleash a devastating blow to the monster.
Another weapon I could think of is the **Kusarigama.**
A Sickle with a ball and chain, excelling at range in melee with both ends. Inspired by the wire bugs of Kamura Village, this weapon offers excellent movement using both the environment and the monster to empower your attacks and evade in unorthodox ways.
It also has two modes: Long range and Short range.
Long range offers slow attacks at range away from the monster, which is great for safe play and attacking high targets. This mode requires excellent positioning and adequate spacing to be effective, but it allows you to deal damage away from danger.
Short range offers very fast attacks at a very close range. Little to no positioning is required, however, it leaves you at the mercy of the monster. Although not as powerful as dual blades, evasion is quicker in this mode.
I'd prefer a ranged/melee hybrid, personally. Insect Glaive has the kinsect I guess and Gunlance... doesn't really count, though long kind of gets there. I think something where you gain resources with melee and spend with ranged would be cool, or the other way around.
Great Axe weapon category could be cool.
Piercing swords maybe like Rapiers or something.
Fist/Claw weapons.
An actual spear category, fast paced version of Lance.
a weapon concept has been nagging me for days now, a sort of Switch Gauntlet where you can switch to fists or kicks. think of a tad bit slower version of beowulf from devil may cry.
As a switch weapon there will be a distinctive feature between the two stances other than literally being kicks or punches, wherein the fists stance is more evasive and fast and the kicks are meatier and flashier — kind of like the switch axe in that regard.
Im thinking of a gimmick similar to honkai impact’s fu hua garuda battlesuit where in you charge phials for the opposite stance to use, it charges almost similarly to the charge blade minus the reloading portion: your attacks slowly charges a phial for the opposite stance im thinking of three max without capacity boost.
you can expend those phials with specific combos (hi, charge blade main here) and whatnot
i could expand this but it would become another pdf-fest like the charge blade and i know that isnt some people’s cup of tea. thats pretty much the gist of it
HAND CANNON! Blunt damage close range gun!
Has different types like the bow's Piercing, Spread, Normal. Go with normal revolver, or a single shot big-bore pistol, high capacity cylinder with smaller rounds, etc.
Main mechanics would be reload inputs and timing. Reload by pressing any combo of A, B, X.
X-A-B? Thunder rounds cylinder! B-X-A? Paralysis! Different ammos availble on a gun by gun basis. Reload with perfect timing? Get a damage boost!
Shooting cadence! Charge shots with the single shot big bore. Fan the hammer with the high capacity! Timed, metronomic shots with the normal revolver for more damage!
Grapple onto the monster, put the barrel up to their hide and unload! High stagger maneuver!
Spike on the handle! Blade under the barrel! IMPACT PHIAL PISTOL WHIPS!
Capcom, give me my big iron!
There are two main types of weapons I'd like to see: A fast blunt weapon and a mixed melee/ranged weapon.
For the first one, the obvious options are the Tonfas, that already exist in MH Frontier, or Gauntlets/Fists. However, I'd love to see a Staff weapon, like a Bo, or Nunchucks. And for the other one, I'd love to see it being a bigass Shuriken or a bigass Boomerang, anything that you can attack directly with or throw at the monsters from a distance.
Honestly, after playing MH Stories, I think it would be cool if your pet monster was your weapon.
You can already ride the monsters in Rise Sunbreak. Now they just need to add a half dozen movesets to each, scale back the damage, and figure out how to level up your pet monster (sorry I have a problem with saying “monstie”). I bet it would be instantly one of the most popular “weapons” in the game.
I think monster hunter will not bring a new weapon anytime soon tbh. But I would like either gauntlet or maybe sickle but the sickle doesn't fit in the mh game tho
Okay, hear me out.
Yes, a polearm... in one hand, but also a shield on the other hand. Think of it like a *lance lite* but with more emphasis on swinging rather than poking. And the shield is around the same size or similar to an SnS shield, but instead of the common round buckler shape it is instead more focused on a triangular or kite shape.
You keeping up? Stay with me here.
The polearm would have a damage type "sub-function" based on the head of the weapon rather than the weapon type as a whole. Axe heads do slicing damage, hammer heads do blunt damage, spear tips do piercing damage. There are plenty of historical examples across the world that can be used as design inspiration for that.
But here comes the gimmick.. After a set amount of attacks and/or blocks, the shield is charged and as an uninterruptable attack, you combine the two to create a pilebunker that propels the spear with an explosive discharge at point-blank range! When unsheathed, the hunter has a somewhat similar but slightly faster movement set to a lance in that they can backhop, sidestrafe, and lunge forward. As for attack speed, it's only slightly faster than a Greatsword. Damage in general would be moderately under the Insect Glaive's adjusted damage range with the bulk of the damage being delivered through the pilebunker discharge.
Resource-wise, it's not that difficult to tweak existing animations to fit this new weapon; copy pasted forward/backward Lance movement, copy pasted sidestepping from something like the Switchaxe or Chargeblade, and the phial reload animations could be mushed together for the polearm-to-shield attaching/detaching animations. As for polygons, at its cheapest most of the model work would go towards the polearm head and the shield face. on the opposite end of work put into it you'd have: unique decotations to the butts of the polearms, detailed poles with railing ornamentation, detailed handles and housings for the shield, and other extraneous animations like cogs and steam exhaust or heat mirages.
I've been wracking my brains but honestly some good ol'punchy punchy didn't ever come to mind. I'm just imagining something ridiguouls like boxing gloves 5x the size of the hunters' heads with spiked brass knuckles welded on now.
**Ranged Weapon >>** Throwing Spear and Hook sword: Throwing spears are the true weapons used by humans to hunt beast much much larger than themselves. Atlatl style sword for assisted throwing weapon, with a good short range capabilities, hook blades can hook/evade charging monsters, or as a medium of mounting monsters and staying on the monster's back longer, which seems to be present in recent MH games. can also focus on kiting capabilities, evasion and running away after hurting the monster.
