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Established Hunter

Established Hunter

Reach hunter rank 100.

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How to unlock the Established Hunter achievement in MONSTER HUNTER: WORLD - Definitive Guide

Established Hunter - Reach Hunter Rank 100

Hey everyone, Krauser here!

So upon sinking about 150 hours into the game so far, i've kind of realised a few things that may help some of you. If you find much faster ways, or even better yet, more optimal ways of doing this, please share either in a guide or the comments down below!

First things first, HR 1-15 is Story Mode, there's no expediting that process, HOWEVER, you ARE earning Hunter Rank Points or XP in a sense while doing it. So if you and your buddies stop to farm a set of armor or weapons along the way, you are still earning points even if it doesen't look like you're progressing. Most of my team went from 15 to 23-27 upon completing the last story mission.

Secondly, if you're playing as part of a group, you DO NOT have to do everyones missions over again and wait for their cutscenes to finish to join them. Start your story mission, run to where you need to go, see the cutscene, and back out to Astera, you'll be able to repost the quest, and your friends (as long as they're the proper HR) will be able to jump in from the beginning to help. This is also helpful because if you two or four are at the same point in the story, you'll both get the completion instead of running it needlessly twice, and anyone who's already done it will get the results screen and get booted out and earn what they're suppose to earn, and you will too but will still see all the cutscenes etc. If one person watches their story cutscene, backs out, and waits for the other person to watch theirs and joins that current mission without the other person backing out to Astera and posting it as a fresh quest you WILL NOT get creditted for it and have to run it twice. And don't worry, every quest in the story mode releases as an optional quest you can post at anytime EXCEPT FOR TWO. See spoiler for details as they're still fully doable.



Thirdly, End Game...

At this point you're technically at "End Game" but there's tons to do and quite frankly, you're just getting started. You'll have research to do for more bases, you'll have side missions for new items and cloaks and abilities (check for exclamation points on your map) and by exploring you'll maybe find new camps to setup to spawn at etc. (Another Note: Don't forget the Third Fleet Hub Area may have some of these quests to do.)

Welp, that's the normal stuff. You've got some new focus' here. You have armor and weapon farming. That one's obvious, and you'll be earning XP for those. You'll be clearing up Optional Quests to get new ones (DO NOT DO THESE MORE THAN ONCE UNLESS YOU HAVE TO) so get your checkmarks. Capturing creatures get you special arena quests which can help for farming too. That's decent. I also just found out that there are different "completed" levels. If you have a Silver "Completed" next to your quest stars, this means you've done every quest that has popped or or is available SO FAR. Capturing creatures will release the Arena Quests, and these also count. When you kill every arena variant or unlock the extra optionals to do, the Silver Completed will eventually convert to Orange Completed meaning you now have every quest in that tier done.

So go down your checklist, BUT if you're farming harder materials like gems, or you want your Gold Crowns for biggest and smallest monsters (see the other guides for those, ive posted detailed explanations there) do Investigations. Better reward chances, even if you pop in solo and fire a flare, its just worth doing and you're working towards your 50 Investigations done. I also can't stress enough to stop walking every 15 feet or so and let your fireflies look for things. Between every few missions manage your investigations as you might have better drop rates, setups, or better yet the Tempered Monsters whicl ill touch on later. After that, hit the Arena. Might take a bit, but you get special coins for joke armor that either looks really nice, is funny, or has some kind of really awesome hidden talent. You get things like a felyne head as a helmet, or the old guild knight and maid outfits. 50 Arena's go from there to another achievement. They also might spawn these King Sized Monsters.

Why do I keep bringing up the Crown monsters? Because I guarantee you'll have HR 100 way before you have the crowns unless RNJesus and you are tight.

Eitherway, one thing we did was around the 40 mark we were farming Nergigante's and every 2-3 of them we were levelling up once. It doesen't take long to rank, but there's another achievement you're missing out on. And there's more caps on your HR involved.



Level 29, you hit another cap and get another Urgent Mission to kill 2 Bazelgeuse' at the same time... And they're also both Tempered. So if you haven't been finding blue tracks with a purple threat level and seeing these tempered beasts appear in Investigations they should now.

I strongly recommend you use the Zorah Magdorah gun, with the Xeno'jiiva armor and Long Range, use your WyvernSnype ammo, and unload on these poor souls. Becomes a joke at that point.

If you hit a wall here just like HR 15's xp cap, you're still earning xp and will jump once the quest is finished.

After that, Level 49 stops you too with a Tempered Kirin. I personally prefer hammers against these guys, with the Vitality and Thunder Mantles.

Once that's done you'll be getting xp like crazy as you start getting tempered Elder Dragons as quests and even dual Elder Dragon Hunts.

As far as new caps, at HR 100 you get a triple Elder Dragon Hunt (if you're going for Optional Quest Orange Completions this counts) and thats it.

Other than that, even though there's less xp, if you're farmed up and just need to grind, start farming low rank for your Crowns. Don't feel like doing that? Elder Dragon Hunts like Nergigante Investigations are the way to go till you hit tempered and then do those.

Also, HR 100 isn't the cap btw. There are HR 131's floating around out there, and plenty of DLC coming like the Deviljho from the previous games, along with a few other monsters. Im holding onto hope that ive still yet to see some of the classic elder dragons like Lunastra or the Fatalis' or Akantor but we shall see!

Hopefully this helps hunters, and until next time, let the Sapphire Star be your Light!

Oh! And one last note, as long as your HR 15, you should be able to do almost any quest anyone posts. The exception being the HR Walls such as 29, 49 etc. And some higher threat level Tempered Quests will also require higher levels. I can confirm at the moment I have a Triple Threatted Vaal Hazak for 2 players, 2 faints and 50 minutes that requires HR 50. Also, weekly tempered hunts (events) are great farms for the xp!
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Just a note at the different caps like 29 49 etc you cant do the tempered quests above that level if you havent broken that level cap so hr 15 isnt quite the do any quests level.
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By RedBlinky on 09 Feb 2018 14:27
Thanks Blinky! Updated!
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By on 10 Feb 2018 10:54
Thank you! I'll update when I can
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By on 24 Feb 2018 12:01
I've seen an HR 250 before, so I'm not sure there's even a cap or if there is, it's pretty high.
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By Rhyolitic on 30 Mar 2018 20:03
587 is the highest ive seen in a Facebook Group Screenshot
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By on 31 Mar 2018 00:43
999 is the max HR
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By HotGayDabGod on 01 Apr 2018 13:47
A better way to farm is to use The White Winds of the New World optional quest. This quest is unlocked by completing all optional quests (in the base game) from 1 star to 8. You fight four high rank monsters one after another in the special arena. It guarantees about 60% of a bar of HR, even at high levels! I started at rank 85 after I finished the crown grind and it's been consistent thus far. To put it in perspective, every 10 successful runs is equal to 6 HR. Much faster than anything else! Supposedly, the Snow and Cherry Blossoms event quest is comparable or better, but I'm unable to check at the time of writing this.
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By Lord Valoel on 02 Aug 2018 13:03
There is sooooooooooooooooo much to this game. Overwhelmingly, to say the least!
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By Kanchanaburi on 24 Jul 2020 00:33
Pretty decent tips for this. However, I just hit HR 50 and I had no level cap with a Tempered Kirin quest. I could go from 49-50 without any issue while join SOS Flares. I think I completed the tempered Kirin quest a few levels before I hit 49.
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By NeoSm0ke on 04 Mar 2024 23:38
There is a quest for killing a tempered Vaal Hazak and Odogaron, but it's just an optional quest you can do to unlock a specialized tool and doesn't cap your rank. I think it appeared at rank 79 for me. Also, before that there is another optional quest you unlock for fighting a tempered Pink Rathian and Azure Rathalos in the special arena which also unlocks a specialized tool, the Evasion Mantle, but I don't remember which rank it appears.

Edit: I looked around a little and those optional quests aren't tied to rank. You unlock the Vaal Hazak and Odogaron one after killing 3 tempered elder dragons, the Pink Rathian and Azure Rathalos one after you complete 5 different quests with threat level 2 tempered monsters, and there's also another I haven't unlocked that you get from completing 5 different quests with threat level 1 tempered monsters.
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By ThaDevilzHand on 24 Feb 2018 09:34
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To increase your Hunter Rank, you simply need to defeat monsters. During the story, the game will throttle your HR and you will only rank up when the story progresses. However, any extra experience you get for killing monsters via non-story quests will be banked and returned to you after the story is complete. You'll jump up a good chunk of HR after beating the game.

As you rank up, you will get stuck two more times. At HR29 you need to do a quest to defeat two tempered Bazelgeuse before you can progress again; at HR49 you will need to do a quest to defeat two tempered Kirin. From HR50 you are free to rank up and do any quest in the game.

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If you are going for platinum, then don’t even think or worry about this trophy. Just play, chop the monsters into cabbage and you will get everything. The game has 3 caps of experience, at 16 (story line), at 29 and at 49 levels. Experience is accumulated regardless of the cap. That is, if you completed the story, but played not only it, but also played investigations and additional tasks, then after the end of the story line you will be given all the accumulated experience.
As it was with me. I didn’t finish the story for a very long time (I only played it with a friend in the evenings), but I sat and endlessly played investigations and after completing the story I immediately got level 29 (my friend remained at 16). Then they give you a task that you need to complete in order to remove the cap from level 29. After completing it, I immediately received 49. Then another task to remove 3 caps. After that I immediately got level 98. Then I went through a couple of investigations with high-level mobs and received my hundredth rank.
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