Skills in Monster Hunter Rise(MHR) refer to abilities, buffs and bonuses granted to Hunters by their equipped Weapons, Armor, Talismans, as well as Decorations. The benefits granted by Skills include persistent boosts to stats like Attack Power and Affinity, providing temporary buffs when performing certain actions, and even modifying a Weapon's properties like granting additional Phials for Charge Blades. Skills are an essential part of a hunt and play an integral role in a Hunter's progression.
- Each piece of equipment can have one or more Skills attached and each Skill on a piece of equipment can provide 1 or more levels of the skill. Each level equipped contributes to the Skill's overall effect.
- All Skills have a maximum level, after which, additional levels in the skill will provide no further benefit.
- Many Skills have only 1 level and provide their full benefit immediately upon equipping while other skills have varying levels of effects and can have additional effects at higher levels.
Please visit Ramp-Up Skills for a list of all Weapon Rampage Skills
Please see Rampage Decorations for Master Rank decorations replacing ramp-up skills
Armor Skills
These are skills that provide stat bonuses to hunters that are incorporated into armor, talismans, and decorations. Each of these have unique skill points in them. You may mix your armors and talismans in decorations to make it work with your current build based on your playstyle. Having multiple armor, talismans, and decorations that has similar skills will accumulate Skill Points and level up that same skill, increasing their stat bonuses and effects.
Which are the Best Skills?
There is no such thing as best skills in Monster Hunter Rise(MHR), because it is important to note the vast array of Skills available in the game might suit better certain playstyles or Builds rather than other ones.
The huge amount of Skills, paired with any of the 14 Weapons available in the game, and the almost limitless Armor Sets at the hunters' disposal, really allow players the ability to customize and explore an enormous amount of possibilities and options regarding how to play and face the biggest challenges in the world of Monster Hunter Rise(MHR).
Decorations
Decorations are gems that you can slot into your gear, which can boost different armor skills. This is a way to upgrade your armor, once you've unlocked High Rank Gear, you can create these decorations and wear equip them into some of your armor and weapons. Decoration slots can only accept decorations that are the same decoration level or below them. Each decoration has different skills, crafting materials, and cost of zenny. They also either require Bloodrun Jewels or Aquaflow Jewels, you will get these as rewards by completing High Rank hunts. As you hunt more monsters in the game, you'll start unlocking more decorations, you can craft multiple decorations to put in a single piece of gear, as long as they can accommodate enough slots.
How do I check my active skills?
Hunters can check their active Skills at any given time by accesing the menu and then selecting the Status option. In the following window, you can see all the Skills that you have active on your character, and their respective levels. You can browse the menu by pressing or to navigate it. The highest level Skills will be displayed at the top and, they will be ordered in a decreasing fashion, up to the lowest level Skill active.
By pressing the right stick, a Skill Level Breakdown table will be displayed, showing which pieces of Armor, Weapon, or even Decorations are granting the hunter any Skill and at which level. This is useful to check on which pieces of equipment are granting players the Skills they desire, and which should be replaced towards their desired Build.
Skills in Monster Hunter Rise
Quick Search of All Skills
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Description |
Levels |
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Divine Blessing | Has a predetermined chance of reducing the damage you take. | 3 levels |
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Ballistics | Shortens the distance before ammo and arrows reach maximum power. | 3 levels |
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Mind's Eye | Your attacks are deflected less and deal more damage to hard targets. | 3 levels |
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Guard Up | Allows you to guard against ordinarily unblockable attacks. | 3 levels |
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Earplugs | Grants protection from large monsters' roars. | 5 levels |
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Constitution | Reduces stamina depletion when evading, blocking, or doing certain other actions. | 5 levels |
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Affinity Sliding | Sliding increases your affinity for a short time. | 1 level |
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Recovery Up | Increases the amount recovered when restoring health. | 3 levels |
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Fire Attack | Increases fire element attack power. (Elemental attack power has a maximum limit.) | 5 levels |
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Fire Resistance | Increases fire resistance. Also improves defense at higher levels. | 3 levels |
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Ice Resistance | Increases ice resistance. Also improves defense at higher levels. | 3 levels |
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Dragon Resistance | Increases dragon resistance. Also improves defense at higher levels. | 3 levels |
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Paralysis Resistance | Reduces the duration of paralysis. | 3 levels |
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Muck Resistance | Reduces impairments to mobility while stuck in monster muck or deep snow. |
2 levels |
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Botanist | Increases the quantity of herbs and other consumable items you gather. | 4 levels |
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Bombardier | Increases the damage of explosive items. | 3 levels |
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Carving Pro | Prevents knockback from attacks while carving. | 1 level |
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Carving Master | Lets you carve one additional time. (No effect when joining mid-quest.) | 1 level |
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Leap of Faith | Allows you to do a dive-evade when facing towards large monsters, and extends the dive-evade distance. | 1 level |
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Master Mounter | Improves your Wyvern Riding skills. | 1 level |
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Wall Runner | Reduces stamina consumption when running on walls. | 3 levels |
