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
7. Charms

1. Healing Items

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

Max Potions are great for when you need to heal in a pinch, as its fast animation and full HP recovery helps you get back in the fight quickly. In general, however, your Mega Potions and Potions will still be your bread and butter healing source. Lifepowder is good for when you also want to heal your party members in multiplayer.

How to Heal and Increase HP

2. Cleansing Items

Cleansing items are great to have when fighting enemies that can inflict status ailments such as Poison, blights, and more.

For example, monsters with Dragon element attacks like Arkveld can inflict Dragonblight which temporarily negate any Elemental Damage you deal. You can use a Nulberry to remove the Dragonblight status, allowing you to deal Elemental Damage again.

List of Status Effects

3. Energy Items

It’s also recommended bringing 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.

For weapons that constantly use Stamina, such as Dual Blades and Bow, bringing a Dash Juice is recommended, as it makes your Stamina last longer when performing your Demon or Charged attacks.

How to Restore and Increase Stamina

4. Buffing Items

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.

Additionally, bringing the Powder items (Demon Powder and Hardshell Powder), allows you to apply Attack and Defense buffs on all your teammates, as it creates a cloud that buffs anyone who enters it. This makes it perfect for when you are playing in multiplayer.

5. Pods

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

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

It’s also best to bring trap crafting items such as Nets, Thunderbug Capacitors, and Trap Tools so you can use multiple traps before resupplying. This also opens the freedom to use your first traps for damage and the second ones for capture.

It's impoortant to remember, however, that monsters gain a resistance to traps with every use. That means the time they spend trapped will lessen with each consecutive trap use.

How to Capture Monsters

7. Powercharm and Armorcharms

The Armorcharm and Powercharms are key items that passively increases your attack and defense just by having it in your inventory. These are great free stat boosts and will only take away 2 slots on your pouch so be sure to always have these in your pockets to maximize your stats!

The Powercharm is a quest reward from the As Gatekeepers while the Armorcharm is obtained from the Secure Wounded Hollow quest.

Armorcharm and Powercharm Guide

Best Loadouts

Standard Loadout

Mega Potion	Pitfall Trap	Shock Trap	Potion
Honey	Flash Pod	Dung Pod	Luring Pod
Tranq Bomb

This is a basic loadout that will cover your basic recovery needs as well as the essential pods and traps for hunting large monsters. This is an easy to go setup especially if you’re just hunting casually or fighting weaker large monsters.

Conditional Item Loadout

Mega Potion	Pitfall Trap	Shock Trap	Potion
Honey	Flash Pod	Dung Pod	Luring Pod
Tranq Bomb	Antidote	Nulberry	Cleanser
Deodorant	Cool Drink	Hot Drink	Wild Jerky

This is a basic setup to bring if you’re going to hunt a monster with pesky status ailments. It’s imperative to know what status ailment your target monster can inflict (if it deals poison, bring antidote, else, bring a Nulberry, etc).

Additionally, understand which locale you’re going to be hunting on. If it’s an area with a low temperature like the Iceshard Cliff, it’s imperative to bring a Hot Drink to counteract the environment’s energy sapping effect.

This loadout is highly customizable and you can remove other items and tailor it for specific ailments such as when fighting a monster with poison, remove the other restoratives and keep Antidote alone for poison hunts.

Balanced Loadout

Mega Potion	Pitfall Trap	Shock Trap	Potion
Honey	Flash Pod	Dung Pod	Luring Pod
Large Barrel Bomb	Lifepowder	Max Potion	Tranq Bomb
Demondrug	Armorskin

This is a balanced loadout that you can use for most hunts at the latter stages of the game and even until the endgame. Of course, you’ll still want to add conditional items for status ailments and terrains but this central loadout will suffice in the majority of hunts you’ll need to complete.

Maximized Loadout

Mega Potion	Pitfall Trap	Shock Trap	Potion
Honey	Flash Pod	Dung Pod	Luring Pod
Max Potion	Ancient Potion	Lifepowder	Dust of Life
Smoke Bomb	Farcaster	Tranq Bomb	Large Barrel Bomb
Demon Powder	Mega Demondrug	Might Pill	Adamant Pill
Hardshell Powder	Mega Armorskin	Well-done Steak

This is a full blown loadout focused on maximizing your consumables to make the hunt much easier to complete. Use this Loadout when tackling difficult content. Additionally, you can include other status recovery loadouts again, depending on terrain and monster ailments.

You likely won’t need to use such a Loadout until encountering the hardest content of the game but it’s a maximized loadout for possible new content in future updates.

Recommended Radial Menu Setup

Best Items to include in the Radial Menu

Mega Potion	Luring Pod	Flash Pod	Dung Pod
Screamer Pod	Dust of Life	Whetstone	Tranq Bomb

These are a list of items that are generally always good to have as shortcuts in your Radial Menu. These items are items you’ll always want to be able to use on the spot given the scenarios where you’ll need them such as needing an immediate heal (either to yourself via potions or other hunters via dust).

Pods are some of the most important items to be able to use as soon as possible as they are combat items that can shift the flow of the hunt with the right usage. Additionally, Tranq Bombs are great to be on the shortcut as well if your team decides to do a capture as you may potentially miss the Tranq Bomb on your menu while the monster’s immobilized from the trap.

Keep All Item Types in One Section

It’s best to keep each item type in one such as all recovery items are in one menu, all buffs in another, pods in one, etc.

This allows you to choose the items you need at each situation without switcing all your items one by one mid-combat.

Avoid Overstocking a Radial Menu Shortcut

It may be tempting to just use a few number of Radial menu and call it quits for easy accessibility but having several items in one shortcut may cause you to use a different item than the one intended. It’s best to keep each Radial menu focused and low in quantity as much as possible.

Compile Non-Combat Items in One Radial Menu

Items you would rarely use mid-fight like Whetstones or Buff Items that take a while to consume such as Demondrugs and Well-Done Steak are best kept in a separate Radial menu to avoid accidental uses mid-fight.

Item Management Tips

Take only What’s Necessary Use the Radial Menu Regularly Restock Items

Take Only What’s Necessary

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

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

Set Your Item Use Controls to Type 2 on Controller

We recommend changing your Item Use Controls from the default to Type 2, as it makes the radial menu more intuitive. With this setting, you confirm item usage by pressing R3 on a controller instead of simply pushing and releasing the analog stick, reducing the chance of accidentally consuming unintended items.

Regularly Restock Items

Now that you can continue with hunting monsters without returning to the base camp, it may be tempting to hunt continuously to maximize your playtime and this is not a bad thing. However, be sure to always set a routine to restock your items in the base camps or pop-up camps every now and then to avoid going into a hunt and not having enough consumables that you need for that specific hunt.

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