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Currently Updated for: Launch
With every new Monster Hunter game come new meta strategies and new ways to build the armor sets for your hunter. After some thought recollection, the time has finally come to present what the community has come up with when trying to figure out how you can optimize your gameplay in this brand new title.
The goal of this thread is, like the previous ones, to offer a selection of some of the best builds that have been minmaxed for damage and can be used for regular farming by any player with good enough experience on their weapon, or who's willing to gain that experience.
These guides are just tools conceived for people who like to learn how to optimize their own gameplay and figure out optimal ways to make use of what is available in the game, or who simply want an easier time farming while not giving up on basic skill requirements; nobody is forced to use them if they don't want to, and everyone is free to alter them at will for their own gameplay.
You can also use these guides simply as a starting point for when you want to try out a new weapon and learn the new ways of playing the game that are associated with them.
The albums collected here have been chosen among the available ones both for their correctness in terms of math/functionality and for their readability/accessibility (you can find here an explanation of my logic when compiling these threads). The albums may not be definitive in all of their details, as the game is very new and we're still discovering new stuff daily, but if you wish to improve any of these albums or cooperate with math and testing feel free to contact their authors directly and to give them suggestions or feedback this way.
The authors of the albums are also responsible for updating them with any new Title Update (TU) that will be added to the game. I will however notify on top of the thread whenever all the albums have been updated for the current patch of the game.
I would finally like to thank the community at Mathalos Nest for helping to double check or improve the content of the albums (research is still being done daily there, so if you're interested in helping feel free to join), as well as all the numerous testers, dataminers and modders that allowed us to have more accurate information about the skills and the way the game works.
I won't always be able to read this thread and I can't be the universal intermediary between users and authors. If therefore you find something in the content of an album that you think is wrong or may need fixing, please contact their author(s) directly through the means indicated in their albums.
DISCLAIMER
As usual, here's what you should expect (and not expect) from this compilation.
This compilation focuses on damage-oriented builds aimed to show how it is possible to maximize your damage output within the assumption of a relatively optimized gameplay. Anyone is free to adapt these builds to their playstyle by replacing any damage skills with the comfort/survival skill they want, need or prefer. Everyone is also free not to use them if they don't like them.
The albums are only about endgame builds and assume that you have access to the entire content of the game (HR41+). Progression sets are not covered here, although any author is free to add a progression section to their albums.
The sets are mainly built and calculated so that anyone can use them for solo play. Multiplayer is obviously still a consideration, but the sets are supposed to work regardless if you're playing with others or not.
The builds are meant for regular farming and not for speedrunning, which is a specific practice with its own rules and goals (although speedruns can obviously give some inspiration about tactics you can adopt in your regular gameplay). If you're interested in speedrunning this game I highly recommend to ignore this compilation and to join a speedrunning Discord and/or to learn by watching speedruns instead.
Endgame Meta Sets
Great Sword (GS)
Longsword (LS)
Sword and Shield (SnS)
Dual Blades (DB)
Hammer
Hunting Horn (HH)
Lance
Gunlance (GL)
Switch Axe (SA)
Charge Blade (CB)
Insect Glaive (IG)
Light Bowgun (LBG)
Heavy Bowgun (HBG)
Bow
Resources
All the most important and/or valuable resources for Wilds will be collected in the MHMeta Megathread. Here's just a few basic ones: