Challenge Quests Guide for Monster Hunter Wilds

Challenge Quests release with the First Free Title Update on April 4, 2025.

Challenge Quests in Monster Hunter Wilds are the exact same as Arena Quest: a time-competition where you will have to complete specific quests as fast as possible. The only difference is that the Challenge Quests are time-limited event quests.

This means that you will only have a few days or weeks, depending on the time-limit of the event quest, to complete at least once the Challenge Quest. This also means exclusive rewards that will not be obtainable anymore the event quest is gone.

Free Challenge quests are also time-limited events. While they remain similar to the Arena and normal Challenge quests, they present some differences. Free challenge quests do not have pre-determined equipment, or any party size requirement.

This means that when you participate in the free challenge event quests, you can enter with your usual gear, and with a party of 4 if you want. You can also bring NPC supports for those quests. You will not be ranked on the leaderboard by completing those quests. They will also grant you exclusive rewards.

In order to unlock the Challenge Quests in Monster Hunter Wilds, you need to first reach Hunter Rank 16 and unlock the Grand Hub in Suja.

For more information about the Grand Hub, and everything you can do in there, you can visit our Guide:

Once you have access to the Grand Hub, you will access the Arena Counter inside the hub. Through the Arena Counter you can accept Arena Quest, Challenge Quests, and Free Challenge Quests.

The Challenge Quests have very specific rules in Monster Hunter Wilds. It is made to test your raw skills against other players. This means that you can not just enter with any gear, weapon, or a max rank group of hunters.

In order to be able to test hunter's raw skills, the Challenge Quests will force you to enter with pre-determined gear and weapons. Additionally, only parties of maximum 2 players can enter, and not more.

This system is there to force all the participating hunters on an equal pedestal. Everyone will compete with the same gear, and you will have to really on your own skills to complete the quests as fast as possible if you want to make it high on the leaderboard.

As mentioned before, you will have the possibility to check your rank, and the other hunter's ranks, on the leaderboard. This leaderboard is called the Expedition Record Board and can be found at the entrance of the Grand Hub.

The Expedition Record Board will give you access to:

• Global Rankings
• Limited Bounties
• Announcements
• Environment Overview

In order to rank on the leaderboard you need to participate in Arena Quests or Challenge Quests, and complete them. Each time you complete a hunt faster, your new record time will be registered on the Record Board. You CAN NOT capture monsters during those hunts in order to shorten the time. You have to slay the monsters.

Completing a Quest will give you a rank from A to C depending on your time:

• Rank A: 5'00"00
• Rank B: 10'00"00
• Rank C: 50'00"00

Challenge Quests are the same as Arena Quests, but as limited-event quests. Free challenge quests are similar as well, but as limited-events without the gear and party limitations.

For more information about the Arena Quests, you can take a look at our Guide:

Challenge Quests will reward you with exclusive Pendants that will depend on your rank and will only be available while the Challenge Quests are up.

So far it is unknown if Pendants are the only possible rewards, and how or when those will be rewarded. This section will be updated as soon as more information is released about the Challenge Quest Rewards!

Here are all the Challenge and Free Challenge Quests you can currently participate in: