I think I'm starting to hit a wall. This is my first Monster Hunter, and I've hit High Rank. I "get it". I'm not great, even 40 hours in, but I get it. Except:
Most of my play time I have never had the parts to really upgrade anything. I'm using the same armor and only update it when I THINK I have enough pieces to upgrade it, and even then, armor is confusing. Am I supposed to be mixing sets to get an overall elemental coverage? Because that's what I'm doing.
Same with Weapons. Less so, because for the most part I know what pieces to go for (and the internet can help with the ones I don't). I switched from Dual Blades to Switch Axe after Diablos wrecked my shit time and time again,
I'm in the High Rank area, and all these Monsters are wrecking my shit. I get hit, for 60% of my health, stunned, and then combod to death over and over again. If I have the bad luck of getting hit seemingly once, I'm fucked. I'm slightly exaggerating, but so many hunts, solo and SOS have gotten fucked because I was climbing up to the monster and it poked me, at full health, at the top of vines and I'm dead for no reason.
Do I grind? Should I just grind? Does the Real Monster Hunter begin here?