MHWU

skills

Temporarily reduces stamina depletion when health is at 40% or lower.

Sliding increases your affinity for a short time.

Affinity Sliding

Increases attack power and affinity when large monsters become enraged.

Raises the maximum level of the Agitator skill.

Agitator Secret

Increases the damage caused by jumping attacks.

Increases all elemental resistances +20%.

All Elemental Resistance

Increases defense and eliminates damage reactions. Taking several hits knoocks it out, but reactivates over time.

Lets you move more freely in water. Also prevents you from being slowed down by terrain effects, such as deep snow.

Aquatic/Polar Mobility

Strengthens explosive attacks like gunlance shells, Wyvern's Fire, charge blade phial attacks, and sticky ammo.

Raises the maximum level of the Artillery skill.

Artillery Secret

Increases attack power. Also improves affinity at higher levels.

Improves your skill at cooking meat.

Increases the rate of the blast buildup. (Elemental buildup has a maximum limit.)

Allows you to apply blast coatings.

Blast Functionality

Grants protection against blastblight.

Blast Resistance

Grants protection against bleeding.

Bleeding Resistance

Grants protection against all elemental blights.

Blight Resistance

Improves the effectiveness of flash attacks and items.

Raises attack as your weapon loses sharpness. Also boosts ranged weapon melee attacks and odds of stunning.

Increases the damage of explosive items.

Raises the maximum level of the Bombardier skill.

Bombardier Secret

Increases the quantity of herbs and other consumable items you gather.

Increases max bow charge level by one.

Bow Charge Plus

Increases the gunlance's shell capacity and charge blade's phial capacity.

High chance of increased capture rewards. (No effect when joining mid-quest.)

Lets you carve one additional time. (No effect when joining mid-quest.)

Prevents knockback from attacks while carving.

Decreases stamina depletion when evading while clinging to walls or ivy, or when moving while grappling onto an enemy.

Clutch claw weapon attacks wound monsters easier, and have a better chance of dropping slinger ammo.

Clutch Claw Boost

Temporarily enhances attacks after recovering from blights or abnormal status.

Nullifies the effects of cold weather.

Reduces stamina depletion when performing stamina-draining moves such as evading, etc.

Increases the damage of critical hits.

Increases affinity when performing draw attacks.

Increases elemental damage (fire, water, thunder, ice, dragon) when landing critical hits.

Critical Element

Increases affinity.

Increases abnormal status effect damage (paralysis, poison, sleep, blast) when landing critical hits.

Critical Status

Increases defense. Level up to improve resistances as well.

Shows rare gathering points on the Wildlife Map.

Has a predetermined chance of reducing the damage you take.

Divine Blessing

Raises the maximum level of the Divine Blessing skill.

Divine Blessing Secret

Increases dragon element attack power. (Elemental attack power has a maximum limit.)

Increases dragon resistance. Also improves defense at higher levels.

Dragon Resistance

Elem., abnormal status, & affinity up with weapon drawn. Take damage when attacking, but can be recovered by continually attacking.

Dragonvein Awakening

Makes monsters hit with slinger dung pods more likely to run.

Grants protection from large monsters' roars.

Gain a resistance to effluvial buildup.

Effluvia Resistance

Nullifies or reduces environmental damage in the Rotten Vale.

Effluvial Expert

Increases the Elderseal of weapons and dragon ammo.

Elderseal Boost

Continually attacking a monster activates Free Element/Ammo Up Lv2 and increases elemental damage.

Element Acceleration

Equipped weapon's elemental power increases as your armor's elemental resistance increases.

Element Conversion

Elemental damage increased for jumping attacks.

Elemental Airborne

Decreases the chances of destroying the bodies of small insect monsters, allowing them to be carved.

Increases evade distance.

Extends the invulnerability period when evading.

Increases fire element attack power. (Elemental attack power has a maximum limit.)

Increases fire resistance. Also improves defense at higher levels.

Fire Resistance

Prevents knockbacks and other reactions to small damage.

Increases the fill rate for weapons with gauges and the charge rate for weapons with charge attacks.

Increases the chance of finding rare gathering points.

Temporarily increases your attack and defense every time you faint up to 2 times.

Unlocks your weapon's hidden element. Also increases bowgun loading capacity. (There is a cap to loading capacity.)

Free Elem/Ammo Up

Gives you a predetermined chance of consuming a food or drink item for free.

