monster hunter is the only game series where you can bludgeon dragons to death with a 200lb bagpipe

take advantage of this opportunity

If you have Iceborne too, people are going to say to not use the mid tier armor it starts you with as a boost, but I strongly disagree with that. It's really not worth grinding the easy mode tutorial monsters a bunch to iteratively grind out trash gear that doesn't even have skills on it that becomes literal trash as soon as you hit the halfway mark of the base game's base story, because you're going to then go and grind out the mid tier version of that anyways and then you'll be grinding it yet again when you get to Iceborne.

At least weapons you upgrade along trees so you'll keep upgrading them and making more trash tier weapons to upgrade even into the late game, so make and play with those.

The defender armor and non-defender weapon is probably the ideal way of learning in the tutorial stretch of the game that's introducing the maps and the more common monster types: you can take hits so you can keep trying again without restarting, and you're doing less damage so you have longer to focus on learning the movesets of both the monsters and your own weapons.

Roll insect glaive, do jumpy hop swirl smack, gg ez (I am an insect glaive enjoyer )

This game is all long boss battles and fighting them again and again to get better equipment. You will learn the monsters tells and get slightly better each time. But keep in mind this is a long game with a learning curve. Much like a souls game, I found the sense of accomplishment from being terrible to getting better every time rewarding, and also the monsters are cool. However it's not for everyone so if that commitment isn't for you I don't blame you if you bounce off. Just don't feel bad if at first you suck, that's normal.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m8B1RUe7se8&pp=ygUhbW9uc3RlciBodW50ZXIgd29ybGQgd2VhcG9uIGd1aWRl

Here is a video to help you pick a weapon

Try a few weapons and when you find some that gel with you, look up some weapon tutorials if you want a good idea on how to master them, however there is no wrong way to play.

Sincerely, a gunlance main

how can I enjoy it?

Turn off the English dub

Stick to one or two weapon types until you really feel like you've mastered them (but try everything first so you know which to go with).

You don't have to do every quest. There are "key quests" that advance the story. If you feel like things are too easy just focus on those until it gets hard.

Play with people. Even randoms online are fun to play with. The chaos of 4 people unloading everything on a stunned monster is beautiful.

I can never get into Monster Hunter. I guess I just don't see what the whole point of what I'm supposed to do in game. I just track and kill monsters. Is that it? I would love to get into it by the time Wilds comes out. I do have Worlds.

Get a controller, and look up the weapon combos, i think you start with the sword and shield? Dont use that lol

I was a switch axe fan, but everything is pretty fun! Find something you like and then make a few so you can have different elements for different monsters

oh and youre gonna want the wiki open all the time, weapon trees, monster drops and weaknesses, etc

Greatsword gang

You haven't said a weapon so I'll just give you some generic tips.

First step in any fight against a new monster is to learn how to not get hit. So spend maybe 5 minutes just dodging the attacks. It's very easy if you don't draw your weapon because you can sprint. Learn the attacks see where you can stand and how long the monster takes to recover.

Once you can manage to not get hit by the monster for minutes at a time, start drawing your weapon and trying to get some hits in during the gaps in attacks you've already noticed. This will be easy with quicker weapons, but should help with any weapon. Great sword would be the hardest to figure out.

In general that's how you fight any monster, learn the attack patterns and hit during the gaps and weaknesses of their attacks.

If you want specific weapon or monster advice I can provide that as well.

There's also many items that can be useful in a hunt, base World flash bombs are super op against anything that flies.

Play longsword so that instead of learning how to dodge monster attacks you can just counter them to boost your combo meter and continue attacking at all times.

That or play greatsword or hammer to ungabunga.

Do not use the clutch claw.

Thanks for hitting me up everyone.

So far, i've gone with dual blades and insect glaive, and have not used the defender or guardian stuff because i feel like i need to grind a bit to learn what the fuck i'm doing. I did have some fun trying to track down the Kulu-Ya-Ku dipshit bird because I started in completely the wrong area and had to spend 30 mins actually getting on its trail instead of getting yeeted by the Rathalos.

I haven't had the wiki open solidly yet, but i think i'll need to because i'm probably missing heaps. There's some suggestion i can capture instead of kill, but no NPC has actually advised how i do that yet. Also, there's probably a whole world of traps or bullets that I literally haven't considered yet, i've just been sneaking around until i'm up the monster's ass and then just dodging and slashing to infinity