In Monster Hunter Wilds, the best equipment requires a specific weapon, and that weapon has a lengthy crafting requirement. Artian (Aran) endgame weapons are modular and customizable in their own unique ways. For hunters looking to take on the hardest challenges, these weapons will give unparalleled value. To get the best out of these weapons keeping Artian customization in mind, this guide on upgrading and enhancing their precision is all you need.

• Why Choose Artian Weapons?
• Unlocking Artian Weapon Crafting
• Material Requirements per Weapon Type
• Artian Crafting and Reinforcing: Things to Note
• Breaking the Seed System
• Key Considerations
• Optimizing Resource Farming
• Weapon-Specific Insights

↖ Why Choose Artian Weapons?

Unlike the crafted weapons, Artian weapons are far more flexible and have superior base stats, making them more desirable. These weapons are specifically useful in builds that focus on elements because of the additional elemental damage they provide, with better tiered gem slot allocations available as well. The patience, resources, and planning to void customization randomization is more than worth the end results- a perfect Artian weapon.

↖ Unlocking Artian Weapon Crafting

You can start your journey with Artian weapons after reaching Chapter 4 of the game and completing the mission Wyvern Sparks and Rose Thorns. This allows you to get tempered monsters, which are needed for obtaining the materials required for Artian weapon crafting. At first, you will only be able to access lower-tier weapon parts, but once you get into high rank, you'll unlock Rarity 8 materials parts, which are the highest tier available. These Rarity 8 parts should be your focus as they serve as the base for the most powerful Artian weapons.

↖ Material Requirements per Weapon Type

Below is a breakdown of the materials needed for each of the 14 weapon types:

↖ Artian Crafting and Reinforcing: Things to Note

Crafting and upgrading Artian weapons has several critical considerations with it:

1. Elemental Synergy

Matching all three weapon parts with the same element gives a +30 bonus to the weapon's elemental attack power, which is a free bonus. This synergy is too valuable to ignore unless you're building around raw damage. For most hunters, aligning all parts to a single element is a no-brainer.

2. Choosing Between Affinity or Attack Enhancements

Choosing between affinity or attack enhancements should follow your build strategy. Opting for one affinity part contributes a base 10% affinity and every additional affinity part thereafter increases it by 5%. If your armor, along with the skills you possess, grants you sufficient cap affinity, it would be more beneficial to invest in attack parts instead for a balanced increase.

3. Set Upgrade Paths

Weapons from Artian utilize a seed system, which means that each weapon undergoes a form of “seeding” as soon as it is crafted. This dictates the exact upgrade path which cannot be modified. This seed will not change regardless of how many times a player reloads their save and utilizes the same parts to recreate their weapon. Its reinforcement stats will eternally remain static.

↖ Breaking the Seed System

While static upgrade paths are determined using a seed, there is a way to change the seed and achieve optimal stats.

Process in Steps

• Save Your Game: Execute a manual save before crafting the weapon so that your resources are preserved.
• Craft Your Desired Weapon: Utilizing the parts available, craft your weapon.
• Reinforce and Evaluate Stats: Go to the Smithy and upgrade the weapon. Check for reinforcement bonuses and if unsatisfied, do not save.
• Return to Title Screen: Reset your progress by exiting without saving.
• Craft a Sacrificial Weapon: Forge one more the same category and Rarity Artian weapon using different parts. This will move the seed marker to the next position in the list.
• Recreate Preferred Weapon: Create the desired weapon using the exact materials from the previous iteration. This version will have a different seed with the possibility of superior attributes.
• Repeat until Desired Outcome is Achieved: Keep repeating until satisfactory reinforcement bonuses are achieved.

↖ Key Considerations

The crafting order has an impact on weapons' seeds too. For example, if two sacrificial weapons are crafted before the preferred weapon two seeds will be generated different from if just one were crafted.

It is true that this procedure takes a lot of resources, but at the same time there is more control over RNG results.

↖ Optimizing Resource Farming

Resources needed to craft and upgrade Artian weapons are vast and require an efficient farming schedule. Here is how to expedite resource collection.

1. Tempered Monster Hunts

Duo hunts of tempered apex monsters(Arvel Raow or Duna Newra) are superb methods for procuring ancient weapon fragments since these hunts yield 8-9 fragments per completion.

2. Weather Manipulation

If tempered hunts are not visible on your map, try spawning these activities by adjusting the weather settings (e.g., weather during the day is rough).

3. Reopen Tempered Wounds

The tempered monster wounds can be broken to give some Wyvern Bloodstones, which is a valuable item that can be used in the Melding Pot to then further acquire fragments.

4. Ore Farming

To reinforce Artian weapons, oralite needs to be at level 5 and 50 Oralite is required. Oralite can be farmed from certain mining nodes or can be bought from The Foundry in Aus for 300 points each. Also, all Oralite spent will be refunded if Artian weapons which are unused are broken down.

Additive Ores for Advancement and Set Maximum Point Tokens

These are the provided resources categorized into materials of increasable levels and their respective values of points:

↖ Weapon-Specific Insights

Artian weapons do not all outperform the weapons crafted. In other words, some Artian weapons do not all outperform their crafted counterparts. For example:

Gunlances: Artian considering crafted gunlances tend to be surpassed by crafted ones are due to higher base attack power.

Bows: Coating availability varies by element (e.g. power coatings are exclusive to lightning and dragon bows), so choose elements carefully based on your preferred playstyle.

Furthermore, if any player has access to Handycraft gems, please do not depend on sharpness upgrades in the adding of secondary stats under the category of reinforcement. These gems can offer up to +30 sharpness but aside from that multiple slots of other bonuses such as elemental damage or affinity can be provided.

Conclusion

Farming for the desired Artian weapon is challenging, yet in the satisfying pursuit, one can unlock features that will help in the endgame content of Monster Hunter Wilds. With proper planning and management, it is possible to create a weapon catered towards one's individual playstyle.