Dual Blades High Rank and Endgame Builds for Monster Hunter Wilds

Welcome to our Monster Hunter Wilds build guide for the Dual Blades in both High Rank as well as at endgame. Listed below you will find the best builds for the Dual Blades both for progressing through the earlier stages of High Rank as well as the best builds for Dual Blades at endgame.

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Title Update 4, released on December 19th, is the final major update, featuring the fearsome Gogmazios siege. This brings in upgraded Artian weapons that have a significant impact on ideal builds, alongside new armor sets and the ability to transcend armor - providing better decoration slots. Due to all of this, there's a significant shake up from previously recommended endgame sets.

A quick breakdown of Dual Blades changes on this page as of the title update are as follows:

• A new section focused on the Gogmazios Artian Weapon upgrade path and ideal skills to pick up has been added. This provides information on best practices for reinforcements, and skills to aim for.
• The ideal endgame set has seen significant changes. With the benefits of transcending paired with Gogmazios Artian weapons providing a skill, the options are significantly increased.
• Talismans remain the chase goal for your endgame gearsets - with rank 7 and 8 having access to skill combinations that, if lucky, can outperform craftable options.

Artian Weapons are currently the best available option for the Dual Blades in every element match-up, and also allows you to hand pick which element each craft comes with. That means you will generally want to craft multiple Tiltkreise to cover each monster weakness, and will be the best options available even before adding in reinforcements. Having a full suite of each counter is the ultimate goal when building out your endgame Dual Blades sets.

You should always aim to craft weapons with all 3 of the same element on your two Blade and one Disc selections to maximize the element value on the resulting weapon. Also aim to use three Attack infusions to maximize the raw throughput. Ideally, you want the following reinforcements, though these will change once you upgrade to a Gogma Artian:

• Sharpness Boost
• Attack Boost
• Attack Boost
• Affinity Boost
• Affinity Boost

The perfect rolls aren't necessary to make Artian weapons worth it, and they can be rerolled when you move onto the Gogma upgraded version.

For the 3 decoration slots, fill this with Element/Handicraft I of your choice depending on the weapon crafted, Critical III and Mastery to make use of all of the affinity picked up in the endgame armor sets, add some bonus element damage and cover the high sharpness requirements of the Dual Blades.

After defeating Gogmazios, you'll receive Tarred Devices, which can be used by Gemma to reinforce the previous Artian Weapon, Tiltkreise, into a much stronger version. When upgraded, your previous Dual Blades will have their Element or Status maintained, but gain additional bonuses to either Attack, Affinity, or Element depending on the devices used. You should be using two Attack infusions, and one Affinity infusion. It will also gain one random Set Bonus Skill and one random Group Skill from a pool, and allow you to reinforce the the 5 bonuses it rolls. Reinforcements and Skills can be rerolled for additional materials.

Your goal is to acquire Gore Magala's Tyranny as soon as possible, with the secondary Group Skill being less important. Instead of building around Lord's Soul, Dual Blades instead opts to stack 4 separate armor set bonuses utilizing Gogmazios armor. Your ideal reinforcements are two Affinity EX as a priority, then two Attack EX, and finally one Attack III. You can only ever have two of any level of a given reinforcement per attribute though, so it may take some rerolling to land on the perfect setup.

Due to the nature of acquiring your ideal Artian weapon, and how much armor sets now rely on this random roll, it may be difficult to assemble the endgame set provided on this page. Due to that, below is a list of skills to prioritize while working toward the complete setup:

Armor Skills:

• Gore Magala's Tyranny - 2-piece
• Antivirus - Level 3 (With the Gore set bonus)
• Gogmapocalypse - 2-piece
• Ebony Odogaron's Power - 2-piece
• Rathalos's Flare - 2-piece
• Weakness Exploit - Level 5
• Burst - Level 1-4
• Counterstrike - Level 3
• Adrenaline Rush - Level 1-2

Weapon Skills:

• Elemental Attack - Level 3 (Depending on Element)
• Critical Boost - Level 5
• Master's Touch - Level 3
• Critical Eye - Level 1-5

The absolute strongest options involve using element counters on specific monsters (especially on Rank 9 hunts), as these come at no cost to raw power on Artian weapons. You still want to aim for the same infusions, though having Dual Blades of each element available for match-ups is crucial due to how weighted your damage is toward Element attack. Below are some drop-down lists of monsters countered by each element:

