User blog comment:Democide/5th anniversary and new element/ailment contest/@comment-27975092-20160816013434

My idea : Corrosion (it already exist in the ailment page but hasn't a description, so i fought i could make one).

Some neopterons and wyrwerns  have strong enzymes in their saliva or body that they use to hunt heavilly armored monsters. This enzymes of course also work against hunters armor, slowly melting it.

This feared ailment will thankfully rarely be used by monsters with more than 4 stars danger level. Unlike Deviljho saliva, monsters of this type won't cause the Defense Down ailment but the worse Acid ailment. When a hunter is hurt by an atack with this ailment, a  green bar will appear on his screen. After 30 seconds, if he hasn't used a basic solution (a new item), his defense will be divided by 2 or reduced by 100 (the better outcome is always chosed). Players may think that it isn't so terrible against hunters with a really high defense, but it has another effect : all the hunter armor skills points (including negatives ones) will be divided by 2. As said in the description, it is mainly used by neopterons but all monsters can use it.

Weapons with this ailment will be able to enter in a special mode for 30 seconds, 3 times per hunt. In this mode, they will never bounce, even against monster parts making purple sharpness weapons bounce (for exemple apex monsters body). Of course, some really powerful monsters will be imuned to it.

It wanted to make this ailment because i fought that Defense Down wasn't unique enough to have large monsters based in its use. The fact that it comes from monsters saliva could also make some monsters attack style change when they are tired.

It don't have an icon for ths ailment, however it could use the icon which already is in the ailment list.