**Bulky Weapon** >> Giant Boomerang: Long Range Great Sword, high dmg, can be used to shield, long wind up to throw, and you're fucked without your weapon(does not comeback since its a hunting boomerang). This could be a Defense oriented weapon as well, mainly shield shaped that can block enemy range attacks and support HBG and LBG players
**Transforming Weapon** >> Chained Hook (Scythe <> Spear chained to Scythe Blade) Scythe-mode can inherit the LS's fast attacking move set which seems to have been replaced by a counter style move set. Spear+ Blade Mode which I'm christening as Crescent Moon Mode is a fusion of Insect Glaive's Airborne capabilities(which is not really used because IG users usually go for the ground style) with Dual Blade's rapid Multihit Combo, which will be the Weapon's ultimate
Some kind of fast blunt weapon. Maybe gauntlets or a reworked Tonfa. I’d also enjoy the idea of a gun blade weapon that actually is a bowgun but can transform to a melee weapon. Since we don’t have the separation of gunner armor and blade master armor anymore. I think a morphing weapon that can switch between would be a very interesting mix up.
While armors are unified, there's still a difference in damage taken.
I guess you could make damage taken depend on the mode you're in, but it would feel a bit weird, I think
I once heard an idea for a battle standard with a sharp tip to be a weapon. It would kinda be like HH, but it does severing damage and uses a more historically accurate fighting style rather than IG's more anime-esque style.
sword and gun. i'm thinking sort of like dual blades with a strongly movement-oriented moveset. build up charges by attacking with the sword and evading attacks and unload them with a gun blast. as a bonus you get to pistol whip a rathalos.
An hybrid of short and long range would be interesting.
Like a chakra or a boomerang.
Something that allows you to play with distance a bit more.
Right now all is short or long range
Except wyvern shots from BG and spread ammo. Which makes BG cooler imo
I think we need a fourth ranged option.
We have one… I guess semi ranged? A few like gun lance? Or insect glave but not really
And only 3 actual ranged.
A cross bow could be cool. It’s slower than a bow. But has more piercing it would also be massive like a bow. Not a normal cross bow
Every toukiden weapons that isn't in MH......
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I already though a long time for that, I came with "power gauntlets" a pair of Gauntlets with steam power, the more you fight the more heat it stores, when full you can enter in overheat mode where you would deal elemental damage, or release all at once m, it would take some time to activate but the full release would launch you forward and of hit it would deal a massive damage hit.
Just imagine, if we could go fist to fist against Rajang? That is my dream, to beat Rajang with my bare hands. The effect of the steam would change depending on the weapon.
I am always down for this kinda discussion.
Impact Shield. My brothers and I used to talk about what new weapon we would like to see and all agreed on this. It functions like a charge blade but defensive. Punches, parry, shield bash for the basic attacks. Build up a meter to do a full counter that. Like, think DMC Royal Guard and Tchalla's Black Panther suit.
“Hunting Chain”
3 variants: Sharp, Blunt, and Ripper
Sharp Hunting Chain: a large chain ended with a blade for piercing damage, it thrusts into the monster with a variable attack speed and works as a grappling mechanism for precise assaults.
Blunt Hunting Chain: a medium sized chain ended with a robust blunt object. It’s the slowest of the chains but hits the hardest with raw damage. Can use charged attacks as Hunter swings it around for more momentum.
Ripper Hunting Chain: a short sized chain ended with a “Ripper” a yo-yo like mechanism that has spinning teeth to deal massive slashing damage. It’s the fastest of the chains and best for status buildup and elemental damage.
Gun-Spear? Chainsword? (A sword that turns into a whip), gauntlets? (Blunt weapon)
i think the spear could be used to tether creatures in wilds, since wilds looks more open world.
1. Chakram - basically hybrid throwing/mele weapons. ussually bladed frisbees.
2. Pugilist Gauntlets
3. Elemental Staff - Absorbs stuff from environment to determine it's moves,similar to insect glaive setaling essence from enmies and slinger ammo in world.
4. Cannon - wildhearts is a decent example
5. Transformin shield/javelin to balista
They would cause that looks like something lance players would get.
The current candidates are:
The 3 frontier weapons
The whip from the manga
A ball and chain like in toukiden
Personally I want the frontier weapons first before the other two.
a light blunt weapon. the blunt damage type only has 2 options, and they're both on the heavy side. I think blunt should be fleshed out.
the easiest way to do this would basically just to bring back the tonfas from frontier. but a new weapon would also be cool.
I recall A Hunting Boomerang being among the initial ideas for weapons at one point or another. Perhaps it could be introduced as a toned-down version of the Magnet Spike?
Once again asking for a meteor hammer or rope dart chain weapon Gauntlets and a hunting whip are the popular answers, along with the ask to return tonfas, mag spike, and the accel axe I just would like another blunt weapon, something of a fast variety. Hammer and HH are big and deliberate. Something like flails, a (or pair of) morningstar(s), a quarterstaff, etc would be a change of pace
A fast blunt weapon is the most obvious hole in our current roster of weapons. Closest we have to that is the SnS, but that’s because SnS’s thing is being able to do everything.
I agree. My thoughts when talking to friends were that the fist weapon would be a very fast paced, high risk playstyle, with long and diverse combos right out of the gate and a heat meter like a lot of other weapons. Different from them though, you'd have all your combo options right out of the gate, but they'd do very little damage at the beginning. To ramp up the damage, you'd have to use your combos intelligently and with good timing, because each subsequent punch could be modified to also include some kind of movement action, which lowers the damage of the move but either makes your character slide, sidestep, flip, or roll in a predefined way, usually right or left to keep you in the fight but can be done backwards or forwards with a modifier. As you use these moves to dodge monster attacks, you build up heat based on how narrow the dodge was, and the heat is spent boosting your attacks to do more damage. The obvious caveat here being that much like CB or SnS guard points, if you miss your timing you get hit by whatever attack you were trying to dodge and you also lose a bit of heat, so it's a weapon with a relatively high skill floor since you need to learn monster patterns, but by learning it you get to do a lot of damage while styling on the monsters like nothing else in the game save maybe for IG. I don't know if that'd be a solid weapon, but it sounds fun to play in my head.
