Hunters,

Starting August 11th, a packed lineup of events awaits! Read all about them below.

1. A New Riftborne Monster Appears: Great Girros!
   You’ll now be able to access style customization for weapons that use Great Girros materials.

2. Style Selection Available for Great Swords!
   Following the sword & shield, long sword, and light bowgun, the great sword gets its own style options. Choose between a combo-heavy style or a counter-focused style to suit your strategy.

3. Event: Even Happier Great Sword Hunting!

• Certain great swords and armor will be boosted during the event
• More group hunt rewards
• Exclusive quests: Take on unique challenges using specific types of great swords and armor

4. Rack up Zenny with event bonuses!
   During the Even Happier Great Sword Hunting! event, you’ll have a chance to get Shining, Gleaming, or Dazzling Eggs, which can be traded for Zenny in your Item Box.

Stay cool and keep hunting together this summer!

Dates & Times

From Monday, August 11th, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. (local time)

A New Riftborne Monster Appears: Great Girros!

Great Girros will start to appear as a Riftborne monster! With this, it will now be possible to customize the style of Great Girros weapons.
And for a limited time only, you’ll need fewer materials to forge and upgrade Great Girros weapons. Stay tuned for more details to be announced at a later date.

Style Selection Available for Great Swords!

Get ready to change up the style of your great swords with style customization! Depending on the style you select, long-press actions and combos will change, offering different ways to use each weapon.
Check the release notes on the day to read more about great sword styles.

• Only weapons that can be forged or upgraded with materials from Riftborne monsters (Great Girros, Barroth, Tobi-Kadachi, Jyuratodus, Anjanath, Rathian, and Barioth) are eligible for style customization.

Dates & Times

From Monday, August 11th, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. until Sunday, August 17th, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. (local time)

Event: Even Happier Great Sword Hunting!

Great Sword Training Quest

• Take on limited-time quests that include slaying monsters while equipped with a specific type of great sword or armor. The Zenny and monster materials you can earn from these quests are more than enough to forge the specified armor.

Rack up Zenny with event bonuses!

• Take on limited-time quests that include slaying Bazelgeuse and Glavenus.

  • These quests will reward Bazelgeuse and Glavenus monster materials, as well as Dazzling Eggs.

• You will also have a chance of receiving a Shining Egg for slaying certain monsters, and as Hunt-a-thon and Elder Dragon Interception rewards.

Monster appearances

• Activity is expected to increase for the following monsters:
  • Nargacuga
  • Tigrex
  • Glavenus
  • Bishaten
  • Great Girros (including Riftborne)
  • Bazelgeuse

Event Effects

Other
Certain great swords and armor boosted
Chance to collect Shining Eggs and more

• More rewards for Hunt-a-thons
  Receive two of each material in the first and second slots of basic rewards.

• Extra reward slot for Hunt-a-thons
  Chance of 10x additional Rarity 1 materials.

• More rewards for group hunts
  Guaranteed second slot of monster materials for group hunt rewards.

• More dimensionally linked monsters

• Certain great swords and armor boosted

• Chance to collect Shining Eggs and more

  • Chance of Shining Egg or Gleaming Egg as a reward for slaying one of the featured monsters on the field.
  • Chance of Shining Egg or Dazzling Egg as a reward in Hunt-a-thons.
  • Guaranteed Shining Egg, Gleaming Egg, or Dazzling Egg as a reward for slaying the 5th monster in Hunt-a-thons and for slaying or repelling elder dragons in Elder Dragon Interceptions.

Eggs can be exchanged for Zenny by tapping the button to the right of the sort function in your Item Box. For details on how to exchange them, check out the FAQ.

Premium Quests

Premium Quests are quests that can be unlocked by exchanging gems in the in-game shop. Complete these quests to earn valuable rewards!
Please check the in-game shop for quest details.

• Purchase Premium Quests:
  From Monday, August 11th, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. until Sunday, August 17th, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. (local time)
• Activate Premium Quests:
  From Monday, August 11th, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. until Thursday, September 11th, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. (local time)

Premium Quest contents and rewards

In addition to the above, completing each quest will grant 100 Hunter Rank Points, 50 Season Tier Points, and 5,000 Zenny.

Additional Information

• All hunters who have completed the prologue can enjoy the event content.
• Event quests will automatically become available in the Special Quests tab to all hunters who have completed the prologue.
• Riftborne monsters will only start to appear after you have unlocked 8★ monsters on the field.
• Volatile territories will not occur more frequently during the event.
• During the event, Deviljho will not invade in volatile territories.
• Appearances of volatile territories on the field can be unlocked by completing the pre-season story.
  The pre-season story refers to the period from the end of the prologue to the completion of Chapter 13: Sunderer of the Skies.
• Event quests will be available from Monday, August 11th, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. until Sunday, August 17th, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. (local time). Be sure to complete the quests and receive your rewards between these times.
• Quests and rewards are subject to change without notice.
• Check the FAQ for the opening hours of Hunt-a-thons and Elder Dragon Interceptions.
• To find out more about boosted equipment, check the FAQ here.

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