Monster Hunter World Master Rank Guide

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Monster Hunter World is not an MMO, and it has no character level. There is no XP bar that makes your hunter hit harder. What it has is two rank ladders — Hunter Rank (HR) and Master Rank (MR) — that gate which quests, monsters, and gear you can access, and gear is the progression: a hunter in better armor with a better weapon is a stronger hunter, whatever their rank number says. This guide maps both ladders from the first hunt to MR 100 and beyond, with every gate, every cap, and every conflict carried in the open. Two more honest things up front: both caps are 999 (HR 999 and MR 999, verified across multiple sources), and no source publishes exact XP-per-rank or XP-per-quest figures, so this guide never quotes one — it tells you which quests open the gates and which hunts pay the most rank, and lets your own bar do the counting. Keep this game strictly separate from Monster Hunter Wilds (2025, a different game with its own HR system) and Monster Hunter Now (a Niantic mobile game) — nothing from either belongs in these guides.

Monster Hunter World is Capcom’s 2018 action RPG — launched January 26, 2018 on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, August 9, 2018 on PC — and the Iceborne expansion (September 6, 2019 on console, January 9, 2020 on PC) added Master Rank, the Hoarfrost Reach, the Seliana base, and the Guiding Lands endgame. It is a finished game: the last content update was Ver. 15.10 in December 2020 and the last patch Ver. 15.11 in January 2021, and nothing new has been added since — but the servers are still live, matchmaking works, and the game passed 30 million units in June 2026, with roughly 13,600 average concurrent players on Steam in October 2026. You are not returning to a live service with a season to catch up on. You are returning to a complete game with a fixed endgame, and this guide is the map of it.

Two Caps, Two Ladders: HR 999 and MR 999

The first thing to get straight is that Hunter Rank and Master Rank are two separate ladders, and the cap question has two answers — both 999, both verified, both meaning different things.

HR is the base game’s rank. It rises as you complete quests, and during the story it is capped per quest — you reach HR 15 on the final story mission, and the cap lifts from there. MR is Iceborne’s rank, a separate system that only exists if you own the expansion: it tracks Master Rank quests and gates Iceborne content the way HR gates base-game content. MR quests give more rank points than HR quests, so your MR can outrun your HR — that is normal, not a bug, and not a sign that one of the numbers is wrong. After the Iceborne story the MR cap is removed entirely and players climb all the way to MR 999 (vectree.io).

The practical consequence: HR and MR are not interchangeable, and neither is a power stat. A hunter at HR 999 in base-game gear is weaker than a hunter at MR 50 in Master Rank gear. Rank opens doors; gear walks through them. If you are new, your first goal is HR 16 — the Iceborne entry — not HR 999. If you own Iceborne, your real goal is MR 100, where the last gates open. The 999s are prestige numbers for players who have finished everything else, and this guide treats them that way.

The Base Game Road: Low Rank to HR 16

The base game is a story with a rank attached. Your Hunter Rank is tied to the Assigned (story) quests: as you complete plot hunts, your HR rises, until you hit HR 15 on the last mission — ★9 Land of Convergence, the Xeno’jiiva hunt. That is the end of the story, and the point where the game changes character: from here on, your HR rises from any quest — optional quests, investigations, event quests — and the caps become gate quests you must clear.

The road itself is straightforward, and the game teaches it as you go: Low Rank quests (★1–★5) introduce the five locales — Ancient Forest, Wildspire Waste, Coral Highlands, Rotten Vale, and the Elder’s Recess — and the core loop: track a monster, fight it, carve it, craft from it. High Rank opens after ★6 “Invader in the Waste,” when you return to Astera with a High Rank assignment: same monsters, harder, with High Rank materials and High Rank gear. The loop does not change; the numbers do. The practical advice for the road is the advice the game itself gives you, and it is worth stating plainly because new players fight it:

• Craft gear from the monster you just beat. The loop is fight → wall → craft → learn → repeat. A hunter who keeps their starting armor into High Rank is not being efficient; they are being stubborn. Every monster you kill unlocks gear that makes the next monster easier.
• Do your optional quests. They unlock camps, canteen ingredients, Botanical Research slots, Palico gadgets, and mantles — the infrastructure that makes the whole game easier. A player who skips optionals arrives at High Rank with no camps, a thin canteen, and a Palico with one gadget, and wonders why the game feels hard.
• Learn one weapon properly. There are 14 weapon types, and each is a different game. Pick one, learn its combos, its counters, and its sharpness management, and stick with it through the story. You can learn a second weapon later; the story is not the time.
• Eat at the canteen before every hunt. A meal is free buffs — health, stamina, attack, defense, and meal skills like Felyne Fat Cat (more zenny from quests). A hunter who skips meals is leaving stats on the table every single hunt.
• Bank your XP. XP earned while capped is not lost: the game records it and applies it after the gate quest (Game8, GameFAQs). If you arrive at HR 29 having done fifty investigations, you will jump when the gate opens. There is no reason to stop playing while capped.

The HR Gates: 29, 49, 100

After the story, your HR rises freely — until it does not. The base game has three hard gates after HR 15, and each one is a quest you must clear before your rank moves again.

A few things about the gates that the table does not show. Tempered monsters are the gate mechanic: harder versions of ordinary monsters, marked with a purple aura, hitting far harder than their normal forms. Tempered monster investigations start appearing at HR 30, and Tempered Elder Dragon tracks and investigations appear at HR 50 — so the HR 29 and HR 49 gates are also your introduction to the tempered endgame. The HR 100 quest is optional, not assigned — it appears at HR 100 and it is the final cap break, per Game8’s detailed table.

Carried conflict: is HR 100 a real cap? Game8’s rank-cap table lists four caps — 15, 29, 49, and 100 — with The Sapphire Star’s Guidance as the final break to HR 999. GameRevolution (2019) describes the post-Kirin state more simply, as “level all the way to the final cap of HR 999,” skipping the HR 100 gate entirely. This guide follows Game8, the more detailed source, and flags the simpler framing as a stale simplification. If you are at HR 100 and your bar is not moving, the Sapphire Star’s Guidance quest is the answer — not a bug.

Two more HR milestones worth knowing: HR 50 unlocks Tempered Elder Dragon investigations and the ★9 “A Visitor for Eorzea (Extreme)” — the Extreme Behemoth hunt, the hardest base-game fight — and HR 100 is where the “Sapphire Star” title and the last tempered investigations open. Past HR 100, the number is prestige: there is nothing left to unlock in the base game, and the real progression has moved to Master Rank.

Entering Iceborne: MR 1–24

Iceborne begins where the base game ends. The requirements are simple and non-negotiable: own the Iceborne expansion, and reach Hunter Rank 16 — which means finishing the main story. The quest “To the Guided, A Paean” opens Hoarfrost Reach, the new frozen locale, and your first Master Rank hunt is a Beotodus. From there, MR is a second story with its own assignments, its own monsters, and its own gear — and it is a harder game than the base game in every way that matters.

The Iceborne story runs MR 1–24, and it is structured the same way as the base game: Assigned quests that advance the plot, with Velkhana — the ice elder dragon, the expansion’s flagship monster — as the story’s center. The new systems arrive as you go: the Clutch Claw, which lets you grapple onto monsters, wound their hide (softening it for more damage), and slingshot them into walls; the Seliana base, with its Steamworks, hot springs, and gathering hub; and Master Rank armor and weapons, which make High Rank gear obsolete almost immediately. A hunter in full High Rank endgame gear will feel the difference in the first MR hunt — Master Rank monsters hit harder, have more health, and punish mistakes the base game forgave.

Practical points for MR 1–24:

• Upgrade your armor immediately. Your High Rank set is a liability in Master Rank. Craft the first Master Rank set you can — even the early bone and ore sets are a step up — and keep upgrading as new monsters unlock. Defense is the stat that matters most in the early MR climb, because Master Rank monsters will one- and two-shot a hunter in High Rank armor.
• Learn the Clutch Claw early. Wounding a monster’s hide (tenderizing) is not optional in Master Rank — unwounded parts take reduced damage, and the game is balanced around wounding. Practice the claw in the early MR hunts, where mistakes are cheap, not at MR 24, where they are not.
• Do the MR optional quests. Like the base game, they unlock camps, canteen ingredients, and Palico gadgets — and in Iceborne they also unlock the Steamworks fuel economy and the new gathering hub facilities. A player who skips MR optionals arrives at the Guiding Lands with no infrastructure and wonders why the endgame feels thin.
• Do not rush past the story to the Guiding Lands. The Guiding Lands unlock at MR 24, and it is tempting to sprint there — but the story hunts are the tutorial for Master Rank, and the gear they unlock is the gear you need for the endgame. A hunter who rushes arrives at MR 24 undergeared and under-skilled, and the Guiding Lands will tell them so.