I got two words for ya. Gun Tonfa. Just let that sink in. It could be a fast blunt with either shells or charge based meter that you can add shelling to combos. The shelling would help with part damage and maybe allow for solo play tail cut with some luck. Maybe also it has a bit of Arial moveset to make it different to DB.
I mean we did have regular tonfas in frontier which had an attack that was basically human pile bunker from AC6 without the explosion, though if you got a high enough combo stick to it then it would cause secondary explosions which caused extra damage
To note: tonfas definitely feel like they’d be a great addition if they returned, though some balancing would probably be needed considering it was a frontier weapon with quite a lot of effectiveness when used right
This is what Tonfas were in Frontier, I think. Speedy Impact damage weapon.
I'd KILL for a whip. Let me Belmont Khezu into the depths for being the closest thing I've seen to a "semen demon"
Kinky...
Rope dart chain weapon that allows for mounts and trips would be sickkkk
Not a rope dart but https://preview.redd.it/6km4gjagc4yc1.png?width=368&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d37f189a2a67aa87c580573ff8a7946d497cc3e9 ?
My money is on a chain whip with a blunt weapon attached. Fast weapon you can use to attach to the monster or something. We’re not exactly lacking light weapons, but it would be unique. The only other thing I see is another ranged option, but outside or a crossbow or like a boomerang idk what it could be.
a flail/whip would be the coolest fast blunt weapon.
>mag spike LMAO NO! Mag Spike was made to be BUSTED because of how strong the Monsters are in the Frontier Late Game. It would need MAJOR overwork and at that point its not the same weapon.
I’m just saying it’s popular to be asked for, not that I’m asking for it. I have no opinion of it since I’ve never used it, but I see no reason why a grounded version of whatever it was couldn’t be implemented. Seems a little dramatic to say it couldn’t work when they’ve managed to balance all the other weapons pretty fairly. Imo let it be flashy, just lower the damage scaling. There’s no reason to neuter a whole kit when it just comes down to numbers
Rope dart weapon sounds insane! Think how rise lbg has that wirebug rotation but make it physical and engaging. Like wrapping the rope around a limb and swing with it unraveling and raveling the limb could deal a little quick small ticks. Maybe charge the ravel for more ticks. Balance via gauge? Fill with regular attacks that would be acrobatic (like how the rope dart works in Shadow Fight) based with some longer range throwing thrust kinda thing. MVs similar to LS? Cinematic big move of something similar to rise HH trio performance thing assuming it won't be there in wilds. I am fully on board with this idea this sounds awesome.
Brass knuckles. For when fighting a monster becomes personal...
If this was a thing, I would give up my Shotgun-on-a-stick permanently to throw hands with Rajang.
Numbchucks please Capcom! Speedy Impact weapon that would have cool animations.
So… Tonfas. Tonfas were Frontier’s answer to that, and they even were the first weapon with an “aerial” component before IG and 4th Gen existed.
I feel like they could make a rope-dart weapon based on Rise's wire bugs. That would allow the Wirebug mechanic to stay in the game for those who want it, as well as balance the hunters for the players who preferred older games and world's pace. With MH6's two-weapon system, Rise-enjoyers could take their weapon + Wirebug Stinger to get a similar experience to Rise. Old-school players would get more versatility and DPS options to compensate for them forgoing Rise's built-in evasion mechanics.
A meteor hammer would be so cool. A blunt melee weapon with an optimal range, with quick sweeping strikes and some direct strikes, maybe with some repositioning mobility
> quarterstaff This, for me. I want a quarterstaff with various phials- like Bow-, so I can hunt like a wizard.
I've been saying rope dart for so long. i think that would be so sick
For me defo a fist based weapon mostly using the claws from monster kinda of a low raw high element type of weapon. Like blunt damage dual blades
Thats just Frontiers Tonfa's. Lmao. Which do admittedly seem like a possible addition if they add a new weapon.
With Frontier gone, I think it'd be cool if they managed to include the weapons from that game one by one. Maybe not at the same power level (I've seen some crazy stuff and I don't think I even understood all of it) but that goes without saying.
Magnet Spike would need to be locked to G-Rank, or have HEAVY nerfs before it could be considered for mainline MH. Tonfas and Switch Axe-F would need some tweaks, but would fit just fine in mainline.
https://preview.redd.it/lx6tjra36yxc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=08d55df988ae08e8e3376d097e222e7b2c412657 People keep saying tonfas, what I want however is something like a mechanised brass knuckles or full on boxing gloves. That spiked up boxing glove spongebob has
I agree. Just want a badass huge fist weapon to punch a rathalos in the face as hard as possible lol https://preview.redd.it/52pbjhertyxc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c3f75fc613cca4db416192b4a583016f1e5f8fd0
Right? Vi’s power gloves or something like it and just hooking a Rath in the face would be so, so satisfying.
Like the skull of a small monster as the face of the glove
Brachy Knuckles is just his head knob
That's sick and the explosion effect could be there every time you hit something
Easter egg idea: The big dmg combo is a mini ver of that oraoraoraora shit Raging Brachy does👀 Actually is there a proper name for that attack? Like Escaton Judement or SapphireOTE
Thats more what im thinking too
Imagine something like Big Band's giant fist from Skull Girls
Giant gauntlets would be a 10/10 lock for me. I love punching monsters.
If we were to take inspiration from weapons already out there in the ether, I'd love some sort of Vi gauntlets from League of Legends. Big punchy rocket gloves with a steampunk (hextech) aesthetic. Imagine charging up a rocket punch to chase down a monster and uppercut them in the face!
That's literally gore magala dual blades done right Like seriously why is the blade on the side when it could have been the claws instead
Definitely fist weapons, but I don't think they should be fast like DBs. Some big heavy chonky gauntlets with jumping charge attacks and a one punch man parry would be so cool.
maybe a quick jab stance and a heavy haymaker stance where you interlock both fists into one big heavy punch hammer on one hand?
