[STEAM] Should you choose alpha or beta High Rank armor in Monster Hunter Wilds

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Screenshot by Destructoid If you'd asked me to choose between alpha and beta armor in previous games, my answer would almost always be to use a full five-piece beta set. Now, the answer is a bit more nuanced. The short version is: it depends.

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, but others are designed for specific weapons and playstyles. Think Critical Draw for Greatswords or Wide-Range and Free Meal for healing builds.

The hard and fast rules for choosing between alpha and beta armors, then, are:

• Use alpha armor if it's the only way to max out a must-have Skill on your build. If you want five levels of Weakness Exploit and the only way to get it is to give up an armor decoration slot, alpha armor is the way to go.
• Use beta armor if you want more customization for your build. Once you max out the damage-focused perks on your build, the remaining armor pieces should be the beta version. That way, you get some of the armor's Skill benefits and access to supplementary decoration bonuses.

There aren't too many ways outside of armor and decorations to add Skills to your build, especially if you don't want to endlessly gamble for the perfect

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. You do have Talismans and your weapon's intrinsic Skills, of course. However, when you choose your weapon based on the elemental weakness of the monster, sometimes those weapon Skills don't mesh as well, forcing you to switch up your armor and decoration choices.

The endgame of Monster Hunter Wilds is a game of build optimization for specific monsters and more general hunting. Knowing when to choose between alpha and beta armor for a particular build can vastly alter how effective it is in combat and how efficient you can make its decoration setup. If all you care about is fashion, the choice is a different matter entirely.







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