The MR Gates: 49, 69, 99, 100

After the Iceborne story ends at MR 24, the MR climb is gated the same way the HR climb was — by quests that stop your rank cold until you clear them. Four gates, each one tied to a monster and to the Guiding Lands.

The MR 24 gate is the big one, because it opens three endgame paths at once. Alatreon opens with the special assignment “Blazing Black Twilight,” then “Dawn’s Triumph” — and Fatalis follows: after slaying Alatreon in “Dawn’s Triumph,” the special assignment “The Black Dragon” opens the Castle Schrade hunt against the hardest boss in the game. Safi’jiiva, the siege elder dragon, opens with “Point of No Return” and “The Red Dragon” at MR 24 as well. All three require MR 24 and the latest Iceborne patch — and all three are endgame fights, not story fights. A hunter fresh out of the MR 24 story is not ready for Fatalis, and the game does not pretend otherwise: the Fatalis chain is a gear and skill check, and failing it is the normal experience.

The MR 49/69/99 gates are Guiding Lands gates as much as rank gates: each one raises the region level limit, and each one is a quest you must clear to lift it. MR 69’s “Big Burly Bash” also unlocks Raging Brachydios and Furious Rajang, the two variant monsters that gate the Volcanic and Tundra Guiding Lands regions. MR 100 is the last gate: the arch-tempered elder quests — Arch-Tempered Namielle (“The Distant Dark Tide”), Arch-Tempered Teostra (“Day of Ruin”), Arch-Tempered Kushala (“In the Tempest’s Wake”), Arch-Tempered Lunastra, Blackveil Vaal Hazak (“Tears from Nirvana”), and Ruiner Nergigante (“Ode to the Destruction”). After MR 100, the climb to MR 999 is ungated — and, like HR 999, it is prestige.

The Guiding Lands: The Endgame Map

The Guiding Lands is Iceborne’s endgame area, unlocked after the Iceborne story, and it is where the MR climb, the augment grind, and the zenny farm all live. It is a single expedition area that combines mini-versions of the base game’s locales — Ancient Forest, Wildspire Waste, Coral Highlands, Rotten Vale — plus Volcanic and Tundra regions, each with its own level from 1 to 7. You hunt monsters there, gather ore and bonepiles there, and level the regions by doing both.

The critical constraint is that total Guiding Lands XP is capped: roughly three regions to level 7 and one to level 4 (GameFAQs). You cannot max all six regions. You choose, and the choice is made by the augments you need: Coral for Health augments on Rarity 12 weapons, Volcanic and Tundra for additional Rarity 12 weapon augment slots, Wildspire for the Tempered monster needed for the final Elemental Attack augment. A player who levels regions at random ends up with three level-7 regions full of monsters they do not need and no slots for the augments they do. Decide what you are augmenting first, then level the regions that feed it.

The Guiding Lands is also the best place to grind MR points — hunts there give “a surge of points” per hunt (GameFAQs), far more than ordinary quests — which is why the fastest honest route to MR 100 runs through it. It is also where the zenny farm lives (mining, bonepiles, tempered shinies), which the farming guide covers in depth. And it is where the Elder Melder’s trade-in economy runs: Guiding Lands materials — Spiritvein gems, Dragonvein bones — feed weapon and armor augments, and the Elder Melder will trade the materials you have picked up from tempered monsters, with the exception of the highest-threat monsters, whose materials cannot be melded and must be hunted directly.

Gear Is the Real Level

Rank opens doors; gear walks through them. This section is the gear path in brief — the full zenny cost of it is in the farming guide — because a leveling guide that does not tell you what to wear is a map with no roads.

Low Rank: craft from whatever you kill. Bone and ore sets carry you; the first monster sets (Jagras, Kulu-Ya-Ku) teach the loop. Do not over-invest — Low Rank gear is replaced within hours.

High Rank: the first real choices. Zorah Magdaros armor is the classic transition set for entering High Rank. From here, build around skills, not defense alone: Health Boost, Weakness Exploit, and Critical Eye are the skills that carry a hunter through High Rank, and the community’s consensus sets are built on them. Farm decorations from tempered investigations (Sealed Feystones) — the decoration grind is the High Rank endgame, and it is the reason tempered monsters exist.