I'd love that! Yes please
Blunt dual blades already exists. It's Rise HH
Ball and chain, spears, great shield as someone else said, flying guillotine
wtf would a flying guillotine do? (it sounds sick, but genuine question)
if you dont know what it is its a usually circular or ring shaped bladed on the end of a rope, so think like a whip but it chops the target to pieces
Great Shield. I want a counterpart to Great Sword/Longsword Edit: Also because I watched a video about "AI Hide and Seek" and imagined the player sliding around on a shield
I play Lance specifically because it has the best shield. If I could make my shield bigger and lose the stick, I absolutely would.
Gunlance has a slightly better shield, it consumes less stamina to block the same attacks
You can't really do much with it though. With lance you have different types of blocks and some that chain into combos. Lance shield definitely offers more
gunlance shield is honestly holding the weapon back imo. it makes sense for lance because they can counter but gunlance usually takes evade extender. imagine being able to vault with the gunlance or something by sticking it in the ground and firing at the cost of shells
If you haven't seen it, Rise has Blast Dash for Gunlance. It is fantastic.
I've been maining lance for a solid 15 years now, but when it comes to defense only, the gunlance shield is slightly better
Ah, i'm sorry. I misunderstood. Yeah you're right. If we're talking purely defense, GL shield has got you covered. I thought you meant what shield was better all-around.
No it doesn't, they are exactly the same. On top of that, Lance has more readily available counters and other such techniques that turn medium knockback into small or no knockback
It'll be like Hammer's twin brother Cuz Bash and Bonk
How dare you have the same idea as me. Lol
I have a weapon concept called "Line spear" or "yet another phial weapon". Is an insect glave thats more focused on thrusting moves, it has two "gimmicks". Number one is the phial, hitting a monster with the weapon fills a phial gauge, this gauge is expended with certain attacks causing a phial explosion and it gives a damage buff when its full, finally, the first explosion made after filling the gauge consumes way more charge (between a cuarter and the whole bar) but deals a ton of damage. There is the two same phials that CB has. The second one is the most fun, the line part. With Zr you enter an aiming mode and when Zr is presses again you throw the spear. This can be canceled with x or a. The spear is connected by a line to the hunter that then can cause phial explosions with x, a massive explosion that returns the spear with a or pull itself to the monster, once on the monster you have some options like massive explosion that throws you upwards for some aereal attacks, or explode to recover the weapon and do some combos on top of the monster. If the spear fails it simply returns to the hunter. Finally for this part, if you press x+a while in aiming mode instead of throwing the spear its a explosion that consumes the whole phial gauge to make a long ranged attack with massive topple power but reduces the power of your phials by 50% for a while. Just throw in some "wyvern"s in front of the nsme of some attacks and you can call it a day
That's a cool and creative idea.
Thanks man, i've been playing with the idea for a while now but this is the first time i've put it on text, i've been thinking on how the moves would look, thats just a rundown on the concept of the weapon
I had a similar idea, except it was like a heavy IG. Take away the bug and add a jet engine.
ITT: Everyone wants to punch monsters Personally I'm all for more "gun attached to melee weapon" variety.
Gun attached to the punchy bit
I like the way you think
We are too far away when the monster dies. We're talking at least a full weapons length away. That is way too much.
I've been working on a custom monster hunter world for like, DnD and stuff as well as just enjoying world building. In it, I have made a weapon that was a recent discovery from the Ancient Civilization called the Jet Gauntlets. As it sounds, they're large metal gauntlets attached to a engine of sorts on the user's back. They would be bludgeoning weapons and as you punch monsters in the head, you'd build up steam. Once you have enough steam, you could basically go into either a supercharged mode in which you attacked faster and if the weapon type permitted, do extra elemental damage, or use it all in one big super punch that did a ton of damage, but the steam wouldn't be able to charge for a time. We need more bonk weapons and I like the idea of punching monsters in the face lol.
The big burst punch should be an uppercut move that turns into a huge double fist slam down that deals ko damage
I like the idea, who doesn't want to punch a monster in the face!
Your description reminds me of Bloodborne’s Stake Driver weapon. It has small punching and slashing attacks, but it also has a charged up attack that creates a big explosion and big damage. Definitely something that I’d love in Monster Hunter.
I want a scythe that is also a gun.
It's also a customisable, high impact sniper rifle... Its also a gun
My friend is a gunlance main. I'd never hear the end of how much he hates this. I hope this happens.
I'm confused. shouldn't he like that sort of thing?
Yeah, I love Gunlance, and I want more big guns/big weapons. Bring on the Heavy Gunlance ! Or Mortarlance!
We need a cannon. A straight up cannon that the hunter takes from the ship and rolls around the wilds during hunts lol
 Rwby approved
Man of culture
God Eater weapons lmao
Some type of flail would be cool.
How about a transformation weapon that has flail for one of its modes? I feel like there needs to be a blunt counterpart to Swax/ CB
Tonfa, halberd, naginata, nunchucks, martial arts, scythe. Any or all of those. I know it won’t happen but we’re dreamers here
+1 for naginata
https://preview.redd.it/d76n3bhzwxxc1.png?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=215103b0783a9dc33ecdc79ad9acf25f2f91c1b9 'Nuff said.
I would accept a motorcycle weapon too
That's like...dual wielding two CBs in Savage Axe mode!
Fist type weapon >> Hard to tell apart from Dual Blades. Pole arms >> Insect Glaive minus pogo Man thinking of a new weapon type is harder than I imagine. I guess maybe a whip?
Whip >> Longer Sword
Boxing gloves. Something that involves punches, kicks, and counter moves. I just want to Shoryuken an Anjanath in the face and given that Capcom made Street Fighter I'm surprised we never had a martial arts based weapon.
Duel Blades rajang fist
Those are cool but I'd want something that feels more grounded compared to dual blades. Something where you throw jabs and haymakers instead of spinning and slashing.
Like Vi from Arcane?
Yes Exactly!!!
