Qurious Crafting Guide: How to Get Gear Augments

Qurious Crafting is the newest weapon and armor augment mechanic introduced in the first Free Title Update for Monster Hunter Rise (MH Rise): Sunbreak. Learn how to augment your weapons and armor, find out the fastest way to get crafting materials, how to reroll your armor augments, and more!

Qurious Crafting Guides
Qurious Crafting	Weapon Augmentation	Armor Augmentation

Anomaly Research
Anomaly Investigations	Anomaly Research Lab	Anomaly Research Level

New Features in the Bonus Update

Augment: Slots+ Option

A new way to augment armor is now available in the Bonus Update. The Slots+ option guarantees either extra slots or higher slot levels, making builds more flexible than before!

Best Armor Augments and Recommendations

Frenzied Bloodlust Added To The Pool

Frenzied Bloodlust, which used to be exclusive to the Virtue / Prudence armor set, can now be rolled as a skill in Qurious Armor Crafting! It's also now available as a skill for Qurious Melding - Vigor.

Frenzied Bloodlust Skill Effects

How to Augment Weapons

Step by Step Guide

#	Description
1	Go to your local blacksmith and choose Qurious Weapon Crafting.
2	Enable Augmentation for the weapon you augment.
3	Collect Materials for your chosen augmentation.
4	Add Anomaly Slots to improve your augmentation capabilities.
5	Equip or Unequip Augments to customize your weapon freely.

Go To The Blacksmith

Qurious crafting is done with your local blacksmiths in Elgado or Kamura. Talk to them and choose Qurious Weapon Crafting to start. They will then show you all the weapons capable of Qurious Crafting.

Only Rarity 10 Weapons are Augmentable

if you're not seeing any weapons, check if you have Rarity 10 weapons in your inventory. Only Rarity 10 weapons are augmentable so keep that in mind.

Enable Weapon Augmentation

Before getting the capability to augment weapons thru Qurious Crafting, you have to enable augmentation for that specific weapon. Enabled weapons would have the qurio symbol (bat-like symbol) on the upper left of the weapon preview screen.

Enabling augmentation requires afflicted materials which can be obtained from Anomaly Quests and Anomaly Investigations!

Required Materials to Enable Augmentation

Required	Afflicted Material x10pts Cost: 20,000z

Choose an Augment and Collect Materials

Each weapon would have a different set of augments available to them. Since Qurious Crafting aims to improve the weapon's capabilities, the augments available are beneficial for the said weapons.

Each Augment improves weapons a certain way, and you have the freedom to choose what to equip to your weapon depending on your playstyle.

List of Available Augments

Click on an augment to see upgrade materials and slots required!

Augment	Levels and Effects
Attack Boost	Lv. 1: Attack +5 Lv. 2: Attack +10 Lv. 3: Attack +15 Lv. 4: Attack +20
Affinity Boost	Lv. 1: Affinity +5% Lv: 2: Affinity +10% Lv: 3: Affinity +15%
Elemental Boost	Lv. 1: Element +3 Element +5 (Great Sword, Hammer) Lv. 2: Element +6 Element +10 (Great Sword, Hammer) Lv. 3: Element +9 Element +10 (Lance, Gunlance) Element +15 (Great Sword, Hammer) Lv. 4: Element +12 Element +14 (Lance, Gunlance) Element +20 (Great Sword, Hammer) Lv 5: Element +15 Element +18 (Lance, Gunlance) Element +25 (Great Sword, Hammer) Lv. 6: Element +20 Element +24 (Lance, Gunlance) Element +33 (Great Sword, Hammer) Lv. 7: Element +27 Element +32 (Lance, Gunlance) Element +43 (Great Sword, Hammer) Lv. 8: Element +35 Element +42 (Lance, Gunlance) Element +55 (Great Sword, Hammer)
Status Effect Boost	Lv. 1: Status +3 Lv. 2: Status +8 Status +6 (Bow, Dual Blades) Status +12 (Great Sword) Lv. 3: Status +12 Status +9 (Bow, Dual Blades) Status +18 (Great Sword) Lv. 4: Status +16 Status +12 (Bow, Dual Blades) Status +24 (Great Sword)
Sharpness Boost	Lv. 1: Sharpness +10 Lv. 2: Sharpness +20 Lv 3: Sharpness +30 Lv. 4: Sharpness +50
Shelling Level Boost	Lv. 1: Shelling Level +1 Lv. 2: Shelling Level +2
Rampage Slot Upgrade	Lv 1: Rampage Slot Level +1 Lv. 2: Rampage Slot Level +2

List of Weapon Qurious Crafting Augments

Not All Augments are Available Per Weapon

As mentioned earlier, Qurious Crafting increases the innate strengths of weapons so there is no weapon that has all augment choices in them. For example, status weapons would only have Status Effect Boost as a choice while elemental weapons would have Elemental Boost instead!

Add Anomaly Slots

After activating weapon augmentation, only 3 Anomaly slots are unlocked. You can increase the slots by adding Anomaly Slots - up to seven (7) levels can be added.

Considering augments would take up a lot of slots, this would be something that players should aim for.

Level 1 Anomaly Slot

Slots	Cost	Materials Requirement
+1	5000z	Afflicted Dragon Blood x2 Afflicted Material 30pts Afflicted Shell x2
Augment Effect		Anomaly Slot +1

Level 2 Anomaly Slot

Slots	Cost	Materials Requirement
+2	10000z	Afflicted Dire Scale x3 Afflicted Material 50pts
Augment Effect		Anomaly Slot +2

Level 3 Anomaly Slot

Slots	Cost	Materials Requirement
+3	10000z	Afflicted Dire Claw+ x2 Afflicted Hardfang x2 Afflicted Material 100pts Afflicted Shard x2
Augment Effect		Anomaly Slot +3

Level 4 Anomaly Slot

Slots	Cost	Materials Requirement
+4	15000z	Afflicted Dire Hardhorn x2 Afflicted Dire Wing+ x2 Afflicted Material 150pts
Augment Effect		Anomaly Slot +4

Level 5 Anomaly Slot

Slots	Cost	Materials Requirement
+5	20000z	Afflicted Dire Cortex x2 Afflicted Dire Dragon Blood x2 Afflicted Dire Slogbone x2 Afflicted Material 200pts
Augment Effect		Anomaly Slot +5

Level 6 Anomaly Slot

Slots	Cost	Materials Requirement
+6	25000z	Afflicted Dire Hardfang x2 Afflicted Material 250pts Risen Dragonbone x2
Augment Effect		Anomaly Slot +6

Level 7 Anomaly Slot

Slots	Cost	Materials Requirement
+7	30000z	Afflicted Material 300pts Risen Dragon Thickblood x2 Risen Slogbone x2
Augment Effect		Anomaly Slot +7

Free Stat Bonuses After Unlocking a Slot

As you unlock slots and increase the weapon's anomaly slot level, your weapon will earn passive stats that ranges from Attack, Sharpness, and Element increase.

These bonuses are exclusive per weapon, and always aim to improve on the weapon's stats so always make sure to maximize your anomaly slots and grind for the materials needed!

Anomaly Slot Augment
Bonus Effects and Upgrades

Equip or Unequip Augments

Considering weapons only have a limited number of slots, augments can be equipped and unequipped easily via your local blacksmith in Kamura or Elgado. This gives you the freedom to customize your weapon as you please depending on what you're hunting.

Need more sharpness against hard-shelled monsters? Equip Sharpness Boost. Need more element cause the monster is elementally weak? Equip Elemental Boost!

Augments are Exclusive to That Weapon

Though they can be equipped / unequipped, augments are exclusive to a weapon and can't be transferred to another. You have to craft new augments for every weapon you want to customize.

Augmenting Armor

Step by Step Guide

#	Description
1	Go to your local blacksmith and choose Qurious Armor Crafting.
2	Enable Augmentation for the armor you want to augment.
3	Collect Amber Essences from Anomaly Investigations.
4	Roll for random armor changes.
5	Keep the augmented state of the armor or keep the old state. You may do this infinitely.
6	(Optional) Reset the augmentation for your armor if you accidentally mess up anything.

Go To the Blacksmith

Qurious crafting is done with your local blacksmiths in Elgado or Kamura. Talk to them and choose Qurious Armor Crafting to start. They will then show you all the armor pieces you have capable of Qurious Crafting.

Note: Only Rarity 8, Rarity 9, and Rarity 10 armors are capable of Qurious Crafting.

List of Armor Sets

Enable Augmentation for the Armor Piece

You must also enable augmentation for the armor piece you want to augment. For this, you need Amber Essences, Afflicted Materials, and Zenny. Required materials for enabling augmentation also ramp up depending on the rarity of the armor piece so take note!

