User blog comment:Plexioth- xD/Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate/@comment-98.192.166.156-20121007185139/@comment-4563270-20121007192321

when you start out you're usually given starter weapons like the hunters knife.. iron great sword and noob light/heavy bowgun lol. i heard for 3u however that you start off with a prime weapon from every category... to give you a good feel weapons in mh evolve so to speak from the root of one prime weapon in a tree like fashion depending on how YOU choose to upgrade it.. the wepons you start off with in your item box are the iron categoy where as you can BUY the bone category weapons from the shop for cheap or get the materials to make it.. from a prime weapon starts the tree.. not all primes are available at the start though certain things like vulcanis (crystalin) or any ancient weapon require special materials you only can get later in the game.

as a newbie you should just start off with any weapon category you feel like and go from there. I started using the sword and shield but then switched to great sword until i got a switch axe. here's a list of all the weapon categories...all the prime weapons and weapons that come from that tree from mh3u/mh3g all on this site. happy hunting =)

http://mh3g-weapons.jimdo.com/