Mantles in MHW are just one of the things in the game that will be helping you along the way. This Monster Hunter World Mantles Guide will ensure that you are aware of all of the Mantles. We will tell you all about how to unlock Mantles, their durations, their cooldowns, and effects/abilities that they provide.
The Mantles are essentially cloaks that you wear. These cloaks can provide you temporary buffs. There are quite a few different Mantles and all of them have different effects that separate them from one another. Apart from Mantles, there are also Boosters in MHW that provide a similar effect.
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Monster Hunter World Mantles And Boosters
Currently, there are 17 different Mantles available in Monster Hunter World. All of them have a different effects that they provide you with a short amount of time.
After the duration of the effect wears off, there is a charge time in which the Mantles recharge themselves before being available for use once again.
This Monster Hunter World Mantles Guide will first mention the name of the Mantle and then give you the effects followed by the duration of the effect and the recharge time. Lastly, we will mention how can you get your hands on the specific mantle.
How to Unlock Mantles And Effects
These are the 17 Mantles that you can find in MHW. All of the durations mentioned henceforth are in seconds.
Challenger Mantle
Duration: 180 | Cooldown: 300
This Mantle makes it easier for you to lure monsters in by making them target you more. In order to unlock it, you need to complete the quest “The Red and Blue Crew”.
Ghillie Mantle
Duration: 120 | Cooldown: 300
This Mantle can be used to cloak yourself but wears off if you attack or take damage. It will be automatically given to you upon completion of one of the early quests.
Gilder Mantle
Duration: 180 | Cooldown: 210
This Mantle will increase your jump and allow you to stomach strong winds which will make mounting easier. Complete the first quest of the Coral Highlands to unlock it.
Rocksteady Mantle
Duration: 90 | Cooldown: 360
This Mantle will eliminate damage reactions, wind damage, hearing effects and reduces damage taken. Complete the quest “A summons from Below” to unlock.
Vitality Mantle
Duration: 120 | Cooldown: 360
This Mantle reduces damage taken by a small percentage. Complete the “Tickled Pink” quest to unlock it.
Waterproof Mantle
Duration: 180 | Cooldown: 210
This Mantle will reduce water damage and any water effects or muck effects which may debuff you. To unlock it, complete “Armory R&D: Waterproofing” quest, find 3 Jyuratodus Scale and 1 Jyuratodus Fin.
Iceproof Mantle
Duration: 180 | Cooldown: 210
This Mantle will reduce all ice damage that you take and also nullify the effects of Iceblight. It can be acquired by completing “Armory R&D: Weatherizing” and then getting 3 Paolumu Pelt and 1 Paolumu wing.
Fireproof Mantle
Duration: 180 | Cooldown: 210
This Mantle will not only reduce all incoming fire damage but will allow you to literally walk on lava without taking damage. Perfect for fighting in volcanoes, it can be unlocked by completing the ‘A Fiery Convergence’ Main Quest.
This quest is unlocked after you kill all of the monsters in Elder’s Recess.
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Bandit Mantle
Duration: 180 | Cooldown: 210
This Mantle can be acquired through the “Redefining the Power Couple” quest. It will cause monsters to drop rare items when attacked.
Thunderproof Mantle
Duration: 180 | Cooldown: 210
This Mantle will reduce damage from thunder attacks and erase any effect that you may have from thunder based debuffs. To get it, complete the quest “Gone in a Flash”.
Impact Mantle
Duration: 90 | Cooldown: 360
This Mantle will make most of your attacks stun the enemy. It is unlocked upon completing “Showdown: the Muck and the Maul” quest.
Apothecary Mantle
Duration: 60 | Cooldown: 210
This Mantle will increase the chance of triggering status build up provided you are using weapons that cause normal statuses. It can be unlocked after completing “A Portent of Disaster” quest.
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Evasion Mantle
Duration: 90 | Cooldown: 360
This Mantle will help you when evading enemies and will give you an attack bonus when you evade a monster. It is unlocked after you complete “New World Sky, New World Flower” quest.
Immunity Mantle
Duration: 120 | Cooldown: 210
This Mantle will remove and nullify all status effects that may affect your character. It is unlocked after completing “A Blazing Sand” quest.
Assassins Hood
Duration: 360 | Cooldown: 180
This will allow you to move around much more quicker and will help your stay hidden as well. When this mantle is activated and you catch an unaware monster, you can deal big damage to it.
Dragon Proof Mantle
Duration: 120 | Cooldown: 300
This mantle will make you not worry about dragons anymore! You will not be affected by dragon attacks. This will also increase your own dragon damage.
Temporal Mantle
Duration: 180 | Cooldown: 210
This mantle completely nullifies the damage taken as soon as you get hit but this is only effective against big attacks and not attacks like Leshen’s Crow Chip.
Boosters And Effects
As opposed to Mantles, you can place Boosters on the ground during a mission. The placed Tool/Booster will emit a smoke that will provide effect to the Hunter standing inside it. Some Boosters provide unique effects that cannot be obtained by other means. Some Boosters, on the other hand, provide effects also obtainable by consumables.
In this section of our Monster Hunter: World Guide, we have detailed all the available Boosters, How to Unlock them, and their Effects.
Health Booster
Duration: 60 | Cooldown: 180
This Booster is a very great item which will place a smoker on the ground that will slowly restore your health. It will be automatically given to you when playing through the main story.
Cleanser Booster
Duration: 60 | Cooldown: 150
This Booster places a smoker that will remove all effects and elemental blights from you. It can be acquired by going through the main story.
Affinity Booster
Duration: 60 | Cooldown: 180
This Booster is another smoker which will increase your affinity. Completing “A Tingling Taste” quest will trigger a chain quest which will give you this mantle.
That is all we have for our Monster Hunter World Mantles And Boosters Guide. Let us know if we missed something using the comments section below!
