Frequently Asked Questions

Additively, up to each skill's cap. Every armor piece, charm, decoration and set bonus that grants a skill adds its levels together - two pieces giving Latent Power Lv2 each put you at Lv4. Once the total passes the skill's maximum (shown on every skill card in the skill library), the extra levels are wasted: the builder marks them with a red "wasted" badge so you can trade that piece or deco for something else. Skill levels from set bonuses and group skills stack with everything else, but the bonuses themselves only activate at their piece thresholds (2/4 pieces for set bonuses, 3 pieces sharing a group skill).

A single number that folds a weapon's attack and affinity (and sharpness) into one comparison metric: ERaw = Raw × (1 + Affinity% × CritBonus) × SharpnessMultiplier. Affinity is the chance to crit: crits deal 125% damage (140% with Critical Boost Lv5), so 40% affinity is worth +10% raw on average. Negative affinity works in reverse with a fixed 75% penalty. Multiply by the sharpness tier (Blue ×1.20, White ×1.32, Purple ×1.39) and you can compare, say, a high-raw low-affinity hammer against a low-raw high-affinity one. It deliberately excludes motion values, hitzones and quest modifiers - those vary per attack and per monster, which is why the ERaw calculator is scoped to weapon quality only.

The armor, skill, decoration and charm datasets come from wilds.mhdb.io, a database extracted directly from the game files, snapshotted on 2026-10-11 (the date is shown on every page). Sharpness multipliers are hand-verified against the Fextralife wiki and community sources, and cited on the ERaw page. The full source list and methodology live on the data & sources page.

That's the game, not a data gap. In the current title-update era of Wilds, armor pieces have zero to three decoration slots depending on the piece; 512 of the 582 high-rank pieces in the snapshot have at least one. Pieces with more or bigger slots usually carry fewer built-in skill levels - that's the trade the builder makes visible.

No - Wilds splits decorations into armor jewels and weapon jewels, and each kind only fits its own slot type. On top of that, a jewel needs a slot at least its own level: a [3] jewel fits a Lv3 slot only, a [1] jewel fits any slot. The builder refuses invalid placements and tells you why; the decoration planner shows the slot budget for any target plan.

Set bonuses (gold badge) belong to armor families - Rey Dau, Arkveld, Gore Magala and so on - and activate at 2 and 4 equipped pieces of that family, with α/β/γ variants counting together. Group skills (moss badge) are printed on pieces ("Fortifying Pelt", "Lord's Favor"…): any 3 equipped pieces carrying the same group skill name activate it, even from different monster sets. The builder tracks both live, including progress toward the next threshold.

Honesty over false precision. True hit damage = raw × motion value ÷ class modifier × sharpness × hitzone × quest modifier (plus elemental terms). Motion values depend on the specific attack animation of each of the 14 weapon types and hitzones vary per monster part and wound state. A single-answer "damage calculator" without those inputs would be wrong by design, so HunterForge computes ERaw - everything that depends on the weapon and skills, nothing that depends on the hit. The sharpness table and formula are cited so you can take it further yourself.

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