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Monster Hunter Favoured Enemy List Restricted
« on: April 23, 2022, 09:59:09 PM »
The monster hunter PRC's list of favoured enemies list appears to be missing a number of primarily humanoid races with the curious exception of half orc.

This is either a bug as the list is incomplete, or the bug is that this restriction isn't noted in the wiki or the class resources on the forum.

Given the gothic horror themes of the corruption of man, the exclusion of human from the list seems particularly jarring. It's also not clear if this interacts witth Studied foe, eg if you pick up favoured enemy human via ranger, if the undocumented restrictions on MH mean it won't function.

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Re: Monster Hunter Favoured Enemy List Restricted
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2022, 01:15:28 AM »
The corruption of man it speaks of in the class is exclusively hunting men that have become cursed to be monsters.  They're not hunting monstrous individuals in terms of their activities, crimes and proclivities; they are individuals who are experts in the understanding of non human monstrous creatures, which are an even bigger part of the Gothic Horror of the server.  A monster hunter looks at a beasts corruption of humanity through the damage that they cause first and foremost.  They're not manhunters themselves, that belongs to a range of other classes.

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Re: Monster Hunter Favoured Enemy List Restricted
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2022, 02:10:14 AM »
The class focuses on hunting monsters, not humanoids, however monstrous they might be in their own right. Ranger has the full list, if one would desire, and I would personally advocate for removing half-orcs from MH's Favored Enemies.

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Re: Monster Hunter Favoured Enemy List Restricted
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2022, 07:25:12 AM »
Sadly it isn't a topic of debate. If they are excluded on purpose that's fine - But it should still be documented!

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Re: Monster Hunter Favoured Enemy List Restricted
« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2022, 07:29:30 AM »
Monster Hunters also have undocumented restrictions on what turn undead feats they can take, if I recall correctly.
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Re: Monster Hunter Favoured Enemy List Restricted
« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2022, 08:00:48 AM »
Monster Hunters also have undocumented restrictions on what turn undead feats they can take, if I recall correctly.

Would be good to have those documented too - Along with anything else that isn't mentioned!

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Re: Monster Hunter Favoured Enemy List Restricted
« Reply #6 on: April 24, 2022, 10:10:28 AM »
Anyone can edit the wiki and add relevant information. It's not documented for the same reason we don't document why paladins don't get all divine spells, warmages don't get all arcane spells, etc.

And as others have mentioned, this isn't a bug.