There's no reason to expect it to slip.
For what it's worth, my PS4 save file is in a pretty dire place. On the PC, I've cleared every AT monster short of Nergigante, have all the layered armor drops and a number of gamma armor sets, every gameplay related system/accessory/food item unlocked, the vast majority of the game's available jewels and I have a good number of KT weapons to toy with. On my PS4 file, I have like... the Nergigante beta set, a two slot garden that was cultivating herbs of all things, and my sad little Wyvern: Ignition. My mentality going in is that this is going to be the rough, brutal climb through Master Rank from what's basically a fresh HR clear.
The sort of grind where everything sucks in order to explore the new systems/weapon trees/fight mechanics and to plot out the most efficient/smoothest transition into PC's endgame come January.
I keep wanting to give it more time since it's such a popular weapon archetype and Capcom did good by me in updating its moveset for Iceborne, but I also just recently discovered the joy of Hammer. More specifically, the joy of a neutral level 3 charge attack into clutch claw. God damn is that thing beefy.
