It really works well in multiplayer.Attack and defense up and Tempered elders goes down in 10mins max.

Funnily enough the elder Wyvern states it's the least used weapon , so what's it like solo.

It's my first game in the series. I like it fine. It hasn't hooked me big time yet. I've played a sporadic 15 hours with a friend over the last 6 weeks. So far, I still like some of the MH clones I've played in the past more than MHW. Since I've started, I've had more fun with Counterspy ( yes :), and the Ratchet And Clank 2016 reboot. It feels cluttered to me. Probably in part because my playtime has been so spaced out. There's a lot to learn, and I sometimes feel a bit lost when I return to it. I was still getting tutorial popups the last time I played. Can't say that's ever happened to me 15 hours into a game prior to this.

I actually started playing again and noticed my gear is a lot worse than I thought. Still, had to kill teostra and got his coil for weakness exploit 2, and dropped the weakness exploit necklace/charm thing for just attack.  It's a little annoying that my main weapon is the HR rathalos one which is fire elemental, so I just been using something that a lot of monsters are strong against. Was wondering if any of the newer weapons were any good.

Solo is a bit more challenging because there's no one else for the Monster to focus on,unless you're an expert with the weapon.For me solo is no prob since I'm very good with it,I play notes and beat the shit out of the monster at the same time.

People play it less because they make the mistake of thinking it's "just" a support weapon but it's an absolute beast.I will even go as far as saying  the Devil Jho hunter horn is the second most powerful weapon in the game,only behind the Diablos Charge blade.

I can't fully answer your question mainly because I haven't experimented enough, for teostra and lunastra I found the Legia Frostreaver pretty good with it's white sharpness and ice element matching their  3 star weakness but that's pretty specific and it took me 12 legiana captures one after the other to get the  gem to make it .

My go to weapons so far with 3 or 4 to get are nergal gash dragon -high seal , perfected alloy axe 2 poison and occasionally teostra arx  blast and now legia frostreaver . I used motor chopper - fire against kirin but found I did more damage with teostra arx even though fire has an extra star.

 I will definitely give it a go, it sounds like being proficient with it whether or not it's your priority weapon would give you great versatility.

Legiana would be easy to farm with rathalos SA. I think I already killed 5+ of them before, but I am unsure if I got the gem. Regardless I am pretty lucky with the gems as I got 2 Teostra gems already, but maybe that is because I keep breaking his head. I was just wondering if the new monsters were even worth killing for a new SA. Will farm a bit more to find out I suppose.

Yep the farming wasn't hard did the double quest  with legiana and odogaron using perfected alloy and it's poison ripped them a new one .it was getting the gem to drop even with using the  vouchers and breaking every part so my luck took it's time.

The wind charm wouldn't have helped against Kushala Daora wind proof doesn't affect it's wind barrier as for armor I can't go past mixing and matching  , i would recommend going on to me Kushala is the worst dragon.