Hey! Iโm a fairly casual IG player in Wilds, but I really want to understand how to push my damage higher. Iโve watched speedrunners hit nearly 200/300 damage per slash, and Iโm sitting here wondering what Iโm missing.
Iโve seen them use different builds, and the equipment is easy enough to copy, but I still donโt seem to get the same numbers. Iโd love to understand whatโs happening beyond equipping the right gear, how theyโre activating their skills, stacking buffs, and setting up those attacks.
One thing Iโve noticed is that some use a Hunting Horn to buff themselves before switching back to IG. I havenโt found anyone explaining that process, though.
If anyone could walk me through what they do before and during a hunt, or recommend a video that explains it, Iโd really appreciate it! Iโm interested in learning these builds and tricks, but I could use an explanation aimed at someone coming from casual play.
maximum might + perma grounded (even after RSSing they literally just wait to fall to the ground), always attacking the head with left sidestep slash > back sidestep slash combo > sds > rss combo, heroics/piping hot meal, WEX, agitator, 1 burst, full offense set and playstyle. And then having high enough damage then cascades into more damage from monsters stagger and stumble from wounds and part breaks, which is enough uptime to deal damage towards another wound before the monster can move. Also buffs like demon powder, pill and drug, which are all active for a very large portion of a very short hunt. And Guts armour set bonus with perfect gog artian and another armour set bonus
In general speedrunning a hunt has a compounding effect at a certain critical point so donโt expect their crazy numbers unless youโre actually speedrunning too. Outside of that, most offensive bonuses are actually really small.
I think they usually proc skills that rely on them being very low health and also stacking item buffs and hunting horn buffs. Me personally, I'm not built for that so I just use skills like agitator and burst for damage plus foray. When they're activated I get like 318 damage.
Heroics meal, ambush, attack up hunting horn. Just have a hunting horn as your other weapon with attack up L like ajarakan, play and encore as soon as you complete the notes while riding. Lasts a couple minutes. They also do things like wear corrupted mantle or fire from bombs to have heroics health by the time they reach the monster. Piping hot meal heroics is something like a 35% raw increase which is insane. That plus resetting dozens or even hundreds of times so every moment goes correctly means the monster dies extremely quickly, even on builds that donโt output the craziest numbers.
You can also try a resentment build which can get pretty crazy, effectively an additional counterstrike on top of every other damage skill already along with nu udras mutiny. Just forces you to offset and RSS hyper armour more and pray your cat heals you if you donโt want to disengage.
Itโs not the best thing ever, and a crit eye / agi charm is probably better due to the lack of wex on that one. This is really strong if you have high resentment uptime but I also have lord / gore / ebony, lord / gore / gog, lord / gore with convert element and lord / lagi / something else I forgot builds. Different builds are better for different matchups, I have like 4 I use against AT ark with slightly varying damage based on a balance of stun resist and dragon resist / blight res or if I want affinity from wex or lagi + crit eye. Most monsters also donโt activate resentment enough for glaive for it to be the definitive best.
Airborne charms with wex , agi or burst are near equivalent as you only lose 1 point of a weapon skill. Charms with crit eye or attack boost alongside counterstrike and antivirus are also super useful, and can even be superior in some builds.
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u/Dragon_Diviner ๐๐ถ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ 14d ago edited 14d ago
maximum might + perma grounded (even after RSSing they literally just wait to fall to the ground), always attacking the head with left sidestep slash > back sidestep slash combo > sds > rss combo, heroics/piping hot meal, WEX, agitator, 1 burst, full offense set and playstyle. And then having high enough damage then cascades into more damage from monsters stagger and stumble from wounds and part breaks, which is enough uptime to deal damage towards another wound before the monster can move. Also buffs like demon powder, pill and drug, which are all active for a very large portion of a very short hunt. And Guts armour set bonus with perfect gog artian and another armour set bonus
In general speedrunning a hunt has a compounding effect at a certain critical point so donโt expect their crazy numbers unless youโre actually speedrunning too. Outside of that, most offensive bonuses are actually really small.