Raises the maximum level of the Free Meal skill.

Free Meal Secret

An aura of frost builds when your weapon is sheathed, raising attack. Wanes each melee hit or shot fired.

Increases odds of getting special Full Bloom rewards.

Full Bloom's Gift

Greatly increases odds of getting special Full Bloom rewards.

Full Bloom's Gratitude

Increases odds of getting special Fun Fright rewards. (No effect when joining mid quest.)

Fun Fright's Gift

Greatly increases odds of getting special Fun Fright rewards. (No effect when joining mid quest.)

Fun Fright's Gratitude

While wearing a mantle, gain Windproof Lv3, Earplugs Lv3, Tremor Res Lv3, and Flinch Free.

Increases the number of times you can use a gathering point.

Good chance of increased quest rewards. (No effect when joining mid-quest.)

Increases odds of getting special Grand Appreciation rewards. (No effect when joining mid-quest.)

Gratitude's Gift

Greatly increases odds of getting special Grand Appreciation rewards. (No effect when joining mid-quest.)

Gratitudes's Blessing

High chance of increased quest rewards. (No effect when joining mid-quest.)

Reduces knockbacks and stamina depletion when guarding.

Allows you to guard against ordinarily unblockable attacks.

Above a certain health threshold, you withstand an attack that would normally cart you (once only).

Extends the weapon sharpness gauage. However, it will not increase the gauge past its maximum.

Regenerates your health as you continually attack a monster. Recovery varies by weapon.

Hasten Recovery

Increases health.

Nullifies damage from heat.

Increases the firepower of ballistae and cannons.

Heavy Artillery

Increases attack power and defense when health drops to 35% or lower.

Raises the maximum level of the Heroics skill.

Increases the quantity of honey you receive when gathering in the field.

Increases the effect duration of hunting horn melodies.

Reduces maximum stamina depletion over time. However, does not work against cold environments that reduce stamina.

Hunger Resistance

Increases ice element attack power. (Elemental attack power has as maximum limit.)

Increases ice resistance. Also improves defense at higher levels.

Only those who complete the rigorous witcher training are allowed to use the powerful magic of the Igni Sign.

Removes the skill level cap for the skill secrets.

Reduces the chances small monsters will attack after spotting you. (No effect on certain monsters.)

Grants protection against Defense Down.

Extends the duration of some item effects.

Increases odds of getting special Holiday Joy rewards. (No effect when joining mid-quest.)

Greatly increases odds of getting special Holiday Joy rewards. (No effect when joining mid-quest.)

Joy's Gratitude

Prevents attacks from knocking you back during a jump.

Temporarily increases affinity and reduces stamina depletion when certain conditions are met.

Raises the maximum level of the Latent Power skill.

Latent Power Secret

Allows you to do a dive-evade when facing towards large monsters, and extends the dive-evade distance.

Slows down stamina depletion for actions which continuously drain stamina (such as dashing).

Marathon Runner

Improves your skill at fishing.

Allows you to gather more quickly, and also prevents attacks from knocking you back while gathering.

Master Gatherer

Makes it easier to mount monsters.

Prevents your weapon from losing sharpness during critical hits.

Increases affinity as long as stamina is kept full for a period of time.

Raises the maximum level of the Maximum Might skill.

Maximum Might Secret

Prevents attacks from being deflected. Also shortens the distance before ammo and arrows reach maximum power.

Mind's Eye/Ballistics

Reduces impairments to mobility while stuck in monster muck.

Muck Resistance

Lets you digest mushrooms that would otherwise be inedible and gain their advantageous effects.

Powers up non-elemental weapons you have equipped.

Non-elemental Boost

Increases the attack power of normal ammo and normal arrows.

Negates all wind pressure.

Nullify Wind Pressure

Temporarily increases attack power after executing a perfectly-timed guard.

Offensive Guard

Powers up Palicoes.

Allows you to apply paralysis coatings.

Para Functionality

Increases the rate of paralysis buildup. (Elemental buildup has a maximum limit.)

Paralysis Attack

Reduces the duration of paralysis.

Paralysis Resistance

Makes it easier to break or sever parts of large monsters.

Increases attack when your health is full.

Peak Performance

Increases the attack power of piercing ammo and Dragon Piercer.

Increases the rate of poison buildup. (Elemental buildup has a maximum limit.)

Extends the duration of your poison's effect on monsters.

