The Best Set for Gathering in Monster Hunter Wilds (Feb, 2025)

Monster Hunter Wilds has a wide range of resources for you to collect both from monsters themselves and all around the different regions of the game. Whether you are looking for ore, different kinds of herbs, or more, you might want to do something to increase the yield and save yourself from a lengthier grind. In this guide, we will go through a few items you can use to help improve your gathering runs.

The Best Set for Gathering (Feb 2025)

Before we begin, we will first talk about the skills that you will need. There are only a handful of them to consider right now, but having them will significantly improve your overall yield or make your life a whole lot easier in more than just the actual gathering side of things.

Depending on what your current progress is in the game right now, it is entirely possible that you do not have access to everything that is considered the “best” for a while. Because of that, what we can tell you is that you should at least try to focus on getting the following skills:

• Botanist – This will increase the number of herbs and various other items that you gather from the wild.
• Geologist – This can increase how much you get from certain gathering nodes, such as bones or mining outcrops.
• Entomologist – This will let you carve small insect monsters rather than just destroying their bodies after a kill.
• Forager’s Luck – It is a group skill that gives you a better chance of finding rare gathering points.
• Intimidator – Although not essential, it can be nice to have if you want to have very laid back gathering runs as smaller enemies will just ignore you completely.

Now, when it comes to one of the “best” items for gathering, there are currently only a few items that are often recommended by a lot of experienced hunters. They are the following gear pieces, as well as the materials you will need to make each of them (money excluded):

• Head Slot: Sild Hood – This will give you level 3 Botanist in a single item, making it one of the absolute best gathering helmets in the game right now. It also has Forager’s Luck on it, so we only need two more to activate the set bonus.
  • 2x Sild Cotton
  • 3x Guardian Seikret Feather+
• Chest Slot: Melahoa Jacket – This item will give you Tool Specialist level 3. More importantly, for our use case, it also has the Forager’s Luck group skill on it. This makes it our second piece with the effect.
  • 1x Great Hibiscus
  • 1x Guardian Seikret Feather+
  • 1x Lightcrystal
• Hand Slot: Leather Gloves – This is a fairly basic item, but it will provide you with one point of Botanist. This is worth taking just to completely top off the Botanist skill.
  • 1x Guardian Pelt
  • 1x Machalite Ore
• Waist Slot: Suja Sash – This item has Divine Blessing level 3 in it, but what we need it for is the fact that it has Forager’s Luck as well. Now that we have our third piece of this group skill, you should now have it activated and have an improved chance of finding rare gathering points.
  • 3x Suja Textiles
  • 5x Fucium Ore – We have a guide on where to find more of this resource too.
• Legs Slot: Azuz Pants – The Azuz Pants will provide you with Geologist level 3, making it an extremely valuable item for gathering as it completely maxes out that skill on its lonesome. This also imparts Forager’s Luck on your character, so you are free to use replace the waist item with anything else if you want.
  • 1x Azuz Tanned Leather
  • 2x Firestone
• Talisman Slot: Intimidator Charm III – This will give you level 3 Intimidator, which is a nice little bonus that will prevent certain monsters from disrupting your ideally peaceful gathering runs. Not really required, but again, nice to have.
  • 1x Guardian Rathalos Tail
  • 2x Firecell Stone
  • 3x Guardian Rathalos Wing
  • 5x Guardian Rathalos Scale+

With all of that listed down, you should also consider using a certain set of decorations to improve your runs. Here are some jewels you can try to use to further improve on the set of items above:

• Ranger Jewel [1] – This gives you Outdoorsman level 1, which will improve your fishing skill, among others. This is nice to have if you plan on going fishing out in the wilds in between your foraging and mining.
• Specimen Jewel [1] – This will provide you with Entomologist level 1, which will allow you to start carving small insect monsters rather than just completely disintegrating them on kill.
• Botany Jewel [1] – Use this top off the Botanist skill if you prefer to use an alternative item over the Leather Gloves. Otherwise, you do not really need this since the Sild Hood and Leather Gloves combo will max it out already.
• Adapt Jewel [1] – This gives you a level of Adaptability, which could be useful if you find yourself contending with certain harsh environmental conditions while gathering stuff.
• Mirewalker Jewel [1] – This provides a level of the Aquatic/Oilslit Mobility skill, which might come in handy in certain areas as it will keep you from being slowed down by bodies of varying liquids.

Those are all of the ideal gear pieces and jewels to consider when going out gathering. Just note that these are all listed with high rank in mind, so if you are still very early in the game, again, consider targeting certain skills rather than the specific items here as you literally cannot get them yet anyway.

This is also not the definitive “best” as there are adjustments you can make depending on your specific needs, and new gear can always come out in the future. However, this definitely features some of the items that are completely unmatched in the current version of the game, as far as we are aware anyway.

There are also other factors to consider before going on a gathering run. For example, certain types of gathering nodes might be more abundant during a specific season or time of day. You will just have to check the environmental notes in the map to figure out which is the best time to go after whichever resources you are targeting.

And that is everything we have for you when it comes to gathering in the game. While you are here, check out our guide on how to unlock the material retrieval feature in Monster Hunter Wilds as well. This will further improve your resource farming, as it will provide you with a lot of passive materials in between your resource runs, and all you need to do is finish a few side quests.