You have completed the story of Monster Hunter World, upgraded your gear significantly, and now don’t know what to do, and Monster Hunter World is getting boring? How about challenging yourself a little bit?
Monster Hunter World offers you content that you can tackle for over a hundred hours and beyond. After completing the main story, you can also finish all optional quests and unlock features like the rainbow dye. Or you become trophy-hunters and take on tasks like collecting rare pets and gold crowns.
However, once all that is done and it’s just about farming monsters for better gear, some hunters find that certain excitement is missing. Farming the same monsters feels boring and monotonous to some quickly.
To bring more variety back into monster hunting, you can challenge yourself with a bit of creativity. Here are a few suggestions on how to make life as a hunter hell for yourself.
Monsters too easy? Take off the armor
Especially if you have progressed far in the game, fully augmented your gear, and filled it with decorations, the monsters become quite easy. If you want to make the battle more exciting again, just take off your armor and see how you fare against the monsters.
After all, only your gear contributes to your character’s strength. Without it, you will just be paper for the monsters, and you will need to demonstrate high concentration and good reflexes again.
Besides the “No Armor Challenge”, you can do other simple things to make the battle more exciting:
- Use only bombs
- Items are prohibited
- The kinsect of the insect glaive is your only weapon
- Attacks are only allowed from the air
- You may not heal
- Palicos stay at home
- You can only attack while sliding
Quest failed? You’re dead! Delete the save file
If a monster knocks you down, you don’t die, but you are carried back to camp on a cart. So you just become unconscious. How about increasing the risk of a hunt?
From now on, you will die if a monster catches you, and you must delete your save file and start over. You can tie this to different conditions. Either you die as soon as the quest fails, or you delete your character already after being knocked out.
For this challenge, you can of course use a second character. Or do you dare to play with your main character?
Game Roulette! Luck decides about weapons, monsters, and challenges
Another way to create excitement is to play with randomness. You can quickly write down the weapons and monsters on slips of paper. Before you embark on the next quest, draw one of the weapon and monster slips. Now you must use the weapon you drew and fight the monster that was on the slip.
You can also continue this random principle with various challenges, such as “items prohibited” or “playing without armor”. This way, you’ll continually get new combinations of challenges. Perhaps you’ll even accidentally discover your new favorite weapon, even though you thought you hated it.
Speedruns – every second and the slightest mistake counts
The most famous method to create an endgame challenge in Monster Hunter World is speedruns. Here there are two methods:
- Complete the story as quickly as possible: Start a new save file and try to kill Xeno’Jiiva for the first time as quickly as possible. There is also a page with an international leaderboard.
- Hunt monsters as quickly as possible: Try to hunt a specific monster as quickly as possible with different weapon builds.
If you step on a paralysis toad just once here and get caught by its dust, it can cost you the new record. Moreover, speedruns are also often used to compare weapon builds. Anyone who wants to set records must know Monster Hunter World inside and out.
Want a bit of PvP? The last one standing wins
Monster Hunter World is actually a cooperative game where you fight monsters with other hunters. With the “Last-Man-Standing” game, you can also compete against your teammates. Every time someone in the group becomes unconscious and is carried back to camp, they must also stay there.
The one who remains in the group last wins the round. Here you can also try to annoy each other. Let the paralysis toad explode under another hunter, use friendly fire to disturb your buddy. Here, any nasty tactic is allowed!
Do you have more ideas for challenges like this? Then leave us a comment with your suggestions.
If these suggestions don’t excite you to continue playing Monster Hunter World, it might be time for a new game. Maybe you’ll find something in one of these lists:
