{"id":50993,"date":"2025-08-13T13:08:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T04:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=50993"},"modified":"2025-08-13T13:08:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T04:08:36","slug":"monster-hunter-wilds-update-expands-endgame-content-and-ups-the-difficulty-with-new-9-star-tempered-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/monster-hunter-wilds-update-expands-endgame-content-and-ups-the-difficulty-with-new-9-star-tempered-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Monster Hunter Wilds update expands endgame content and ups the difficulty with new 9-star Tempered monsters\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Following <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/monster-hunter-wilds-is-losing-players-faster-than-predecessors-but-upcoming-content-update-may-be-what-puts-it-back-on-track\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Free Title Update 2<\/a>, <strong>Monster Hunter Wilds<\/strong>\u2019 1.021 update focuses on increasing the difficulty for endgame players. New quests featuring 9-star Tempered monsters (Gore Magala, Arkveld, <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/monster-hunter-wilds-arch-tempered-rey-dau-quest-is-finally-live-responding-to-demand-for-challenging-content\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rey Dau<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/monster-hunter-wilds-mizutsune-challenge-quest-guidelines-rewards-and-tips\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mizutsune<\/a>, Lagiacrus, Seregios, <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/monster-hunter-wilds-new-event-quest-awards-tribal-armor-sets-for-hunting-a-nu-udra\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nu Udra<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/tips\/monster-hunter-wilds-arch-tempered-uth-duna-quest-lets-players-race-against-time-for-more-nifty-pendants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Uth Duna<\/a>, and Jin Dahaad) have been included, providing bigger challenges and more valuable rewards. These higher Tempered monsters should still behave like their lower difficulty counterparts, but have more health and deal more damage.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1433\" height=\"805\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1433px) 100vw, 1433px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250813-50993-001.jpg\" alt=\"Monster Hunter Wilds Talismans\" class=\"wp-image-50996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250813-50993-001.jpg 1433w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250813-50993-001-380x213.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250813-50993-001-768x431.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As a reward for hunting or capturing these new 9-star Tempered monsters, players will be rewarded with new Glowing Stone appraisal items. These Glowing Stones transform into Appraised Talismans with randomly assigned attributes that include armor and weapon skills. While Gemma cannot upgrade these talismans at the Smithy, Appraised Talismans feature additional decoration slots for both armor and weapons skills \u2013 allowing for more build options and customization that players so desperately crave.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To help players deal with these stronger beasts, the duration of <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/monster-hunter-wilds-causes-sales-of-actual-cheese-naan-to-skyrocket-in-japan-as-food-cutscenes-drive-players-into-cheese-craving-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">meal effects<\/a> has been lengthened so that buffs applied before starting a quest will have a lesser chance of running out. Armors with a rarity of 5 or higher have also had their upgrade limits increased, providing a slight increase in defense.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u3010MH\u30ef\u30a4\u30eb\u30ba\/\u53cc\u5263\u3011\u65b0\u30a2\u30af\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u300c\u5efb\u5929\u7a7f\u3061\u300d\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ieWSzmmnwCo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>11 weapon types have also been buffed, including the Great Sword, Long Sword, Sword &amp; Shield, Dual Blades, Hunting Horn, Lance, Switch Axe, Charge Blade, Insect Glaive, Light Bowgun, and Heavy Bowgun. In addition to damage improvements, the developers have improved the accessibility and expanded the movesets for several weapons, making them easier to use and allowing for more playstyle creativity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Capcom is aware that endgame content during the early months of Monster Hunter Wilds\u2019 release leaned too heavily on hunting a Tempered Arkveld. To prevent scenarios like this from happening again, the developers have adjusted the 9-star Tempered monsters so that the difficulty, average hunting time, and rewards for hunting each one are balanced. Free Title Update 3, which is set to arrive in late September, will include more 9-star Tempered monsters for players to hunt.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patch 1.021 is now live for Monster Hunter Wilds, which is available on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (Steam).&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Free Title Update 2, Monster Hunter Wilds\u2019 1.021 update focuses on increasing the difficulty for endgame players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":50995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-50993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Monster Hunter Wilds update expands endgame content and ups the difficulty with new 9-star Tempered monsters\u00a0 - 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