Monster Hunter Outlanders Visage Substat Rerolling and Locking Guide

In Monster Hunter Outlanders, you can reroll undesirable secondary substats on a Visage while locking desirable affixes in place. Instead of discarding equipment with poor secondary stats, you upgrade the Visage to reveal its modifier slots, lock your best rolls, and spend modification materials to cycle only the unlocked slots.

How Visage Substats and Locking Work

Each Visage rolls a set primary attribute alongside a pool of randomized secondary substats that expand as the gear piece is enhanced. High-rarity pieces (such as SSR tier) provide multiple substat sockets, drawing from three modifier pools:

Offensive Affixes: Flat Attack, percentage Attack, Affinity (Critical Rate), Critical Damage, and Elemental Damage.
Defensive Affixes: Maximum Health, Physical Defense, Elemental Resistances, and damage mitigation.
Utility Affixes: Stamina consumption reduction, gauge fill rate, evasion recovery, and cooldown reduction.

When tuning these affixes, the reroll system provides two operational paths depending on whether you lock slots:

Full Substat Reset: Rerolls all unlocked substat lines simultaneously. This process uses baseline modification materials and is the most cost-effective option when a piece rolls low-value defensive or utility stats across every line.
Selective Slot Locking: Toggle the lock on a high-tier affix (such as Affinity or percentage Attack). Locked affixes remain untouched during future rolls, ensuring you keep your strongest modifiers.
Targeted Substat Rerolls: Spend tuning materials to re-spin the remaining open slots. The locked lines are preserved, allowing you to search for complementary offensive or utility stats.

Locking affixes carries an escalating cost. Each locked slot significantly increases the modification currency required per reroll attempt. Locking multiple slots at once compounds this price quickly, making full multi-slot locks expensive over extended crafting sessions.

Substat Priorities by Weapon Archetype

Focus your locked slots on modifiers that match your weapon's damage and resource mechanics.

Combat Archetype	Key Weapons	Highest Priority Substats	Secondary / Flex Substats
Burst & Critical DPS	Greatsword, Long Sword, Bow	Affinity, Critical Damage, Percent/Flat Attack	Stamina Efficiency, Charge Speed
Sustained Raw Damage	Dual Blades, Heavy Bowgun	Percent Attack, Affinity, Elemental Damage	Evade Distance, Ammo/Gauge Sustain
Guard & Impact Frontline	Lance, Charge Blade	Percent Attack, Defense, Guard Stamina Cost Reduction	Maximum Health, Affinity
Support & Utility	Hunting Horn	Gauge Regeneration, Cooldown Reduction, Maximum Health	Percent Attack, Defense

For offensive archetypes, establishing a baseline of Affinity ensures Critical Damage substats provide consistent hunt value. For defensive frontline weapons, reducing guard stamina consumption directly prevents guard breaks during continuous monster onslaughts.

How to Manage Reroll Materials

Because lock costs compound sharply, manage your modification currencies using the following progression rules:

Save materials for high-rarity Visages: Do not spend modification currencies on transitional or low-rarity gear. Lower-tier Visages have lower stat ceilings and fewer affix sockets, making material investment inefficient.
Confirm the main attribute first: Ensure the Visage features the correct primary attribute for your weapon before investing any reroll materials into its secondary lines.
Establish a functional baseline across all gear: Aim to secure one locked priority stat and usable secondary lines on each equipped piece before trying to roll multiple ideal affixes on a single Visage.
Avoid premature multi-locking: Only lock a second or third slot when you have banked enough tuning materials to sustain the elevated reroll costs.