How Monster Hunter Wilds Can Shake Up Weaponry Without…

After Monster Hunter took years to finally transition into its sixth generation, Monster Hunter Wilds finally launched in early 2025, and quickly proved worth the wait. On the back of the successes of Monster Hunter World and Monster Hunter Rise, Capcom’s classic action-RPG franchise continued its streak of producing some of the company's highest-selling games. Monster Hunter Wilds’ action took place over proportionally giant maps, bringing its gameplay a partial open-world flair that meshed well with its most realistic world and monsters yet, as well as inspiring some of the most gameplay shake-ups Monster Hunter has seen in a while.

Between the new mount Seikret, the many new monster breeds, and the variety of ways players can enter and stay in multiplayer, Monster Hunter Wilds has plenty of new things to like. Low Rank’s story pacing has seen some criticism, and the game’s recommended PC specs are unfortunately high, but Monster Hunter Wilds has otherwise established itself as the latest MH on the block. Remaining on MH Wilds’ post-launch to-do list are seasonal content updates and an expansion somewhere down the line, which is all expected, but that expansion has the chance to throw in one more surprise.

The Case for Monster Hunter Wilds to Get the 'Ultimate' Treatment Over a DLC Expansion

The last few Monster Hunter games have received major expansions a few years after their launches, but maybe MH Wilds should buck that trend.

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By Ediz Guner

Monster Hunter Wilds Won't Get New Weapons, But It Has Other Options

The early days of Monster Hunter Wilds’ marketing were filled with discussions of what the upcoming game could bring to the series, with new weapon types being a popular topic. Monster Hunter’s weapons represent its in-depth character classes, and the series settled on having 14 recurring types in Monster Hunter 4 over a decade ago. It's been long enough that fans expect a newcomer to debut at any time, but it turned out to be business as usual with Monster Hunter Wilds. Coupled with developer statements of Wilds’ alterations to its already-impressive armory being enough, the dream of new weapons will have to wait.

Monster Hunter Has A History Of Altered Weapon Skews

However, Monster Hunter has other ways to introduce variety to players’ movesets, and Wilds’ long support tail will give it plenty of opportunities to use them. Monster Hunter Generations and Generations Ultimate went the route of Capcom vs. SNK by layering 4 or 6 Hunting Styles on top of the weapon families, leading to sometimes-dramatic differences between the same weapon using different styles. Similar styles also crept into Monster Hunter Frontier, and even Monster Hunter Rise added more Silkbind Attacks and Switch Skills in its Sunbreak expansion. Monster Hunter Wilds just needs to introduce its own weapon class modifier.

Remixed Weapon Movesets Should Come To Monster Hunter Wilds

Monster Hunter Wilds Can Introduce A Whole New Kind Of Weapon Crafting

When the expansion for Monster Hunter Wilds rolls around, it should give hunters new ways to use its existing 14 weapon types. Monster Hunter Wilds doesn’t currently have any obvious modular mechanics that this could bolt onto, but it could introduce a concept harkening back to the Switch Skills added to MH Rise: Sunbreak. Every weapon set in the game could get a new version, the materials of which could be attached to a category of G-Rank hunts. Although the weapons crafted from these would look similar to weapon families already in Monster Hunter Wilds, there’s more to them than meets the eye.

These new weapons would essentially have Sunbreak’s alternate Switch Skills directly integrated into them, possibly with more total changes than what one Sunbreak loadout would allow. New attacks, new combos, different elemental properties, and potentially even extra mechanics could be added to these remixed weapons, all with the potential to be equipped alongside a weapon's regular version thanks to MH Wilds' mounted weapon switching. It would be nice to see mainline Monster Hunter games experiment with novel weapon types again, but since that's not in the cards yet, Monster Hunter Wilds can settle for the next best thing.

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