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Of all the skills in Monster Hunter World: Iceborne, one of the most overlooked, but potentially overpowered, is Mushroomancer, which offers incredibly cost-effective buffs.

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Instead of crafting an item like Demondrug, which requires multiple components, you can simply eat an easily obtainable mushroom to get the same effect. Mushrooms are also consumed immediately, so they take effect faster than something like a Potion, for instance.

Because you can quickly acquire large numbers of mushrooms offering a range of buffs and healing effects, Mushroomancer is a skill that’s well worth pursuing. Let’s take a look at how to equip and level up this skill, and then see which specific shrooms are most worth your time.

How to Increase the Mushroomancer Skill

Mushroomancer is increased by wearing specificequipment. Each tier of the skill increases the number of mushroom types your character can eat to gain various buffs.

While there are no weapons that currently increase the skill, here are all the decorations, charms, and armor types currently known to boost the Monster Hunter: World Iceborne Mushroomancer skill:

Armor NameArmor TypeFungiform Jewel 1  Decoration Mushroom Charm I  Charm Mushroom Charm II Charm Mushroom Charm III Charm Mosswine Mask Alpha  Head Banbaro Alpha +  Head Black Belt Alpha +  Head Dober Mail Alpha  Chest Black Belt Alpha +  Chest Black Belt Beta +  Chest Dober Vambraces Alpha  Arms Dober Vambraces Alpha + Arms Dober Vambraces Beta  Arms Dober Vambraces Beta + Arms Commission Belt Alpha  Waist Commission Belt Beta  Waist Banbaro Alpha +  Waist Banbaro Beta +  Waist Harvest Raiz  Legs Harvest Raiz Alpha  Legs Dober Alpha +  Legs Dober Beta +   Legs Banbaro Alpha +  Legs Banbaro Beta +  Legs

Mushroomancer Skill Effects

At Level 1, only two types of fungus can be eaten, but the number of types grows as more Mushroomancer equipment is worn.

Keep in mind you can also use Item Prolonger to extend the effects of most of these mushroom buffs.

That means that Toadstool, for instance, will potentially last 50% longer than 5 minutes if you have Item Prolonger at Level 3.

While the Mushroomancer skill seems limiting at first due to its armor restrictions, there’s an important element of the skill that makes it more effective than you might realize.

Critically, your buffs remain active after consuming the mushroom, even if you immediately switch back to your main armor set. In other words, equip the Mushroomancer armor, eat a mushroom, and then go back to your specific equipment tailored towards whatever monster you are hunting.

That’s particularly useful when eating the Parashroom and Nitroshroom, since their effects last until you die. Finally, while the Mandragora doesn’t work with the Wide-Range skill, all of the other mushrooms do, so you can easily and cheaply give large buffs to allies.

Don’t discount the Mandragora, however. Having multiple instant max heals available at any time can wildly increase your ability to survive against difficult enemies.

Here are the three levels of the Mushroomancer skill, and the specific bonus granted by eating each fungus type: 

  • Mushroomancer 1 — Digest Blue Mushrooms and Toadstools
  • Mushroomancer 2 — Digest Nitroshrooms and Parashrooms
  • Mushroomancer3 — Digest Mandragoras, Devil’s Blight, and Exciteshrooms
MushroomItem TypeEffectBlue Mushroom Potion  Restores health (small amount)  Toadstool Immunizer  Boosts health recovery (5 min), cures bleeding  Nitroshroom Demondrug  Boosts attack power
(lasts until fainting in battle)  Parashroom Armorskin   Boosts defense (lasts until fainting in battle) Mandragora Max Potion  Full heal (Doesn’t work with Wide-Range skill)  Devil’s Blight Dash Juice  Reduce dodge/jump/evade stamina cost,
increases regen speed (4 min)  Exciteshroom  N/A   Randomly produce one other
mushroom type effect

What equipment load out are you using for the Mushroomancer skill, and have you found it useful against any specific large creatures?

Let us know in the comments section, and then check out our other Monster Hunter: World guides here:

  • Best Iceborne Greatsword Builds
  • Monster Toughbone Farming Guide
  • Iceborne Not Loading on PC Fix
  • Iceborne Save Overwrite Fixes
  • How to Get Monster Essence

And be sure to head over to our Iceborne guides hub for more content specific to the latest expansion. 

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