Master Rank: everything changes again. Early MR sets (bone, ore, Beotodus) replace High Rank gear immediately. Mid-MR, the Velkhana set is widely regarded as one of the best-looking and strongest Iceborne sets, and the Teostra Beta+ set is a community staple for its Latent Power synergy; Yian Garuga Beta+ and the Drachen Alpha+ set are also frequently cited as top-tier. Endgame, the Fatalis set is the final goal — the reward for beating the hardest boss in the game — and it is the set that makes MR 100 content comfortable rather than punishing. Weapon augments (Rarity 12, fed by Guiding Lands materials) are the last layer: Health, Affinity, Element, and extra slots, in the order your build needs them.

Three gear rules that never change: upgrade your armor before your weapon when you are carting (dead hunters deal no damage); build for the monster, not for the meta (elemental resistance and the right mantle matter more than a theoretical damage number); and augment last, not first (augments are the polish on a finished build, not a substitute for one).

The Defender Shortcut (and Why to Think Twice)

Iceborne’s pre-launch update added free catch-up gear to the base game: Defender weapons (forged at the Smithy for 1 Iron Ore each, upgradeable to level 5, with the highest base raw damage available in the base game) and the Guardian α+ armor set (selectable as starting equipment on a new character, or claimed by existing characters via the Housekeeper; the Defender alpha armor is purchasable from the Armory for 300 zenny per piece). The Guardian set carries Health Boost, Divine Blessing, and Tool Specialist — skills that make dying, in the community’s words, “near impossible.”

It works. It also, in the community’s consensus, ruins the base game for a first-time player: the Guardian armor has some of the highest defense in the base game and the Defender weapons make crafting anything else pointless, which destroys the loop — fight, wall, craft, learn, repeat — that is the whole game. The honest recommendation, and the one this guide makes: if you are new to Monster Hunter, do not use Defender/Guardian gear. Play the base game properly — get slapped by monsters, get good, slap them back, grind for the material you need. The catharsis of the grind is the game. If you are a returning player rushing to Iceborne — if you have done the base game before and just want to reach Master Rank — use it, and use it without guilt: that is what it was added for. And either way, swap to Master Rank sets the moment you reach Hoarfrost Reach, because Defender/Guardian gear does not survive Master Rank.

Mantles, Gadgets, and the Rest of the Kit

Gear is the armor and the weapon. The kit is everything else — and in Master Rank, the kit is the difference between a hunter who carts and a hunter who does not.

Mantles are equippable cloaks with powerful effects and a cooldown, and the ones that matter most are the ones this guide has already named: the Bandit Mantle (★5 “Redefining the Power Couple,” Rathalos + Rathian), which makes large monsters drop trade-in items and is the centerpiece of the zenny farm; the Rocksteady Mantle, which prevents knockback and flinching; the Temporal Mantle, which auto-dodges attacks for a short window; and the Health Booster, which drops a healing field. Mantles are earned from optional quests, and the optionals that unlock them are the ones new players skip and veterans wish they had done sooner. Do the mantle optionals as they appear — a mantle is a second build slot, and a hunter without one is fighting with one hand tied.

Palico gadgets are your cat companion’s tools, and they are worth the same attention: the Vigorwasp Spray (healing), the Flashfly Cage (blinding), the Shieldspire (drawing aggro), the Plunderblade (stealing materials from monsters — a zenny source in its own right, since stolen trade-in items sell), and the Meowcano (damage). Gadgets are unlocked through Palico quests and Grimalkyne tribes, and a fully kitted Palico is worth a second hunter in a solo fight. The Plunderblade deserves a special mention for this guide’s sibling: a Palico with the Plunderblade steals trade-in items from the monster you are fighting, and the Steam forum’s advice is to use it “for a while then sell trade ins for several mil.” It is a slow, steady zenny stream that costs you nothing but the gadget slot.

The Slinger is the tool you forget you have until you need it: slinger ammo (stones, pods, flash pods, dung pods) controls fights — flashing a flying monster out of the air, dung-bombing an unwanted guest out of the area, using the environment’s own ammunition against the monster. In Iceborne, the Clutch Claw is a Slinger attachment, which is why learning the Slinger and learning the Claw are the same lesson. And the canteen is the last piece: eat before every hunt, check the meal skills, and remember Felyne Fat Cat when you are farming zenny. A hunter who eats, mantles, and gadgets properly is playing a different game from a hunter who just swings a weapon — and the difference shows in the clear time, the cart count, and the rank bar.

The Fastest Honest Route to MR 100

There is no XP table to optimize against — no source publishes exact XP-per-rank figures — so the fastest route is a route through gates, not through numbers. Here it is, in order:

1. Finish the base story (HR 16). Do the Assigned quests, do the optionals that unlock camps and canteen ingredients, and do not stop for tempered investigations yet — they are not the road to Iceborne, and the XP banks while you are capped anyway.
2. Clear the HR gates on the way, not as a detour. HR 29 (two Tempered Bazelgeuse) and HR 49 (Tempered Kirin) are Assigned quests — they arrive in the natural flow. Clear them when they appear. You do not need HR 100 to enter Iceborne; HR 16 is the entry, and HR 100 is a base-game prestige goal you can finish later, or never.
3. Play the Iceborne story straight through to MR 24. Assigned quests, MR optionals for camps and facilities, Clutch Claw practice in the early hunts. Upgrade armor at every stage. Do not farm the Guiding Lands yet — it is not open.
4. At MR 24, live in the Guiding Lands. This is the fastest MR grind in the game: hunts there give a surge of MR points, and every hunt also levels regions, gathers augment materials, and pays zenny. Rotate regions toward the augments you need (Coral for Health, Volcanic/Tundra for slots, Wildspire for Elemental Attack).
5. Clear the MR gates as they arrive. MR 49 (“Sleep Now in the Fire”), MR 69 (“Big Burly Bash”), MR 99 (“To the Very Ends with You”) — each one raises a region cap and unlocks monsters. Do them the day they appear; a capped region is wasted XP.
6. Use investigations and event quests between Guiding Lands sessions. High-value investigations (sorted by reward at the Resource Center) pay HR and MR points and zenny; event quests like “The Greatest Jagras” pay decorations and trade-in items. They are the change of pace that keeps the grind from going stale — and they are the reason the farming guide exists.
7. At MR 100, do the arch-tempered quests. They are the last gates, and they are the hardest fights in the game short of Fatalis. Clear them, and the climb to MR 999 is ungated — a victory lap, not a grind.

What not to do: do not farm Low Rank quests for rank (they pay the least), do not repeat the same investigation fifty times when the Guiding Lands pays more per hunt, and do not chase HR 999 before MR 100 — HR is the base game’s ladder, and the base game is finished. Your rank is a record of what you have hunted, not a stat. Hunt the next gate, not the number.

Traps & Confusions

• Monster Hunter Wilds is a different game. Do not import Wilds gates, monsters (Arkveld and friends), or Wilds zenny figures. Wilds HR cap 999 is a different system from World’s HR 999.
• Monster Hunter Rise / Sunbreak is a different game. Its Master Rank gates (MR 10 layered armor, the Anomaly system, Scorned Magnamalo at MR 100) are not World’s. Sunbreak’s “MR 100 unlocks Scorned Magnamalo” is a Sunbreak fact — do not apply it to World, where MR 100 unlocks arch-tempered elders.
• Monster Hunter Now is a different game (Niantic mobile) — different caps, different economy, different everything.
• “Zeny” is the wrong spelling for World. The currency is “Zenny.” Older-series spelling does not apply here.
• HR 100 ≠ MR 100. HR 100 is a base-game gate (The Sapphire Star’s Guidance, three tempered elders). MR 100 is the Iceborne arch-tempered gate. Never conflate them — and never use one’s quest list for the other.
• “Cap 50” / “HR 50 is the cap” is wrong. HR 50 only unlocks Tempered Elder investigations. The cap is 999.
• “MR 24 is the end” is wrong. MR 24 only opens the endgame; the MR 49/69/99/100 gates follow, and Fatalis and the arch-tempered elders sit behind them.
• The HR 100 question is a real conflict, not a typo. Game8 lists HR 100 as a cap broken by The Sapphire Star’s Guidance; GameRevolution describes the post-Kirin state as uncapped to 999. This guide follows Game8 and flags the conflict — do not “fix” it by picking one silently.
• Defender/Guardian gear is catch-up gear, not the best gear. It trivializes the base game and is replaced immediately in Master Rank. Do not present it as the endgame, and do not recommend it to first-time players.
• Zenny-per-hour figures do not exist for World. There is no tracked zenny/hr table (unlike BDO’s Garmoth tracker). Any YouTube “X zenny per hour” figure is a single-creator estimate. The farming guide teaches the reader to measure their own hour — never quote one as fact.
• Event-quest rotation is unverified for 2026. Do not promise “The Greatest Jagras” is live this week. Check the quest board.

