thank you for giving me a guilty concience. I already try to capture all dragons and wyverns in mhw because i despite killing them and never concidered this perspective ;_;

Look, in the Hunter's defense, most of the times they hunt is because a monster is going rampage and threatening the local ecosystem and food chain or a nearby settlement, which would cause an environmental disaster or a lot of deaths. When you hunt a monster, it's normally explained WHY you are hunting them in the quest description.
In canon, most hunters try to capture the monster, but there are time which that is impossible (Elder Dragons for an example). And, whenever a hunter cuts off a part of the monster, it's a part that can grow back, such as it's tail or spikes.
But yeah, Player Hunter don't follow such cannon, so I understand them being called heartless hunters.

dragon_monarch said:
Look, in the Hunter's defense, most of the times they hunt is because a monster is going rampage and threatening the local ecosystem and food chain or a nearby settlement, which would cause an environmental disaster or a lot of deaths. When you hunt a monster, it's normally explained WHY you are hunting them in the quest description.
In canon, most hunters try to capture the monster, but there are time which that is impossible (Elder Dragons for an example). And, whenever a hunter cuts off a part of the monster, it's a part that can grow back, such as it's tail or spikes.
But yeah, Player Hunter don't follow such cannon, so I understand them being called heartless hunters.

You will also notice that the monster said "lower lifeforms" and that is very telling of what they think of other sentient creatures that are not them.

If the bloody craftsmen could make a sword for the life of one Wyvern instead of 5/6/8 and not be wasteful with the parts, you'd probably be hunted a lot less, in all fairness. Blame them. Plus, it's just the circle of life.

We kill you, to make stuff from your corpse, so we can kill you and others better.

dragon_monarch said:
Look, in the Hunter's defense, most of the times they hunt is because a monster is going rampage and threatening the local ecosystem and food chain or a nearby settlement, which would cause an environmental disaster or a lot of deaths. When you hunt a monster, it's normally explained WHY you are hunting them in the quest description.
In canon, most hunters try to capture the monster, but there are time which that is impossible (Elder Dragons for an example). And, whenever a hunter cuts off a part of the monster, it's a part that can grow back, such as it's tail or spikes.
But yeah, Player Hunter don't follow such cannon, so I understand them being called heartless hunters.

I'm a capturer myself. canon or not it just makes more sense. though it says something for hunter skill to be a skilled person of capturing monsters to be studied without needing to completely maul them. (several academy npcs throughout the games seem genuinely surprised you're so good at it.)

Why is shamrock not under characters. he's not that much of an item

dragon_monarch said:
Look, in the Hunter's defense, most of the times they hunt is because a monster is going rampage and threatening the local ecosystem and food chain or a nearby settlement, which would cause an environmental disaster or a lot of deaths. When you hunt a monster, it's normally explained WHY you are hunting them in the quest description.
In canon, most hunters try to capture the monster, but there are time which that is impossible (Elder Dragons for an example). And, whenever a hunter cuts off a part of the monster, it's a part that can grow back, such as it's tail or spikes.
But yeah, Player Hunter don't follow such cannon, so I understand them being called heartless hunters.

Wait... Because you think that this world's ecosystem waited on hunters to solve its prey/predator balance?
Admitedly, the trophic dynamics are very poorly simulated... I wouldn't expect much more from a game made in Japan, which hunts sharks and whales...