MHW Defense Calculator for Armor Survival

In order to understand how to survive monsters attacks in Monster Hunter World, one must understands how protection works in the game. Protection in Monster Hunter World consist of three component: raw defense, elemental resistance, and health pool. Each component of protection work in a different way and help a hunter to survive different portions of a monster’s attack.

Raw defense are provided to players as a means of reducing the physical damage that the monsters deal to the hunter, but follows a soft scaling curve. This mean that raw defense has a strong impact upon the player when their raw defense is low, but begins to provide smaller reduction in damage as a player increases their raw defense. Elemental resistance similarily reduce the elemental damage that the monsters direct at hunters, and also help to avoid elemental blights.

Check Your Defense and Survive Monster Attacks

If a player’s elemental resistance is low, they will take more damage if expose to elemental blights; if their elemental resistance is high, they will avoid those elemental blights. Players also have health pool as a means of surviving the hit from the monsters, along with health skill bonus and meal bonus to their health pool; temporary buff like charms also provide flat defense to a player’s defense stat. These types of protection dont replace each other, but work in relation to the different type of attacks that a monster may use.

Many players may make some mistake due to the thought that all defenses is the same. For instance, many players may increase their raw defense than elemental resistance in situations when they need elemental resistance in order to survive an attack from a monster. Additionally, some may rely on temporary buff that may not be able to survive long enough to utilize these temporary buffs.

Thus, players should of not focus upon their raw defense, elemental resistance, and health pool as a generic number, but should focus upon their specific defense stat as needed for their specific monster. This calculator will perform the math for the hunter to determine their protection stat. Each player must enter their armor tier, their armor upgrade level, their armor skill, their buff, and the profile of the monster that they are hunting into the calculator.

The calculator will show the player the amount of damage that they will take after they apply their elemental resistance and their Divine Blessing skill to their armor. This number can be compared to the player’s total health pool to determine how many hit the player can take before they are eliminated from the hunt. Health Boost is a skill that increase the health pool of hunters; the combination of Health Boost and meal bonuses are one way to increase health pool.

Health Boost does not decrease the amount of damage that a monster will do to the hunter; instead, it increase the number of hits that a hunter can take before they are eliminated from the hunt. Thus, health pool should be considered as part of a hunter’s overall defense against the monsters. The goal with all of this protection is to ensure that a single hit from a monster does not end the hunter’s hunting session.

When a hunter’s raw defense, elemental resistance, and health pool are all aligned with the monster that they are hunting, the hunter will be able to take the necessary amount of risk to stay aggressively during their hunt. If those stat are not aligned with the monster that is being hunted, however, the hunter will likely end their hunt. Thus, hunters must use this calculator to ensure that their armor, resistances, and health pool is aligned with the monster that they wish to hunt.