Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak's Layered Armor Should Extend to Weapons

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Capcom's massive Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak expansion has been out for a few weeks, giving fans the chance to take on a number of new monsters and stronger variants of returning monsters via Master Rank (MR) quests. Having a third, more challenging tier above Low and High Rank has been a staple of the Monster Hunter franchise, and it's exciting to have more opportunities to play with one's friends — or hunters online. MR also provides a new set of skills for building equipment sets.

One of the biggest selling points for Monster Hunter is that the mainline games have 14 distinct weapon types with radically different abilities and specializations, from sharp weapons like Great Sword that can cut tails with slow, powerful attacks, to blunt weapons like Hammer that stun monsters and break body parts. Each piece of armor crafted with monster parts confers different skills, and these can be mixed at will alongside talismans and decorations to create perfectly tailored equipment skills for any hunt.

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This system is easier to understand than ever in Monster Hunter Rise, which should encourage players to go beyond building a full set of Rathalos armor should they desire. Luckily, the developer also includes «Layered Armor» to overlay one's Frankenstein amalgam of equipment. The same possibility should be afforded to weapons in one of Sunbreak's Free Title Updates.

Any title using interchangeable equipment with different stats and abilities tends to benefit from transmog so that players can be powerful and look how they want, which is why transmog features get added to games such as Outriders. However, even though prior Monster Hunter games like