Patch State (as of November 9, 2026)

Monster Hunter World is a finished game. The last content update was Ver. 15.10 on December 4, 2020 (the Artemis “Monster Hunter” movie quest; Capcom confirmed it as the final major-content update), and the last patch was Ver. 15.11 on January 6, 2021 (bug fixes), with a PC-only Ver. 15.11.01 in June 2021 (minor system updates). Nothing new has been added since — no monsters, no quests, no systems. The servers are still live and matchmaking is operational; the game passed 30 million units in June 2026, and Steam averaged roughly 13,600 concurrent players in October 2026, with a June 2026 surge to a 51,723 peak when Capcom announced Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance (scheduled 2027) at Summer Game Fest. Capcom ended guaranteed Windows 10 support on October 14, 2025. There is nothing to catch up on and nothing coming — which is the point. The game you are leveling in is the complete game, and every gate in this guide is final.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources

Every fact in this guide carries its source. Rank-gate facts come from Game8’s quest and rank-cap guides; Guiding Lands facts come from Game8, PowerPyx, and the Fandom wiki; catch-up gear facts come from PCGamesN and HoldToReset; patch and population facts come from Capcom via mneurix.quest, SteamCharts, and Fextralife. Last checked November 9, 2026.

• Game8: How to Break Rank Caps (HR 15/29/49/100 table; XP banks while capped)
• Game8: Post-Game Content (HR 30 tempered investigations; HR 50 tempered elders; HR 100 Sapphire Star’s Guidance)
• Game8: How to Unlock All Iceborne Quests (MR 24/69/99 gates; Ruiner Nergigante; Alatreon/Fatalis chain)
• Game8: Master Rank Quests (MR 24/100 quest lists; arch-tempered elders)
• Game8: How To Level Up The Guiding Lands (region levels 4/5/6/7 spawns)
• GameRevolution: Max Hunter Rank (HR 999; HR 29/49 quests — simpler framing, flagged as a conflict)
• vintageisthenewold: What rank is Iceborne? (HR 16 entry; MR 999; Fatalis MR 24)
• vintageisthenewold: What Master Rank for Fatalis? (Alatreon → Dawn’s Triumph → The Black Dragon)
• TheTechyLife: What is the Max Master Rank in MHW? (MR cap 999)
• Orbispatches: Is HR higher than MR? (HR 999; MR separate system)
• Vectree: Monster Hunter World — Iceborne (MR cap removed after story → MR 999)
• GameFAQs: How to unlock Master Rank (HR 16 entry; Guiding Lands best MR grind)
• GameFAQs: Guiding Lands clarification (XP cap ~3 regions to 7; augment priorities by region)
• PowerPyx: Guiding Lands Endgame Walkthrough (MR 49/69/99 region-cap quests; tempered spawns by level)
• Monster Hunter Wiki (Fandom): Guiding Lands (region monster lists by level)
• PCGamesN: Defender weapons and armor (1 Iron Ore; 300z per piece; level 5 upgrades)
• HoldToReset: How to Unlock the Guardian Armor Set (Guardian α+; Health Boost / Divine Blessing / Tool Specialist)
• GameIndustry: Iceborne Comes to PC (HR 16; Clutch Claw; Defender/Guardian gear)
• GameFAQs: New to MH (Guardian/Defender trivializes the base game)
• mneurix.quest: Monster Hunter World’s 2026 Surge (30M units June 2026; Ver. 15.10/15.11; 2026 Steam numbers; Wilds: Ascendance 2027)
• SteamCharts: Monster Hunter World (October 2026: ~13,604 avg, 32,603 peak)
• Fextralife: Patch Notes (Ver. 15.11 Jan 6, 2021; Ver. 15.11.01 Jun 2021 PC-only)
• MMODude: Monster Hunter World game page