Monster Hunter Wilds

Best Items to Bring on Hunts

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Best Items to Bring on Hunts Monster Hunter Wilds

Bringing the best items can make your hunts less challenging in Monster Hunter Wilds. Learn the best items to bring on quests and see item management tips here!

Best Items to Bring

Numerous items can assist you in Monster Hunter Wilds. These are some of the best items and item types you should always consider bringing before heading out on a quest:

  1. Healing Items
  2. Cleansing Items
  3. Energy Items
  4. Buffing Items
  5. Pods
  6. Traps

1. Healing Items

Item Description
Mega Potion Restores a moderate amount of health.
Potion Restores a small amount of health.
Lifepowder
(For co-op)
Produces a cloud that heals you and anyone nearby.

Healing Items are one of the most important items you should bring on any hunt, as health management is crucial to a succeful hunt. As long as your hunter is alive, you can continue fighting until you eventually achieve victory.

How to Heal and Increase HP

2. Cleansing Items

Items Description
Nulberry A mysterious berry that cures varios blights.
Herbal Medicine/Powder Produces a cloud that cures poison and heals you a bit.

Cleansing items are great to have when fighting enemies that can deal status ailments. For example, the Balahara can inflict Waterblight that can decrease your stamina recovery. You can use a Nulberry to remove the Waterblight status, so you don't have to be extra careful about stamina management.

List of Status Effects

3. Energy Items

Items Description
Energy Drink A Guild-approved beverage that boosts your stamina.
Ration Food that restores a bit of stamina.
Well-Done Steak A hearty roast that restores health and stamina and boosts both their max gauges.

It's also recommended to bring Stamina boosting items because you would need stamina to dodge, block attacks, prolong weapon charges, and even execute combos for some weapons.

Draining your stamina during intense fights can be the difference between a successful hunt and a failed quest.

How to Restore and Increase Stamina

4. Buffing Items

Items Description
Hardshell Potion/Powder Boosts Defense
Demondrug/ Demon Powder Boosts Attacks
Might Seed Raises Attack

Buffing items strengthens your character by increasing your defense and attack values. This will allow you to take more hits and deal more damage, which can contribute to how smooth a quest can go or how fast you can finish it.

5. Pods

Items Description
Flash Pod Slinger ammo that causes a violent flash on impact. Will temporarily blind monsters if used in front of them.
Dung Pod Slinger ammo that releases a strong odor on impact. Causes certain monsters to flee.
Large Dung Pod Slinger ammo that releases a strong odor on impact, causing any surrounding monsters to flee.

Certain pods are useful to either drive monsters away or immobilize them. Flash Pods will allow you to blind and take down flying monsters, while Dung Pods can separate herds.

How to Separate Monster Herds

6. Traps

Items Description
Shock Trap A trap for catching large monsters. It is tripped by heavy weight.
Pitfall Trap A trap that immobilizes a target. Use it to capture monsters.

Traps can immobilize monsters and create opportunities to deal high damage to them. Furthermore, these are essential tools for capturing monsters, which will increase your hunt rewards while reducing your clear time.

Note that some monsters, like Elder Dragons, are immune to traps. Be sure to leave traps behind when facing these kinds of monsters to make room for other items.

How to Capture Monsters

Item Management Tips


Take only What's Necessary

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There are plenty of items you could bring during hunts. However, it is also important to bring only the necessary ones due to the clutter it may cause in your inventory. Items should be accesible as you need to use them as fast as possible so you could go back to defeating the monster.
List of All Items and Materials

Use the Radial Menu

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Make sure to customize your Radial Menu before a fight, so you could easily access your favourite items in the middle of combat.
How to Use the Radial Menu

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