User blog comment:Chaoarren/2250 Pages Element Contest/@comment-15446856-20190316140445

Breathless

Breathless renders a hunter unable to properly breathe. When inflicted, vision becomes blurred and blackened around the edges, movement speed is reduced and stamina recovery is greatly slowed. Hunter's must keep their stamina bar up to avoid further harm. If the stamina bar reach low, hunters suffocate and stop any attack or sprint in motion. In addition to this, hunters health is drained without a health recovery bar while this is in effect. Should the stamina meter be fully depleted, the hunter will collapse from near depleted lungs and rapidly lose health.

Monsters that control the Wind Element would be the most suitable candidates for this ailment. Other monsters could definitely find other means of causing it.

The ailment is caused by preventing the hunter from being able to properly breathe. It could be caused by a suffocating wind gust, the air being drained from the hunter, toxic chemicals in the air or simply the hunter's chest being heavily compressed.

To cure this ailment, hunters have to avoid doing any high stamina consuming items for a while and let the stamina bar restore back to max.

Breathless would be caused by several monsters of varying difficulty and methods of causing it, and a certain Solstice metal dragon.