Monster Hunter Wilds Guide | How To Farm Materials

Monster Hunter Wilds is Capcom's return to the Monster Hunter franchise, where every hunt tests your skills, patience, and creativity. Built on the foundations of its predecessors, it's a memorable title that has enticed gamers with its relentless and intense quests and challenges. 

As you progress through Monster Hunter wilds, especially into high rank, your need for monster materials will increase drastically. Whether it's for crafting armor, weapons, or aesthetics, efficient farming of materials is important. 

This guide will cover the strategies that you can use to maximize material drops, including rare gems, and provide useful steps for efficient farming at various stages of the game.

Using the Wishlist Function

The Wishlist function is a valuable tool for tracking specific materials that you need to craft. By marking desired equipment at the Smithy, the relevant quest gets highlighted, making it easier for you to identify which monsters you have to hunt. 

The wish list feature also provides you with a detailed description of where to find specific material, especially for non-monster parts, ensuring that you know exactly where to look.

Utilizing the Large Monster Field Guide 

The Large Monster Field Guide is important for understanding monster drops. After completing a quest for a specific monster, the guide will display the monster's weaknesses and drop rates for various materials. 

Some materials only drop from specific actions, like breaking certain body parts or popping wounds. Checking the guide will help you know which actions to prioritize during hunts to maximize material drops.

Skills for Increased Material Drops 

Two skills are particularly useful for increasing drop rate:  Flayer and Partbreaker.

Partbreaker: this increases the part damage that you deal with, making it easier for you to break specific monster parts. Combined with Flayer, it significantly boosts the number of materials you obtain per hunt.

Flayer: This skill increases your ability to create wounds on monsters, and breaking gives you additional materials, making the skill really effective for farming.

Using these skills together increases your material drops and speeds up hunts, making farming much easier.

Trading & The Support Ship 

Trading with NPCs can, more often than not, yield the monster materials in exchange for other valuable items. While it isn't the most efficient method, it can certainly be useful for obtaining specific parts. In high rank, the support ship becomes available, offering you a rotation of stock items, including monster materials for purchase with Guild Points. 

You can also request specific types of items, such as equipment, materials, and the cycle ship's inventory, by resting in the tent.

High-Rank Investigations 

Winner in high rank, investigations become a powerful tool that you can use to farm materials. Monsters spawn based on weather and time cycles, and they create investigations for specific monsters. 

Some investigations give you guaranteed rare drops, such as gems, making them really useful for farming rare materials. Resting in your tent can reset monster spawns, allowing you to cycle through investigations until you find one with your desired reward.

Capture or Kill

Your decision to capture and kill monsters affects material farming efficiency. Capturing a monster at around 20% health will yield the same reward as killing it. But it ends the hunt faster; continuing the hunt allows you to break additional parts and create more wounds. 

This can give you more materials for certain materials that require you to break parts, such as tails or heads; killing a monster is often more effective. For general material farming, I would suggest just capturing the monster, as it's more efficient.

By following these strategies, you can maximize your material gains and craft your equipment more effectively.

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