Rarity	Requirements
8	Amber Essence x1 Afflicted Materials x10 pts Cost: 3,000z
9	Amber Essence+ x1 Afflicted Materials x20 pts Cost: 6,000z
10	Prime Amber Essence x1 Afflicted Materials x30 pts Cost: 10,000z

Collect Amber Essences

The next step would be to collect Amber Essences, only present in Anomaly Investigations. They're present in certain levels of investigations so if you're farming for them, take note of these levels:

Essence Type	Investigation Levels
Amber Essence	Level 30 and below Anomaly Investigations
Amber Essence+	Level 31 and above Anomaly Investigations
Prime Amber Essence	Level 51 and above Anomaly Investigations
Royal Amber Essence	Level 91 and above Anomaly Investigations
Pure Amber Essence	Level 201 and above Anomaly Investigations

Sunbreak Anomaly Investigations Guide

Roll for Random Armor Changes

After obtaining the Amber Essences, it's time to roll for armor augmentations! You roll for armor piece changes using the Amber Essences you collected from Anomaly Investigations and require different point values per Armor Rarity.

Amber Essence Material Values

Here are the values for each Amber Essence that you'll use — it's essentially similar to melding talismans:

Essence Type	Points
Amber Essence	10 points
Amber Essence+	20 points
Prime Amber Essence	40 points
Royal Amber Essence	80 points
Pure Amber Essence	160 points

Armor Piece Augment Requirements

Armor Piece Rarity	Point Requirements
8	Amber Essence Material x20pts Cost: 2000z
9	Amber Essence Material x40pts Cost: 4000z
10	Amber Essence Material x80pts Cost: 6000z

Use Pure and Royal Amber Essence on Higher Rarity Armors

We recommend using only Pure Amber Essences and Royal Amber Essences whenever you augment Rarity 9 and 10 armors. This makes sure you have enough Amber Essence and Amber Essence+ when you need to augment Rarity 8 armors.

Pure & Royal Amber Essences provide 160 and 80 points respectively when augmenting, so it's not economical to use with Rarity 8 armors that only need 20 points to augment.

Keep The Augment? Your Choice

Considering Qurious Crafting is a purely random gacha mechanic, Capcom made it so that you can opt to keep the augmented status of your armor or revert it to its previous state.

We recommend only keeping additive Armor Skills so your builds won't break. Additive slot number or slot level are also great to keep!

Augmentation Effects

We listed down all the effects you can get whenever you augment armors using Qurious Crafting.

Possible Armor Rolls
Increase or Decrease Defense Stat
Increase the piece's number of Slots
Increase slot levels
Increase or Decrease a certain Elemental Resistance
Adds or Removes one or more random Armor Skill

Only Aim for Additional Skills or Slots

Though this method adds additional skills or slots to your armor pieces, it is not recommended to build around random augmentations you make, unless you specifically aim for certain skills.

Even a single level 1 slot is useful as you can slot in awesome comfort skills like Defiance (Cornerstone Jewel 1) that can cheaply mitigate roars & tremors to increase your overall DPS!

We still recommend making builds from the available default armor pieces in the game, then only roll for improvements using Qurious Crafting!

Builds and Best Armor for Each Weapon

(Optional) Reset Augmentation

If you accidentally confirmed an augmentation that is detrimental to your current build, you may opt to Reset Augmentation in the same menu. This effectively clears out all augments on your armor piece.

Note: Resetting augmentations would not refund materials used and zenny spent.

How to Reroll Armor Augments

As of August 26, 2022, this exploit has been patched out in Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak Version 11.0.2. REROLLING WITH QURIOUS WEAPON CRAFTING DOES NOT WORK ANYMORE. This guide has been edited to remove any mention of them.

Step by Step Guide

#	Description
1	Turn off Autosave.
2	Save and use Qurious Armor Crafting on your chosen armor.
3	Reload your save and reroll using Armor Augments on a different piece.
4	Use Qurious Armor Crafting until you notice a repeating sequence.
5	Continue rerolling if you notice the same rolls.
6	Apply the augment to your armor then save.

Turn Off Autosave

This step is important to avoid wasting your hard-earned Amber Essences and to allow us to find a 'good' augment. To turn off autosave, open the menu then select Options > Save Data and turn Autosave Settings to Off.

Use Qurious Armor Crafting

Save now so you can return to this point if you end up with bad rolls. Keep rolling until you run out of essences, find a good roll, or just decide to stop. Whatever the reason, try to recall the sequence of augments that come up. You may use a recording tool or note them. It's not mandatory, but it can help you determine when to 'reroll'.

