User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: More Elder Dragons/@comment-5020152-20140629193041/@comment-5043481-20140630134917

In my experience the tanzia jhen is much harder that the village one. The G-rank DLC one is insane. Anyway, some general tips. In the first half, you want to dish out as much damage as possible. So hit the spine cracks, use bombs, demondrugs, power pills - anything to raise damage output. If you do enough damage here you can kill him without even reaching the ship. My favorite weapon for this is a HBG with peirce (diablos or narga). Seige mode and spam peirce and normal 3 at the cracks. If your having trouble don't bother with the tusks - you do very little damage here. Hit the arms when you can, but bear in mind that breaking them in the 2nd half is much better, as you get a massive stagger.

In the second half remember you have 3 things to stagger him. Ballista Binder, Gong and dragonator. Use the gong as he is doing a bellyflop and he will fall over. Run to his mouth and hit inside to get huge damage. If you don't have any ship weapons available hit an arm that isn't broken yet. A break at this point will be very useful.

It is a shame but if he decides to chain bellyflops over and over again you're pretty much screwed.

Good luck!