The Ultimate Guide to Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak‘s Supple Piel
Hey there, fellow hunter! Have you been trying to get your hands on the rare Supple Piel crafting material? Want to know the secret to farming stacks of this precious resource and forging fantastic equipment with it? Well, follow our guide for the best tips on the matter!
What Makes Supple Piel So Valuable?
For those unfamiliar, Supple Piel is a Master Rank crafting material with a 35% carve rate from the leviathan monster – Zamite. It‘s described as:
A flexible, elastic hide from a Leviathan. A useful material that requires effort to obtain.
This distinctive pelt is used to craft several powerful Sunbreak expansion weapons and armor. Gear made with Supple Piel often has great skills/slots and high upgrade potential.
But what makes it so useful compared to other materials?
- It‘s only obtainable at Master Rank – so the equipment has endgame-level rarity/stats.
- The 35% base drop chance is fairly high for rare crafting items.
- It saves time hunting tougher monsters for gear with similar skills.
- Supple Piel gear tends to have great flexibility in skills, slots, or elemental/status properties.
- Items like the Stealth Dango DBs have unique looks and effects.
Now let‘s get into optimizing your Supple Piel farming!
Step-By-Step Guide: Maximize Your Zamite Hunts
Zamites are your ticket to stacks of Supple Piel. Here‘s how to hunt them effectively:
Gear Considerations
💪 Prioritize Defense & Cold Res – Zamites deal moderate damage and chill hunters with icy attacks/environments.
🛡️ Excellent defensive armor skills include Health Boost, Divine Blessing, Defense Boost.
❄️ Make sure to bring Hot Drinks and wear gear with Cold Res to mitigate freezing blights!
🔪 Use Thunder/Dragon Element Weapons – Zamites take 20-30% more damage from these elements.
Hunt in Frost Islands Zones 7, 8, 11 and 12
These coastal zones have the highest density of Zamites – making them ideal hunting grounds. Use the Frost Islands map below to locate these areas:
Zones with the highest Zamite density highlighted
Employ Zamite Lures and Target Monsters
Two helpful items to track your targets are:
🪱 Zamite Lure – Marks all Zamites on the map/minimap with swarming glowflies.
🔭 Target Monster – Highlights all Zamites in the zone with an icon above their heads. Useful for quickly tallying total targets.
Using both makes it easy to locate and assess all Zamites in the area.
Sever Tails to Increase Carve Rewards
😵🔪🦶 Chop those tails! Severing a Zamite‘s tail boosts carve chances and guarantees an extra carve from the tail.
💈 Use cutting weapons when possible to slice tails off. Bowguns can blow tails off with slicing ammo too.
This tactic directly increases your chances of Supple Piel and other rare material drops.
Repeat Quick Hunts While Rotating Zones
🕰️ Time is money! Optimizing hunting efficiency results in more kills and carves per play session.
Some tips:
️⃣ Slay Zamites in a zone, carve, then return from quest quickly. Don‘t waste time doing a full hunt each run.
✅ Don‘t forget to carve tails after chopping them!
*🔄 After a couple quick hunt cycles, hop into a new Frost Islands zone. This allows the previous area to refresh its monster spawns.
Rinse and repeat – you can easily fit 5+ quick hunt-carve cycles within an hour following this method. With practice you‘ll be racking up monster parts with assembly line efficiency!
Crafting Top-Tier Supple Piel Weapons & Armor
Once you‘ve built up a nice batch of Supple Piels, it‘s time to forge elite, Master Rank hunting gear out of your hard earned bounty!
Stealth Dango Supreme Dual Blades
These playful dumpling-themed dual blades offer:
☁️ 220 Sleep – One of highest inflictions in early Sunbreak. Causes monsters to collapse, open for combos.
⚔️ Respectable 210 Raw Damage – Only 10 less than Nargacuga Dual Blades.
🗡️ Natural White Sharpness – No Handicraft investment needed.
Crafting Materials:
❄️ Supple Piel x2
💤 Torpor Sac x2
🌟 Monster Essence x2
💰 12000 Zenny
For those looking to make monsters sleep with the fishes, this recipe costs mere pennies compared to crafting elite status/element duals later on like Silkbind Rampage Weapons.
Plus they look deliciously adorable! 🥟🍡
Barioth X Armor Skills & Bonuses
The complete five piece Barioth X armor set grants:
Set Bonus – Crit Element: Elemental weapons gain +20% affinity on critical hits.
😱 This is fantastic for Dual Blades, Sword & Shield, Bow, Charge Blade users!
Along with these stellar skills:
💥 Critical Eye +7
⭐ Critical Boost +3
🛡️ Offensive Guard
Ideal for: High elemental damage weapons that apply statuses quickly. Provides lots of affinity/critical boosting paired with the Crit Element bonus and Offensive Guard.
Priority Supple Piel Gear Crafting Order
Based on the outstanding benefits we just covered, here is the order I recommend crafting Supple Piel gear:
- Stealth Dango Dual Blades – Easy sleep utility
- Barioth Helm X & Mail X – Critical Eye +6
- Barioth Vambraces X – Quick Sheathe +2
- Barioth Coil X & Greaves X – Critical Boost
- Razortooth Spear+ – Solid ice spear
This gives you critical armor & duals to farm monster parts for completing the sets first.
Let me know if you have any other questions on Supple Piel gear! Time to put those carves to work 😉⛏️
Alternative Gear Options
While the highlighted Supple Piel equipment is fantastic, here are a couple alternatives to consider as well:
Almudron Dual Blades – Poison, white sharp without Handicraft.
Rhenoplos Helm X & Mail X – Pierce Up, Critical Eye, Shot Booster armor skills.
Both great choices for gunner builds.
Conclusion
Phew, that covers everything you need to know about farming and fully utilizing Sunbreak‘s Supple Piel!
To recap:
✅ Hunt Master Rank Zamites – Carve 35% chance for Supple Piel
💰 Prioritize Severing Tails – Extra carves and rare mat chances
⚔️👕 Craft standout gear like Stealth Dango DBs & Barioth X armor
Hopefully you now feel ready to grind out this useful material and forge some sweet endgame equipment! Wishing you the best of luck on your next Zamite hunts. Until next time! 👋🎮
