I cleared the Tigrex 4 star urgent quest on Monster Hunter this weekend unlocking the tier 5 content.
It took me a few tries with a few different weapons but I eventually downed it with the upgraded Hydra Bite SnS. Being able to block the faster attacks helped a lot, as did the high poison attack on the SnS I was using.
I’ve cleared some of my 5 stars, mostly dual ‘insert monster here’ quests, but the meat of this tier comes from the Elder Dragons that are now available to fight. From what I can tell these work on the same principle as the Fatalis fights from MH1 in that you can fight them over multiple ’rounds’ and the damage done in previous rounds carries over to the next one.
I tried one at the weekend, Chameleos, but I had no luck with this one. Its harder than others to learn its patterns as it can become invisible which is a big hindrance. I’m sure there will be an area of the Dragons body you can ‘break’ to disable its camouflage but on my brief try I couldn’t figure it out.
I’ve now started trawling through the Guild quests in the gathering hall as I needed Rathian spikes to upgrade my poison SnS. I’ve killed between 10 and 20 of them now between normal quests and I just cant seem to get the lucky carve I need. Hopefully as I move up the Guild tiers I’ll unlock the Rathian+ and be able to get the mats I need from that. To tide me over I made an Iron Katana and upgraded it to the Devil Slicer which is making short work of my current quests… I’m hoping my new weapons and upgraded armour help out when I try Kushala Daora later tonight 
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