Hunting monsters is a surprisingly bureaucratic profession these days - guild hunters aren’t mere poachers trying to feed their families or get rich selling monster materials! No sir, guild hunters require authorization to hunt, and employ their frankly superhuman strength to cull monsters that pose a threat to human settlements or the environment at large. And if such a brave hunter were to use the monster’s remains to make a pretty coat or comically oversized hammer, what’s the harm? In any event, along with the other materials you’ll gather from hunted monsters you’ll also be rewarded with guild certificates which make the whole business official. This page will discuss how to farm Hunter Symbols in Monster Hunter Wilds!

• Where do you get Hunter Symbols?: Hunter Symbols are gained as quest rewards for hunting Tempered monsters. Rank five hunts will award Hunter Symbol I, rank six hunts yield Hunter Symbol II and ranks seven and eight both can drop Hunter Symbol III.

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Hunting Tempered Monsters for Hunter Symbols¶

Every monster rewards certificates - materials that can be used to craft new arms and armor - and there are many different tiers of monster in Monster Hunter Wilds to thoroughly complicate matters. Certificates are exclusively quest rewards; hunt a low rank Chatacabra and you may be rewarded with Chatacabra Certificates after the fight. Hunt a high rank Chatacabra and you may find a Chatacabra Certificate S after the fight. If you don’t know the difference, anything you fight before Chapter 4 will be low rank (save for Jin Dahaad) and starting in Chapter 4 for the rest of the game every enemy will be high rank.

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(1 of 2) You can find Tempered monsters after completing the quest “Wyvern Sparks and Rose Thorns” - just search for them by region.

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You can find Tempered monsters after completing the quest “Wyvern Sparks and Rose Thorns” - just search for them by region. (left), Their purple glow makes them easy to spot on the local map! (right)

Those two tiers aren’t enough, however, as there’s a third degree of monster difficulty which will unlock after the quest “Wyvern Sparks and Rose Thorns”, which introduces a battle-scarred Lala Barina. This spider is the game’s first Tempered monster, elite, battle-hardened monsters whose trials have left it more dangerous. Check out the [Tempered Monsters] page for more details on Tempered monsters, but to keep things short, Tempered Monsters act virtually identical to their high rank counterparts, save they have higher stats. In addition they’re higher rank hunts (usually one rank higher than their high rank counterparts), which means better quest rewards. Tempered monsters generally drop the same materials as high rank counterparts, but they can also drop Weapon Shards, which can be used to forge [Artian Weapons] and Hunter Symbols.

Hunter Symbols by Tempered Monster Rank¶

Every Tempered monster has a chance to drop Hunter Symbols when defeated, which will appear as bonus rewards after a successful hunt. The stronger the monster (as determined by its rank), the better the Hunter Symbol it will drop, as follows:

Tempered Monster Rank	Hunter Symbol
★5	Hunter Symbol I
★6	Hunter Symbol II
★7	Hunter Symbol III
★8	Hunter Symbol III

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(1 of 3) Complete the quest “Wyvern Sparks and Rose Thorns” to encounter your first Tempered monster - and earn your first Hunter Symbols. Hunter Symbols I come from rank five tempered monsters,

Most Tempered monsters will fall into the ★5 range, a few stronger monsters being ★6 hunts - Doshaguma, Arjarakan, Blangonga, Gravios, Guardians (Anjanath, Odogaron, Rathalos) etc. ★7 Tempered monsters include mostly apex predators - Uth Duna, Rey Dau, Nu Udra, Jin Dahaad and Gore Magala. Only one Tempered monster currently reaches ★8, and that’s Arkveld.

If you want to craft the highest tier arms and armor in the game, you’re probably going to need some Hunter Symbol III materials, which means hunting ★7 and ★8 Tempered monsters. You can only do this after completing Chapter 6-1.