Hero MP – Slay the Monsters!

Hero MP in FFXV: ANE

Maximizing your Hero MP and using it wisely is probably the best way to get ahead in the game for the least cost. Hunting monsters can give points towards events or even “tokens” that you can spend in the Moogle Market. Here you will learn the best ways to get the most out of every single MP point that you have. You can get some of the newest content for cheap if not FREE with every single hero level up.

Recently Updated!

This article has been updated to include new gems, cores, and gear. I have kept the older information for anyone who isn’t caught up with everyone that has been playing for over two years. Therefore, some of this information might seem to be outdated, but it’s still useful to someone. But on the other hand, some of this newer data won’t apply to some since it’s still months away from being released. Although the newer players can keep this in mind for what’s to come!

Updated Again!

This update has the Gilgamesh Cores, Monster Stalker’s Gear, and some new boosts added to the game. (12/29/2019)

Another Update! (3/30/2020)

This update has lots of new goodies added, like the Elite Monster Stalker’s Gear, new Hero Gems, Dark Adventurer’s Research, a new Core, updated hero stats, and purchasable boosts. Look for them in this handy guide!

Updated 4/30/2020!!

This update encompasses the various multipliers you can get. The incredible Moogle Fort, the multipliers from packs, along with the best way to buy these packs, and also some added information about how to better utilize your Hero MP in events!

Updated 7/30/2020!!

This update includes new ways to get Hero MP! Many of these involve the Guild Adventure Hall and the new Arena Delver’s gear. This makes it easy for just about anyone to gather a significant amount of MP for you to hoard for monster events! Magitek Hero Chests, a new Core, and an update to the Order of Heroes.

Updated 8/30/2020!!

This update is for the new Dark Monster Slayer’s Gearset. This new gear increases Hero MP and significantly reduces the time it takes for your MP to regenerate! Also included is information on the new monsters brought by Kingsglaive Noctis!

Updated 07/2021

This update includes Critical Hits, increased Enchantments, Monster Executioner Set, and other minor fixes and additions to help you!

University

You can research the Adventurer and Hero trees that will maximize your MP usage. The following types of research are available:

MP Cost Reduction

Reduces the MP cost when attacking a monster. This helps immensely since you can squeeze in more hits out of a full MP bar. Standard MP costs for a realm boss can be cut by more than HALF through this type of research.

Max MP

Raises your max MP. This is doubled when you have the MP doubler boost.

MP Recovery

Speeds up your hero’s MP regeneration rate. Before the huge MP bars in the billions, MP recovery made it so you needed to switch your hero out every few hours to keep MP building up. But now, it takes days. Even so, you can regenerate hundreds of thousands of MP in just a few seconds.

Dark Adventurer’s Research

Recently released research improves your monster-hunting stats, with impressive gains on MP Recovery! These use Slayer Crests and Challenger Crests to do the research. Many of the hourly mini-events have Crests as rewards, and you can find them in many other events.

Slayer: Hero Attack- Increases Hero Attack bonus (max 5,000%).

Slayer: Hero Critical Damage- Increases Hero Critical Damage (max 50%).

Challenger: MP Recovery- Increases your MP Recovery (max 10M%).

Challenger: Streak Bonus- Increases how much your streak goes up for each attack. (max 2).

Hero skills trees

When heroes over 200 became available we saw even more Hero MP boosts unlocked. Certainly, an extra 200% increase to your MP bar is extremely useful! Remember that this also increases the amount of MP gained from gear, gems, etc.

When new hero levels come out, the first skills to allot points to should be the Monster Hunting abilities. This includes the Max MP which every hero besides King Noctis has. This ensures that you are getting the most MP per level. Likewise, the rest of the Monster Hunting skills can be leveled up (or down, if you have the VIP level), to suit how you need to attack monsters. Read up on how to determine the best setup for certain monster events (Kill, Engage, etc.) For example, the Tyrant Behemoth monsters, you will want to build your streak and kill them, so every point is crucial on a new hero for all the Monster Hunting skills.

As of 3/30/30, the most recent hero and hero level releases have had significant boosts towards MP multipliers and MP Recovery. When you’re leveling up your hero, make sure to take note of what level you need to be at to raise the Max MP skill node so you can pause while leveling to apply that skill!

