Does anyone know if there's a list somewhere of the pre-G Rank armor sets that show the stats of each individual piece? It's kind of annoying right now having to wait until you have enough materials to get full sets to show up, and then having to write everything down if you're going after specific skills, instead of just complete sets. The wiki has that for G Rank stuff, but nothing before it.
I know dung bombs work, but I am either too lazy or simply don't want to worry about that extra slot preventing me from grabbing something else, so I rarely take them. I don't mash buttons to get out of being pinned though. You spin the L analog (Wii U anyway) rapidly and you're out in a few seconds. Probably not that much longer than it would take you to scroll through the damn item menu to find the bomb either, although I think being pinned increases your chances at being dizzy. Mashing buttons works for being dizzy, but I've never had it do anything for being pinned.