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Guide Monster Hunter: World Weapons - All Sword & Shields, Upgrade Trees, and How to Craft Them
Updated with all swords & shields
The Sword & Shield is the quintessential beginner's weapon in Monster Hunter: World, but that's not to say it's no good later in the game. The weapon has a lot going for it. You get a defensive boost thanks to the shield, can move while guarding, and you can even use items without unequipping your weapon...
Guide Monster Hunter: World Weapons - All Switch Axes, Upgrade Trees, and How to Craft them
Updated with all switch axes
Welcome to the latest instalment in our Monster Hunter: World weapons crafting guide. This one focuses on the Switch Axe, the weapon of choice for those that think the best defense is a ridiculously good offense. Seriously, this weapon deals out insane damage at a considerable pace. You'll start off chopping away...
Guide Monster Hunter: World Weapons - All Long Swords, Upgrade Trees, and How to Craft Them
Updated with all long swords
Monster Hunter: World's Long Sword is designed for those that wish they were Samurai. Not only do most designs resemble a katana, but the move set favours swift movement and deadly attacks. If you like to remain on the frontline, dealing solid damage while evading enemy attacks, this is the weapon for you. So read on to...
Guide Monster Hunter: World Weapons - All Charge Blades, Upgrade Trees, and How to Craft Them
Updated with all charge blades
Welcome to the latest instalment in our Monster Hunter: World weapons crafting guide. This one focuses on the Charge Blade, an intriguing blend of the Sword & Shield and Switch Axe. If you like playing it safe while you wait for an opportunity to stun the monster, then unleash a multitude of deadly...
Guide Monster Hunter: World Weapons - All Bows, Upgrade Trees, and How to Craft them
Updated with all bows
Welcome to the latest instalment in our Monster Hunter: World weapons crafting guide. This one focuses on the Bow, the weapon of choice for those that like to fight from range while keeping on the move. The Bow may not do an awful lot of damage with each arrow, but the sheer number of them you can fire off at...
Guide Monster Hunter: World Weapons - All Dual Blades, Upgrade Trees, and How to Craft Them
Updated with all dual blades
Monster Hunter: World is all about hunting, and as such you won't make it very far without having something pointy to stick in those nasty monsters. How about two instead of just one? If one sword is 100, surely two swords is 200? Well, if that's your mentality, the Dual Blades are for you. These vicious weapons...
Guide Monster Hunter: World Armor Sets - All Low Rank Armor Sets and How to Craft Them
Fight to the end(game)
Crafting armor sets is the bread and butter of Monster Hunter: World. From your very first excursion into the dangerous lands of the Ancient Forest, you'll gather materials that you can use to craft bigger and better sets. We want to help you plan your journey from the very beginning right up until your epic fight with Zorah...
Guide Monster Hunter: World - All Monsters, Locations, and Materials
Updated with all monsters and locations!
The whole point of Monster Hunter: World is to hunt and kill monsters. Sure, there's plenty more to do like fishing, capturing wildlife, and crafting nice new weapons and armour, but you'll spend the bulk of your time whacking big monsters with even bigger swords. To help you do that, we've documented the...
Guide Monster Hunter: World Armor Sets - All High Rank Armor Sets and How to Craft Them
Updated with even more sets
Without armour crafting, there is no Monster Hunter. It's such an integral part of the experience, and your primary motivation for killing large monsters. To help you get all of the high rank sets faster, we've created this enormous list of all of the armor sets in the game, what you need to craft them, and how they will...
Guide Monster Hunter: World Tobi-Kadachi - How to Beat It, Weaknesses, and Strategies
Bringing the thunder
Tobi-Kadachi from Monster Hunter: World is thunder and lightning in a monster form. This one will terrorise you from above, flying from treetop to treetop, raining thunder down on unsuspecting victims like you. Follow our strategies below, and pay attention to our tips and you'll walk away alive every single time. Here's how to...
Guide Monster Hunter: World Jyuratodus - How to Beat It, Weaknesses, and Strategies
What lurks beneath
Monster Hunter: World's Jyuratodus is a pretty intimidating monster, as it forces you to fight in water. This slows your movement and affects your ability to dodge, which kind of sucks given how hard it hits. Not only that, but like Barroth, Jyuratodus covers itself in hardened mud that protects it from your attacks. ...
Guide Monster Hunter: World Barroth - How to Beat It, Weaknesses, and Strategies
Barroth of laughs
Monster Hunter: World's Barroth isn't a particularly tricky monster to beat. While it does have one particularly powerful attack, the biggest trouble you'll have with it is knocking off the hardened mud that it uses as armor. But that's exactly what this guide is for – to help you do just that so you can beat it. We'll also...