Cindy’s Hero Skills

Cindy has an MP recovery skill that maxes out at 110% regeneration rate. Also, another skill is useful, even though it doesn’t specifically state MP, her Accessory All Stat boost will boost the monster gear that you set in the accessory slots. This maxes at a 72% boost, which boosts all the stats of your accessory pieces, including the max MP and regeneration rate. These boosts only apply while Cindy is active.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hero Gear

No matter where you are in the game, we all started somewhere. Here is a list of the different Monster Hunting gear from the smallest improvements to the best stats increases.

• • Hunter’s Gear
  • Beastmaster’s Gear
  • Dreadmist Gear
  • Monster Slayer’s Gear
  • Master Monster Slayer’s Gear
  • Ultimate Anniversary Gear
    • Level 20 being the best
  • Ultimate Troop Gear (accessories)
    • Level 20 Mercenary being the best
  • Monster Stalker’s Gear (Mercenary level 20 weapon is better than this weapon)
  • Elite Monster Stalker’s Gear
  • Dark Monster Slayer’s Gear (For MP purposes)
  • Monster Executioner Gear (using the Dark Monster Slayer’s weapon for the MP Reduction)
• Use the charts to find the best setup for your attacking purposes!!!

 

Ultimate Anniversary Gear

With the 2nd Anniversary of Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire, we were introduced to a new gear set. The Anniversary Ultimate Gear, which is a new type of gear that will evolve with us as the game progresses. Along with massive combat stats increases, we got the first glimpse of some pretty nice Monster Hunting stats boosts. Along with the Double MP and 100% more MP boosts, these numbers will multiply even more. As a result, we’ve become spoiled with MP bars into the BILLIONS. These Monsters don’t even stand a chance!

Now that you’ve upgraded your gear to the Mythic quality, you can upgrade it to level 20 for even more boosts! This can be done in the Mythic Forge. Also, you can find an upgrade button on the bottom of the gear page on the hero screen.

The numbers listed below are in addition to the numbers above for the Mythic quality gear pieces.

Another “set” of Anniversary Ultimate Gear is made by converting a piece of level 6 of the original gear into one of three types of Ultimate Gear. Troop, Mercenary, and Elemental. As a result, you get better stats for each

Dark Troop type in addition to more Monster Hunting boosts. But you need to look at the chart to determine which piece is the best for you. The stats vary from awful to amazing. But for MP, it looks like the original Anniversary Gear is the best except for the accessories, of which the Ultimate troop gear is the best. While you will have to watch out for the Elemental accessories since they have terrible stats for the other Monster Hunting boosts.

Monster Stalker’s Gear

New monster-hunting gear has been forged and is ready for us to inflict some serious damage to the dangerous monsters invading Eos. As of now, the MP boost available from this gear isn’t stellar, but the Gear Set Bonus gives 37.5M MP and 125,000% MP Recovery. Since this bonus is passive, you don’t even have to WEAR the gear to benefit from it. 

Special Features:

Each piece gives an added 70M Max MP but also each piece has its specialty:

• Weapon: 740,000% Hero Attack Bonus
• Helmet: 60% Critical Hit
• Body Armor: 1.41M% MP Recovery
• Boots: 4,900% March Speed Bonus and 30 Hero Attack Streak
• Accessory: 42 Additional Streak per Attack

This will help you figure out which pieces you want to use depending on what you need. For example, going to bed? You will want to equip the Body Armor to increase MP Recovery. This will cut your recovery time in half, which means you get twice as much MP in your downtime as you did before. I call that a WIN. 

Elite Monster Stalker’s Gear

This gear set is an improved version of the original Monster Stalker’s Gear and reflects the same Gear Set Bonus. This brand-new set gives an increased MP Recovery boost for each piece up to a total of 1.87M%. Each piece also increases your Max MP by 84M and has its specific stat boost:

• Weapon: 887,000% Hero Attack Bonus
• Helmet: 60% Critical Hit
• Body Armor: 1.69M% MP Recovery
• Boots: 5,880% March Speed Bonus
• Accessory: 50 Additional Streak per Attack

Dark Monster Slayer’s Gear

This gear set significantly increases your MP Regeneration while also giving you more MP to work with.

New Gear and New Monsters!

The newest addition to our monster-hunting gear is the Dark Monster Slayer’s gear set. While it gives an incredible increase to the MP Regeneration as well as Max MP, if you’re serious about killing those critters, you’re going to want to build a streak and attack with the Elite Monster Stalker’s gear. You’re going to want to kill them as these new monsters will drop GUILD GIFTS for each one that your guild kills. These gifts are filled with Sea Devil Mount unlocks and sigils as well as various building blueprints. It’s uncertain if these drops will change in the future to be more beneficial as our empires grow. 

The weapon will give up to a 7% MP Cost Reduction, lowering the cost of hitting any Monster!

As of August 2020, the only way to get the new gear is to either buy a pack with the gear in it or to unlock Kingsglaive Noctis. With Kingsglaive Noctis, you can unlock skills that will allow you to attack the level 12 Magitek Airship which will drop Dark Monster Slayer’s materials. Also, when you unlock the Magitek Reward Unlock skill, you will get increased drops from the Magitek Chests. The Magitek Gear Material Chest will give you the materials for the new gear with this skill. The Gems & Gears hall will have increased drops as well when this skill is unlocked!

Monster Executioner Set

This Monster-hunting set includes another piece of gear with MP Cost Reduction to lower the cost by another 4%. This set also comes with a higher Attack Streak Bonus on the Helmet as well as the Gear Set Bonus. 

MP Recovery has been increased to fill up our MP Bars in a short amount of time, which might not mean much with the amount of MP needed but it’s something, right?

 

Enchanting Your Gear

Another way to improve your Monster Hunting abilities is in the Arcanaeum. You can enchant each piece of Monster-Hunting gear to increase your Hero Attack Bonus. There are currently two types of Enchantments that can be used: Monster Attack Reagent and Alchemical Crux. Up until the Alchemical Crux is released, the weapon Enchantment is the best value with the highest Hero Attack Bonus for the lowest cost. Alchemical Crux replaces the enchantment on the weapon ONLY.

Don’t forget that you can enchant all three accessories. 

To apply the enchantment, you will go into the Arcanaeum and select your gear. Then you will find the monster enchantment. Next, enchant as many pieces of gear as you can afford. Lastly, bask in your power and annihilate the critters of Eos.

****You can get more Enchantment materials in the Reagent Repository when you unlock the Veteran Prompto (400) Mastery Skill****

Gems

For a long while, we only had two gems to use. First, the Haunted Gem increases your max MP. Second, the Nightmare Paragon Gem increases your MP regeneration rate. The best you can get of these gems is level ten. You can set one gem of each type in each piece of gear. The Haunted Gem gives up to 4,972 MP at level ten and the Nightmare Paragon Gem gives a boost of 482% to your regeneration rate at level ten. As a result, you can have up to 34,804 extra MP and 3,374% extra regeneration added to your boosts (thanks to my handy dandy calculator!).

 

 

 

 

Behemoth Gems

With the release of the Behemoth events, we were introduced to FOUR more gems. Drops from the Dreaded Behemoth Guild Adventure Hall are the Behemoth King Grab Bag Gem Chests. Every time you and your guild defeat all the Monsters, you are awarded thousands of these chests. Go into your inventory and open them and you will find level 1 Behemoth gems. Combine these up to level 20 to augment your chosen Monster Gear even more.

 

Also, if you’re lucky enough to have access to the Gemtastic Dark Gem Chest in the Guild Store tab, you can get high-level gems of all types, including the Behemoth gems. So, hopefully, you have tons of loyalty to buy as many of these as you can afford! Here are the stats of the various level 20 Behemoth gems:

• Behemoth King Royal Gem (Black)
  • Level 20: 32,143% Hero Attack Bonus
• Behemoth King Oasis Gem (Blue)
  • Level 20: 4.3% Hero Critical Hit and 4.3% Hero Critical Damage
• Behemoth King Crimson Gem (Red)
  • Level 20: 32,143% Hero Attack Bonus
• Behemoth King Cocytus Paragon Gem (Blue)
  • Level 20: 21.4M Max MP and 32,142.9% MP Recovery

Halloween 2019 Gems

Unless you have Spooky Loot tiles, you won’t be able to find these gems anymore. They were also available in the Moogle Market during the Halloween 2019 event. *****Update!!!! You can get these gems from the Gems & Gear Dungeon in the Guild Adventure Hall! 