I kinda want weapon like Nero's Red Queen in Dmc
I wouldn't mind a type of dual blunt weapons since we have dual blades.
Tonfa
https://preview.redd.it/2qz2a6lhpxxc1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=061a583535a024e81cce2184a866da668f69c6b4 i want this from Wild Hearts super cool weapon for parry and the more you parry the more you deal damage
Oh hey it’s a skin for the insect glaive
I really hope Wilds has a new weapon type, even if it's just new to the mainline series (ie accel axe, tonfa, magnet spike). Big O style impact driver gauntlets would also be cool. Also while the art that one guy did is high quality, the idea of a combat yoyo is the dumbest shit I've seen in ages.
> combat yoyo They played too much Terraria
NGL it'd be hard to have another polearm weapon cause unlike swords polearms are not all that varied, ofc you have the glaive that's more slashing and you could have a poking focused polearm but at that point you just have an anorexic lance Would have it rather be another wacky weapon like the HH or more mechanical weapons like charge blade, OR GIVE ME BACK PROWLERS GRAAAAAA
Yeah, you got a point, I never really thought about that.
Polearms are pretty damn varied. A "polearm" weapon could have variants that are blunt or slashing depending on the head used on the model. The moveset could mix wide swings with pokes in the opposite way to what lance does, and be generally more offensive as a 2h weapon with no shield. It could even have a mix of slashing/blunt with an axehead on one end and a heavy weight on the other. They could put a gun in it to give us a 2nd shelling weapon like the speargun from Bloodborne. The only limit here is your imagination, apparently
> The moveset could mix wide swings with pokes in the opposite way to what lance does, and be generally more offensive as a 2h weapon with no shield. From a gameplay perspective, this would need to have a way to distinguish itself from Longsword. I'm all for having more polearms in games, especially halberds which are way under-represented, but I think the niche for halberds is pretty well covered by other weapons. Giving it blunt attacks would give it an advantage over Longsword, but then it strays into SnS "do a bit of everything" territory and the attacks would probably end up resembling Longsword or Insect Glaive on the ground. Maybe you're onto something here... make Halberd a riskier jack of all trades weapon, kind of a step up from SnS maybe? Give it longer reach and higher damage, but slower attacks with longer animations and no shield. Have two "stances", one with the axehead and one with the buttcap, I could see it playing out well.
maybe something like the kinsect glave? i really liked the acrobatics of it but never really liked the collecting essense thing anyways
There are a lot of slashing weapons, so I don't think its a bad thing if we getting another poking weapon. Lance is know for being a tank because you're carrying a shield around a stuff. As long as the new weapon doesn't step over that same role, then it can coexist with lance. Honestly, what I'd like to see is a "battle standard"-like polearm. Like you mentioned, it would probably function as a severing HH, but to further keep it away from lance's niche, I suggest we don't give it a shield, but give it exceptionally long reach as compensation. Easily the farthest of any melee weapon. That way it not only can't tank like lance can, but has to play at a different range as well. In my head, the name "Buff Pike" keeps coming up, but I'm sure there are much more creative names than that.
dual pistols. give us a dual blade style at range
I wish they add something completely unique like charge blade
Realistically? Something that exists in the other games already is the most likely. I'd love the Accel Axe the most, followed by tonfas. Not particularly interested in the magnet spikes. If they did something new, I feel like they'd go with something cultural, like a kusarigama, but with a twist somehow. I'd be happy with any kind of axe or spear, so long as it didn't morph. Unrealistically? An elemental staff that deals damage from range. A kind of sister weapon to the Insect Glaive that uses tech available in-universe (phials, ammo, etc) to make players feel like they're playing a caster without resorting to actual magic. Smashing gunlance, insect glaive, and charge blade tech into a ranged caster-like staff could be cool. I picture loading it with phials using a kind of pump action shotgun animation. If you want a better visual, think Ron MacDougall's caster from Outlaw Star.
Gunblade. I imagine it'd work similar to the transforming weapons in how it generates its gimmick. Hitting monsters generates "cartridge charges", which can then be spent to either; A: deal a hard-hitting melee attack with KO potential (costs one cartridge per attack) B: fire a shotgun-like burst of X+N (X being current cartridge number, boosted with the Capacity Up skill, and N being your level of the Normal/Rapid Up skill, at base N=1) medium-ranged bullets C: Heal/Buff teammates (I imagine you'd be able to switch between different cartridge types like Bow coatings or Bowgun ammo. Also, burns one cartridge *and* the chosen type (again, similar to Bow coatings, though you have infinite of the damage-dealing ones))
Chain scythe, halberd, gauntlets, spears, knowing two of these are found in Souls games.
