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Like Monster Hunter World before it, Capcom is providing frequent updates to Monster Hunter Rise. While new monsters are no doubt the highlights of each of these updates, they're not the only things added. With Monster Hunter Rise's 2.0 update, layered armor is also available for players to craft. However, in order to craft layered armor, players will need to get outfit vouchers.

With the new 2.0 update, players who have defeated Monster Hunter Rise's final boss will have their hunter rank cap unlocked. Once this is done, players can go to the blacksmith in Kamura Village or in the Hunter's Hub to forge layered armor. The smith will tell players about it before providing 3 outfit vouchers to the player for free.

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Unlike layered armor in Monster Hunter World: Iceborne, layered armor in Rise must be crafted one piece at a time. Each piece costs one to three outfit vouchers, so players can potentially get three pieces with the vouchers they are gifted.

Thankfully, getting more vouchers is actually a fairly simple feat and players will likely not even have to go out of their way to get any if they're making their way through the new content in the 2.0 update. While outfit vouchers won't be awarded for every quest, the quests that unlock once players reach hunter rank 8 will provide outfit vouchers at the end of the quest. The fight against the final boss can also award them.

Therefore, players hunting Chameleos, Teostra, Kushala Daora, and Bazelgeuse will be gaining outfit vouchers at a pretty quick pace. Sometimes players will get multiple outfit vouchers, especially from rampage quests, so those will be worth doing if players want to forge many layered armor pieces. It's just as well, as in order to reach some late game monsters, players will also need to reach specific hunter rank goals, and rampage quests increase HR by a pretty significant amount.

quest results screen with outfit voucher reward

Players will also need additional materials in order to craft layered armor. Some pieces require vouchers and a specific monster material, but others just initially require the voucher. However, once the voucher and necessary monster material has been provided, players will then have to provide a set number of materials the way they often do when upgrading weapons. Some materials are worth more and thus less of those need to be provided, but essentially, players get to select which resources they want to give up to make the layered armor.

Also noteworthy this time around is the existence of layered armor for buddies. The process is the same as it is for crafting layered armor for hunters. However, only outfit vouchers and scraps will be necessary in order to craft. The extra materials after the fact are not required.

Monster Hunter Rise is now available for the Nintendo Switch. A PC release is slated for 2022.

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Source: Game8, GameFAQs