• Witch’s Familiar Gem Level 20:
  • 7.15M Max MP
  • 25% Hero Monster March Speed Bonus
  • +.5 Additional Streak per Attack

 

• Paragon Witch’s Familiar Gem Level 20:
  • 2% Critical Hit
  • 10% Hero Critical Damage
  • 70K% MP Recovery
  • 15% Lucky Kill

Hero Gems

Recently released Hero Gems give the boosts needed in today’s MP economy!

• Hero’s Strength Gem Level 10
  • 100K% Hero Attack Bonus
• Hero’s Bravery Gem Level 10
  • 15% Hero Critical Hit
  • 15% Hero Critical Damage
• Hero’s Quickness Gem Level 10
  • 60% Hero Monster March Speed Bonus
• Hero’s Valor Paragon Gem Level 10
  • 1B Max MP (this is increased by doublers and Hero MP multipliers!!)
  • 286K% MP Recovery

Be sure to level up your gems evenly among your gear pieces. Using the four gems to level up doesn’t equal the gem that you get when you level up. You want to maximize your boosts if you can’t have the highest level gem possible. For example, a level 4 Haunted Gem gives 200 MP each, but a level 5 Haunted Gem only gives 435 MP. So, you’re better off equipping four pieces of gear with level 4 rather than one piece with level 5.

Crystal Nexus Cores

Some new Cores have been giving monster-hunting boosts as well. You will want to open up the Cores chests from your inventory and combine them in the Crystal Nexus to get the highest level possible.

King’s Behemoth Hunting Core

The Dreaded Behemoth Guild Adventurers Hall is a new Dungeon where we first saw the King Behemoth’s Hunting Core. The Dungeon drops level 1 Cores that you can combine in the Armory. Four level 1 Cores will combine into a level 2. Four level 2 Cores will combine into a level 3, and so on until you reach level 6 which is the max. Another place you can get a Core is the Moogle Market. But this one is a level 3 Core, so I suggest getting one every time the Market refreshes so you can combine them.

 

 

Gilgamesh Core

Part of the November Cores series, the Gilgamesh Core increases your Max MP as well as other monster hunting stats and even offers some good Dungeon boosts. This was offered in packs around Black Friday that also had November Cores guild gifts. So, if you are in a pretty active guild, you might want to check your inventory for them. Do an inventory search for “November”, open the chests, then search for the Cores and open them up. Afterward, you can go into the Armory and combine them. One set of gifts should get you to a level 4 Gilgamesh Core.

 

 

Winter 2019 Realm Boss & PvE Cores

Part of the Winter Cores series was only available in packs for a short time. If you were lucky enough to grab up some of these, you have an additional boost to most of the vital monster-hunting stats.

 

 

 

 

PvE Monster Destruction Core

This Core was first offered when the Archaic Arena showed up in the Guild Adventure Hall. This Core doesn’t add MP to your base, but instead multiplies your base MP by up to 2,000%! If your MP multiplier is low to start with, this will significantly increase your MP bar. You can also find this Core in some of the events around the time the Arena is released.

 

 

Order of Heroes

Order of the Hunt

Placing any hero in the Order of the Hunt will provide you with boosts that will help you hunt monsters. These boosts start with 

• Hero Critical Damage
• Hero Attack Bonus
• Hero Monster March Speed Bonus

As you level up, you also gain

• MP Recovery

MP Regen

This newest addition, when unlocked, allows you to place a hero in ANY Order and regenerate MP for that hero! With the ever-increasing MP Recovery stats, this will allow us to get the much-needed MP for attacking monsters and get loot. 

Each hero needs their own unlock to activate the Order of Heroes MP Regen.

MP Boost Items

There are other ways to increase your MP bar significantly that are always active, no matter what type of gear you are wearing. They could be from packs, Oracle Temple boosts, or hero skills.

MP Doubler

Whether you got this boost from a pack or crafted it in the Oracle Temple, this is one of the better boosts to have, so grab it for all your heroes. This one will double your max MP for whichever hero it is active for. Furthermore, this is a permanent boost that doubles all your MP stats, whether it is gear, gems, or research. But, it does not double any temporary boosts you might activate in the future. It looks like different 100% MP boosts will stack with each other, so look out for them!

