hr51 now, and inching my way to get to abyssal lagia. Village quests all complete. alatreon gear in progress. so far I've built all the best elemental great swords and the one for raw damage (sure people usually say don't use Greatswords for elemental, but honestly it's boring running around and doing everything with a deviljho great sword, I enjoy switching my weapons around while still give the monster a good pounding) . Still want an alatreon gs though. running around helping people online these days without a set goal when I don't feel like fighting alatreon. considering a weapon class change, but I just love my great swords.
here's some other bits of info and "secrets" I guess you could call them that though they really aren't.
shock traps. don't use them on zinogre. Well, I guess you can if you are trying to cap him but don't use them if you want to pin him for extra damage. he absorbs the shock and it charges him up. Also if he's charged up, and has fallen on the ground, you can bugnet thunderbugs from his back. Catch 2 and his charge is gone, or like everyone does, just break his spikes on his back. while on the subject of shock traps, diablos will swallow them in the ground if he's underground and comes up right under the trap.
Also him and stygian zinogre's faces break twice. like Deviljho
uragaan/steel uragaan. when he's fallen down you can mine him for parts, like duramboros' tail after it's been broken the first time.
speaking of uragaan, on lower rank quests with him, you can easily farm lava nuggets. On average as a reward I get 4. These babies can be converted to resources and they give you 1500 points. easy farm for resources. Still use moga woods for rare trades though.
duping is possible in the game but I'm not telling how.
abyssal lagia can be expoited for easy kills but I'm not telling how. youtube is your friend if you really want to know.
niblesnarf: you can set a bomb barrel down and lure him into eating it when he's charging you with his mouth wide open. This is great as his ugula is his weakest spot so it does great damage.
once an hr7 you can make tons and tons of money by doing a g-rank volcano mining run, and selling everything you mine. Average made is 20k to 50k not including rust shard weapons you don't want (not the worn or rusted weapons), those on average net you another 15k. All this in 3 minutes. Of course you can always just hunt monsters and sell all their parts, but I hoard monster parts like they are running out, so I just do volcano runs.
/boast