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List of Weapon Skills

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Weapon skills are equipment skills tied to weapons that give your character buffs in Monster Hunter Wilds. View all the available weapon skills, as well as their effects in this page.

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Skill	Effect
Speed Sharpening	Speeds up weapon sharpening when using a whetstone.
Ballistics	Extends the range in which ammo and arrows have maximum power.
Critical Eye	Increases affinity.
Offensive Guard	Temporarily increases attack power after executing a perfectly-timed guard.
Punishing Draw	Adds a stun effect to draw attacks and slightly increases attack power. (Not effective while riding.)
Power Prolonger	Allows long swords, dual blades, insect glaives, switch axes, and charge blades stay powered up longer.
Focus	Increases the fill rate for weapons with gauges and the charge rate for weapons with charge attacks.
Critical Draw	Increases affinity when performing draw attacks. (Not effective while riding.)
Charge Up	Increases your power to induce stun when you hit a monster with a hammer's charged attack.
Stamina Thief	Increases certain attacks' ability to exhaust monsters.
Guard	Reduces knockbacks and stamina depletion when guarding.
Load Shells	Improves reloading, and increases the gunlance's shell capacity and charge blade's phial capacity.
Critical Boost	Increases the damage of critical hits.
Rapid Morph	Increases switch speed and power for switch axes and charge blades.
Horn Maestro	Increases the effect duration of hunting horn melodies. (Effect lost when you change weapons)
Critical Element	Increases elemental damage (fire, water, thunder, ice, dragon) when landing critical hits.
Master's Touch	Prevents your weapon from losing sharpness during critical hits.
Attack Boost	Increases attack power.
Protective Polish	Weapon sharpness does not decrease for a set time after sharpening.
Critical Status	Increases abnormal status effects (paralysis, poison, sleep, blast) when landing critical hits.
Charge Master	Increases element power and status buildup for charged attacks.
Slugger	Makes it easier to stun monsters.
Airborne	Increases the damage caused by jumping attacks.
Tetrad Shot	Increases the affinity of bowgun ammo/coatings from the fourth shot and attack of the fourth and sixth shots.
Guard Up	Allows you to guard against ordinarily unblockable attacks.
Opening Shot	Increases the bowgun's reload speed and increases the power of bullets when fully loaded
Special Ammo Boost	Increases the power of the bowgun's special ammo, and the bow's Dragon Piercer, Thousand Dragons, and Tracer
Artillery	Strengthens explosive attacks like shells, Wyvern's Fire, charge blade phial attacks, and Sticky Ammo.
Fire Attack	Increases fire element attack power. (Elemental attack power has a maximum limit.)
Water Attack	Increases water element attack power. (Elemental attack power has a maximum limit.)
Thunder Attack	Increases thunder element attack power. (Elemental attack power has a maximum limit.)
Ice Attack	Increases ice element attack power. (Elemental attack power has a maximum limit.)
Paralysis Attack	Increases the rate of paralysis buildup. (Paralysis buildup has a maximum limit.)
Blast Attack	Increases the rate of blast buildup. (Blast buildup has a maximum limit.)
Mind's Eye	Your attacks are deflected less and deal more damage to hard targets.
Handicraft	Extends the weapon sharpness gauge. However, it will not increase the gauge past its maximum.
Razor Sharp	Prevents your weapon from losing sharpness.
Bludgeoner	Increases attack power when your weapon sharpness is low.
Sleep Attack	Increases the rate of sleep buildup. (Sleep buildup has a maximum limit.)
Poison Duration Up	Extends the duration of your poison's effect on monsters.
Dragon Attack	Increases dragon element attack power. (Elemental attack power has a maximum limit.)
Poison Attack	Increases the rate of poison buildup. (Poison buildup has a maximum limit.)
Normal Shots	Increases the attack power of Normal Ammo, normal arrows, and Flying Swallow Shot.
Piercing Shots	Increases the attack of the bowgun's Pierce Ammo, and the bow's Dragon Piercer and Thousand Dragons.
Spread/Power Shots	Increases the attack of the bowgun's Spread Ammo and the bow's Power Shots and Quick Shots.
Rapid Fire Up	Improves light bowgun rapid fire.
Poison Functionality	Allows you to apply poison coatings.
Para Functionality	Allows you to apply paralysis coatings.
Sleep Functionality	Allows you to apply sleep coatings.
Blast Functionality	Allows you to apply blast coatings.
Exhaust Functionality	Allows you to apply exhaust coatings.
Slicked Blade	Temporarily increases affinity when wet or when inflicted with bubbleblight. (Wet and bubbleblight effects stack.)
Whiteflame Torrent	Chance to deal additional damage after landing an attack.
Bladescale Honing	Narrowly evading a monster's attack while your weapon is drawn grants special sharpness.
Bladescale Loading	Narrowly evading a monster's attack while your weapon is drawn grants special loaded ammo or applied coatings.
Evading Reload	Evading loads the currently selected ammo automatically.
Convert Thunder Resistance	Increase to your weapon's elemental attack proportional to your thunder resistance.
Crackling Cornpopper	Increases shelling power and fire attack while overheated.
Power Stone	Temporarily increases attack upon mining materials.
Darkside	Performing certain Lvl 2 or higher charged slashes temporarily increases attack but also deals self-damage.
Synthetic Shield	Temporarily increases your defense and the defense of those around you after a successful Perfect Guard.
Synergy	Temporarily increases your affinity and the affinity of those around you after using a Rising Spiral Slash.
Grillmaster	Grill meat to sharpen your weapon and temporarily increase your attack. (Duration and effect vary based on results.)
Catburglar	Grants a small chance of obtaining various items when landing critical hits.
Shattering Reflection	Level 3 charged slashes deal area-of-effect damage upon hitting then ground.
Convert Water Resistance	Increase to your weapon's elemental attack proportional to your water resistance.

What are Weapon Skills?

Skills Obtained from Weapons

Equipment Skill

Weapon skills are typically oriented toward offense and weapon usability. These include skills such as Speed Sharpening or Critical Eye.

Equipping weapons can provide you different skills, and you can choose which skills to use that fit your playstyle. Additionally, you will not lose skills whenever you upgrade weapons in the same Weapon Tree. Skills can only be upgraded or added as you go down a weapon's upgrade path.

You can view your current equipped skills inside tent or by pressing the Start button, then selecting Equipment Info > Skill Info and then pressing the L1 or R1 button to switch between Skill Info pages.

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