Percentage Based MP Multipliers

There are various multipliers that you can get from packs. If you have ever bought a hero or monster event pack, you might have a few of these already! Usually, the boosts will start at 100% and go up in increments of 100 (200%, 300%, 400%, etc.). They do not stack with each other but instead replace the previous boost of the same name. However, you can have multiple types of boosts active at the same time.

For example:

• • 100% More MP Boost – Previously available with some Realm Boss packs.
    

    

  • MP 100% Multiplier – These are sequential  and can apply to a single hero or all heroes depending on what the boost is named (All Hero MP, Regis MP, etc.)
  • Winter 100% MP Boost – This limited-time boost was released with the Custom MP Attack feature and paired with the new Monster Stalker’s Gear.

• Earth Day Lifetime Bonus – First available in April 2020, this is another boost to increase your MP!

These boosts all apply to your MP after gems, gear, Max MP research, Forts, and anything else that would increase your Max MP besides the +50B MP boosts below.

+50B MP Boost

These boosts add a flat 50B MP to each hero’s MP bar. You can buy them in sequence, with the next one having a +100B, then +150B, and so on. THESE ARE NOT DOUBLED OR MULTIPLIED BY ANY OTHER BOOST.

Moogle Forts

The Nifleheim Classified Map Room: Fort Invasion gave us some BRAND NEW 

Forts. After unlocking Nyx’s special ability, you will be able to control a Moogle Fort! If you were lucky enough to grab one, you were blessed with some extra monster-hunting boosts. Not only that, but your whole guild also gets to benefit from all the Forts owned by any guild member. So, grab your whole team and take down some Forts!

Here is a breakdown of the MP boosts you will get for a max level Moogle Fort:

• 100% Max Hero MP Multiplier Bonus (Owner)
• 100M% MP Recovery (Owner)
• 5% Max Hero MP Multiplier Bonus (Guild)
• 20M% MP Recovery (Guild)

Temporary Boosts

Activating temporary boosts that increase your MP bar and march speed helps a lot for the realm bosses. Notably, most boosts don’t last long enough to be effective against the Moogle market monsters since they are more spread out on the map and you may have to hit them more than once. These boosts increase your MP bar based on the BASIC stats and not double MP. As a result, it may not increase it by 100% of what you think it would. Keep that in mind when you’re calculating how many hits you need to have for an event.

Some monster boosts that you may have are Cactuar Needle, Super Brawl, and Monster Slayer.

MP Carryover

This new feature abolishes the anguish that you feel when you accidentally level your hero twice. Or when you use 50b exp instead of 5b. I love this! For the reason that it KEEPS any MP that you have gained. As a result, you do not lose MP when you change gear. Also, MP gained from hero levels accumulates and keeps adding to your bar. The disclaimer I posted in the Temporary Boosts section doesn’t apply if you have MP Carryover. If you can get MP Carryover here are some tricks on how to maximize your hero levels:

Seven Awesome Tricks for Maximizing Your Hero MP

• Use the best MP gear that you have. For now, that is the best Haunted Gem in each piece of Master Monster Slayer gear. 
• Calculate how many levels you can get with your Hero Exp and Medals available. Check the charts on our Line chat 🙂
• Pop a temporary MP boost.
• Use as much of the Hero Exp as you need to level up however many times you can with your medals and the time allowed by your temporary boost.
• LEVEL UP, LEVEL UP, LEVEL UP! All this MP will be saved with each level and even when your MP boost expires.
• ***Tip: If you can wait until a “Wars” event that has realm-wide MP boosts, you will gain even more MP from each level up! Tonberry Wars and Cactuar Wars are two that we have had so far. Along with your Gear, Double MP, and 100% MP boosts, this gives so much more per level than without.
• ****Bonus tip: Having MP Carryover and a temporary boost before unlocking Iris gets the MP from ALL 200 levels at unlock!

Check out this MP bar with millions of MP on a much lower MP max bar:

How MP Carryover works:

Each time you level up, your MP is saved and rolled over to the next level. So, if your MP bar is 1 million, and you accidentally level your hero up ten times, you will have 10 million MP ready for your use. Because of this, you can even change your gear without worrying about your MP getting lost. Also, you can level up your heroes at any time without worrying about a Monster Event. It’s a pretty crucial boost to have.

