Diva Defense

Diva Skills

Diva Skills, also known as GCP skills, work similarly to other external skill sources, such as Guild Food or Exotic Armors. They do not use any of your maximum skill slots. Instead, you purchase the skill you want, and it will be available for a certain number of quests based on the quantity purchased.
It’s important to note that you can typically queue up only one skill type at a time. For example, if you purchase 10 uses of
Diva Skill
Lone Wolf and then buy a use of
Diva Skill
Focus+2, you will lose all your remaining
Diva Skill
Lone Wolf uses.
Like other temporary items (e.g., Carving Talismans, Lucky Charms), GCP skills are only consumed if you complete the quest. If you abandon the quest, the skill use will not be deducted.
Certain skills, such as
Diva Skill
Focus+2, are generally always available since Level 0 skills do not require you to have an active Prayer or any contributions.

If you cannot find the Diva Skills menu, check if you are in a World with the Diva Defense event enabled (shown as an icon in the bottom right corner).

Diva Prayer Weapons

During the Song of War Week, being on a Premium Course unlocks the following powerful buffs, making Prayer Weapons an excellent choice for grinding Hiden. Unless you have top-tier Raviente weapons, Prayer Weapons are the best option for Premium users.
Prayer Weapons are crafted from materials obtained as Daily or Milestone rewards, making them relatively easy to acquire. They are comparable to lower-end Level 50 G-Rank weapons.
Weapons that are exclusive to G Rank (like
Weapon
Switch Axe F and
Weapon
Tonfa) are available fully upgraded, while others start at Low Rank (standard HR crafting) and need to be upgraded to G Rank.
The standout feature of Prayer Weapons is the significant buffs they receive when a prayer is active. These enhancements can make them outperform most other weapons when built around their usage.
The Prayer Buff provides the following benefits:

  • True Raw +45

  • Doubled Elemental Damage

  • Increased Weapon Handling and Movement Speed (+2)

  • Enables the weapon type’s Active Feature

  • Sharpness is upgraded by one tier

  • Activates a unique Twin Hiden skill

  • Boosts Interception Points to 1.2x

The Twin Hiden ability remains active while the prayer effect is ongoing, allowing you to set aside Hiden gems for specialized builds or simply enjoy the Hiden bonus without extensive grinding.
Since these abilities rely on active prayers, they are time-limited. However, you can typically get about 3 hours of buffs daily, and using them primarily over the weekend will likely cover your entire playtime.
You can find more details on the weapon's active features on the Active Feature page.

Diva Prayer Gems

During the
Event
Diva Defense Diva Defense event, there are up to four different colors of Prayer gems, each of these will have a different effect based on the skills currently assigned to the individual colors.
The buffs are only available in the second week of the event. The total number of times they can be used is based on the global server's Song Spheres. When Prayers are maxed out you will be forced to choose another color, locking you from contributing to it.
You select your color each day by talking to the Blue Guild Girl who handles things such as Arena quests. You can change this color once a day after 12 PM. Selecting your first color does not count as changing it, allowing you to contribute to two different colors on the first day.
There are a number of different possible effects for each of these gems, and which is assigned to which color will change on each cycle, which should be verified in game.
Each day at some point after 12 PM the most popular prayer is ranked up. This is based on server wide contributions and thus cannot be manipulated to be something based on what you would personally prefer. The total level of prayers cannot exceed 7. If there are four prayers up each with three levels levels it's very likely that the two most popular ones will get max levels, the third most popular will get a single level and then the least popular will get no levels.
You can check your currently equipped gem names in Overlay Settings > Hunter Notes > Gear Info (Text).
To see the damage of certain gems, you can use our Damage Calculator

Sharpness UP

Sharpness does not decrease with blademaster weapons. Works for 5, 10 or 20 quests depending on level during the prayer active window.

3

❌

❌

Gentle Mounting

Reduces the recoil and reload speed of Gunner weapons.

7

✅

✅

Tail Cutter

Tails can be cut with any damage type.

1

❌

❌

Regeneration UP

Adds passive HP recovery to all quests. Also increases stamina recovery rate.

2

❌

✅

Earth UP

Makes it easier to scare monsters by attacking with Earth Style.

4

✅

❌

Heaven UP

Makes it easier to scare monsters by attacking with Heaven Style.

4

✅

❌

Storm UP

Makes it easier to scare monsters by attacking with Storm Style.

4

✅

❌

Cutting UP

Increases the amount of raw damage dealt by a cutting weapon by adjusting hitzones to be weaker against the damage type. +1/2/3 Raw Hitzone increase.

3

❌

❌

Impact UP

Increases the amount of raw damage dealt by an impact weapon by adjusting hitzones to be weaker against the damage type. +1/2/3 Raw Hitzone increase.

3

❌

❌

Shot UP

Increases the amount of raw damage dealt by a ranged weapon by adjusting hitzones to be weaker against the damage type. +1/2/3 Raw Hitzone increase.

3

❌

❌

Status Duration UP

Increases the duration of status effects on monsters. +22/35/60 seconds increase. Around 10 seconds downtime with Abnormality, around 25 without.

3

❌

✅

Status Weakness UP

Monsters are more susceptible to status ailments.

3

✅

✅

Exploit Weakness UP

Increases damage when striking body parts upon which your attacks are highly effective. However, element damage does not change.

3

✅

❌

Element UP

Elemental damage increases based on level. +1/2/3 Elemental Hitzone increase.

3

❌

❌

Area Lock

Monsters cannot flee if in the same area as a hunter.

3

❌

✅

Shop UP

Adds new items to the GCP store based on level.

1

❌

❌

Friendship UP

Attack will go up based on the number of players in a quest. +10/20/30 True Raw increase for 1 player, +20/40/60 for 2 players, +40/70/100 for 3 players and +70/105/140 for 4 players. This is not affected by multipliers like Adrenaline, instead it's a flat addition.

3

❌

✅

Blessing UP

Gives Divine Protection, Goddess' Embrace or Soul Revival based on level.

3

❌

❌

Affinity UP

Increases affinity of all weapons based on the level of the song. +25/50/100% Affinity increase.

3

❌

❌

Fire Res UP

Increases fire resistance.

3

✅

❌

Water Res UP

Increases water resistance.

3

✅

❌

Ice Res UP

Increases thunder resistance.

3

✅

❌

Dragon Res UP

Increases dragon resistance.

3

✅

❌

Thunder Res UP

Increases ice resistance.

3

✅

❌

All Res UP

Increases resistance to all elements.

2

✅

❌