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Stamina Thief | Increases certain attacks' ability to exhaust monsters | 3 levels |
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Critical Element | Increases elemental damage (fire, water, thunder, ice, dragon) when landing critical hits. | 3 levels |
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Horn Maestro | Increases overall performance speed and shockwave damage. | 1 level |
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Recovery Speed | Speeds healing of recoverable damage (the red portion of the health gauge). | 3 levels |
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Water Resistance | Increases water resistance. Also improves defense at higher levels. | 3 levels |
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Thunder Attack | Increases thunder elemental attack power. (Elemental attack power has a maximum limit.) | 5 levels |
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Thunder Resistance | Increases thunder resistance. Also improves defense at higher levels. | 3 levels |
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Poison Resistance | Reduces damage while poisoned. | 3 levels |
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Sleep Resistance | Reduces the duration of sleep. | 3 levels |
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Blast Resistance | Grants protection against blastblight. | 3 levels |
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Blast Attack | Increases blast element attack power. | 3 levels |
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Geologist | Increases the number of times you can use a gathering point. | 3 levels |
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Item Prolonger | Extends the duration of some item effects. | 3 levels |
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Power Prolonger | Long swords, dual blades, insect glaives, switch axes, and charge blades stay powered up longer. | 3 levels |
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Fortify | Increases tour attack and defense when you fall in battle. (Disabled for some quests. Can stack twice.) | 1 level |
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Hunger Resistance | Reduces maximum stamina depletion over time. | 3 levels |
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Diversion | Increases the attention drawn when attacking a monster. | 1 level |
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Wirebug Whisperer | Improves your handling of Wirebugs. | 3 levels |
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Resuscitate | Increases attack power when you are suffering from an abnormal status. | 3 levels |
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Critical Eye | Increases affinity. |
7 levels |
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Critical Draw | Increases affinity for a short time after performing a draw attack. (Does not include Silkbind attacks.) |
3 levels |
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Maximum Might | Increases affinity if stamina is kept full for a period of time. | 3 levels |
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Heroics | Increases attack power and defense when health drops to 35% or lower. | 5 levels |
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Special Ammo Boost | Increases the power of bowgun special ammo and Dragon Piercer. | 2 levels |
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Defense Boost | Increases defense. Resistances will also improve as the level increases. | 7 levels |
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Flinch Free | Prevents knockbacks and other reactions to small damage. | 3 levels |
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Load Shells | Improves reloading, and increases the gunlance's shell capacity and charge blade's phial capacity. | 2 Levels |
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Stamina Surge | Speeds up Stamina recovery. | 3 levels |
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Guard | Reduces knockbacks and stamina depletion when guarding. | 5 levels |
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Steadiness | Suppresses the deviation of bowgun shots. | 3 levels |
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Attack Boost | Increases attack power. | 7 levels |
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Handicraft | Extends the weapon sharpness gauge. However, it will not increase the gauge past its maximum. | 5 levels |
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Quick Sheath | Speeds up weapon sheathing. | 3 levels |
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Free Meal | Gives you a predetermined chance of consuming food or drink item for free. | 3 levels |
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Stun Resistance | Reduces stun duration. | 3 levels |
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Ammo Up | Increases bowgun loading capacity. (There is a cap to loading capacity.) | 3 levels |
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Offensive Guard | Temporarily increases attack power after executing a perfectly-timed guard. | 3 levels |
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Mushroomancer | Lets you digest mushrooms that would otherwise be inedible and gain their advantageous effects. | 3 levels |
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Water Attack | Increases water element attack power. (Elemental attack power has a maximum limit.) | 5 levels |
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Rapid Morph | Increases switch speed and power for switch axes and charge blades. | 3 levels |
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Ice Attack | Increases ice element attack power. (Elemental attack power has a maximum limit.) | 5 Levels |
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Protective Polish | Weapon sharpness does not decrease for a set time after sharpening. | 3 levels |
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Speed Sharpening | Speeds up weapon sharpening when using a whetstone. | 3 levels |
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Partbreaker | Makes it easier to break or sever parts of large monsters. | 3 levels |
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Bludgeoner | Increases attack power when your weapon sharpness is low. | 3 levels |
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Tremor Resistance | Grants protection against ground tremors. | 3 levels |
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Marathon Runner | Slows down stamina depletion for actions which continuously drain stamina (such as dashing). | 3 levels |
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Artillery | Strengthens explosive attacks like shells, Wyvern's Fire, charge blade phial attacks, and Sticky Ammo. | 3 levels |