• Fire - Click for Match-ups

  • Blangonga
  • Congalala
  • Doshaguma
  • Gore Magala
  • Gypceros
  • Hirabami
  • Jin Dahaad
  • Lala Barina
  • Lagiacrus
  • Nerscylla
  • Gogmazios (Solid)
• Water - Click for Match-ups

  • Ajarakan
  • Guardian Ebony Odogaron
  • Gravios
  • Nu Udra
  • Quematrice
  • Rompopolo
• Thunder - Click for Match-ups

  • Balahara
  • Chatacabra
  • Hirabami
  • Mizutsune
  • Seregios
  • Uth Duna
  • Omega Planetes
• Ice - Click for Match-ups

  • Guardian Fulgur Anjanath
  • Rey Dau
  • Xu Wu
  • Yian Kut-Ku
• Dragon - Click for Match-ups

  • Arkveld
  • Guardian Doshaguma
  • Guardian Rathalos
  • Rathalos
  • Rathian
  • Zoh Shia
  • Gogmazios (Liquid / Gaseous)

Added as a bonus update during Title Update 2, hunts against monsters that are 9 star and above can now also reward appraisable talismans. These can come with skill and decoration slots otherwise unobtainable from the smithy, and should you be lucky enough, can push your build to the next level. Rolling a perfect talisman is an extremely big time investment, so sometimes it's best to just look out for options that are good enough. Big ticket skills to look out for are:

• Critical Eye
• Master's Touch
• Razor Sharp
• Element Attack (depending on gearset)

Acquiring any of these skills - especially alongside a weapon decoration slot - outpaces any other option available to craft. If you can't get hold of these though, generally a Counterattack Charm III will suffice in most Endgame sets until you can pick one up. Bear in mind that whichever high value skill you find on your talisman, you may need to adjust your weapon decorations away from the recommended options here, and also find room to still pick up other valuable 3-slot skills like Weakness Exploit and Burst.

Traditionally the most powerful armor sets available in Monster Hunter, in Wilds the Gamma sets are being released with each Title Update. These grant access to the Lord's Soul 3-set bonus - a powerful additional cheat death effect - while coming with a slightly higher budget for strong skills. Currently, due to Gogmazios armor providing two skills, this set bonus isn't as sought after for Dual Blades, and isn't built around. That said, the sets currently released are:

• Rey Dau - this set features Latent Power.
• Uth Duna - this set features Peak Performance .
• Nu Udra - this set features Burst and Resentment.
• Jin Dahaad - this set features Agitator and Foray.

After reaching Hunter Rank 50, you unlock access to the majority of endgame monsters, and will slowly unlock more event quests as you progress up to 100. Currently we have a curated primary endgame build, and any variant builds included in the tabs below.

The first set we recommend crafting right at the start of High Rank still relies on some of the previous Low Rank sets as they have much more offensive power than the early High Rank pieces. As you progress higher these will be phased out in favor of options that can more efficiently grab these skills, but early on choices are limited and comfort is easier to fit in.

Your decoration collection at this stage will still be quite small, and while it may be appealing to farm them it's simply not worth the time early on. Once you gain access to some of these decorations though, it opens up room to start tailoring your build to more offensive setups.

This set strikes a good balance between comfort and offensive power early on with the Dual Blades while you adjust to High Rank hunts. It prioritizes points in Burst which is very efficient, using the Guardian Ebony Odogaron set alongside the Congalala legs as your first High Rank piece. It also maintains the Arkveld 2-piece and some points in Flayer for the additional healing for an extra layer of comfort.

Your Charm is optional at this stage, with either Evasion Charm II or Marathon Charm II depending on preference, as comfort skills are the only good early crafts with these starting out. Your early priority hunts are Quematrice to craft a solid blue sharpness weapon early and either Hirabami or Gypceros depending on your charm of choice to raise it to level 2.

• Burst - Level 3
• Focus - Level 2
• Flayer - Level 2
• Evade Window or Marathon Runner - Level 2
• Blight Resistance - Level 1
• Bleeding Resistance - Level 1
• Guardian's Pulse - 3-piece
• Ebony Odogaron's Power - 2-piece
• Guardian Arkveld's Vitality - 2-piece

As you move deeper into High Rank, more Alpha and Beta sets become available with much more efficient access to offensive skills. This allows you to start cutting out inefficient or low value pieces and begin to tailor a focused build around the Dual Blades' strengths. This begins at HR20 with many monsters being added to the High Rank pool (in particular Guardian Ebony Odogaron), and at Rank 40+ Gore Magala shifts this even further.

We've separated these two stages into the tabs below depending on what gear you currently have access to: