User blog comment:Abhi09/Best weapons in MH3 and what to hunt to make them/@comment-4555457-20111208030318

depends on what you have available to you to fight, the rathalos hammer is amazing against monsters weak to fire but as far as hammers go its pretty sub par, you'd want to go with the ore hammers like Iron Impact or the Gaiarch - if you are worried about dealing the most damage per second, you'll want to focus on Thunder and Water weapons; most monsters weak to Water resist Thunder and most monsters that resist Water are weak to thunder (most monsers have a minor thunder weakness anyway haha)

so Lagiacrus weapons are great; easy enough to make and great elemental damage, though it leaves something to be desired in terms of raw, but i went through the entirety of offline with the ore hammer line till i got my Rust hammer (i love hammers)