User blog comment:PitchBlack696/Monster Hunter Portable 3rd/@comment-3313096-20110106200334/@comment-2065387-20110106210622

lol the plate is just bad luck, you can only try try again, and yes other monster mats tend to be need to make jhen stuff, same as tri (plus that whole concept gets worse in high rank monsters, you need materials from different monster to just make narga armor)