HIGHLIGHTS
- Positive affinity in Monster Hunter Wilds increases your chance of landing critical hits, while negative affinity lowers the damage of your attacks.
- Players can still use a weapon with Negative Affinity as these weapons typically have higher base damage to balance the risk of weaker hits.
- You can manage Negative Affinity by using skills like Critical Eye or Weakness Exploit to increase your chances of landing Critical Hits.
Monster Hunter Wilds is an action role-playing game developed and published by Capcom and is the successor to Monster Hunter: World.
The game features several new systems, like the Environment Link system, and also introduces new biomes.
All weapon types and the Affinity system from Monster Hunter: World return in Monster Hunter Wilds with new moves and actions.
Negative Affinity In Monster Hunter Wilds
Unlike positive affinity, which boosts your chance of landing critical hits, negative affinity reduces the damage of your attack.
For example, if your weapon has -20% Affinity, there is a 20% chance that your attack will deal 25% less damage.
Like the positive affinity, negative affinity only affects your physical attacks and does not affect elemental attacks.
You can still use weapon with negative affinity as they have higher base damage to balance out the risk of weaker hits.
Players can also use skills like Critical Eye or Weakness Exploit to boost your affinity and critical hit chance.
Negative Affinity adds strategy making you choose between risking weaker hits for higher damage or using skills to reduce penalties.
Finally, with the right build, even weapons with negative affinity can be strong choices for your hunts.
Affinity In Monster Hunter Wilds
In Monster Hunter Wilds, affinity is a stat that affects your weapon’s chance to land a critical hit.
A critical hit is a powerful attack that does 25% more physical damage than a normal strike.
Furthermore, the higher your affinity, the more likely you are to land these stronger hits.
Affinity can go up to 100%, which means every attack will be a critical hit once you reach that level.
However, affinity only affects physical damage and not elemental attacks. This means if your weapon has elemental properties it will not benefit from critical hits.
