Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-14610890-20140105053250/@comment-24260323-20140215082210

That's the whole point of having a limited ranged capacity. Each Hunter weapon is tailored to the user (with exceptions). This user may prefer "intimacy" in battle instead of simply shooting an enemy at a distance, the type of person who would pick a melee weapon just for the fact that they can get up close and personal. (When fighting at ranges, it becomes impersonal. You don't really get a good look at your opponent before you just shoot them. In close combat however, everything changes. You can tell much about a person by their appearance, how they move, and how they fight.)

For the hooks being a collection of weapons, one might say the same about throwing knives or thrown axes. We really need some of them here for increased diversity (Not sure about bows and crossbows, everyone's been doing them these days). But then again, there's not much to do about them besides adding "dust charges" to them for special effects.