How to Get MP Without Hero Levels

Events

Hero MP has been plentiful in more events than ever before. Be sure to check daily to see if you would be able to benefit from tiering events. Not only that, but you may also want to hold back on getting too many points over the last tier of the event if that event resets because you can get the tiers again! 

Flash Events

Lately, we’ve had multiple Flash Events that give an exorbitant amount of Hero MP. It’s beneficial to keep wait for double (or even triple) Flash Events to profit even more. It’s usually during Campaign events that have an Early Adopter token. You would need to have acquired the token to get the double events since one is usually an Early Adopter event. You can get this token from packs during special sale times, but sometimes it’s offered in the Moogle Market or an event.

Luna Gifts

Luna has been very generous lately and giving us MP at times when a monster-hunting event is about to start, and even sometimes during the event. Don’t forget to use the Luna Quadruple Gifts trick if you know how. If not, then check out my Heroes’ Secrets article to find out exactly how it works.

Hopefully, this trick will come back!

UPDATE!!! It’s back and better than ever! You don’t need to do anything to get your quadruple Luna gift as long as you have her Hero Skill and Mastery Skill activated. Any hero can collect Luna’s quadruple gift! Thanks to the community for rallying together to get this back!

Whenever there is an active Realm Boss, you’ll usually be able to grab multiple, daily Hero MP gifts from Luna. These are also quadrupled due to her 4x Luna Gifts Mastery Skill! They don’t provide a huge boon to your MP stores, but they are worth collecting for a rainy day.

Neutral Cities

Sometimes, it’s easy to overlook the drops from a Neutral City since they are listed at the bottom of the battle report. Don’t make this mistake! Some of them have been known to drop billions of MP at a time and with up to ten attacks per hour, that’s some serious MP you could be missing out on. 

 

 

Loot Tiles

The 2019 Halloween event gave out Spooky Loot tiles during an event. So, if you need some extra MP and you have these hanging out in your inventory, you’re in luck. They drop up to about a billion MP each time. They also drop the Witch’s Familiar gem which increases your Max MP. Talk about a win/win situation!

 

 

Guild Adventure Hall

We saw an increased drop in loot in the Guild Adventure Hall with Arena Delver’s gear release. Each hall has a level requirement that you need to have the new gear to get these drops. As well as a specific day of the week where the loot is DOUBLED. Check out ConcreteRos3’s Guild Adventure Hall 2.0 article for more information.

Archaic Arena

The Archaic Arena is the toughest Dungeon to date. You will need the help of your guildmates to defeat every single monster. But it is worth it since the loot that drops will help you in hunting those monsters and gathering more MP. 

The items you will want to improve your monster-hunting skills will be the Order Tributes (so you can upgrade the Order of the Hunt), as well as the various Cores listed in this article. If you haven’t had the chance to level them up, now’s your chance!

Gems and Gears hall 

You will get increased drops from the Gems & Gears hall after you have an Uncommon (Green) set of Arena Delver’s gear, you will get increased drops from the Gems & Gears hall. You can get most of the gems listed in this article, and if you’ve been fishing you most likely have thousands of Dark Hidden Materials contracts to run this hall. 

Tonberry Troubles Arena

This hall will have increased drops when you have your Arena Delver’s gear set up to Legendary. Similar to the Magitek Hero Chests, the loot from this hall will give you Hero AP, Mastery Points, and Hero MP! This Dungeon is also where you can grab all the hero unlocks you don’t have up to Verstael. Just remember that you will not have MP Carryover or the Double MP boost for these free heroes.

Magitek Hero Chests

As long as you have Verstael leveled to 40, you can skill the node in his Mastery Skills tree to unlock the recipe to craft Magitek Hero Chests in the Magitek Converter. You will find a lot of useful items in these chests, including Hero MP!

Also beneficial to your MP is the Hero AP. With these, you can add points to all the skills unlocked by your hero level. Sometimes we would find ourselves sacrificing Hero MP skills to get higher combat skills. But, forgetting to reskill your Hero MP node when leveling up your hero won’t happen if you have plenty of points to go around!

