Hammer main here. Finished the story and now moving to tempered monsters. Planning a balance build of attack and survival with less grinding required.

Armor skills:
Weakness exploit 3
Legiana good luck
Partbreaker 2/slugger 2
Airborne 1
Ice attack 2

Charm: Defense/atk boost, prefer health boost but need to farm rathian ruby. Depending on monster, will probably get element resistance later.

Meal: chef choice for 50hp

Weapon: negri tree. Biggest hit can reach 21X dmg without crit

Is this ok? Coz most players are always about attack XL, agitator and critical.

Also I've checked the armor skills, Capcom really makes you to farm many types and no "true" one fits all for every monster hunt.

Thank you for your input. Shall stick with my balance build. Downside of hammer is short reach like can't hit xenojiva head for drops.

Anyone farming for warrior/hero streamstone? The drop rate is pretty abysmal 
Only got 3 in 2 days.

Was farming Nergi for tail. Managed to cut off Nergi's tail, then someone joined the hunt without me sending SOS. He has LR armor, using DB. Pursued limping Nergi into it's lair. He fainted when Nergi got angry. I prayed he doesn't return but guess what, he came back and fainted again and I failed the quest

but nergigante attack sometime is annoying....he can stun me by touch me only( only touch... not hit) ...... guess what??
he flew up and crush me... 1 hit ko although i am with full level dragon resist deco...   

Managed to complete the tempered Kirin quest at first try, solo

Was a SA close range melee bro, one of the worst way to fight a tempered Kirin IMO
was having so much problem killing the HR Kirin already, carted lots of time
and most of the other HR/tempered fights was at the receiving end as well

So I switched to LBG for a change, it really felt like easy mode of MH

3 x Kirin piece, and L3 Lighting resistance + Thunderproof mantle
taking it slow & steady, cheap shot him with slicing shot, while laying wyvern blast in front waiting for him to charge me & boom!

I think I spend almost 100 slicing shot, went back to camp twice to restock

gunlance with uragaan set, confirm can block any shit in this game lol.

the title of 'blocking any shit' has to go with Lance in my opinion. because you can shield evade (or shield forward attack) too.

it also has more option for counter-attack right after blocking.  with Dash Juice on, the Power Guard even surpasses Guard Up in some aspect

you mean with normal guard?  with Guard+3 and above it's generally negligible

Power Guard won't take damage as far as i can see even without Guard skill (just drains stamina very quickly thus the Dash Juice statement)

Tempered Kirin is easier when properly equipped, and with range attacks

Tempered Nergi is another story 
Last night managed to get it limping back to it's lair, I shoot some dragon pod at it to aggro it back
it rushed at me, me managed rolled aside to avoid, but still mission failed
my 3 other team mate was directly behind me, busy sharpening when they saw Nergi limping away

I can't stress it enough, Nergi is the most dangerous in his narrow lair, IMO 8 x Megabombs is not worth it if you keep dying in his lair

likewise with Kushala, don't let it back to its lair, you don't have much space to evade his winds

just search the SOS quests from random players. last night did one. tapao legiana in like 10 min with full team

Let's say I go to hunt, the supply box near the camp site has quite a number of items. My question is, these items are replenished (new) whenever we selected a hunt? Are those free or it is from our own inventory?

got the full aloy set this weekend. gonna run around in that till i can craft a better set of HR armour.

last night managed to beat nerg. but tried to fight him again and in the end... 1 HR100 player kept dying when fighting alongside 3x below HR30 players hahaha. dunno what happened...

Guys.....need recommendation on armor mix & match....usually what is important to consider at 1st?

1) Skill,
2) Slot,
3) Def,
4) Outlook,
5) Resistance to Fire, Water, Thunder, Ice, Dragon
6) Etc

I just finish the game main quest.......the last boss xenojiva has it's own hunting or optional quest to hunt for crafting?

Awesome it'll help me get over the depression of not being able to get a Heros streamstone after like 100+ tempered elder kills lol

Here is the link for the weapon changes and Deviljho updates: https://kotaku.com/monster-hunter-worlds-fi...h-22-1823759680

the new armor looks pretty badass.

cannot interrupt party members while carving after the quest ended.

finally

late to the party, but i finally started playing MHW.