Awakened Abilities | Monster Hunter World Wiki (2024)

Awakened Abilities information

Awakened abilities offer an upgrade and customization system exclusive to Safi'jiiva Weapons. At the Smithy, select Upgrade Equipment to infuse such weapons with awakened materials obtained from the Safi'jiiva Siege. This process allows to mix and match up to five awakened abilities per weapon, which come in many variants and six tiers of increasing power.

Above tables gives an overview of awakened abilities. Note that further upgrades from Augmentations can be applied independently. At any time, a weapon can hold at most

• one tier VI ability
• one decoration ability
• one defense ability
• one set bonus and
• one weapon mod.

Otherwise, any combination of up to five abilities is possible. For attack, sharpness, affinity, status or elemental damage, a maximum of one tier VI and four tier V abilities can be stacked.

Safi'jiiva Weapons start with 270 raw damage, so awakening three attack abilities of tier V brings them en par with Lightbreak Weapons. An exception are Greatswords and Hammers (GS/H), for which the attack upgrades at tier V and VI are slightly lower.

Sharpness upgrades can extend a Safi'jiiva Weapon's white sharpness from 40 units up to 120 units, while all upgrades exceeding 80 units yield purple sharpness. Note the Handicraftskill adds another ten units of sharpness per skill level.

Set bonus abilities count as one piece towards a given armor set skill. This allows to combine set bonus effects that require six pieces of equipment in total, of which five are covered by armor pieces. A popular example is the combination of Silver Rathalos Essence and Namielle Divinity.

Weapon Mods refers to modifications that are exclusive to certain weapon classes, such as kinsect bonus effects, applicable coatings, phial types, horn melody sets or shelling types.

Bestowing awakened abilities

Manifesting a new ability requires a certain amount of awakened materials, which depends on the weapon's awakening level.

• 8 units up to level 6
• 15 units up to level 11
• 20 units up to level 23
• 15 units up to level 26

Any excess units from materials used will carry over. The currently available materials provide

• 1 unit per Dracolite Shard
• 5 units per Dracolite
• 20 units per Large Dracolite
• 50 units per Rigid Dracolite

The awakening level of a weapon is the sum of tiers for each of its current awakened abilities. Since five abilities can be combined, and only one can be upgraded to tier VI at a time, the maximum level is 26. At level 23 and above, all Safi'jiiva Weapons change their appearance.

Once a new ability is manifested, the player can choose one from three randomized options. This way, up to a total of five abilities can be added. A newly manifested ability can also replace or upgrade a chosen ability. Tier VI abilities are only accessible by means of upgrading a tier V ability. If another tier VI ability is already present, it will be rolled back to tier V in the process.

Storing Potential

Instead of selecting a manifested ability, you can choose to store potential. By storing potential, the next an ability is manifested, the odds of adding a awakened ability of tier IV or V increases. However, repeatedly storing potential for more than 20 times will add no further benefit.

Element and Status

In contrast to most other properties, the element or status type of a Safi'jiiva Weapon cannot be changed via awakening skills. The base values and upgrades of status and elemental damage vary per weapon class, and are generally higher on heavier and slower weapons.

Some examples of the awakening upgrades for status elemental damage per weapon class are shown below.

Note that lower tier status upgrades are unavailable to most weapon classes, which makes awakening those abilities more difficult.

All Awakened Abilities

NB: Sometimes people or set building tools may call Velkhana Divinity as Velkhana Essence. They are the same, for simplicity sake, when people are talking about a monster set bonus awakening they may call it "[Monster] Essence" since half of them are called like that. Just be aware that if you're searching for example for Velkhana Essence through the awakenings, you're actually looking for Velkhana Divinity.