Tencent will be releasing a second expansion for Monster Hunter Online on June 28. In this new expansion, there will be a new hunting area, new systems, and most importantly 8 new monsters will be coming to us!

Below are the 8 new monsters (consists of existing and exclusive monsters that are only in MHO)

1. White Monoblos

2. Lavasioth

3. Chameleos

4. Gravios

5. Fire attribute Blangonga (MHO exclusive)

6. Merphistophelin subspecies (MHO exclusive Elder Dragon)

7. Slicemargl subspecies (MHO exclusive)

8. Rajang

Volcano map will be released in this second expansion. Here is a preview of it.

Other contents which will be released in the expansion includes new equipment system, an increase in max level cap from 40 to 50, higher rarity of felyne cats available and also a new hunting model. These contents are not yet released in details and will only be available when the expansion is nearer to date. Stay tune for even more updates!

Source: http://mho.qq.com/webplat/info/news_version3/5499/5500/5501/5502/m4028/201606/476838.shtml

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Patch notes for 17 March

1. New elite monster : Slicemargl (can be unlocked in HR3/4 Elite)

2. New armour registration function. Players can now register armour sets to easily switch between armours

3. Armour appearance changing functions. Players can now change their armour appearance to other armour appearance while retaining the armour skills and stats

4. Costume set animation. Equipping a full set of costume activates a unique animation for the particular costume. Currently only works on the snow costume set

5. Added long sword achievements. Same as lance achievement

6. New cash stuffs

7. Smoothen walking animation when sheathing weapon and sprint

8. Increase the turning speed when sheathing weapon

Long Sword Changes

1. Stepping vertical slash – Action speed increase, accumulation of spirit gauge increase and after using stepping vertical slash, follow up of normal vertical slash becomes smoother

2. Vertical slash – Action speed increase, 2nd vertical slash combo animation becomes smoother

3. Spirit gauge 1st bar – Action speed increase

4. Spirit gauge 2nd bar – Action speed increase

5. Spirit gauge 3rd bar – Action speed increase

6. Piercing attack – Accumulation of spirit gauge decrease

7. Horizontal slash ( Follow up after piercing attack) – Accumulation of spirit gauge decrease, animation time increase, action speed decrease

8. Evading slash (Directional key + Left click) – accumulation of spirit gauge decrease, no longer consume stamina and change of keys from directional key + left click to left click + right click

9. Spirit slash – After animation, you can now evade to cancel the sheathing animation

10. Sheathing spirit slash – No longer consumes spirit

11. Talent 气刃再生 – When spirit drains at 3rd bar, it will drop to 2nd bar instead of 1st bar

12. Talent 气刃再续 – Change of name to 大开大合. When using Half-moon slash (right click), you can now evade to cancel the sheathing animation

Sword and Shield

1. Talent 动如脱兔 – Works normally now

Gun Lance

1. Charge shot with follow up defensive piercing attack works normally now

Monsters Changes

1. Monsters no longer cause 2 damage instances instead of 1

2. Removal of dusts animation when tigrex is spinning so as to not disrupt the vision of players

3. Monoblos no longer gets stuck to objects

Hunting Ground Changes

1. Match making interface reduce in size. Interface will pop up at the last 5s of ready up.

2. There will be a more clear indication on the map when players have completed main quests.

Royal Hunting Ground Changes

1. Completing any 3 of the royal hunts and achievements will be completed

Arena Changes

1. Passing of ultimate no longer displays error 

Consumables, Storage and Misc Changes

1. Auto arrange now works properly

2. Pressing enter when searching items in storage now works

3. When weapon awakening is activated, the relevant buffs can be viewed in character information (P)

4. Improves the armour skills UI. Not activated skills – Grey text, Activated skills – Green text, Negative skills – Red text

5. Removing listed objects in AH now comes with a fee of 20% of the current bid in silver

6. More details of fees will be sent to seller via mail when the transaction is completed in the AH

7. Traps planted by felyne cats now displays in the minimap

8. Felyne cats now properly plant pitfall traps in battle

9. Cat food buffs no longer shows beside character name but in character information (P)

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- Group finder will now cause the MHO icon in your desktop taskbar to light up and blink when a group is found

- Search function added to achievement window (the place where you see the hunter star requisites)
- Added a quick-flip button in the achievement window, clicking it will flip 5 pages at once.

