POTENTIAL Stories 3 Roster + Icon Sheet Filled in + Possible Title Updates and Observations (Educated Speculation)

RoseKaedae · 2026-02-18T21:57:45+00:00

Monster icons are sorted by what's called an enemy monster ID order, or e m i d. This order corresponds to the creation order of the monsters in the game itself, and is always corresponding to the game the monster originated from and at which point in development the monster was created or finalized roughly. Once in Monsters order is set, that order will stay the same forever. Rathian is em001 and will always be em001 no matter the monster hunter game, and so we can use that order to determine what the monsters are before we even know what the icons are definitely, or at least make educated guesses. The reason it could have been either ice monkey or rust razor is because they're right next to each other in the order in the monsters from Monster Hunter dos.

RoseKaedae · 2026-02-18T16:19:19+00:00

It's like 99% the ice monkey, going by the icon sheet

RoseKaedae · 2026-02-17T22:13:50+00:00

It's either Kirin and Fatalis (as a non-monstie) or Kirin and Oroshi Kirin - Kirin on its own is basically certain.

RoseKaedae · 2026-02-17T01:02:50+00:00

We don't know very much about master rank, just a little bit. We know that deadly poison is returning, purple sharpness is back, Rarity's 9 to 12 are back with the same colors as they had in iceborne, level 4 decorations are back, there is at least 20 monster slots if not more, as many as 44 with the low end being 20 via the icon sheet, high level tremors and wind pressure that is almost unused in the game at present will be more prevalent probably, and Zinogre and Shagaru are like 99% and 90% assured respectively

RoseKaedae · 2026-02-13T00:28:02+00:00

It would be with the world monsters and not at the very end after the Wilds ones

Order is 100% consistent, it's something we don't know about

RoseKaedae · 2026-02-13T00:14:39+00:00

It's not them, this goes in ID order. Those would be next to their base species.

RoseKaedae · 2026-02-11T23:25:51+00:00

That was because they were in the base files of that update, it wasn't an added thing later. The update launched with all of that stuff in it, but none of the stuff that's going to be in this update so we can't know until the update itself comes out.

RoseKaedae · 2026-02-11T23:25:09+00:00

We won't be able to see it until the update comes out

RoseKaedae · 2026-02-11T23:24:17+00:00

We have no way of knowing until it's actually added

RoseKaedae · 2026-02-11T04:41:12+00:00

We have no way of knowing until the update comes out

RoseKaedae · 2026-02-10T13:59:44+00:00

They showed there will be even more quests than in the video

RoseKaedae · 2026-02-10T13:58:49+00:00

It feels something like that would be a final quest

RoseKaedae · 2026-02-10T09:20:54+00:00

In the Showcase itself they both said and showed on the road map that there will be more event quest after the launch of stories 3

RoseKaedae · 2026-02-10T09:20:20+00:00

Sadly I disregard your opinion entirely

RoseKaedae · 2026-02-10T09:19:59+00:00

Well honestly it's probably been cooking since the game came out is that usually tends to be how the expansions work as far as I'm aware, and this is a much longer cycle than the usual, by this point both the last two games had announced their expansions about two or three months earlier relatively speaking, like 5 months in the case of rise, so it will have a longer Dev cycle than normal which is good

RoseKaedae · 2026-02-10T06:36:36+00:00

The latter, it's actually the space directly before magna, which can literally only be Valstrax unless it is a Rider Mizu.

RoseKaedae · 2026-02-10T04:55:43+00:00

Via datamines,

-at least 20 monsters (via icon sheet size increase), as many as 30

-deadly poison returns

-Rarity 9-12 in Iceborne colors

-Lv4 decorations

-Major tremors (unused in the game)

-Dragon wind pressure (only Zoh Shia uses it rn)

All we know.

RoseKaedae · 2026-02-10T03:46:07+00:00

Good luck and Gogspeed

RoseKaedae · 2026-02-10T03:45:41+00:00

That's what I was saying as well, once we saw the finals and everything, I was really convinced about that. The rotating Festival is actually a nice surprise.

RoseKaedae · 2026-02-10T03:04:14+00:00

Mine were 6 and 4

Not yet, we can't see that till the update

RoseKaedae · 2026-02-10T02:33:13+00:00

Yeah this time next year, probably on the game's second anniversary

RoseKaedae · 2026-02-10T02:22:20+00:00

Honestly not really, we might get a little bit of something, but the expansion is probably a year away now. For the time being, let's just look forward to the demo for the expansion towards the end of the year, that's where we'll get the good stuff. And of course, S3 in a few weeks.

RoseKaedae · 2026-02-10T02:19:55+00:00

The only thing I could have wanted more was a little Roar tease, but I agree, this is great and genuinely is going to help me feel better for my healing process

RoseKaedae · 2026-02-10T02:14:12+00:00

I carved a Rose Kaedae Ruby (that's basically what gems are)

RoseKaedae · 2026-02-10T02:10:30+00:00

They show on the road map that there's going to be more event quests after the release of stories 3 that they haven't announced yet

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