How to use Qurious Crafting in Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak

Learn how to reroll armor and buff your weapons.

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Curious about Qurious Crafting? Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak recently received its title update, adding newmonsterslike the Lucent Nargacuga and theSeething Bazelgeuse, but more importantly, a new system that lets you reroll armor and boost weapons. Honestly, it’s a bit of a game changer, especially in terms of rerolling armor.

You can buff weapons in a similar way to Ramp Up from the base game, adding stats into affinity, element damage, or just pure attack. Qurious Armor Crafting, on the other hand, is more akin to the Melding Pot that you already use to roll talismans. Essentially, you use a special material to unlock armor augments and perform a reroll, potentially altering your stats or adding skills.

In this Qurious Crafting guide, I’ll explain how to unlock the Anomaly Investigations you need, where to get Amber Essence, and how to actually make the new system work. If you’re new to Monster Hunter Rise, you might also want to knowhow to start Sunbreak, sometipsabout what’s new in the expansion, or how to get all of theSunbreak secret armor.

How to unlock Qurious Crafting

Since Qurious Crafting is an endgame feature,you’ll first have to defeat Gaismagorm and get to MR10. This will open up Afflicted Monster hunts, and once you’ve beaten the Afflicted Arzuros, you’ll unlockAnomaly Investigations. Simply select one from the randomised quest pool with Chichae and when you complete it, Qurious Crafting for both weapons and armor will have opened up atMinayle the Blacksmith.

Qurious Crafting: How to buff weapons

You craft Sunbreak’s best weapons withAfflicted Materials, so it’s probably a good idea to forge one of these before you consider investing too heavily in upgrades, especially as unlocking a weapon for augment also costs Afflicted Materials. Here’s a brief rundown of how it works:

It’s a system that’s very similar to altering Buddy Skills; there are buffs to select, but you only have a certain number of slots to work with, so you have to choose wisely and tweak towards your playstyle.

Qurious Crafting: How to reroll armor

The stronger system by far is Qurious Armor Crafting, since it gives you a chance to buff resistances, defense, and add new armor skills and decoration slots. You’re going to need another resource in order to do this, though:Amber Essence. You get Amber Essence by completing Anomaly Investigations and it’s used to unlock armor augmentation and perform rerolls. As with weapons, you’ll want to make sure you have high rarity armor you’re willing to invest in first. Here’s how the process works:

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You can also complete Research Requests for Bahari where you hunt specific Afflicted Monsters. When you hunt ten of these monsters, you’ll be rewarded withInvestigation Coinsthat you can use in his shop to purchase a number of items, including Amber Essence.

How to unlock more Anomaly Investigations

Rare Afflicted Monster materials only come from high level Anomaly Investigations, and you’ll have tounlock these by breaking parts on Afflicted Monsters and gathering Qurio-infested items during the afflicted hunts. You can recognise these items as there will be little red fireflies hovering around them.

Anomaly Investigations are randomised, but they still have a level system, so these are vital if you want to unlock better hunts. If you find a random Anomaly Investigation that you really like, you can lock it in order to farm multiple times.

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