Building an effective hunter set involves combining armor pieces, decorations, and talismans to activate specific skills. Understanding these principles is key to maximizing your damage, survivability, and utility.
Key Elements:
- Armor Skills: Each armor piece comes with pre-set skills. Higher rarity armor often has more skill points.
- Decorations: Jewels that can be slotted into armor (and some weapons) to add skill points.
- Talismans (Charms): Provide skill points and often have multiple skills. These are crucial for optimizing endgame builds.
- Weapon Skills: Some weapons have inherent skills or Rampage Skills that can be added.
Prioritize:
- Weapon-Specific Skills: Skills that directly benefit your chosen weapon (e.g., Artillery for Gunlance, Focus for Great Sword).
- Damage Skills: Attack Boost, Critical Eye, Weakness Exploit, Critical Boost are universal damage enhancers.
- Survivability Skills: Health Boost, Divine Blessing, Evade Extender, Guard are great for staying alive.
- Utility Skills: Speed Sharpening, Marathon Runner, Stamina Surge, Partbreaker can make hunts smoother.
Don't be afraid to mix and match armor pieces from different sets to get the skills you need. The goal is to reach skill level caps (e.g., Attack Boost Lv.7) for maximum effect.