Guide Monster Hunter: World Pukei-Pukei - How to Beat It, Weaknesses, and Strategies
The Pu-key to defeating it
Pukei-Pukei is an early monster you'll face in Monster Hunter: World. This particular beast stalks the northern zones of the Ancient Forest, and loves a little bit of poison. So much so that many of its attacks use it, and its den is surrounded by poisonous plants. But that's not even the most dangerous aspect of...
Guide Monster Hunter: World Kulu-Ya-Ku - How to Beat It, Weaknesses, and Strategies
Kulu-YUCK-Ku
Kulu-Ya-Ku is one of the first large monsters you'll face in Monster Hunter: World, and it'll keep cropping up throughout your adventure due to having two natural habitats. It's not a particularly tough monster to bring down, but there are a few attacks that you'll definitely want to avoid. There are also specific areas worth targeting...
Guide Monster Hunter: World Great Jagras - How to Beat It, Weaknesses, and Strategies
Not so great anymore
Great Jagras is the first large monster you'll face in Monster Hunter: World, and while it doesn't pose an awful lot of threat, it will still challenge those fresh to the hunt. To help you tackle this scaly nightmare, we've written a few tips below to help you plan your attack, and avoid the Great Jagras' most powerful moves...
Guide Monster Hunter: World - How to Mount Large Monsters and Aim for Specific Body Parts
Come out on top in battle
Did you know you could mount large monsters in Monster Hunter: World in order to deal a ton of damage to a specific body part without fear of attack? Thought not. Unless you're already familiar with the franchise, you'll probably completely overlook this, and a bunch more features. In fact, the only way you can really...
Pali-go!
Palico partners are hands down the most adorable addition to Monster Hunter: World. Not only do they fight alongside you in combat and use various different equipment to help you and hinder monsters, but you can also play dress up with them. In fact, there's almost as many Palico armor sets and weapons as there are for your main character...
Guide Monster Hunter: World - How to Get Your 5 Million Celebration Item Pack
Let's celebrate
Monster Hunter: World hasn't even been out for a week yet, and it's already sold a whopping five million copies. That's hardly surprising given how great it is, but it's still an impressive feat. To celebrate, Capcom is showering early adopters with gifts that will give you a serious boost while out hunting monsters. But, as is...
Guide Monster Hunter: World Armor Skills, What They Do, and Upgrade Levels
Get good
When you first start playing Monster Hunter: World, you'll likely be tempted to focus on crafting armor with a higher defense rating. We recommend that you don't do that, because the skills on them are far more important. That's because you can upgrade most armor sets to the max defense rating, but you can't change the skills on the vast...
News Monster Hunter: World's Japanese Sales Top 1.35 Million in Opening Weekend
Home turf
As you might have guessed, Monster Hunter: World sold very well indeed in Japan over its first three days. To be precise, it sold 1,350,412 units, and that's without including digital sales. This makes it the top selling PS4 game in Japan for last week. PlayStation hardware also performed well, surging from 44,910 to 140,432 during the...
A problem shared
Chances are, you've bought Monster Hunter: World for multiplayer. After all, the enormous world and even bigger monsters are way more fun to tackle as a group than by your lonesome. The only problem is, Capcom hasn't made it very easy to play with your friends. Nor is it exactly straightforward to join a squad, or create a...
News Monster Hunter: World Squad Issue Is Preventing Some Players from Teaming Up
Let's hope it gets fixed
An ongoing issue that seems to have gone under the radar, some Monster Hunter: World players are encountering a rather nasty bug that's preventing them from accessing the game's squad system. Said system essentially allows players to create and join clans so that they can team up and find suitable allies a little quicker...
Weirdness Capcom Will Give £50,000 to Anyone With Proof of Real Life Monsters
Hope you've got some scout flies
Have you been obsessively playing Monster Hunter: World? Think you can put your tracking skills to use in real life? In one of the strangest publicity moves we've read about in a while, it seems Capcom is willing to splash some serious cash for evidence of monsters in the real world. The publisher has announced that...
News In One Weekend, Monster Hunter: World Is Crowned the Series' Fastest Selling Entry Ever
It's shipped 5 million copies
The game's only been out for one weekend, but Capcom says that Monster Hunter: World is already the fastest selling entry in the series' history. Combining digital sales with shipped figures, the Japanese publisher states that the game has shifted 5 million copies, which is pretty darn impressive. Again, World launched...
Guide Monster Hunter: World Weapons - All Gunlances, Upgrade Trees, and How to Craft them
Updated with all gunlances!
Welcome to the latest instalment in our Monster Hunter: World weapons crafting guide. This one focuses on the Gunlance, the weapon of choice for those that fancy having a little bit of everything. The Gunlance has decent damage, a ranged option, and yet still plenty of the same defensive options as the Lance. If you...
