With the hammer, you can rain down raw damage in Monster Hunter Wilds on your opponents with some of the strongest attacks. For a quicker battle in the endgame, we show you the best build with weapons, armor, and decorations that you’ll need.
How is the build structured? We first provide a brief overview of the essential items such as weapons and armor for the best hammer build. Next, we explain in detail the important information about crafting your equipment, as well as choosing the right decorations for your armor. Lastly, we reveal the strength of the build.
This build will be continuously updated and completely altered depending on updates to match the current meta. So feel free to check back after each update and see what has changed.
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Hammer Build: Everything about Weapons, Armor & Decorations
What is the best build for the hammer? Since the hammer has a short range and a slow attack speed, we present a build that increases your affinity to 100%. This ensures that your hits deal brutal damage.
To give it an additional bonus, we focus on the element of explosion, allowing you to deal area damage when the monster’s status threshold is reached.
| Weapon | Motor Wankel (Artian weapon) or alternatively Graviton Hammer |
| Armor | Gore Helm B Arkveld Armor B W.-Fulgur Arm Guard A W.-Fulgur Hip Ring B Gore Leg Protectors B |
| talisman | Hunt Talisman |
How to Craft the Best Artian Weapon for the Hammer
What do I need to build Motor Wankel? For Motor Wankel, you should ensure to choose three affinity infusions when crafting your materials. The element should be explosion to have an additional source of damage.
If you don’t have good parts or luck with the enhancement bonuses for the Motor Wankel, you can also rely on the Graviton Hammer, which you can build from the individual parts of Gravios.
For a secondary weapon, either the Rathalos Fire Sword (great sword) or Rathling Phoenix (light bowgun) are worthwhile. Both weapons have the ability “Critical Boost St. 3,” which supports your affinity. Furthermore, the Fire Sword can help you sever body parts, while the bowgun allows you to adopt a ranged play style.
Which enhancement bonuses should I focus on? When enhancing your Artian weapon, the following bonuses are especially important:
- Attack
- Sharpness
- Element
- Affinity
Make sure you can secure at least one sharpness enhancement so your weapon gains white sharpness.
What decorations are important? You can be more flexible with decorations and choose from the following options:
- Charging/Crafting-Jwl 3
- Critical Jwl III 3
- Critical Element Jwl II 2
Hammer Build: Armors and Decorations
Which armors are important? For our armor choice, we focus on the following equipment and effects:
Armors
- Gore Helm B
- Arkveld Armor B
- W.-Fulgur Arm Guard A
- W.-Fulgur Hip Ring B
- Gore Leg Protectors B
Set Bonuses
- Gore Magalas Tyranny
- Black Darkness I: Unleashes frenzy in battles against large monsters
- Fulgur-Anjanath’s Will
- Uplift I: Grants a second stamina bar.
What decorations should I use? When it comes to armor, it is primarily about selecting decorations that increase your attack and affinity, in addition to needing an effect from frenzy that boosts your infection recovery rate while also increasing your critical damage. You should equip the following:
- Head
- Challenger-Jwl 3
- Growth-Jwl 1
- Chest
- Challenger-Jwl 3
- Powerful Jwl 2
- Arms
- Figure-Jwl 1
- Waist
- Powerful Jwl 2
- Counter-Jwl 2
- Legs
- Soften-Jwl 3
- Sensible Jwl 1
- Sensible Jwl 1
How Does the Strength of the Build Unfold?
Since the hammer has a slow moveset, damage must be maximized as much as possible, which is why this build is based on affinity. With the W.-Fulgur Arm Guard and 2x Powerful Jwl 2, you receive 30% affinity when your stamina bar is full for a certain time. With the additional bar you gain from Fulgur-Anjanath’s Will, the effect is almost always active.
When the monster is then enraged (15% affinity), you repeatedly attack the weak points of monsters (10% affinity) and cure the frenzy from the Gore set (15% affinity), you are at 70% affinity. If you then add the 20% affinity from your Artian weapon, you achieve 90% affinity.
If you also give your weapon 2x an enhancement bonus in the form of affinity, you reach 100% affinity.
This is a massive damage boost, and that’s not even counting the Counter-Jwl 2 for more attack after being knocked back and the explosion status effect. As you can see, despite lacking range and slow attacks, the hammer can hit like an unstoppable wrecking ball with the right build.
That was all the important information about the best hammer build in Monster Hunter Wilds. In addition to build info, tips for fighting are also important to emerge victorious. Thus, we have explained everything essential in our combat guide: The ultimate combat guide for Monster Hunter Wilds: Everything about elements, status system, and important hunting tips