Reload and Reroll With Augments

Return to the title screen without saving. Once you've loaded back in the game, augment a different armor piece. You should only be augmenting different rarity armor to shift the results slightly. This method doesn't truly change the RNG, but it may still change the results of your next few rolls.

Use Qurious Armor Crafting Again

After 'rerolling', you should notice that the augments shown will be different. If they're still the same, repeat the previous step again. Keep augmenting until you start to notice a similar sequence as the first time you rolled in step 2.

Reroll If Pattern Repeats

Redo step 3 by using augmenting a different rarity armor piece to change the results again. At this point, you can choose not to reload your save and just keep rerolling as long as you don't mind using up your Amber Essences, or reload from the beginning but try different ways of rerolling such as augmenting other armors a different number of times.

Apply Armor Augment

Continue rolling again until you find an augment you are satisfied with. If you haven't found one, repeat step 3 again.

Passing Armor Skills

5th Roll after the same 4 Storge Helm Rolls
Storge Helm (Rare 9)	Ingot Greaves (Rare 8)

If you're aware of the sequence or pattern of your rolls, you may be able to give one of the skills you've rolled to another armor piece. For example, if you know your next roll will have a specific skill like Evade Window, there's a good chance that your next augment on a different armor piece will have Evade Window too. This can be useful if you know a good skill is coming up but would rather have it on a different piece.

How To Unlock Qurious Crafting

Available in Title Update 1

The most important thing to check is if your game is updated to the First Free Title Update of MH Rise Sunbreak. Double check if your game's version is Version 11.0!

Version 11.0:
Sunbreak First Title Update Patch Notes

Do Any Anomaly Investigation

To unlock Qurious Crafting, you have to participate in your very first Anomaly Investigation, automatically unlocked after updating to the First Title Update (Version 11). Afterwards, talk to your local blacksmith to unlock Qurious Crafting.

Sunbreak Anomaly Investigations Guide

Fastest Way to Get Crafting Materials

Best Monsters to Farm Afflicted Materials

The table below lists the best monsters to hunt for specific Afflicted Materials and the best weapons and builds to use during hunts. Those hunts will guarantee you the fastest way to get afflicted materials.

It is recommended to use Light Bowguns when hunting Afflicted Monsters to create some distance between you and a monster which lessens the risk of being hit with a powerful move while dealing damage from far away. We also included the recommended builds for each!

A1★ Afflicted Materials

A1★ Afflicted Materials with red text below are found in Anomaly Investigations and not Anomaly Quests.

Material	Preferred Monster	Build
Afflicted Bone (Lv. 1-30)	Arzuros	Spread Build
Afflicted Hardbone (Lv. 31-100)
Afflicted Slogbone (Lv. 101-300)
Afflicted Pelt (Lv. 1-30)	Great Wroggi	Ice Build
Afflicted Hide+ (Lv. 31-100)
Afflicted Thickhide (Lv. 101-300)

A2★ Afflicted Materials

A2★ Afflicted Materials with red text below are found in Anomaly Investigations and not Anomaly Quests.

Material	Preferred Monster	Build
Afflicted Blood (Lv. 11-30)	Tetranadon	Thunder Build
Afflicted Dragon Blood (Lv. 31-100)
Afflicted Pure Blood (Lv. 101-300)
Afflicted Monster Bone (Lv. 11-30)	Royal Ludroth	Fire Build
Afflicted Monster Hardbone (Lv. 31-100)
Afflicted Monster Slogbone (Lv. 101-300)

A3★ Afflicted Materials

A3★ Afflicted Materials with red text below are found in Anomaly Investigations and not Anomaly Quests.

Material	Preferred Monster	Build
Afflicted Shell (Lv. 21-30)	Somnacanth	Thunder Build
Afflicted Carapace (Lv. 31-100)
Afflicted Cortex (Lv. 101-300)
Afflicted Scale (Lv. 21-30)	Anjanath	Pierce Build
Afflicted Scale+ (Lv. 31-100)
Afflicted Shard (Lv. 101-300)

A4★ Afflicted Materials

A4★ Afflicted Materials with red text below are found in Anomaly Investigations while those with only A4★ beneath are commonly found in Anomaly Quests.

Material	Preferred Monster	Build
Afflicted Fang A4★	Nargacuga	Thunder Build
Afflicted Fang+ (Lv. 31-100)
Afflicted Hardfang (Lv. 101-300)
Afflicted Claw A4★	Almudron	Fire Build
Afflicted Claw+ (Lv. 31-100)
Afflicted Hardclaw (Lv. 101-300)

A5★ Afflicted Materials

A5★ Afflicted Materials with red text below are found in Anomaly Investigations and not Anomaly Quests.