News Monster Hunter: World Adds Street Fighter's Ryu, Sakura
Here comes a new challenger
Monster Hunter: World will soon play host to a couple more guest characters, as Street Fighter’s Ryu and Sakura prepare to toss fireballs at oblivious beasts. The full-body armour sets will not only allow you to dress like the aforementioned brawlers, but will also add voice packs so that you sound like the iconic...
Poll Will You Be Playing Monster Hunter: World This Weekend?
The hunt begins
2018 is off to a great start on PlayStation 4, with Monster Hunter: World stealing both the headlines and the high review scores. The title's currently sitting on a nest of 8s, 9s, and 10s, but we want to know if you've bought into the hype. For this week's casual Friday poll, we're here to find out if you'll be sinking your...
Guide Monster Hunter: World – All Items, Ammo & Coatings, and How to Craft Them
You're a crafty one
As the name suggests, Monster Hunter: World is an experience made up of mostly hunting massive monsters with even bigger weapons. As is often the case, though, preparation is key, and you won't get very far at all without bringing the necessary equipment. That's where this guide comes in. We want to help you find all of the...
Guide Monster Hunter: World Beginners Tips and Tricks - Everything You Need to Know
A world of adventure
Monster Hunter: World revolves around a fleet of expert hunters as they journey to the new world, seeking the truth about an event known as the Elder Crossing. This is where dragons periodically travel to this new land for an unknown purpose. In many ways, this echoes what's happening to the franchise itself. Since the...
News Monster Hunter: World Has Plenty of Trophies to Hunt Down
Make some space in your cabinet
Not only will Monster Hunter: World feature lots of fearsome beasts to hunt, there will also be a decent list of Trophies to tackle. The full Trophy list has hit the web, and it contains 50 trinkets for you to collect. It's more or less the kind of challenges you'd expect from the release: progress through the story,...
News Insane Monster Hunter: World PS4 Ad Is Somehow Even Better than the Last One
Monster mash
PlayStation Japan knows how to make adverts. Whenever the company gets its hands on the advertising rights for a big release, it almost always finds a way to make us crack up -- and this new Monster Hunter: World ad is no different. In fact, it's probably one of the funniest we've seen. Once again, Japanese actor Takayuki Yamada is...
News Monster Hunter: World's Final Beta Can Be Downloaded Now on PS4
Last chance
Monster Hunter: World is fast approaching, but if you're eager to give the game one try before its full launch, you may want to hop onto the PlayStation Store and get its final beta downloading. Starting today (the 17th January), the third beta is available for pre-load, meaning that you can get it downloaded before the testing period...
News First Monster Hunter: World Review Is Near Perfect
But...
Ever since we first went hands on with Monster Hunter: World we’ve been waxing lyrical about the title, and our collective enthusiasm has only grown with subsequent betas. It’s no surprise, then, that the first review of the game is particularly high: 39/40 to be precise. But yes, there’s the caveat: this comes courtesy of Japa
News That Beastly Monster Hunter: World PS4 Pro is Heading West
Roar-some
At the start of the day, we knew that the gorgeous special edition Monster Hunter: World PS4 Pro was making its way to France. Now, we've learned it'll be releasing in North America and Europe in general. Releasing at the same time as the game itself on 26th January, the bundle incorporates a 1TB customised PS4 Pro and DualShock 4, a...
News Monster Hunter: World Wheels Out More PS4 Gameplay Before Launch
Nothing rotten about it
Want yet more great looking Monster Hunter: World gameplay? Well you're in luck, because Capcom's released another eight minutes of footage, this time taking us through the treacherous Rotten Vale region. The place looks like it really stinks. As with the previous gameplay video, this latest look at the title gives you a...
Guide Monster Hunter: World Weapons - All Heavy Bowguns, Upgrade Trees, and How to Craft them
Updated with all heavy bowguns!
Welcome to the latest instalment in our Monster Hunter: World weapons crafting guide. This one focuses on the Heavy Bowguns, the weapon of choice for those that think a machine gun is the way to go. Well, that's the special ability of the Heavy Bowgun. Once a monster is stunned, you can rain down havoc...
Guide Monster Hunter: World Weapons - All Great Swords, Upgrade Trees, and How to Craft Them
Updated with all great swords!
So you like swords big enough to break someone's back when they try to lift them? Fair enough. Monster Hunter: World's monsters are pretty big themselves, so you're going to need a weapon that can put them down for good. How about a Great Sword? But there are an absolute ton of great swords in the game, all with...
News We'll Gladly Watch 9 Whole Minutes of New Monster Hunter: World PS4 Gameplay, Thanks
Good hunting
Ah, Monster Hunter: World. It looks great, it plays great (going by our time with the beta), and it's out this month. If you need a quick hype injection, you'll want to give this new nine-minute gameplay video a watch, which details the Coral Highlands -- a rather eye-catching environment that's yours to explore. Are you excited for...
