I currently have a Diablos bow set(aka the Dragon Piercer set) and affinity db set down in terms of gear, but haven't been able to get the right gems for them quite yet.
100~ish hours deep farming tempered elder dragons for augments. Have a full augmented elementless bow set, crit draw gs set, and a elementless sa set atm. game is crazy addictive.
after playing for a fair bit today: im probably never going to switch from the insect glaive i love it i keep mounting those monsters and it feels great
when i played Monster Hunter FU a bazillion of years ago, all the cool kids used Greatsword and were great at it. I, as a beta kid, used Longsword, and was normally seen as inferior.