Material	Preferred Monster	Build
Afflicted Dire Bone (Lv. 51-100)	Magma Almudron	Water Build
Afflicted Dire Hardbone (Lv. 101-160)
Afflicted Dire Slogbone (Lv. 161-300)
Afflicted Dire Horn (Lv. 51-100)	Diablos	Ice Build
Afflicted Dire Horn+ (Lv. 101-160)
Afflicted Dire Hardhorn (Lv. 161-300)
Afflicted Dire Scale (Lv. 51-100)	Mizutsune	Thunder Build
Afflicted Dire Scale+ (Lv 101-120)
Afflicted Dire Shard (Lv. 161-300)

A6★ Afflicted Materials

A6★ Afflicted Materials with red text below are found in Anomaly Investigations and not Anomaly Quests.

Material	Preferred Monster	Build
Afflicted Dire Shell (Lv. 71-110)	Gore Magala	Fire Build
Afflicted Dire Carapace (Lv. 111-180)
Afflicted Dire Cortex (Lv. 181-300)
Afflicted Dire Claw (Lv. 71-110)	Rajang	Spread Build Ice Build
Afflicted Dire Claw+ (Lv. 111-180)
Afflicted Dire Hardclaw (Lv. 181-300)

A7★ Afflicted Materials

A7★ Afflicted Materials with red text below are found in Anomaly Investigations and not Anomaly Quests.

Material	Preferred Monster	Build
Afflicted Dire Wing (Lv. 91-140)	Gold Rathian	Spread Build
Afflicted Dire Wing+ (Lv. 141-200)
Afflicted Dire Fellwing (Lv. 201-300)
Afflicted Dire Blood (Lv. 91-140)	Seething Bazelgeuse	Ice Build
Afflicted Dire Dragon Blood (Lv. 141-200)
Afflicted Dire Darkblood (Lv. 201-300)
Afflicted Dire Fang (Lv. 91-140)	Furious Rajang	Spread Build Ice Build
Afflicted Dire Fang+ (Lv. 141-200)
Afflicted Dire Hardfang (Lv. 201-300)

A8★ Afflicted Materials

A8★ Afflicted Materials with red text below are found in Anomaly Investigations and not Anomaly Quests.

Material	Preferred Monster	Build
Risen Dragonbone (Lv. 111-160)	Risen Chameleos	Fire Build
Risen Dragonbone+ (Lv. 161-220)
Risen Slogbone (Lv. 221-300)

A9★ Afflicted Materials

A9★ Afflicted Materials with red text below are found in Anomaly Investigations and not Anomaly Quests.

Material	Preferred Monster	Build
Risen Dragon Blood (Lv. 131-200)	Risen Shagaru Magala	Fire Build
Risen Dragon Pureblood (Lv. 201-240)
Risen Dragon Thickblood (Lv. 241-300)

Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak Related Guides

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New Silkbind Attacks and Switch Skills	How to Switch Skill Swap
How to Get from MR 6 to MR 100 Fast	Anomaly Research Level: How to Get Max Level Fast
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Explanation of Hunter Stats	Monster Stats Explained
Attack and Elemental Attack	Defense and Elemental Defense
Affinity and Negative Affinity	Monster Size and Effects
Abnormal Status and Elemental Blight Guide	Buff Duration: How Long Do Buffs Last?
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How to Rollback Weapons	How to Forge Weapons and Armor
Damage Types: Difference Between Sever, Blunt, Projectile Damage	How to Use Weapon and Armor Designs
How to Change Armor Pigment	How to Hide Armor Pieces
How to Upgrade Kinsects	How Does Sharpness Work?
Qurious Crafting: Armor Augments	Chaotic Gore Magala Weapons Explained
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Wirebug Moves and Controls	Silkbind Attacks
How to Lock-On and Target Settings	Switch Skills Guide
Wyvern Riding Guide	Turf Wars
What is the Rampage?	Hunter Rank (HR) Guide
Unchangeable Appearance Features	How to Fast Travel
Fishing Guide	Quest Completion Rewards
How to Carry Eggs	Respawn Timers
Melding Pot Guide	Solo and Multiplayer Guide
Crafting List	How to Use Photo Mode
List of Lottery Prizes	How to Save the Game
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