If you don’t have Verstael unlocked, don’t worry since the Tonberry Troubles Arena will give you hero unlocks for all the heroes released up to Verstael. Just be sure to have Legendary Arena Delver’s gear and you’re good to go.

Getting and using your MP:

When you get everything above set for your heroes, you are ready to start collecting your MP. Dress your hero in the best MP gear you have. You probably have the Monster Slayer gear, which outdoes all other monster gear that we have so far. **Except for the accessories, which are not better than the Noxious Daggers until they are of Legendary quality. Use the chart above to determine which gear would be the best for your situation. Younger realms will have access to different gear, and before Monster Slayer came out, the best gear was Dreadmist with the Noxious Daggers for accessories.

When your MP bar is full for one hero, switch your heroes. Repeat until they are all full and ready for the next monster of the day. It’s up to you if you want to empty a Hero MP bar when they are all full, so they are always producing MP.

Realm Boss

Realm Bosses happen quite often and they drop lots of good loot. Such as Diamonds, Blueprints, Gear Set materials, etc. Because of this, it is a good time to use up your accumulated MP. Furthermore, the HP on these monsters makes it almost impossible to kill, so they’re almost always there for you to hit. If you don’t have MP Carryover, this is the best time to use your temporary MP boosts. Just pop a boost and hit, level, hit, level, repeat until done. Also, you can use more than one boost at a time since they stack!

Moogle Market Monsters

Moogle Market Monsters are the ones that you get trophies with each attack. Then you use the trophies in the Moogle Market to buy useful stuff to improve your empire. Some of the monsters that we have had are the Candy Corn Flan, Catoblepae, and Devious Tonberry.

With the change of MP usage, Moogle Market Monsters will be so much nicer than ever. Most noteworthy, the fact that your MP doesn’t get used until you HIT the monster means you won’t lose any if someone snipes the monster you were attacking. Also, hitting the monster also takes only the amount of MP needed to kill it. As a result, you don’t have to worry about how many hits you have left on your MP bar and how much it takes to kill it. We used to have to single hit until we could max hit without gear (to maximize hits and not build a streak). But now, you can just max hit as many as you want without losing MP! FUN FUN! With MP Carryover, you can remove your monster gear and hit to get even more hits out of a single monster.

 

If you don’t have MP Carryover, be sure not to remove gear from your hero since this will lower the amount of MP that you have. Even while running towards the monster, since MP is only used when you hit. Because of this, removing gear will take hits away and reduce the trophies that you could receive. Before the MP usage changes, MP was taken away when you pushed the attack button. But, this is a good change and worth hitting harder since you don’t lose any MP at all when attacking a monster and killing it. We all just have to remember this!

NOTE: Event Requirements

Due to the different requirements for some of the monster-hunting events, you will need some strategy to maximize your points potential. So look at what the event tells you to do and let’s figure out the best way to get your points.

• Engage: Each hit counts as a way to get points.
  • Change out of your monster gear when max hitting a monster to get the most attacks out of a single hit. Due to changes in how your MP is used, this should only be used when your MP is lower than what it would be without monster gear. Or you have MP Carryover.
    • Be sure to pay attention to how points are awarded for monster events. Sometimes you’ll find that you can get more points per hit with a particular hero or in a different realm than your own. This will help you conserve your Hero MP if all you want to do is tier the event. Especially useful when the drops from the monster aren’t that great.
• Damage: Counts the amount of damage dealt to the monster as points.
  • Wear your best monster attack gear and gems. Then use any monster hunting enchantments and place a hero in the Order of the Hunt.
  • Single hit as many times as it takes to get to your max streak.
  • Lastly, MAX HIT the monster!
• Kill: Points are only awarded when the monster is killed.
  • Same as Damage above.
    • Unless you want to save time, then just max hit all the monsters!

Streak Hitting

Using the charts, you should use the setup that has the highest Hero Attack Streak. Then you will hit as many times as it takes to get to your max streak. This will assure that you get the strongest hit possible when you finally Max Attack. Use this when you are wanting to increase damage and/or kill a monster.

