so I just need to get through the urgent quest to get to HR2 for online, problem is I can't beat him on my own and every time I set up a hub no one joins
Once you've picked a weapon watch a YouTube guide on it from gaijinhunter, the game doesn't do a great job of explaining the finer points for a lot of the weapons:
Because i've mostly experienced Monster Hunter as a single player game, MH4U was by far the best in the series for me. May well have been due to the fact that I started commuting by train around the same time it came out but I found its single player to be the most varied and entertaining. Bit disappointed by Generations in that resect, though i've already ploughed 50+ hours into that so can't complain really
Just started playing co-op with a mate though so hope to experience more multiplayer this time round. Crafted myself a lovely Hunting Horn for those quests too.
Tempy you are genius, went back with anti thunder armour and a great sword with fire and did them fairly easily.
For me it's the preparing for a Mon Hunter fight which is the really fun part.
Just crafted my 2nd set of armour, after using the Tetsu for the 1-6* village quests.
Made the Rathalos set to use online with my hunting horn – Tenderiser skill should make smacking monster heads even better. Dropped in an attack jewel and got medium attack boost too.
Nothing really matters till you're up to HR. The general rule is that tetsu armour sees you through to HR and then go and specialise from there. Can be a little dull, but makes it more stable to power through to the good stuff.
BujaBujaBu is way better than Tetsu IMO, you can gem up to Attack L with just two decorations and there are no negatives to gem out, but it's all in how you want to play the game really.
Your best bet with armour is always to google it because people have crowd sourced all the info for you. Dual blades seems to feed into Nargacuga or Astalos sets from what I can see, but others are using centatuar for critical eye etc.