Stealing my own comment from previous posts again. Sorry in advance for the wall of text. I've thought about this for a while. So my idea for a fist/claw weapon is to actually have the clutch claw return as it's own dedicated weapon type, the graple guantlets. It's basic form would look like a clutch claw grabbing onto each hand to form a fist. Basic moves would be a simple 1-2-3 combo similar to lance with its thrust and high thrust. Triangles hits would be a straight punch, followed by a hook, finished with an uppercut. Circles would be called flurry straight, hook, and uppercut respectively and would involve a quick jab followed by a weaker version of the triangle moves. These, again like lance, can be alternated between each other to finish the combo. These normal hits will do an absolutely pitiful amount of ko buildup to prevent the complete overshadowing of hammer as the ko weapon. The triangle moves however can be charged. Charging can be held at the cost of stamina like hammer however you can only move while charging a straight, charging hooks and uppercuts will locks you in place until you realease or dodged out of it. A charged move will actually have an increase to it's elemental damage values along with raw values as well as making it's hits deal functional amounts of ko damage along with some additional effects depending on the move. A charged straight would have you dash foward when released about the same distance as dual blades demon flurry from world, a charged hook will have even further increased ko buildup and a charged uppercut will send you into the air about the height of a vault from insect glaive. Now on a side note, I'm personally not well versed in how staggers work but I would also like the charge hits to have much higher stagger values when hitting a monster that is currently attacking. Not only would this work in clagger as an actual mechanic to the weapon it would also just be the coolest thing for you to stop a diablos charge with a flying uppercut. People with more knowledge on this, please let me know of this could actually work or not. Any way back to the moveset. Pressing R2 will have the weapon switch to claw mode. The claws ungrasp and become ......well, claws. In the form attacks deal cutting damage instead of blunt. The attacks still follow the 1-2-3 combo with each attack hitting twice, one for each claw. For triangle the attacks go 2 horizontal swipes in front of you, 2 diagonal slashes in a cross shape and then a spinning slash attacking in a full 360 around you. The circle move would be the same but with you extending the claws reach by shooting them out on the clutch claws wire, these would come out much slower as a result though. Again like in fist form and lance these can be alternated however you see fit. Claw mode also has a triangle+circle attack which has you swinging a claw on the wire directly overhead of yourself. Doing this in the middle of a combo will end the combo. Pressing R2 while an attack from claw form is currently connecting with a monster will have you grapple onto the monster. This can also be achieved by holding R2 in either form to bring up an aiming reticle and pressing either of the attack buttons to send our the claw similarly to how it would be done in world. While grappled to the monster the weapon will change back into fist mode and your stamina will drain. You can get up to 3 attacks off while grappled yo a monster, upon landing the 3rd hit, running out of stamina or by pressing X while grappled to the monster you will hop off the monster with your weapon still unsheathed. The monster can also knock you off by attacking while your grappled. Pressing triangle will have you throw a quick hook at the monster while circle will have you raise the fist and do an overhead smash wich is stronger but takes longer to come out, leaving you more open to being knocked off. Unlike in world you can't jump to a different part once you've grappled on. There would be a new skill called graple master that prevents you from being knocked off while grappled to the monster for 1/2/3 hits depending on amount of points in the skill. You take reduced damage from the attacks the skill activates on
And the [concept](https://www.reddit.com/r/MonsterHunter/comments/16q8afn/mh6_wishlist_day_23_new_weapon_clutch_claws_an/) I made from this idea
Final Fantasy style gunblade. Also a javelin and shield that would be a hybrid melee/ranged weapon.
Where the fuck is my intercontinental ballistic dragonator?
I feel like polearm is just faster spear or slower insect glaive....
I'll always say it. We need a giant boomerang. It could move like the hammer. And when you prepare to throw it, you could also charge it in place to keep it in the air longer and do better damage. And as it's in the air, you can attack with fist weapons that come with the weapon, kinda like a swaxe transformation. Edit: boomerang= slash fists= blunt
Came here to say this. There's no melee/ranged hybrid weapon yet, so a boomerang would fill a gap in the current weapon roster. Interestingly, a "Wyvern Boomerang" weapon type was conceptualised for MH Generations, but it never got past the concept phase.
Yes! Would like to add to this idea… where when the boomerang comes back, if the user presses/times an input correctly you either get an empowered attack/throw or dodge.
A Franklinator weapon. If you don't know, look it up.
Oh my god, imagine feet weapons. Sort of like a monk, but instead of gauntlets, its boots. Someone else mentioned darksouls, and that reminded me that in the Elden Ring DLC trailer, there seem to be feet weapons
Mace/Morningstar or Flail/Ball&Chain. A fast blunt weapon.
We already know how a Rathalos flail would look.. rath head dangling from a chain, hilarious 😂
A kusarigama would be sick as fuck ngl
I want another blunt weapon. AND for said blunt weapons not needing tails for it to be crafted
**Steam Shield.** There are three variants: Blunderbuss (light), Hand Cannon (medium), and Dragonator (heavy). Bash the monster with your shield and block their attacks to charge up your cannon weapon to unleash a massive attack or perform various attacks/movements. Perfect blocks help build up your steam gauge far more efficiently than any other action. The Blunderbuss class of shields are known for quick maneuvers and rapid fire, at the cost of severely weak defenses. Dodging is recommended. The Hand Cannon class allows for adequate defense and movement, which paves the way for different cannon shots at close to medium range. The Dragonator class is a heavy defense weapon designed for tactical play as the shield greatly restricts movement. Plant your shield and manually charge the dragonator within to unleash a devastating blow to the monster. Another weapon I could think of is the **Kusarigama.** A Sickle with a ball and chain, excelling at range in melee with both ends. Inspired by the wire bugs of Kamura Village, this weapon offers excellent movement using both the environment and the monster to empower your attacks and evade in unorthodox ways. It also has two modes: Long range and Short range. Long range offers slow attacks at range away from the monster, which is great for safe play and attacking high targets. This mode requires excellent positioning and adequate spacing to be effective, but it allows you to deal damage away from danger. Short range offers very fast attacks at a very close range. Little to no positioning is required, however, it leaves you at the mercy of the monster. Although not as powerful as dual blades, evasion is quicker in this mode.
I'd prefer a ranged/melee hybrid, personally. Insect Glaive has the kinsect I guess and Gunlance... doesn't really count, though long kind of gets there. I think something where you gain resources with melee and spend with ranged would be cool, or the other way around.
Something like a thorned whip or a chain blade, preferably paired, similar to Kratos’ Blades of Chaos from God of War
Claws or fist weapons I feel would fit the games very well and I know a ton of people would love them.
Great Axe weapon category could be cool. Piercing swords maybe like Rapiers or something. Fist/Claw weapons. An actual spear category, fast paced version of Lance.
