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Monster Hunter Wilds
What is Affinity?
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Affinity is the chance of inflicting a critical hit with your weapon in Monster Hunter Wilds. Read on to learn more about what is affinity and how to increase affinity here!
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What is Affinity?
A Chance to Deal More or Less Damage
Affinity is the chance for your attacks to deal a Critical Hit, allowing your weapon to inflict more physical damage. Critical Hits are attacks that can deal 25% increased damage and consume more sharpness compared to your regular hits.
Keep in mind that affinity is capped at 100%. If your build exceeds this cap, consider allotting different skills that can boost your attack or offer comfort to your build.
Elemental Damage is Not Counted
| Raw | Elemental | Total Damage (No Crit) |
Total damage (With Crit) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50 | 10 | 60 | 72.5 |
Affinity is fixed only for raw physical damage and will not affect any elements your weapon has. This means that even if your weapon have elemental values, when your attack triggers an affinity hit, only your weapon's attack stat's damage will be increased while your elemental damage's value will only be added to the computation.
To allow your elemental attacks to trigger critical hits, you'll need to equip a Critical Element which will allow your elemental hits to also gain bonus damage from critical strikes.
How Does Weapon Elemental Damage Work?
Critical Boost Further Increases Damage
Having the Critical Boost skill increases the damage of your critical hits from 25% up to 40%, depending on the level. This is an important skill to have if ever you are using a crit build as it can increase your overall damage immensely.
Negative Affinity
Weapons with negative affinity will have a chance to deal 25% less damage in proportion to how much affinity you have. This means if you have -30% Affinity, you will have a 30% chance to deal 75% damage on every hit.
How to Increase Affinity
| Best Ways to Increase Affinity |
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Equip Affinity-Raising Skills
| Skill | Effect |
|---|---|
 Critical Eye
|
Increases affinity. |
 Weakness Exploit
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Increases the affinity of attacks that exploit a monster weak spot. |
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Critical Draw
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Increases affinity for a short time after performing a draw attack. |
 Agitator
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Increased attack and affinity when a monster is enraged. |
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Latent Power
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Temporarily increases affinity and reduces stamina depletion when certain conditions are met. |
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Maximum Might
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Increases affinity if stamina is kept full for a period of time. |
 Affinity Sliding |
Increases your affinity temporarily when sliding on terrain. |
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Antivirus
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Once infected, makes it easier to overcome the Frenzy and increases affinity if cured. |
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Foray
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Increases attack power and affinity against large monsters affected by poison or paralysis. |
 Tetrad Shot
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Increases the affinity of bowgun ammo/coatings from the fourth shot and attack of the fourth and sixth shots. |
The best way to increase your affinity is by equipping skills that can raise them such as Critical Eye and Weakness Exploit. These skills can be obtained from your armor, weapon, or decorations to help you reach that 100% affinity you are aiming for.
Some skills such as Weakness Exploit will not show and add up to your Affinity stat when you check it so if ever you are building a crit build, it might not be optimal to aim for 100% affinity on your weapon.
Use High-Affinity Weapons
As you progress further in the game, you will unlock more weapons that can come with High-Affinity stats which you can find just below the Sharpness and Element stats. Notably, the Gore Magala Weapon Tree contain weapons with the highest base affinity at 20%.
Additionally, Artian Weapons can provide 35% affinity with the right production and reinforcement bonuses. Note that by doing this, other bonuses such as raw, sharpness, and elemental attack will be sacrificed.
List of All Weapons
Overcome the Frenzy
Frenzy is a negative Abnormal Status Effect usually contracted from Gore Magala. Overcoming the Frenzy status gives you bonus affinity for a certain duration which is great for reaching that 100% affinity you are aiming for.
Another option is to inflict Frenzy to yourself by using Black Eclipse, a set bonus skill under Gore Magala's Armor Set. Overcome the Frenzy quicker with Antivirus and receive an additional boost to your affinity upon overcoming Frenzy.
Frenzy Status Ailment Explained
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