Guide Monster Hunter: World Weapons - All Insect Glaives, Upgrade Trees, and How to Craft Them
Updated with all insect glaives!
Welcome to the latest instalment in our Monster Hunter: World weapons crafting guide. This one focuses on the Insect Glaive, the weapon of choice for those that like to spend a ton of time airborne. It's kind of like a staff from martial arts movies, crossed with some of the Horn's functionality. You...
News Capcom Invites Monster Hunter Fans to a Meaty Feast in London
Monstrous appetite
There have been some incredible PR stunts for game launches in the past, but this latest effort from Capcom UK looks particularly appetising. To celebrate the launch of Monster Hunter: World, it's throwing an epic feast at London's Flat Iron Square, from Thursday 25th to Sunday 28th January. The best part? It's free. At the...
News Take Down the Nergigante in Third Monster Hunter: World Beta Test on PS4
The hunt is on once again
Capcom has just wrapped up a live broadcast focusing on this month's Monster Hunter: World, in which the publisher shared some brand new information and footage. First and foremost is the news that, yes, there will be yet another open beta test on PS4, beginning 18th January at 18:00 PT (or 19th January at 02:00 GMT for us...
News Monster Hunter: World Will Push PS4 Sales in Japan, Says Former Famitsu Editor
Japanese giant
Hirokazu Hamamura might not be a household name, but he's currently President of Enterbrain, the publisher of Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu, after a long stint as its Editor-in-Chief. It's fair to say he knows his stuff. Speaking with Japanese site Mantan Web, Hamamura-san predicted that the new entry in the celebrated Monster...
News PlayStation's Japanese Monster Hunter: World Ad Is Predictably Brilliant
Money talks
Monster Hunter: World is edging closer to its January release dates, and as you'd imagine, PlayStation Japan is starting to kick its marketing machine into gear. This advert stars Japanese actor Takayuki Yamada, who gifts three friends some money to celebrate the New Year. It's only a short video, but you've got to love Yamada's...
News Monster Hunter: World's Main Story Will Take 40-50 Hours to Beat, Says Dev
Monstrous
Monster Hunter: World is shaping up to be a huge creature-crunching package, especially when you take this latest quote from director Yuya Tokuda into account. Tokuda told Mein-MMO that the game's story takes anywhere from 40 to 50 hours to complete. We don't know too much about said story at this point in time, but clearly Capcom's...
News The Monster Hunter: World Beta Returns for All PS4 Players Next Week
Roarsome
Oh sh*t son, the Monster Hunter: World beta is coming back to PlayStation 4 next week. Capcom will be reopening the beta for all players this time around -- not just those who are PlayStation Plus members. It begins on the 22nd December and lasts until the 26th December, so you'll have four whole days to get stuck in. You'll be able to...
Poll What Do You Think of Monster Hunter: World After Trying the PS4 Beta?
Beastly?
The Monster Hunter: World beta ends today (or it may have already ended, depending on when you're reading this) and it's safe to say that we've been left thoroughly impressed. You can have a read of our thoughts by clicking through here. But enough about what we think -- we want to know what you think of Monster Hunter: World after having...
Hands On Monster Hunter: World Is Shaping Up to Be Something Very, Very Special on PS4
We spent the whole weekend with the beta
Monster Hunter has built up a loving, hardcore fanbase on Nintendo platforms over the years, but we believe now more than ever that its return to home consoles is what will propel the series to a whole new level -- and the amount of interest and hype surrounding the game's PlayStation 4 beta is an indication...
News Capcom Planning Free Monster Hunter: World Content Updates After Launch
The hunt continues
Capcom has revealed that it's eyeing up free content updates for Monster Hunter: World following the game's release late next month. Talking to Japanese publication Famitsu -- as translated by Gematsu -- producer Ryozo Tsujimoto reveals the publisher's plans, at least partially. "We are thinking about free, post-launch...
PSX 2017 Mega Man Joins the Hunt in Monster Hunter: World
Palic-okay, then
Remember when Capcom treated Mega Man with such disdain that Keiji Inafune went and raised a fortune for spiritual successor Mighty No. 9, only to let everyone down with the final product? Well, the Japanese publisher’s finally bloody remembered its mascot, announcing an all-new entry in the series – and a Monster Hunter:...
PSX 2017 Monster Hunter: World Gets a Gorgeous Story Trailer
Plot armour
Playing the Monster Hunter: World beta this weekend, are you? Well, if you're not quite hyped to give Capcom's creature-slaying test run a shot, then we'd recommend watching this new trailer. The three-minute video gives us a better idea of what to expect from the game's story. Yes, you'll be spending most of your time taking out beasts...
