Got to 8* village quests last night. HR Rathalos was a good challenge and I felt like I was really playing well, remembering to take my charge swings(hammer) from the side so I wouldn't get hit when he dashes and generally stringing well and getting plenty of stuns. Still a tough fight, though.
As soon as I unlocked 8* and saw Uragaan I had to go for it. I'm working towards the Brazenclout(and beyond) and want to get it as soon as I can. The fight came down to the last 10 minutes and I carted for the third time. Ugh. Does anyone limit the amount of potions they bring to a fight? I used to always bring 10 pots/10 mega pots, but I cut back to just bringing 10 mega pots to fights in order to force myself to play better. Maybe I should suck it up. Unfortunately, once I was out I had to keep running out of the area to let health regen and wait for healing from Cha-Cha/Kayamba, but by doing that Uragaan kept using it as a chance to fall asleep in area 6 and the process repeated itself a few times before succumbing to an annihilating chin crush.
Any tips for taking down HR Uragaan? He rolls a lot more than LR, which makes getting charged hammer swings in tough and also dangerous because his pivot is pretty wide when he does 4 consecutive ground pounds. I didn't try again last night but I'm going to need to take him down at least a couple times to get the materials I need. I'm wearing upgraded Jaggi S armor right now(to the point of needing hard armor spheres). I even took some barrel bombs into the fight because he's pretty easy to peg with them.
Oh, and I just noticed during the fight that Uragaan's spikes right above his head look like goggles, haha. *Lava diver!/You've been down too long in the molten sea/Please stop running from me!*