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A staple design choice of theMonster Hunterseriesis that there are no health bars despite the monsters having huge pools of health. This design carries on inMonster Hunter Wilds, though the formula for giving players hints on how to understand a monster’s health has been refined.
There is no direct way of knowing how close a monster is to dying, but there are lots of hints that can be read that only add to the fun of a hunt. Here are all the ways you can gauge a monster’s health and guess how close they are to dying.
How To Gauge A Monster’s Health In Monster Hunter Wilds
A single huntinMonster Hunter Wildscan take anywhere between ten and fifty minutes, depending on the monster, how prepared you are, and how aggressive you’re being. Every monster has a huge health pool, and they won’t go down easily, so every hunt is a game of endurance. There’sno way to check health stats, and even though you see damage numbers in a fight, you have nothing to put them up against in terms of a monster’s stats.
That all being said, there are lots of ways to understand how close a monster is to death and many hints that help motivate you and let you know you’re getting to the end of a fight.
Another major tell in any fight is thatyourPalicowill mention the monster is getting weak; This indicates the monster is at about 15-20% health left.
Understanding Monster Heartbeats In Monster Hunter Wilds
To see a monster’s heartbeat you’llfirst have to track it, either by selecting its icon on the map or by looking at it and locking on with the following controls:
Once your Scoutflies lock onto a monster and start tracking it, the monster’s icon will appear in the bottom left of the screen, and you’ll see a flashing line belowthe monster’s iconindicating its heartbeat. At full health, the heartbeat will have large blue lines. As the monster gets weaker, thelines will get smaller and the pulses will slow.
As monsters get threatened or weak, the color of the lines will change from blue to yellow to red.Yellow or red lines mean the monster is threatened and aggressive, usually indicating it’s losing health and getting weaker. Red lines indicate a monster thrashing out, which you’ll see a lot more of as the monster gets weaker and the lines of the heartbeat get smaller.
Even at low health, a monster’s heartbeat lines can go back to blue if it escapes meaning it’s calming down, though it will go back to red quickly once it re-enters combat.