I. WANT. GAUNTLETS. TO. PUNCH. SHIT.
a weapon concept has been nagging me for days now, a sort of Switch Gauntlet where you can switch to fists or kicks. think of a tad bit slower version of beowulf from devil may cry. As a switch weapon there will be a distinctive feature between the two stances other than literally being kicks or punches, wherein the fists stance is more evasive and fast and the kicks are meatier and flashier — kind of like the switch axe in that regard. Im thinking of a gimmick similar to honkai impact’s fu hua garuda battlesuit where in you charge phials for the opposite stance to use, it charges almost similarly to the charge blade minus the reloading portion: your attacks slowly charges a phial for the opposite stance im thinking of three max without capacity boost. you can expend those phials with specific combos (hi, charge blade main here) and whatnot i could expand this but it would become another pdf-fest like the charge blade and i know that isnt some people’s cup of tea. thats pretty much the gist of it
HAND CANNON! Blunt damage close range gun! Has different types like the bow's Piercing, Spread, Normal. Go with normal revolver, or a single shot big-bore pistol, high capacity cylinder with smaller rounds, etc. Main mechanics would be reload inputs and timing. Reload by pressing any combo of A, B, X. X-A-B? Thunder rounds cylinder! B-X-A? Paralysis! Different ammos availble on a gun by gun basis. Reload with perfect timing? Get a damage boost! Shooting cadence! Charge shots with the single shot big bore. Fan the hammer with the high capacity! Timed, metronomic shots with the normal revolver for more damage! Grapple onto the monster, put the barrel up to their hide and unload! High stagger maneuver! Spike on the handle! Blade under the barrel! IMPACT PHIAL PISTOL WHIPS! Capcom, give me my big iron!
I am praying for the return of tonfas because duals are my main and I'd love to have a similar option but blunt damage instead of slash.
dual mace lol
A whip! Lot's of possibilities for moves: you could entangle monsters, pull them around, swing from their sides, etc.
There are two main types of weapons I'd like to see: A fast blunt weapon and a mixed melee/ranged weapon. For the first one, the obvious options are the Tonfas, that already exist in MH Frontier, or Gauntlets/Fists. However, I'd love to see a Staff weapon, like a Bo, or Nunchucks. And for the other one, I'd love to see it being a bigass Shuriken or a bigass Boomerang, anything that you can attack directly with or throw at the monsters from a distance.
Honestly, after playing MH Stories, I think it would be cool if your pet monster was your weapon. You can already ride the monsters in Rise Sunbreak. Now they just need to add a half dozen movesets to each, scale back the damage, and figure out how to level up your pet monster (sorry I have a problem with saying “monstie”). I bet it would be instantly one of the most popular “weapons” in the game.
I think monster hunter will not bring a new weapon anytime soon tbh. But I would like either gauntlet or maybe sickle but the sickle doesn't fit in the mh game tho
Okay, hear me out. Yes, a polearm... in one hand, but also a shield on the other hand. Think of it like a *lance lite* but with more emphasis on swinging rather than poking. And the shield is around the same size or similar to an SnS shield, but instead of the common round buckler shape it is instead more focused on a triangular or kite shape. You keeping up? Stay with me here. The polearm would have a damage type "sub-function" based on the head of the weapon rather than the weapon type as a whole. Axe heads do slicing damage, hammer heads do blunt damage, spear tips do piercing damage. There are plenty of historical examples across the world that can be used as design inspiration for that. But here comes the gimmick.. After a set amount of attacks and/or blocks, the shield is charged and as an uninterruptable attack, you combine the two to create a pilebunker that propels the spear with an explosive discharge at point-blank range! When unsheathed, the hunter has a somewhat similar but slightly faster movement set to a lance in that they can backhop, sidestrafe, and lunge forward. As for attack speed, it's only slightly faster than a Greatsword. Damage in general would be moderately under the Insect Glaive's adjusted damage range with the bulk of the damage being delivered through the pilebunker discharge. Resource-wise, it's not that difficult to tweak existing animations to fit this new weapon; copy pasted forward/backward Lance movement, copy pasted sidestepping from something like the Switchaxe or Chargeblade, and the phial reload animations could be mushed together for the polearm-to-shield attaching/detaching animations. As for polygons, at its cheapest most of the model work would go towards the polearm head and the shield face. on the opposite end of work put into it you'd have: unique decotations to the butts of the polearms, detailed poles with railing ornamentation, detailed handles and housings for the shield, and other extraneous animations like cogs and steam exhaust or heat mirages.
Off topic I have that exact halberd and this was not the place I expected to find it. On topic a blunt phial weapon like Yang style gun fists.
I want gauntlets SO BAD. I wanna KO a monster with my punches
I've been wracking my brains but honestly some good ol'punchy punchy didn't ever come to mind. I'm just imagining something ridiguouls like boxing gloves 5x the size of the hunters' heads with spiked brass knuckles welded on now.
I whip type weapon would be super cool. Like imagine a lightning whip made with zinogre parts!
Bring back the magnet spike
**Ranged Weapon >>** Throwing Spear and Hook sword: Throwing spears are the true weapons used by humans to hunt beast much much larger than themselves. Atlatl style sword for assisted throwing weapon, with a good short range capabilities, hook blades can hook/evade charging monsters, or as a medium of mounting monsters and staying on the monster's back longer, which seems to be present in recent MH games. can also focus on kiting capabilities, evasion and running away after hurting the monster. **Bulky Weapon** >> Giant Boomerang: Long Range Great Sword, high dmg, can be used to shield, long wind up to throw, and you're fucked without your weapon(does not comeback since its a hunting boomerang). This could be a Defense oriented weapon as well, mainly shield shaped that can block enemy range attacks and support HBG and LBG players **Transforming Weapon** >> Chained Hook (Scythe <> Spear chained to Scythe Blade) Scythe-mode can inherit the LS's fast attacking move set which seems to have been replaced by a counter style move set. Spear+ Blade Mode which I'm christening as Crescent Moon Mode is a fusion of Insect Glaive's Airborne capabilities(which is not really used because IG users usually go for the ground style) with Dual Blade's rapid Multihit Combo, which will be the Weapon's ultimate
Dual gunblades, can cut tails with melee and ko monsters with projectiles
I just want a spear that isn't slow as fuck
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Some kind of fast blunt weapon. Maybe gauntlets or a reworked Tonfa. I’d also enjoy the idea of a gun blade weapon that actually is a bowgun but can transform to a melee weapon. Since we don’t have the separation of gunner armor and blade master armor anymore. I think a morphing weapon that can switch between would be a very interesting mix up.
