When I played mh world with my friends our goal was to sync up our anime big katana air slash attack for maximum cool points. This is the way its meant to be.

Oh and taking on some ice dragon while massively undergeared and I stupidly brang armour that was weak to ice ensuing in a really long fight that almost hit the time limit. Most tense gameplay ever

You are lucky. World is one of those rare games that's a blast to experience your first time through

In fairness to the redditors, the more difficult behemoth fight is a huge gimmick that is a big departure from baseline MHW in favor of more FF14-inspired mechanics. Aggro is totally different so tanking is a viable strat, it calls down meteors you have to hide behind, there's a DPS race element, etc.

Anyway the answer is to either use cluster bomb spam or come back when you're geared for master rank because that fucker is a real piece of work. I much preferred "Kulu-Ya-Ku with an infinity stone".

I stopped playing multiplayer games for this exact reason. I never have the right build or the right gear, don't know the exact way to play every map with my chosen characters, don't know the meta about which classes are stupid and which are allowed. It's not relaxing at all and really defeats the purpose of games for me

the idea of teamwork has become this competition of who can be the most individually perfect rather than a cooperative exchange where someone playing might suck a little today so they can get better and pay you back by sucking less tomorrow

This is one of my big problems with ranked online play.

Let's say you have 3 ranks, we will call them bronze, silver, and gold.

I'm good at bronze and rank into silver but I keep losing and dragging down my team. They get mad at me because their goal is to rank into gold, not get good at silver. By playing in silver I am learning better team strategy and playstyle. However, because I new to it my performance isnt up to par yet. I get bumped back to bronze. I start winning again. But, what works in bronze does not work I'm silver. By only playing bronze, I am not learning how to play silver. Thus the cycle repeats. I do well and rank up, then I do poorly and rank back down.

There is no way to learn how to be better by just playing the game. Oh there's a million hours of youtube I could watch. Encyclopedias of guides to read. But nothing in-game. Nothing organic. Sorry my brain works best by doing things, I guess.

So this brings me to where it ties into your issue. The other players. They aren't helping. They aren't guiding me. They get mad, say rude shit, or tell me to fuck off and "get gud" while also spending all their time whining and complaining when not criticizing me directly. I don't mind losing if I'm learning. But right now I'm losing without learning. I can't even throw myself against better players until I improve via attrition because when I lose I get bumped down to the lower league. I can't get good at swimming because the moment I flounder they push me back to the shallow end of the pool. And they are being a bunch of rude dicks about it the entire time.

The monster hunter community lost a lot of its general comraderie around world's release. I don't think it has anything to world's specific design, it just brought in so many new players so quickly that they outnumbered series veterans who couldn't instill the previous games team-oriented culture on people. The series western audience prior to world seemingly grew by friends dragging you into the game and teaching you the ropes, but world was just a firehose of new players coming at it alone.