Y ou'll need to catch a Gravid Bowfin in Monster Hunter Wilds to complete the Fishing for a Favor side mission. This is actually much harder than it sounds, given that the Gravid

Catching Monster Hunter Wilds' Grand Escunite is one of the most challenging research tasks thanks to how tough it is just to find the creature. The Grand Escunite is large, but only lives in a select few bodies of water in one region, and even then, it's easy to miss unless you're looking in the right place.

Land a Gravid Bowfin in Monster Hunter Wilds in no time at all by setting up your lure at the best locations with its favorite bait.

Gravid Bowfin spawn in all the major areas of Monster Hunter Wilds, but this specific pond is one of the most reliable. And unlike the larger Monster Hunter Wilds Whopper fish, catching them is very simple - just twitch the line until they take notice, then press R2/RT the moment the Bowfin bites to reel it in.

Monster Hunter Wilds is out now, and with a record-breaking 8 million players diving into the Forbidden Lands, it was only a matter of time before people started to reach the game's end. Thankfully, like Monster Hunter games before it,

Monster Hunter Wilds had about a week or so as 2025’s best-scored video game, but now a new, much smaller title has come along to tick by it by a single point on Metacritic. That would be Split Fiction,

Monster Hunter Wilds was awash in difficulty discourse before it even launched. Prerelease reviews drove the Monster Hunter subreddit into a panic, as critics forced excited hunters to ask that most terrible of questions: What if the new Monster Hunter was too easy?

M onster Hunter Wilds, the latest game in the long-running Monster Hunter series from Capcom, was released on Friday, and immediately became a smash hit. The game attracted over 1

Though only out for a grand total of four days, Monster Hunter Wilds has sold an astonishing 8 million copies. That’s according to Capcom, reporting that the monster hunting action RPG has become the company’s fastest selling title ever.