Palicos and Palamutes are a hunter's best friends in Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak, and the expansion adds even more ways to customize your buddies. By completing certain side quests, you can further customize the supporting moves your buddies use during hunts.
The first of these side quests you can complete to upgrade your buddies is Tough Training Tools. This request can be accepted from Buddy Agent Nagi after clearing the Urgent Quest dealing with Garangolm. Let's take a look at how to complete the Tough Training Tools quest, and what the rewards are.
Tough Training Tools Side Quest
To complete the Tough Training Tools request, you'll need to deliver two items; one Hermitaur Hardclaw, and one Ceanataur Hardclaw. These materials can be obtained from Daimyo Hermitaur and Shogun Ceanataur, respectively.
Hermitaur Hardclaws have a 43 percent chance to drop as a quest reward for hunting a Daimyo Hermitaur, a 22 percent chance to drop as a reward from capturing the monster, a 70 percent chance to drop from breaking either claw, and a 33 percent chance to carve the material from the monster.
Ceanataur Hardclaws have a 22 percent chance to drop from a quest reward, a 12 percent chance to drop as a capture reward, a 70 percent chance to drop from breaking both claws, and a 17 percent chance to drop from carving the monster.
Overall, these materials are extremely common, and you should be able to get a few of each from just hunting each monster once. If you want to knock out both of these materials at the same time, we recommend completing the quest Rock, Razor, Pincers, as this quest tasks you with hunting both a Daimyo Hermitaur and a Shoun Ceanataur.
Tough Training Tools Side Quest - Rewards
For completing this request, you will unlock the ability to swap level five support moves for your Palicos. Each Palico can equip five different support moves that they will use in battle, and are learned as they level up, according to the class of the Palico. Upon completing this request, you'll be able to swap the level five support move for a support move of any of the other classes.
This means your healer-type Palico can equip the Bombardier Move Zap Blast Spinner. Swapping support moves allows you to customize your buddy and create the perfect sidekick.