- Felyne armors will now be sent to your mailbox if your inventory is full
- HR Cert 1s (古文书·一), the pink paper you get when you complete a 1 or 2 star-rank HR bounty quest, can now be traded-up for HR Cert 2s (those you get for 3 and 4 star-rank HR bounty quests) at the Mysterious Peddler (神秘商人), with a markup of 200 silver per trade-up.

- Usage of the Hot-air balloon to travel from 米拉德村 (Milarde Village, the starting village with a blacksmith) to 梅杰波尔谈 (Mezzaporta, the biggest town with access to the felyne quest area) as well as vice versa is now free-of-charge(Used to cost 1000 silver per trip).
- Hot-air balloon tickets are now no longer used, any currently-held tickets can be sold to NPCs for 1000 silver each.

- New cash shop items: 银袋子 and 玉匣子

List of bug fixes:
- Fixed Lance charge speed too slow
- Fixed Lance defensive strike too little animation delay
- Fixed Akura Vashimu sometimes would appear to drift when turning
- Fixed Red SGR's fireball would not mesh properly when it hit the ground
- Fixed a total loss of farm points after sex change as reported by some hunters
- Fixed bowgunners getting stuck when attempting to slide/dodge while having no stamina to do so
- Fixed occassional spontaneous incinerations in the Special SGR maps when operating the cannons and ballistas
- Fixed overtly flashy special effects were when Rathalos is captured by pitfall/shock traps
- Fixed disappearing NPCs due to players not completing the SGR quest
- Lance will now burn the correct amount of stamina when charging
- Optimized physics for scarves
- Fixed the names for certain Yian Garuga materials, they can now be properly searched for via the inventory search function as well as the AH search function
- Optimized the battle against the Green Yian Kut-ku on-board the airship
- Optimized the first step positioning of hunters ( I think this allows you to take small steps more controllably by lightly tapping wasd, should be good in some felyne quests where you have to find items on the ground with a detector)
- Optimized some NPC constume meshes
- Added in the Lance movelist: You can also charge by pressing "V"
- Players can no longer abandon SGR quests

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Patch Notes for 1/3 (2am - 8am GMT+8)

New contents:

1. Added new monster Tigrex which will be included in HR elite 2
2. Added unstable monsters in Rathalos hunts
3. Rathalos and Tigrex now appears in unstable environment
4. To access HR 3/4 hunts, it now requires unlocking of any 3 HR elite 1 monsters instead of the designated 3 (Ice chramine, Swordmaster shogun ceanataur and Akura Vashimu)
5. Added 2 sub species of Shen Gaoren (Only available on weekends)
6. Added air battle hunts
7. Added Lance event. Upon completion of the event, players will be rewarded with jewels and 5 talent coins fragments
8. Added Tigrex simulator hunt. Players above level 20 can enter to do trial hunts against Tigrex.
9. Normal Shen Gaoren is now available any day of the week (originally only on weekends). However, it can only be completed 3 times per week.
10. New weapon : Lance
11. Added a numerous amount of cash costumes and items
12. New achievements added. Complete the required hunts with assigned weapons and be rewarded with weapon talent coins fragments. For now, only lance is available.
13. Changes to cat revive ticket system. Upon receiving cat revive tickets, it will automatically be charged into your cat revive tickets reserve instead of having to right click from inventory before charging into the reserves.
14. Added cat kitchen near the entrance of hunts
15. Added the features to cook meat in towns
16. Removed CNY decorations
17. Improves the UI of bow and gun lance in farm
18. Inactive guild clearance. Every Monday 3am GMT+8, guilds with EVERY members not logged in for more than 30days will be automatically disbanded. Any items in guild storage will be deleted. Guild members will be reimbursed contributions points to be used when joining new guilds
19. New guild regulations. Guild members who joined less than 24hours cannot be kicked.
20. Guild group quests rewards now gives silver to players instead of contributing to the guild. In addition, lowers the experience needed to level up guild.
21. Increase user experience when using the controller. Upon restarting MHO, system will not automatically change to controller mode.
22. Re balancing of the skill Evade. Evade +1 now increases the iframe by 0.08s, Evade +2 now increases the iframe by 0.15s and Evade +3 now increases the iframe by 0.2s
23. Upon a full inventory, players can still claim the daily cat treasure rewards
24. Deletion of indestructible and not in use quests items
25. Increase the effect of defense ability UP
26. Adjustments to skill jewels rarity