Poison Duration Up

Allows you to apply poison coatings.

Poison Functionality

Reduces damage while poisoned.

Poison Resistance

Allows long swords, dual blades, insect glaives, switch axes, and charge blades to stay powered up longer.

Power Prolonger

Increases your speed while transporting items and decreases the likelihood of dropping them.

Pro Transporter

Weapon sharpness does not decrease for a set time after sharpening.

Protective Polish

Increases the attention drawn when attacking a monster.

Adds a stun effect to draw attacks and slightly increases attack power.

Speeds up weapon sheathing.

Halves sharpness loss. For bows and bowguns, shots have a chance not to expend coatings or ammo.

Razor Sharp/Spare Shot

Speeds healing of recoverable damage (the red portion of the health gauge).

Increases the amount recovered when restoring health.

Increases attack when you have recoverable damage (the red portion of your health gauge).

Improves evasion and reduces stamina depletion when afflicted with abnormal status effects.

Allows you to quickly recover from heavy attacks that blow you back when you have your weapon unsheathed.

Increases your scoutflies' gauge fill rate when you find tracks and other traces left by monsters.

Speeds up progress on research levels and special investigations. (Effect is applied at the quest results screen.)

Expands your scoutflies' detection range.

Scoutfly Range Up

Increases odds of getting special Sizzling Spice rewards. (No effect when joining mid-quest.)

Greatly increases odds of getting special Sizzling Spice rewards. (No effect when joining mid-quest.)

Sizzling Gratitude

Increases the rate of sleep buildup. (Elemental buildup has maximum limit.)

Allows you to apply sleep coatings.

Sleep Functionality

Reduces the duration of sleep.

Sleep Resistance

Increases the loading capacity for slinger ammo obtained in the field.

Slinger Capacity

Raises the maximum level of the Slinger Capacity skill.

Slinger Capacity Secret

Makes it easier to stun monsters.

Raises the maximum level of the Slugger skill to 5.

Increases the power of bowgun special ammo and Dragon Piercer.

Special Ammo Boost

Increases movement speed while crouching.

Increases meat-eating and item-consumption speed.

Speeds up weapon sharpening when using a whetstone.

Speed Sharpening

Increases the attack power of spread ammo, power shot arrows, and Thousand Dragons.

Spread/Power Shots

Increases stamina cap.

Speeds up stamina recovery.

Increases certain attacks' ability to exhaust monsters.

Raises the maximum level of the Stamina Thief skill.

Stamina Thief Secret

Makes it easier for monsters to lose sight of you.

Reduces stun duration.

Stun Resistance

Allows recovery to exceed the red portion of the health gauge.

Extra health is recovered from environmental interactables like Sporepuffs or Wiggly Litchi.

Survival Expert

Increases thunder element attack power. (Elemental attack power has a maximum limit.)

Increases thunder resistance. Also improves defense at higher levels.

Thunder Resistance

Reduces the recharge time for specialized tools.

Tool Specialist

Raises the maximum level of the Tool Specialist skill.

Tool Specialist Secret

Grants True Razor Sharp/Sharp Shot. Health/Stamina +100 at the start of a Quest or after fainting. (Effect doesn't stack.)

Grants protection against ground tremors.

Tremor Resistance

Greatly increases elemental damage (fire, water, thunder, ice, dragon) when landing critical hits.

True Critical Element

Greatly increases status effect damage (paralysis, poison, sleep, blast) when landing critical hits.

True Critical Status

Enhances attacks even more with weapon drawn. Take damage when attacking, but can be recovered by continually attacking.

True Dragonvein Awakening

Continually attacking a monster activates Free Element/Ammo Up Lv3 and increases elemental damage.

True Element Acceleration

While wearing a mantle, gain Tremor Resistance Lv3, Earplugs Lv5, max Windproof, and Flinch Free.

True Gaia's Veil

Greatly reduces sharpness loss. Bows and bowguns have a chance not to expend coatings or ammo.

True Razor Sharp/Spare Shot

Increases water element attack power. (Elemental attack power has a maximum limit.)

Increases water resistance. Also improves defense at higher levels.

Water Resistance

Increases the affinity of attacks that exploit a monster weak spot.

Weakness Exploit

Allows the effects of certain items to also affect nearby allies.

Grants protection against wind pressure.

Prevents zombie and effluvial buildup.

Zombie & Effluvia Res