Ways to increase your streak:

• Gear –
  • Mix and match to find your best Monster attack gear with the highest streak (don’t worry about MP if you’re not leveling up).
• Gems –
  • So far only the Witch’s Paragon gem has Hero Attack Streak, but keep your eyes open for more.
• Cores –
  • Make sure they’re activated!
• Hero Skills –
  • Use skill presets to easily switch between Monster Attack and Hero MP.

Hero Attack Streak vs Streak Per Attack

Each time you attack a monster, you increase your streak by the Streak Per Attack. The Hero Attack Streak is the max streak that you can achieve. Currently, many players have a higher Streak Per Attack and can max their streak with just one hit. This makes sniping monsters so much easier since you only have to hit once, then max hit to steal an almost dead monster.

It’s Getting Critical!

To maximize the hits against the PvE Monsters in your realm, you’ll need to build up your Hero Attack Bonus, Critical Hit, and Critical Damage. But, they aren’t all equal in their damage-dealing potential.

Hero Attack Bonus:

• This can be equated to Troop Attack as that’s how much damage is being dealt to the HP of the Realm Monsters. 
• As we move up in level and the Monsters become more difficult, our Hero Attack Bonus increases to kill these Monsters more effectively.

Critical Hit:

• This is the percentage of your hits that will be Critical and deal extra damage. 
• ****NOTE: 100% Critical Hit means 100% of your hits will be Critical!**** Once your Critical Hit reaches 100%, you no longer need to find ways to increase this stat. 
  • This is more important in the early game since there were fewer places to reach this level. Although, in the late game, it means you don’t have to apply skills to Critical Hit in the Hero Trees unless that node is needed to complete further skills down the tree. 

Critical Damage:

• This is a multiplier of your Hero Attack Bonus. The higher the Critical Damage percentage, the more damage you will deal to Monsters.
  • Generally, it’s probably something like 100% is 100% more damage than what an average Hero Attack Bonus would give. So you will want to get your Critical Damage Bonus as high as possible if you’re looking to kill. 

Use all of the above along with Hero Attack Streak to effectively eliminate any Monster that you come across!

Custom MP Attack

You asked for it, and now you can designate how much MP you would like to use to attack a monster! So, now you won’t have to worry about wasting billions of MP on a Realm Boss when all you want to do is hit tier three of the event. Not only that, but it’s perfect for giving a little bit of a test hit to evaluate the drops before unloading a bunch of MP. Just type in a small number or slide the bar a bit and hit Custom Attack, and you’re off to see what that monster has in store for you. 

Patience and perseverance

It takes a strong will to not level up your heroes as soon as you get the experience or unlock your hero if they are medal locked. But if you can stay focused, it is all worth it in the end. You will have more MP to use for the monsters and the loot you get will make your empire one of the greatest! We all know the struggles of staying up late or skipping showers to just hit a few more flan. Isn’t it worth it to level up your fire well just one more time?

Buying Packs

If you ask any big spender, they will say that the best pack to buy would be the ones that offer permanent boosts. What better permanent boost could you get other than one that enhances your Hero MP? Some of the best times to buy Hero MP items are during a Realm Boss or Moogle Market Monster event. Even better? Buy them when they are BOGO, so you get twice the bang for your buck. So, instead of getting 100% more MP, you get that and then a 200% more MP boost!

Also, during a monster event, you will oftentimes see a discount pack that offers Choose a Hero MP items. These could also be offered with a multiplier for the current monster, so if you’re willing to wait, you might be able to benefit from just a little bit of money spent. 

Speaking of, monster loot multipliers are a good way of getting more drops for the least amount of MP spent. If you’re wanting to get in on day one, the multiplier will start at 2x and go up from there. But, if you’re patient enough to wait, you may be able to score a higher multiplier with your first purchase!

The Best of the Best

As of April 2020, the best gear is the Elite Monster Stalker’s Gear with the Witch’s Familiar Gem and the Hero’s Valor Paragon Gem for the highest Max MP and MP Regeneration. Don’t forget to activate your Cores for a bonus.

Let Me Know

How high does your MP Bar go? I’m going to start a poll on the FFXVANEHUB Line chats, so come and add in your vote! If you’re one of the higher MP people, come and share with everyone else what makes your setup the best! Have you bought every single MP increase, or do you still have a thousand Cactuar Monster Slayer boosts that you’ve been hoarding for serious level-ups?

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