Bug Fix:

1. Attacking cat companion no longer reduces sharpness
2. Pierce bullets for bow guns no longer bugs with no damage at some hunts
3. Blue Yian Kut-Ku charge attack during rage mode no longer damage players twice
4. Khezu and Shogun Ceanataur can be carved when killed on the ceiling of the cave
5. Weapon instructor no longer disappears randomly in basic weapon trainings
6. Pirate cat no longer disappears randomly during HR hunts
7. Players’ statues outside royal guild hall no longer has costumes effects
8. Captured monsters can no longer be attacked upon reconnection of game
9. Fixes to merchant quests – Hunting of Rathian (狩猎繁殖期雌火龙). Map symbol now indicated correctly when turning in eggs to Shakala
10. Estrellian’s firefly no longer stuck in maps causing graphical lags
11. Upon gender change, all amours’ displays now follow the current gender
12. Costume effects now works properly under low graphics settings
13. Party information now displays the correct weapons each player equips instead of being great sword
14. Icon of red khezu now displays correctly instead of khezu icon
15. Bow no longer floats in the air in rare situations
16. Hired NPC now climbs with players to enter next map
17. Sword and shield can no longer be in defend stance and left click allowing unlimited combos to be used
18. Skill Stumbling Tactics (倒地之力) now works properly
19. Prolonged AFK in town no longer crashes MHO client
20. VIP logos can be differentiated easily
21. Rolling now rolls in the correct direction as intended 

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New stuffs! 
- Gender change ticket (able to change your gender and appearance)

Changes!
- New cat ticket system : Once you are incapacitated, if you choose not to revive or the timer goes off, you will be deemed permanently dead status and the hunt continues. When you are in permanently dead status, you will not receive any rewards from the quests (exp, gold, materials). However, you can keep any gathering items gathered in the hunt before you became dead status. Players who used contract system to enter hunt will lose the silver if you are in dead status. Note that for solo hunts, you will be automatically deemed as quest failure if you became dead status.

- Improves gunlance reloading time.

- Improvement to contract system. Once selected contract system for the hunt, there will be an obvious alert which alerts you that you are in contract system to prevent you from selecting the wrong options for hunt.

- Improvements to controller mode. You can now choose which buttons you want (previously it's default and cant be altered)

- Adjustments to some gunlance skills. Increase the distance travelled for forward attack, forward gun attack and back evade. Reduce the distance moved for side step evade.

- Players can now check on other players activated armour skills

Bugs Fixed!
- Fixed a rare chance whereby there will be a chance of getting stuck when using bow

- Items no longer becomes soulbound when ticked the options of crafting it to be tradeable

- Long sword 拔刀集气斩 talent works normally even after revive (previously buff is removed after revive)

- Long sword 拔刀集气斩 now displays the buff correctly

- Great sword 乾坤一击 talent now works properly with critical draw (previously there's no critical when using this talent)

- Upon re connection after a disconnect of game, cat ticket usage UI appears upon death (previously cat ticket options does not pop up for re connectors)

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1. Guild merchant no longer disappears randomly
2. Improves UI which prevents unnecessary DCs
3. Solves the problem of client crash when leaving the new year event maps

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Good day my fellow hunters, first and foremost, I would to apologize if there is any layout issues with the blog as I am in the midst of editing. This post will be just talking about the upcoming patches in MHO and what is going to be implemented. 

