The Best Decoration Farms in Monster Hunter World

Decoration farming is the unfortunate endgame of Monster Hunter World and, by far, its most RNG-heavy mechanic. Worse, without a good set of decos, even the best builds are a shadow of what they could be. It’s bad enough that special quests are designed to help, and they’re the best decoration farms in MHW.

The Best Quests to Farm Decorations in Monster Hunter World

The one nice thing about decoration farming is that you don’t need to do it until you reach the latter stages of both the base Monster Hunter World experience and the Iceborne expansion. You can complete all the quests in both campaigns with the armor and weapons you craft during progression. Once you beat the main story of the base game and expansion, the farming begins, and there’s one quest per piece of content you’ll be doing over and over again.

The Best High-Rank Decoration Farm in Monster Hunter World

If you’re at or near the end of Monster Hunter World, the base game, your decoration farm quest is called The Greatest Jagras. Truth be told, it will remain so until much later in your time with Iceborne, provided you purchase and play the expansion. The biggest problem you’ll run into is the lack of tier 4 decos from The Greatest Jagras quest, as those didn’t exist in High Rank. However, if you own Iceborne and continue getting better and better Master Rank gear, the quest gets easier and easier.

If you don’t have Iceborne or want to make a few builds preparing for the expansion content, then The Greatest Jagras will be your only consistent deco farming option. Worse, it will be significantly harder. The monster you’re fighting might only be a Great Jagras, but it hits like a truck and seventeen tractor-trailers, has more health than most other High-Rank monsters, and because it’s so big, dodging its attacks is awkward at the best of times.

To give you some perspective on the damage the Greatest Jagras can do, I was wearing fully upgraded Fatalis armor with a solid decoration setup, and I would still lose about one-fifth of my health if it hit me square. Against a hunter with only High-Rank gear, expect that one-fifth to be three-quarters to a one-shot. At least, that was my experience when The Greatest Jagras quest first released before Iceborne.

To get the decos in The Greatest Jagras, you need to break its parts and make it puke while its stomach is full, which will force it to drop several shiny loot items. These are the Feystones you’ll turn into decos when the quest finishes, regardless of your success. The more parts you break and damage you do while the monster’s belly is full, the more Feystones will drop.

I highly recommend you fight The Greatest Jagras with a full party, and if you can get some grizzled Iceborne veterans on your squad, all the better. A dedicated healer/buffer will do wonders at keeping everyone topped up, and if someone is using the Hunting Horn, even better.

The Best Quest to Farm Decorations in Monster Hunter World Iceborne

You’ll only need one decoration farm in all of MHW once you unlock a Master Rank Event quest called The Wrath of Thunder Descends. In it, you’ll be fighting a tempered Zinogre, and completing the quest guarantees at least two Sealed Feystones, the source of the best decorations in the entire game. The trouble? Not only is it a 6-star Master Rank quest, but as a tempered monster, the Zinogre has more health and deals a ton more damage.

Again with the perspective, a set of fully upgraded Fatalis armor was half-shot by most of the Zinogre’s attacks. And because the jerk likes to combo, if you aren’t properly equipped or know the fight, prepare to cart. If you don’t already have a Fatalis weapon, you’ll want to bring something with Ice element to the party, plus a Temporal and Vitality Mantle.

Don’t let the Master Rank 24 quest entry requirement fool you, either. You are not ready for tempered Zinogre. You’ll want to have farmed full sets of endgame gear, mostly Elder Dragon armor and weapons, and maybe even some Safi’Jiiva or Master Rank Kulve Taroth gear. I’d also recommend melding as many tier-four decorations as you can and getting as close to an endgame build as possible.

Once you’re in The Wrath of Thunder Descends quest, you’d do well to bring a team of players who also know the fight. If you insist on going in solo, you’ll need to have a solid grasp of how to fight a regular Zinogre because the tempered version doesn’t get any new attacks or phases. It just hurts you a lot more and can take a lot more punishment.

In my testing, I found that having a single cart on your record only decreases the Zinogre parts you’re rewarded. You get the same amount of Feystones regardless of whether you hunt or capture the monster. You should, of course, try not to cart at all, but you won’t lose too much if you or your teammates do.

As long as you have the fights down in both The Greatest Jagras and The Wrath of Thunder Descends, neither quest should take longer than ten minutes at their appropriate rank. The High Rank one should be two or three minutes with good Master Rank gear, and with a solid Iceborne endgame build, the tempered Zinogre fight can be as fast as five minutes, though ten is a safer bet if there are mistakes, carts, or the like.

Those are the two best quests for farming decorations in Monster Hunter World. You’ll be spending a lot of time in both, I’ll wager, so get used to them. They’re always available these days, so get hunting!

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