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Focus | Increases the fill rate for weapons with gauges and the charge rate for weapons with charge attacks. | 3 levels |
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Poison Attack | Increases poison element attack power. (Elemental attack power has a maximum limit.) | 3 levels |
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Recoil Down | Reduces recoil while firing bowgun ammo. | 3 levels |
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Reload Speed | Increases bowgun reloading and bow coating loading speed. | 3 levels |
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Paralysis Attack | Increases paralysis element attack power. (Elemental attack power has a maximum limit.) | 3 levels |
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Evade Window | Extends the invulnerability period when evading. | 5 levels |
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Dragon Attack | Increases dragon element attack power. (Elemental attack power has a maximum limit.) | 5 levels |
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Bubbly Dance | Reduces bubbleblight and grants increased evasion when afflicted. | 3 levels |
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Wide-Range | Allows the effects of certain items to also affect nearby allies. | 5 levels |
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Blight Resistance | Grants protection against all elemental blights. | 3 levels |
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Speed Eating | Increases meat-eating and item-consumption speed. | 3 levels |
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Slugger | Makes it easier to stun monsters. | 3 levels |
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Punishing Draw | Adds a stun effect to draw attacks and slightly increases attack power. (Does not include Silkbind attacks.) | 3 levels |
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Evade Extender | Increases evade distance. | 3 levels |
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Counterstrike | Temporarily increases attack power after being thrown off. | 3 levels |
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Windproof | Grants protection against wind pressure. | 3 levels |
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Thunder Alignment | Gain the power of the elder dragon Thunder Serpent Narwa. | 5 levels |
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Agitator | Increases attack power and affinity when large monsters become enraged. | 5 levels |
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Peak Performance | Increases attack when your health is full | 3 levels |
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Resentment | Increases attack when you have recoverable damage (the red portion of your health gauge). | 5 levels |
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Critical Boost | Increases the damage of critical hits | 3 levels |
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Weakness Exploit | Increases the affinity of attacks that exploit a monster weak spot. | 3 levels |
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Latent Power | Temporarily increases affinity and reduces stamina depletion when certain conditions are met. | 5 levels |
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Sleep Attack | Increases sleep element attack power. (Elemental power has a maximum limit.) | 3 levels |
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Razor Sharp | Prevents your weapon from losing sharpness | 3 levels |
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Spare Shot | Bow and bowgun shots have a chance not to expend coatings or ammo. | 3 levels |
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Bow Charge Plus | Increases max bow charge level by one | 1 level |
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Pierce Up | Increases the attack power of Piercing Ammo and Piercing-type arrows | 3 levels | |
Spread Up | Increases the attack power of Spread Ammo and Spread-type arrows. | 3 levels |
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Rapid Fire Up | Improves light bowgun rapid fire. | 3 levels |
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Capture Master | High chance of increased capture rewards. (No effect when joining mid-quest.) | 1 level |
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Good Luck | Good chance of increased quest rewards. (No effect when joining mid-quest) | 3 levels |
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Jump Master | Prevents attacks from knocking you back during a jump. | 1 level |
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Hellfire Cloak | Grants hellfire resistance and confers explosive hellfire power to your attacks. | 4 levels |
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Wind Alignment | Gain the power of the elder dragon Wind Serpent Ibushi. | 5 levels |
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Normal/Rapid Up | Increases the attack power of Normal Ammo and Rapid-type arrows. | 3 levels |
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Teostra Blessing | Gain the power of the elder dragon Teostra | 4 levels |
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Master's Touch | Prevents your weapon from losing sharpness during critical hits | 3 levels |
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Chameleos Blessing | Gain the power of the elder dragon Chameleos | 4 levels |
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Kushala Blessing | Gain the power of the elder dragon Kushala Daora | 4 levels |
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Stormsoul | Strengthens thunder and dragon power and improves skills of the same elements. | 4 Levels |
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Dragonheart | Draconic energy fills you after losing a certain amount of health. Weapons lose all non-dragon effects. | 5 Levels |
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Bladescale Hone | Dodge rolling to evade an attack with your weapon drawn will recover sharpness, refill bowgun ammo, or give Close-range Coatings a temporary boost | 3 Levels |
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Quick Breath | You can remove some statuses or slow their effects by performing a Switch Skill Swap. Health recovers when a status is removed | 1 Level |
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Tune-Up | Increases the stats of custom mods attached to bowguns. | 2 Levels |
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Redirection | Perform a perfectly-timed Switch Skill Swap just as a monster attacks to reduce the damage and negate damage reactions | 2 Levels |
