Hiden Guide

Introduction

Hiden equipment allows you to obtain the very powerful Weapon Tech skills. Tech skills grant a 20-30% damage increase (depending on weapon), Fencing, and Super High-Grade Earplugs. In addition to this, each weapon gets unique special effects from its Tech skill.

To gain the full effects of the Tech skill, you need 30 skill points. This can be obtained on any set by equipping 3 Hiden decorations, either “True” or “Hiden”, in addition to a Hiden Skill Cuff. This skill is incredibly powerful and, assuming you use a Hiden Skull Cuff, also does not impact your total skill cap, so it should always be used in endgame sets.

Item Acquisition

There are three sets of Hiden items: Souls, Ribbons, and Merits. Souls are split into Low, Mid, High, and Top, whereas Ribbons and Merits are both only split into Low, Mid, and High. Each Hiden item is given in “Other Rewards” if their requirements are met. A list of eligible quests for each material is included below.

As normal quests only reward 1 material, however, there are two primary ways of obtaining the items more quickly. Firstly, there are HR5 and GR daily quests that award a large number of Hiden items, but these are limited to two per day. Secondly, doing “Guild Priority Requests” rewards 3-6 of the relevant Hiden material every quest. Priority Requests change daily, and can be checked at the Bounty Board by the Blacksmith entrance. There are also Unlimited Guild Priority Requests. There are three Priority UL monsters per day, which give Low, Mid and High / Top Hiden materials respectively.

Quest Requirements

All Souls, and Ribbons only drop from Hardcore quests.

• Low Souls drop from HR1-2 quests
• Mid Souls drop from HR3-4 quests
• High Souls drop from HR5 quests
• Top Souls drop from Gou quests

• Low Ribbons drop from G★1-2 quests
• Mid Ribbons drop from G★3-4 quests
• High Ribbons drop from G★5-7 quests

Merits only drop if the quest is not Hardcore, but they do not drop if your GR is below 500. They do still drop from the same quest ranks as Ribbons. In addition to this, Merits also drop from Exotic and Zenith quests.

• Low drops from Z1 quests
• Mid drops from Z2 and Z3 quests
• High drops from Z4 and Exotic quests

Equipment / Refining

To obtain Hiden equipment, you need to follow a few steps. You first need to create a Hiden armor piece. These can be found in Armors –> Special Armor –> Hiden Armor. There are two base armor sets for each weapon type. Once an armor piece is upgraded to GX7, you can create Hiden decorations by refining the armor, just like any GF or GX decoration. At the Blacksmith, go to the Refine G Armor section, and select a GX7 Hiden armor piece to refine. Unlike normal decoration refining, it does not matter which equipment piece you refine for a Hiden decoration. Unlike GX decoration refining, what determines the decoration you refine is the color of the equipment piece. For example, every piece of the “Byakko・Kensei GX” armor will give a “SnS Hiden・White” decoration, whereas pieces of the “Genbu・Kensei GX” armor will give “SnS Hiden・Black”. Below is a table of all Hiden armors and which decoration they give.

**MS Hiden Armor has a special requirement**

In order to craft MS Hiden Armor, you are required to have the SR for every single weapon unlocked. (Be sure to craft any Switch Axe and Tonfa, talk to the Guild Master, and then MS Hiden Armor should be craftable).

To get the True decorations, you need one of each color Hiden decoration. These can then be crafted into any of that weapon’s True decorations in the normal “Create Deco” section.

Unlike the vanilla game, Hiden Skill Cuffs can now be directly crafted at the blacksmith using Ribbons and Merits. The section where you can find Skill Cuffs is:

Skill Cuff –> Hiden Cuffs –> True Cuffs

Hiden Refining Table

Weapon Type	Base Armor	Armor Upgrade	Refined Decoration
Sword & Shield	Garnet	Byakko・Kensei	SnS Hiden・White
		Genbu・Kensei	SnS Hiden・Black
	Rubellite	Suzaku・Kensei	SnS Hiden・Red
		Seiryu・Kensei	SnS Hiden・Blue
Dual Swords	Amethyst	Byakko・双龍	DS Hiden・White
		Genbu・双龍	DS Hiden・Black
	Lazurite	Suzaku・双龍	DS Hiden・Red
		Seiryu・双龍	DS Hiden・Blue
Great Sword	Coral	Byakko・剣王	GS Hiden・White
		Genbu・剣王	GS Hiden・Black
	Zircon	Suzaku・剣王	GS Hiden・Red
		Seiryu・剣王	GS Hiden・Blue
Long Sword	Quartz	Byakko・刀神	LS Hiden・White
		Genbu・刀神	LS Hiden・Black
	Spinel	Suzaku・刀神	LS Hiden・Red
		Seiryu・刀神	LS Hiden・Blue
Hammer	Emerald	Byakko・鈍器獣	Hammer Hiden・White
		Genbu・鈍器獣	Hammer Hiden・Black
	Jade	Suzaku・鈍器獣	Hammer Hiden・Red
		Seiryu・鈍器獣	Hammer Hiden・Blue
Hunting Horn	Pearl	Byakko・奏帝	HH Hiden・White
		Genbu・奏帝	HH Hiden・Black
	Agate	Suzaku・奏帝	HH Hiden・Red
		Seiryu・奏帝	HH Hiden・Blue
Lance	Ruby	Byakko・Heaven 槍	Lance Hiden・White
		Genbu・Heaven 槍	Lance Hiden・Black
	Pyrope	Suzaku・Heaven 槍	Lance Hiden・Red
		Seiryu・Heaven 槍	Lance Hiden・Blue
Gunlance	Sapphire	Byakko・砲皇	GL Hiden・White
		Genbu・砲皇	GL Hiden・Black
	アイオラ	Suzaku・砲皇	GL Hiden・Red
		Seiryu・砲皇	GL Hiden・Blue
Switch Axe F	Onyx	Byakko・斬将	SAF Hiden・White
		Genbu・斬将	SAF Hiden・Black
	Rutile	Suzaku・斬将	SAF Hiden・Red
		Seiryu・斬将	SAF Hiden・Blue
Tonfa	Hisui	Byakko・霧風	Tonfa Hiden・White
		Genbu・霧風	Tonfa Hiden・Black
	Blood	Suzaku・霧風	Tonfa Hiden・Red
		Seiryu・霧風	Tonfa Hiden・Blue
Magnet Spike	Tanzanite	Byakko・磁星	MS Hiden・White
		Genbu・磁星	MS Hiden・Black
	Hematite	Suzaku・磁星	MS Hiden・Red
		Seiryu・磁星	MS Hiden・Blue
Light Bowgun	Topaz	Byakko・銃傑	LBG Hiden・White
		Genbu・銃傑	LBG Hiden・Black
	Citrine	Suzaku・銃傑	LBG Hiden・Red
		Seiryu・銃傑	LBG Hiden・Blue
Heavy Bowgun	Tourmaline	Byakko・銃仙	HBG Hiden・White
		Genbu・銃仙	HBG Hiden・Black
	Peridot	Suzaku・銃仙	HBG Hiden・Red
		Seiryu・銃仙	HBG Hiden・Blue
Bow	Lapis	Byakko・Bow 鬼	Bow Hiden・White
		Genbu・Bow 鬼	Bow Hiden・Black
	Turquoise	Suzaku・Bow 鬼	Bow Hiden・Red
		Seiryu・Bow 鬼	Bow Hiden・Blue

Credits

✽ Thanks to Ninjar & Sera for gathering the guide content, and outlining the Hiden Process & Requirements.