Monster Hunter Wilds – How To Get The Highest Defense Possible!

How to Get the Highest Defense – MHW

By Nyce Gaming – YouTube Channel HERE

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I’ve been theory crafting on how to get the highest defense possible in Monster Hunter Wilds and it actually turned out to be quite a fun/effective build. I achieved 938 defense! I’ll preface this by saying obviously this amount of mitigation isn’t necessary considering there are one minute speed runs, the complaints of Wilds lacking difficulty, and of course skill and learning move sets being the best defense.

The highest armor available at the time of this post is the Arkveld sets (pre title update 1). These come with 66 defense and peak at 78 after upgrading via armor spheres. We’ll do 4 from one set as it adds life steal via ‘Arkvelds Hunger’ and draws more attention to you via ‘Alluring Pelt’. You then just need any of the Gravios monster weapons which adds 30 defense.

Then we get DEFENSE LEVEL 7. Best way to achieve this is getting 4 levels via the talisman being that this decoration apparently only drops at level 1. The next skill benefit comes from getting low health with heroics level 3 which adds 100 defense when under 35% health. I honestly only go heroics level one on most hints as the plus 50 defense is more than enough.

We can then have a teammate give us defense up (L) which will give us even more defense. Now add mega armor skin, hard shell powder, and an adamant pill and you’re sitting at an insane amount. You can even go higher via being 30 minutes into a quest (not practical in this game lol) and having the self improvement buff available via just one decoration. Your highest self buffed stats is 798 and that’s WITHOUT using a hunting horn as your secondary weapon.

There may be some other niche ways to get higher but I don’t think so currently. Things like stacking hunting horn buffs or things like fortifying pelt which requires you to die twice, but I wanted to keep it reasonable.

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