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Foray | Increases attack power and affinity when attacking a large monster affected by poison, paralysis or an elemental blight | 3 Levels |
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Coalescence | Temporarily enhances attacks after recovering from blights or abnormal status. | 3 Levels |
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Blood Rite | A proportion of damage dealt is converted to health when striking a broken monster part | 3 Levels |
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Grinder (S) | When recovering sharpness, grants a boost to sharpness properties based on the number of levels recovered. | 3 Levels |
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Spiribird's Call | Receive the effects of a random Spiribird at fixed intervals. (Certain quests only) | 1 Level |
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Charge Master | When a charged attack hits a monster, the element and status buildup of the charged attack increases | 3 Levels |
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Furious | Using the Red Scroll builds your fury while fighting monsters. Swapping to Blue Scroll when your fury is full gives you infinite stamina temporarily. | 3 Levels |
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Dereliction | Qurio will drain health, but also bolster your attacks. Multiple Qurio further bolster attacks and let you recover health when performing a Switch Skill Swap | 3 Levels |
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Bloodlust | The effects of the Frenzy virus change. Health is gradually reduced, but you gain a variety of effects. Frenzy virus occurs regularly when in combat | 3 Levels |
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Mail of Hellfire | Decreases defense but increases attack. Exact changes to stats depends on Switch Skill Swap Scroll that is being used. | 3 Levels |
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Guts | Prevents fainting one time only when damage taken exceeds a certain amount of your remaining health. | 3 Levels |
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Status Trigger | Perform a perfectly-timed evade just as a monster attacks to trigger abnormal status buildup on hit. | 3 Levels |
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Defiance | Increases defense when large monsters become enraged. | 5 Levels |
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Sneak Attack | Increases damage to large monsters when attacks hit them from behind | 3 Levels |
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Adrenaline Rush | Perform a perfectly-timed evade just as a monster attacks for a temporary attack boost. | 3 Levels |
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Buildup Boost | Increases attack power when you land attacks that build poison, paralysis, sleep, blast, or exhaust. (Exhaust - ammo/phials/coatings only) | 3 Levels |
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Burst | Continuously landing hits gradually increases attack and elemental attack. (The amount of increase depends on the weapon.) | 3 Levels |
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Element Exploit | Increase elemental damage when attacking body parts upon which the element is highly effective. | 3 Levels |
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Embolden | When targeted by a monster, that monster becomes more likely to become enraged but your own defense is increased. (Fully stacks with Guard past Lv. 5, but doesn't stack with Evade Window past Lv. 5) | 3 Levels |
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Intrepid Heart | After filling the gauge by continuously landing attacks, negates damage reactions and reduces damage taken from a single attack that would knock you back. | 2 Levels |
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Wall-Runner (Boost) | Wirebug Gauge recovers faster while wall running. | 1 Level |
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Powder Mantle | Continuously attacking a large monster will cause powder to form around you. The color and effects of the powder will change over time. | 3 Levels |
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Wind Mantle | Using Silkbind attacks boosts Wirebug Gauge recovery. Landing continuous attacks increases the effect. Wears off when you sheathe your weapon. | 3 Levels |
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Strife | Increases elemental attack and affinity in proportion to the length of your red health gauge. | 3 Levels |
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Berserk | Switch to the Blue Swap Scroll and all vitality will change to red gauge and start decreasing. As long as you have red you cannot faint. |
2 Levels |
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Dragon Conversion | When using the Red Swap Scroll, all elemental resistance is set to 0 and converted into elemental attack. The Blue Swap Scroll raises elemental resistance. |
3 Levels |
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Frostcraft | An aura of frost builds when your weapon is sheathed, raising attack. The effect decreases with each melee hit or shot/arrow fired. | 3 Levels |
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Shock Absorber | Disables damage reactions when you hit a friend or when a friend hits you. (Does not apply during certain status ailments.) |
1 Level |
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Frenzied Bloodlust | Temporarily gain an additional Wirebug when overcoming the Frenzy. The effect duration decreases drastically when your weapon is sheathed. |
3 Levels |
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Heaven-Sent | Activates when not taking damage for a while during combat with a large monster. The effect is lost when you are knocked back or stray too far away from the monster |
3 Levels |
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Inspiration | Adds an extra attack increase bonus for a short while when activating effects that affect friends within a certain target area, like melodies, etc. | 1 Level |
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Blood Awakening | Gradually bolsters your attacks for a certain period of time, depending on how much health you regain when landing attacks. | 3 Levels |
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- Anonymous
I dunno. The skills feel lacking and largely boring. No unique armor skills, many decos take 2 slots, armor is stingy on slots and locks you into a specific build/skill combo. World did skills and armor better.
- Anonymous
Has the Fortunate effect been identified yet for full Wind/Thunder Alignment?
I'm really struggling with a good HH set outside Kulu because everything else has a focus on gauges.
Kinda sucks with it feeling much better weapon wise now.
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