I've been pretty boring, sticking with Bow and Adept style. The Rathalos Bow is underwhelming compared to previous iterations, so I've been sticking with the Astalos bow and going full-on status dealer with paralysis and poison.
I tried Arial style, but I'm just not feeling it.
It also feels like I'm having a harder time cutting tails, as in 4U I was an excellent bow-tail cutter. Though I also notice that people are much more clumsy/clueless/rude than in the past. Multiple times I -the gunner- are the only person aiming for the tail and the blade users are all over the place.
Coupled with the typical uncouth LR online random behaviors like insta-posting, and other hunters just not caring, just feels like the community is less savvy this time around. Last night I had multiple people crash my lobbies and post their 1/2 star urgents without a word, and others just rolling with it. One of them even had the audacity to sit at base or out of range twice in a row. I started pinging mid-quest and they finally came to help, so I just kept my mouth shut, but its almost like people are more apathetic. Perhaps it is the lack of easy communication options (really miss voice chat from Tri/3U); or maybe I'm just too wound up and snotty.
I should really try to get people on r/monsterhunterclan or the game's Discord, but I'm so irregular with my available online play time that I'm not sure the effort is worth it.