Semi new to the MH games and I don’t feel like I understand the damage output? /u/SmolPoyo Monster Hunter: World

I just spent a bunch of money upgrading one of my hammers to make a Lightning variant. Figured I would go fight a boss that is weak to it so I expedition’d to fight Legiana. Figure the 600+ raw damage output with the lightning damage will do the job quick.

I was still doing only like 6 to 40 damage at most per swing? I know Legiana has like 5k health I think, and it took me 25 minutes of swinging and chasing to kill Legiana. I have armor skills that help with stagger and increase my damage output at low health (Which im constantly at) and still get not much damage output.

Also bonus question my health and stamina are always super low, like just started the game low. I eat before missions and if it gets low I go back to camp to eat, but like im still chasing down a Diablos and my stamina and health are back at default or lower. Is it related to fainting?

I figure I may be missing something

I just spent a bunch of money upgrading one of my hammers to make a Lightning variant. Figured I would go fight a boss that is weak to it so I expedition’d to fight Legiana. Figure the 600+ raw damage output with the lightning damage will do the job quick.

I was still doing only like 6 to 40 damage at most per swing? I know Legiana has like 5k health I think, and it took me 25 minutes of swinging and chasing to kill Legiana. I have armor skills that help with stagger and increase my damage output at low health (Which im constantly at) and still get not much damage output.

Also bonus question my health and stamina are always super low, like just started the game low. I eat before missions and if it gets low I go back to camp to eat, but like im still chasing down a Diablos and my stamina and health are back at default or lower. Is it related to fainting?

I figure I may be missing something