Soon going to face the G-rank opening Diablos. Valor regen HH builds have served me well so far, only Dreadking Rathalos has felt particularly difficult, but that's probably because constant fireblight is complete kryptonite to regen and stops my main method of getting back into the fight quickly.
I am enjoying myself despite the kind of "checklisty" feel of the game, but things are looking kinda weird at end of High Rank.
Some people say "you don't need to farm anything really before G-rank, nothing matters in Low/High rank really, just bulldoze through", but that is not me, and because of this, the way GU has dealt with the endgame of MHGen kinda sucks a bit.
All the content that used to be HR-locked in Gen, is apparently now locked behind the Diablos hunt in GU. All the High Rank elder dragons, hard variants of monsters like metal raths, and some Hyper monster quests, like one for just plain Hyper Blangonga. I've fought several Hyper Tigrexes, what sense does that make?
When the same Diablos quest unlocks G1, with likely easier monsters, any reward you could get from these HR endgame fights feels pointless if they're not the next step in an upgrade tree.
World didn't do this, 4U didn't do this, and I don't think FU did this. Perhaps it is arbitrary and silly to stop here and look around, "just move on to G-rank, what's the big deal", but it was neat to fight monsters like Gold Rathian (whose armor I farmed) and Molten Tigrex, before finally facing Ukanlos to unlock G-rank.
