Qurious Crafting also includes brand-new armor augments that shake up Sunbreak builds in unpredictable ways.
To access Qurious Crafting, youll need to hunt monsters using the new Anomalous Investigation system.
At MR10, you will receive an Urgent Quest to hunt an Afflicted Arzuros.
Complete that quest uncap your rank again and gain access to Anomaly Quests and Anomaly Investigations.
If youve been grinding Sunbreak since launch, you will already be familiar with Anomaly Quests.
These hunts send you after power Afflicted Monsters that reward unique Afflicted Materials.
Previously, these materials were only used to complete Rarity 10 weapon upgrades and craft certain decorations.
Well break these down in detail shortly.
Anomaly Investigations are a new system that will be somewhat familiar toMonster Hunter Worldveterans.
Investigations have randomized targets, time limits, and maximum allowed faints.
Higher level investigations are tougher, but drop more rare materials that you will need for more expensive augments.
Then, snag the weapon you wish to augment.
See the above image for an example.
Once you enable augmentation on a weapon, youll be met with a list of possible augments.
Each weapon has the Attack Boost, Affinity Boost, Sharpness, and Rampage Slot upgrade augment available.
Weapons with elemental or status damage also have access to the Elemental Boost and Status Boos augments.
Each augment costs a variety of afflicted materials and takes up augment slots.
Weapons have 5 augment slots, with three unlocked by default.
it’s possible for you to spend afflicted materials on unlocking the fourth and fifth slots.
Weapon trees like Gore Magala and Furious Rajang should now be more competitive with a slot upgrade.
you’ve got the option to augment armor using Amber Essence.
Each time you augment an armor piece, a number of potential stat changes are randomly rolled.
But what kind of upgrades should you be looking for?
That answer is a bit more complicated.
Sometimes thats as simple as rolling comfortable, quality-of-life skills like Spiribird Caller or Speed Eating.
Additional slots or slot upgrades are always a plus too.
Even a level 1 slot has value, allowing for points of skills like Defiance or Stun Resistance.
Points of high-value damage skills like Weakness Exploit or Attack Boost are also universally desirable.
If your build is already capping these skills out, you have a chance to get creative.
Basically, any augment that adds useful skill points is a good augment.
This typically comes at the cost of some defense and resists, but those losses are marginal.
Better skills just about always outweigh worse defenses.
That’s everything you gotta start augmenting your gear with Qurious Crafting in Sunbreak!
