This guide reveals what the Mushroomancer armor skill in Monster Hunter World is as well as how to take advantage of a powerful technique before going out to hunt.
Since it launched last month, both veteran and new players to Monster Hunter World have quickly discovered how deep the game can be. While the main goal never really deviates from hunting large creatures, the game has many features and mechanics which many people could easily miss if they don’t look carefully. Many of these subtle features reside with gear as most pieces come with a special skill which the game doesn’t go out of its way to explain.
Naturally, players have quickly developed ideal character builds designed to overcome some of the game’s toughest challenges. Recently, one of the lesser known armor skills called Mushroomancer has become wildly popular for many characters builds. Here’s what it is and how it can be used.
As an armor skill in Monster Hunter World, Mushroomancer lets players eat mushrooms while out in the world.
Like other armor skills in the game, Mushroomancer has multiple levels and can be upgraded to increase effectiveness as well as the types of mushrooms that can be consumed.
In order to increase the level of the skill, players will need to equip gear that has this skill in it.
Each muchroom provides players with a different bonus typically earned from cooking meals or using various potions. Each buff also lasts for the entire duration of the mission except the Toadstool buff which only remains active for around 10 minutes. Here’s the complete list of each mushroom and the bonus it provides.
The biggest advantage to using Mushroomancer is that the buffs gained through eating the various mushrooms stay on the character, even when the armor is swapped out for something else. Enter a tent at a campsite to manage items or change equipment.
So, players can easily arrive at a hunting ground, use the Mushroomancer skill to gain buffs, and then swap to stronger armor before a fight. Not only do the Mushroomancer skills remain in place, but the new skill bonuses from the newly equipped armor also take effect, letting players stack a lot more buffs than they’d get otherwise.
Mushroomance also makes players cost effective by providing a typically crafted buff by just eating one mushroom. For example, with the nitroshroom, players gain an attack increase buff associated with Demondrug. Instead of needing to first find all of the crafting ingredients to make the potion like catalyst and might seed, players can skip all that and get the same stat bonus by just eating 1 nitroshroom.
Monster Hunter: World is available for PS4 and Xbox One, with a PC release planned for later this year.
