User blog comment:MHhero/I need help on Village Elder quest, Shen Gaoren Please give me some advice on how to kill it./@comment-2053489-20100709205955

Your armor set is somehow mixerd through the whole world, what skills have you?

but for advice, I killed gaoren with full garuga(defense is around 250 but you should not get hit too often i think) and wywern blade blood( but fire dragon sword or saber are also a good choices if you have them)

To keep with GS as you do, you should try to use a fire elemented one(Rathalos fire sword or blue wing should do the job), as they have at this point of the game the higher damage against gaoren(more element and raw power)

For armor I can recomend full blango if you have trouble with the quake or full rathalos gemmed for reckless abandon+1 for max GS charge damage(then use the best raw power weapon you have, sieglinde, or true wywerns jaw are fine, or diablos axe) if you don't charge that much, use element attack up(Kirin armor) or garuga armor, as sharpsword and reckless abandon are great skills to keep your damage with fast hitting weapons(LS,DS,SnS,Lance etc.)

For the tactics,: bring barrel bombs and blow them up on the legs in the beginning, this will get at least 1 leg red if done right. if you have no quake resistance, attack from behind gaoren, as it won't hit you that much. Hit the legs one after the other till they are red and then reapeat until they get more red. after all of them got red twice, kepp on attacking any leg you want, but whenever gao falls down, hit its face as much as possible. try to use the balistas in its face when possible, but dont' stick to them, weapon attacks are the key to win this fight. this way you should repel Gaoren with ease

If you want to kill it, use the dragonator as early as possible(When gao stand up and marches with the lao skull towards the town) and reuse it every 10 minutes, this will deal maybe enough damage to kill the crab

and for your black twin daggers idea, dunno but I would use either the lao-shan ones(Flaming pair), fire elemented(the rathalos/ratian ones from red saber upgraded to at least green sharpness) or raw power(Tigrex for example) duals, as the black weapons are a bit weak for their level(they have great upgrades but are not that good by themselves) also duals and bad sharpness are idiotic together as it will eat whetstones and time you could use to atttack gao, so either get speed sharpening or sharpsword to prevent that

but otherwise, duals are a good choice for gaoren.

good luck anyway