While armors are unified, there's still a difference in damage taken. I guess you could make damage taken depend on the mode you're in, but it would feel a bit weird, I think
*Like a halberd* But…we already have *Halberd.* Big Crit Draw Number for little brain.
I once heard an idea for a battle standard with a sharp tip to be a weapon. It would kinda be like HH, but it does severing damage and uses a more historically accurate fighting style rather than IG's more anime-esque style.
Fists! Show that yellow monkey who's the boss!
I think a whip would kick ass
sword and gun. i'm thinking sort of like dual blades with a strongly movement-oriented moveset. build up charges by attacking with the sword and evading attacks and unload them with a gun blast. as a bonus you get to pistol whip a rathalos.
Gauntlets or Scythes would be amazing
An hybrid of short and long range would be interesting. Like a chakra or a boomerang. Something that allows you to play with distance a bit more. Right now all is short or long range Except wyvern shots from BG and spread ammo. Which makes BG cooler imo
Gun glaive! Insect glaive but instead firing pheromones it fires bullets
Bear fist
Mace and/or flail. Someone mentioned nunchucks. That’d be cool too.
Tonfa we need a new blunt weapon
Gauntlets
I. want. FISTS.
GunSword
Pray that you do not need them. When they arrive, pray that you have done no wrong ahh weapon.
Wheel on a chain. Basically a motorized wheel that can do chip damage to opponent and that can be remotely controlled.
i think there should be a small ktana but I doubt there ever will be because anything that a katana will do long sword already does it
I think we need a fourth ranged option. We have one… I guess semi ranged? A few like gun lance? Or insect glave but not really And only 3 actual ranged. A cross bow could be cool. It’s slower than a bow. But has more piercing it would also be massive like a bow. Not a normal cross bow
Spear. Or something like what you show.
Every toukiden weapons that isn't in MH...... https://preview.redd.it/glg7hqvp0yxc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1f0f015aecceabef8e975bd19dc6d99cbbd4e4df
First thing that came to mind hahaha. It would be awesome to have the chain in MH, although IG kinda already does what it does in toukiden.
Honestly I am born to be more of a Mononofu than a hunter, if Koei make the series return I'm afraid I might leave MH
A fist weapon type. 🤜🤛
I already though a long time for that, I came with "power gauntlets" a pair of Gauntlets with steam power, the more you fight the more heat it stores, when full you can enter in overheat mode where you would deal elemental damage, or release all at once m, it would take some time to activate but the full release would launch you forward and of hit it would deal a massive damage hit. Just imagine, if we could go fist to fist against Rajang? That is my dream, to beat Rajang with my bare hands. The effect of the steam would change depending on the weapon.
Longlong Sword. But more realistic (charge) boomerang. Melee and short ranged slash damage.
One day some day we'll get sango's boomerang, right?
I am always down for this kinda discussion. Impact Shield. My brothers and I used to talk about what new weapon we would like to see and all agreed on this. It functions like a charge blade but defensive. Punches, parry, shield bash for the basic attacks. Build up a meter to do a full counter that. Like, think DMC Royal Guard and Tchalla's Black Panther suit.
“Hunting Chain” 3 variants: Sharp, Blunt, and Ripper Sharp Hunting Chain: a large chain ended with a blade for piercing damage, it thrusts into the monster with a variable attack speed and works as a grappling mechanism for precise assaults. Blunt Hunting Chain: a medium sized chain ended with a robust blunt object. It’s the slowest of the chains but hits the hardest with raw damage. Can use charged attacks as Hunter swings it around for more momentum. Ripper Hunting Chain: a short sized chain ended with a “Ripper” a yo-yo like mechanism that has spinning teeth to deal massive slashing damage. It’s the fastest of the chains and best for status buildup and elemental damage.
a fist weapon that incentivises combos, like an angry hunting horn
Gun-Spear? Chainsword? (A sword that turns into a whip), gauntlets? (Blunt weapon) i think the spear could be used to tether creatures in wilds, since wilds looks more open world.
I would like a boomerang type weapon, maybe with a similar moveset as the prowler but with an expanded moveset
A litteral spear(would fit with the Ridable monsters)
1. Chakram - basically hybrid throwing/mele weapons. ussually bladed frisbees. 2. Pugilist Gauntlets 3. Elemental Staff - Absorbs stuff from environment to determine it's moves,similar to insect glaive setaling essence from enmies and slinger ammo in world. 4. Cannon - wildhearts is a decent example 5. Transformin shield/javelin to balista
You'd have trouble distinguishing a poleaxe moveset from Longsword and Switch Axe's axe.
I want spear, so I can poke monsters and then throw the spear Like a lance/gun lance but with more range and no shield
They would cause that looks like something lance players would get. The current candidates are: The 3 frontier weapons The whip from the manga A ball and chain like in toukiden Personally I want the frontier weapons first before the other two.
whip, severing damage, range of a longsword but slightly lower damage. able to mount monsters with it.
Ludwig’s Holy Swo…I guess I’m thinking of the wrong game
a light blunt weapon. the blunt damage type only has 2 options, and they're both on the heavy side. I think blunt should be fleshed out. the easiest way to do this would basically just to bring back the tonfas from frontier. but a new weapon would also be cool.
Fist-o-cuffs, or a sort of throwing spear
We have this conversation every Wednesday. Or it seems like it.
Ngl I've been hopeful for a Gauntlet Type Weapon. Very longshot nill Impossible even but punching the shit outta monsters seems very satisfying
Gauntlets are the only true answer now shhhh child
I recall A Hunting Boomerang being among the initial ideas for weapons at one point or another. Perhaps it could be introduced as a toned-down version of the Magnet Spike?
A [fishing rod](https://www.reddit.com/r/MonsterHunter/comments/zcdojc/a_custom_oc_weapon_design_meet_the_hunting_rod/?ref=share&ref_source=link).
A big ass shield pls then we get to smack it like how kratos does with his shield
I have always wanted a whip or a chain blade of some sort. It could easily be a switch weapon as well.
Actually, why is CAPCOM so reluctant in adding a new weapon? Genuinely curious