In addition to a weapon’s Special Skill, all weapons and armor pieces in Monster Hunter Now have Equipment Skills. These skills enhance your combat in some way, either by providing stat buffs or reducing monsters’ effects.
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All Equipment Skills start at Level 1 when activated and can go up to Level 5. Each level enhances the skill’s effect. Lock On, Firm Foothold, Recoil Down, and Reload Speed are the only skills that cannot reach Level 5. The higher the level, the more effective the skill will be. Overgrading your equipment will increase the skill level.
Equipment Skills in Alphabetical Order
| Equipment Skill | Description |
| Artful Dodger | Makes perfect evades easier to perform. |
| Attack Boost | Increases attack power. |
| Burst | Landing consecutive hits in a short span of time increases your attack power by a percentage for 4 seconds. |
| Concentration | Increases your Special Guage fill rate by a percentage. |
| Critical Eye | Increases affinity by a percentage. |
| Defense Boost | Increases defense. |
| Divine Blessing | You have a chance of having incoming damage reduced. |
| Earplugs | Reduces the effect of monster roars. |
| Evade Extender | Extends evasion distance. |
| Fire Attack | Increases your weapon’s fire-element value. |
| Fire Resistance | Decreases damage taken from fire-element monsters by a percentage. |
| Firm Foothold | Reduces knockback when taking damage. |
| Focus | Shortens the charging time for weapons with charge attacks and increases the fill rate of the Spirit Gauge by a percentage. |
| Fortify | Increases attack power by a percentage for 10 seconds each time you revive after fainting during a hunt. |
| Guard | Reduces damage and knockback when guarding against monster attacks. |
| Guts | Once per hunt, you can survive lethal damage taken above a certain health point. |
| Health Boost | Increases your max health. |
| Heroics | Increases attack power by a percentage when your health drops to 29% or lower. |
| Ice Attack | Increases your weapon’s ice-element value. |
| Ice Resistance | Decreases damage taken from ice-element monsters by a percentage. |
| Last Stand | Increases defense when your health drops below 29%. |
| Lock On | Displays a lock-on button while hunting with a close-range weapon, allowing a specific monster body part to be targeted. |
| Offensive Guard | Increases attack power by a percentage for 10 seconds after executing a well-timed guard. |
| Paralysis Attack | Increases your weapon’s paralysis buildup value. |
| Paralysis Resistance | Grants a chance to prevent the paralysis status when you take damage from a paralysis-element attack. |
| Partbreaker | Increases damage to breakable parts by a percentage. |
| Peak Performance | Increases attack power when your health is full. |
| Poison Attack | Increases your weapon’s poison buildup value. |
| Poison Resistance | Grants a chance to prevent the poison status when you take damage from a poison-inducing attack. |
| Recoil Down | Reduces Light Bowgun recoil. |
| Reload Speed | Reduces reload time for Light Bowguns. |
| Resentment | When taking damage, your attack power increases by a percentage for 15 seconds. |
| Rising Tide | Increases attack power and defense as the hunt timer runs out. |
| Slugger | Increases stun power by a percentage. |
| Sneak Attack | Increases damage by a percentage when attacking a monster from behind. |
| Special Boost | Increases the damage of Special Skills by a percentage. |
| Thunder Attack | Increases your weapon’s thunder-element value. |
| Thunder Resistance | Decreases damage taken from thunder-element monsters by a percentage. |
| Water Attack | Increases your weapon’s water-element value. |
| Water Resistance | Decreases damage taken from water-element monsters by a percentage. |
| Weakness Exploit | Increases affinity by a percentage when attacking a monster’s weak spot. |
| Windproof | Reduces the effects of wind pressure. |
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