Monster Hunter Rise has been a major success for the series, selling incredibly well despite being a timed exclusive on Nintendo's hybrid console. Recently, Capcom revealed that Monster Hunter Rise has sold 5 million copies, just a week and a half after its initial release date.
However, because of the dense nature of many of Monster Hunter's systems such as material gathering and armor skill sets, some players might not understand what benefits some armor sets actually provide. This is likely the case with one of Monster Hunter Rise's rarest armor sets, which gives players the Wind Alignment skill and Fortunate skill.
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Readers should be warned: this guide will go over an armor set that contains spoilers for the end of Monster Hunter Rise's single player content.
As of right now, there is only one armor set that will give players both the Wind Alignment and Fortunate skills. Players must equip pieces of the Ibushi armor set, which is one of the final boss monsters in Monster Hunter Rise. Each piece of Ibushi armor will give players Wind Alignment, which in turn gives players Dragon elemental resistance. Players can gain up to four stages of Dragon resistance with the Ibushi armor, but crafting the full Ibushi set is going to take quite some time.
Unfortunately, there are not that many monsters currently in Monster Hunter Rise that deal Dragon elemental damage. As such, this armor's innate skillset likely won't be overly useful until more DLC monsters arrive in Monster Hunter Rise. However, players already know that Chameleos is planned as one of the first free DLC monsters, and Chameleos has dealt Dragon elemental damage in the past. Players who have already crafted the Ibushi armor set or are planning to should definitely keep it around, as it will likely be quite a useful armor set for High Rank quests and DLC monsters.
As opposed to the Wind Alignment skill which is rather straightforward and easy to understand, the Fortunate skill is a lot harder to grasp. In fact, the Monster Hunter community at large is still unsure of what the Fortunate skill does exactly. It seems that the general early consensus is that the Fortunate skill is an alternate version of the Good Luck skill, which increases a player's luck stat. Essentially, this will increase the chance of players getting extra rewards at the end of quests. However, it' still unclear if Fortunate is a better version of Good Luck, or if it even provides the same effect at all.
Thanks to some dedicated members of the Monster Hunter community, it seems that the Fortunate skill does increase the chance of earning extra rewards at the end of each hunt, but not nearly as much as stacking as much Good Luck as possible. Since Fortunate can only be applied with all five pieces of very rare armor sets, it's entirely debatable whether or not going for the Fortunate skill is even worth it, considering the difficult High Rank quest monster players must fight. Still, if players want to craft the Ibushi armor set for the Dragon resistance bonus, or simply for aesthetic purposes, it will certainly provide a nice challenge.
Monster Hunter Rise is now available for the Nintendo Switch. A PC release is slated for 2022.
Source: janiso123 (via Reddit)