For the upcoming content from Feb-March,

1. Release of the Lance weapon. YAY!!!
2. New monsters, so far the only known one would be Sub-species Shen Gaoren
3. Air battle : Hunters will be on air ship defending against incoming monsters preventing the air ship from being destroyed and reach the checkpoint safely

More details will be released soon when the day of the patch is near~

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Improvements and Rebalancing

1. Re-balancing of Long Sword
   - Spirit slash(the skill that changes your spirit bar to another tier) animation increased
   - Increase the amount of spirits accumulated per hit
   - Damage increase for 1^st tier and 2^nd tier spirit gauge
   - Increase the duration of 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd tier spirit gauge before it drains out
2. Increase Success rate of awakening weapons and greatly reduce the cost of reactivating awakened weapons
3. Adjustments to contract system. When entering unstable environment hunts under the contract system, it does not contribute to the daily limit. Also, unstable environment will no longer be triggered under contract system.
4. Mailbox notification will no longer appear when in hunt
5. Adjustments to ‘乱步奇面舞会’( A mini game event whereby it’s a 4v4 format and teams have to kill monsters to accumulate points. First to 100 wins. Teams also have items given to distract opponents). It will be available every day from 8pm to 10pm GMT+8
6. Adjustments to ‘乱步奇面舞会’. At the end of the match, it will now display how much tokens you have won in that match and not the total amount of tokens you currently have.
7. Adjustments to ratings (which determines your trophy; bronze, silver, gold, platinum) given at the end of hunts. DPS now contributes a higher percentage to hunt ratings.
8. Improves the effect of Defense Ability +2. Reduce HP loss when parrying attacks.
9. Cash shop now displays whether items can be purchased by cash (点券) or secondary currency (猎币)
10. Felyne shops now shows the grade of felyne
11. Improves the animation when entering gachapon section in cash shop
12. Improves the display style of HR experience bar 

New Content

1.           Chinese New Year event from 6^th Feb to 22^th Feb. Players can collect letters to exchange for permanent costumes and felyne costumes

2.           New treasure hunting system. After every hunts, players are able to enter into treasure hunting mode and be rewarded with different monsters drop and consumables

3.           New valentine costume (Only exclusive for this valentine season!)

4.           New cash item package (战力突破礼包)

5.           New cash costume package (上架心羽双枕·S礼包)

6.           New valentine costume package (白色恋人超值礼包)

7.           New Chinese New Year red packets (randomly awarded with 2888, 3888, 5888, 8888, 18888 silver. Limited to 50 per player

8.           New cash headdress

9.           New cash item (火花金猴献端). Can be used as an aid to complete the CNY event easily

Bug fix

1.           Materials needed to craft Tartaronis weapon are now being displayed correctly

2.           Colour of dyed costume are now displayed correctly on character selection screen

3.           Options for selecting either contract system or hunting ticket system no longer disappeared

4.           Monoblos no longer stuck on trees

5.           Unstable environment monsters no longer disappeared out of the maps

6.           Shen Gaoren has minimal chance of getting stuck at area 1

7.           Gunlance side step works normally

8.           Story quest (消灭梅拉露狩猎) has minimal chance of not working as intended (wrong data displayed)

9.           When going for hunts with insufficient hunting tickets, interface works correctly

10.       Players can exit their farms when they are in a party of more than 4

11.       Replies from mail now work correctly when replying to a non VIP player

12.       Purple gypceros no longer appear as unstable environment monster in a purple gypceros hunt

13.       Snowy mountain no longer spawns an overwhelming number of small monsters

14.       Players no longer have display problems when entering cash shop after they login the game immediately

15.       Hammer and hunting horn now causes scar on monsters

16.       Higher rank players can now accept sub quest (高难度考核一)

17.       Rewards now displays correctly when entering mentor hunts with contract system ticked

18.       Weapon costumes’ animation now works properly

19.       Fix a bug whereby system does not respond when accepting party invite using controller

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