Did you get nailed with the beam?
No, actually, I dodged the beams. I was using a potion and he tunneled up from under me.
Barioth is also one of the monsters whose parts you want to break whether you need the drops or not. Breaking his wings will cause him to stagger every single time he uses certain attacks, even in rage mode, which results in huge openings to hit him. His tail also has quite a reach and can be tough to avoid, so I usually take that off once a wing is broken. Once you've got that done, he becomes so much easier to handle.
Barioth will be... fun. I think I will leave off hunting him until I can get the Rathalos parts I need for the Red Bludgeon.
I have a feeling for both hunts I will be pretty useless with my hammer and just be the Cha-Cha of the group.
Friend or no, I should've just capped it. Another reason I didn't was that I was hoping we could just kill it, and was holding off unless things got too risky. But, 2/3 faints is already a pretty bad situation. Funnily enough, I was about to cap at the end there as I was at like half HP or something, but as I was running to place the trap I saw Giggi toss G into a combo. :< I WILL NEVER FORGIVE MYSELF AAA
Funnily enough I had an easier time with Gigginox in solo, since I usually only get hit by monsters if I don't know the patterns or I think they are aiming for someone else and they suddenly charge at me. That or if they combo me like a punk, of course. Damn you Rathalos!