Complete optional quests and delivery requests in Monster Hunter: World after the Elder's Recess. Unlock new fertilizers, gear upgrades, and face challenging monsters.
After completing the Elder's Recess, several optional quests and delivery requests become available, offering valuable rewards and progressing your Hunter Rank. These range from monster hunts to resource gathering and unlocking new cultivation fertilizers.
Walkthrough
- 1A Relatable Tale: Talk to the Chief Botanist to unlock the quest Talons of Ire and Ice. This quest requires hunting a high-rank Legiana and Odogaron. Success rewards an upgrade to the Ancient Tree.
- 2Shattering the Grass Ceiling: After completing enough high-rank optional quests (triggered after Brown Desert, Green Queen), speak to an Easygoing Fiver in the Tradeyard. Complete the delivery request for a Great Girros Hood+ and 900 Research Points to obtain the Ancient Catalyst fertilizer, which triples cultivation rates.
- 3Soft Soil: Find the Laid-Back Botanist near the Botany Research station. Complete the delivery request A Gentle Earthen Bed by turning in three Dragonbone Relics and 1,000 Research Points to unlock the Soft Soil fertilizer, which extends the duration of all other fertilizer effects.
- 4Cultural Exchange: Gajalaka Linguistics II: The Lynian Researcher near the Ecological Research station offers this critical bounty after the Elder's Recess expedition. It involves finding the researcher in the Elder's Recess and completing a Gajalaka-related task.
- 5Bazelgeuse Beatdown: Speak to the Smart Biologist in the monster pen to receive the quest Bazelgeuse in the Field of Fire, tasking you with hunting a Bazelgeuse.
- 6A Pair of Monster Pair Quests: The Armory clerk offers two quests: The Red and Blue Crew (defeat high-rank Rathalos and Azure Rathalos) and, if available, A Fiery Convergence (defeat Lavasioth and Uragaan).
- 7GAINS Versus Gajalaka: The Meowscular Chef offers the quest Chef Quest!: Gajalaka Lockdown, requiring you to defeat ten Gajalaka.
- 8Investigating Nergigante: Gather Nergigante research tracks. After speaking with the Chief Ecologist, Commander, and The Handler, the assignment A Wound and a Thirst will be posted.
New Monster Quests Introduced:
- Dodogama Drama (Dodogama)
- Rathalos in Blue (Azure Rathalos)
- Two-Horned Hostility (Black Diablos)
- Lavasioth, Monster of Magma (Lavasioth)
- Ore-Eating Occupier (Uragaan)
- Bazelgeuse in the Field of Fire (Bazelgeuse)
Dual Monster Quests:
- Talons of Ire and Ice (Odogaron and Legiana)
- The Red and Blue Crew (Rathalos and Azure Rathalos)
- A Fiery Convergence (Uragaan and Lavasioth)
Tips
- Completing these optional quests while gathering Nergigante intel can be efficient.
- The Ancient Catalyst fertilizer triples cultivation rates, and Soft Soil extends the duration of all other fertilizers.
- High-rank versions of previously encountered monsters fight similarly but are stronger.
- Ancient Tree upgrade (from Talons of Ire and Ice).
- Ancient Catalyst fertilizer (from Shattering the Grass Ceiling).
- Soft Soil fertilizer (from A Gentle Earthen Bed).
- Various monster materials and Research Points from completing other quests.
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