Gunlance | Monster Hunter World Wiki

There are 3 types of gunlances depending on their shelling type. Normal, Wide and Long. Each are played differently. Normal is played like a normal lance basicaly with shell bursts mixed in the combos here and there, good for beginners. While Wide and Long heavily rely on shelling almost exclusivly. The core problem many starters have is the lack in agility and low damage of shells. That can be helped with the Jump Master abilty and Artillery skill. Focus is important for charged shelling what is important for Long Shell type GLs. If you have internalized that you'll master the GunLance in no time. Which gunlance is now the best? Generely speaking: Long>Wide>Normal since shelling is so important and normal play requires combos to do shell bursts. But more importantly is the shell level since it tells you how much damage each shell deals. So even if you are happy with your Long GL shell lvl 2 you should use the Normal GL shell lvl 3. And so on. Just an example but you will see what I mean. Also make always use of the mine since it basicaly doubles the damage output of your shelling. The Slinger Capacity ability increases its duration. Another usefull skill for GL players.

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It's a bit finicky to pull off and is impractical for gameplay, but if you place a snowman inside a target and position yourself juuust right so that your wyrmstake can connect without dealing damage from the initial insertion your wyrmstake will deal double damage. Fun to try in training area but not useful outside of speedrunning.

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okay i have playd with this BEAST of a weapon for a while and all i have to say its a bfbg (big ****ing bowgun) i mean you can't tell me its not its like if the one of the hbg went the gym and GOT ****ING RIPPED and the s&sh did the samth did the same thing and fuzed with the Hbg it would call itsilf BFBG aka THE MONSTER KILLING TANK

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Will never touch another weapon.

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Hard to learn, even harder to master. Needs some of the rarest decos to shine. Guard Up and Capacity Boost and more or less essential abilities, depending on your loadouts. Earplugs, Evade Extender, Guard ofc... Thanks to the shield it appears beginner friendly but it really isn't at the end of the day. Also partly do the shelling types, the hidden Motion Value, the combos you have to get into your system and the immobility that can be fatal against monsters like Nergigante or Behemoth. Where the shield won't always save you.

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Wide shelling does not increase the damage of Wyrmstake. Wyrmstake's damage scales with shell level and weapon damage on the repeated hits, and deals a flat raw damage based on shell level on the final hit. Since the highest shelling level is on Normal gunlances, those will deal the most damage with Wyrmstake.

Wyvernstake Blast is a weird one. The initial injection scales with weapon damage, but the detonate damage has weird interactions with the shelling types and different kind of firing. For example, a Wide Lv4's shelling deals 43 damage on its own, and detonates Wyvernstake for 22, while the shells from its full burst deal only 39 each. but detonate Wyvernstake for 36 damage.

By comparison, a Normal lv4 shell deals 22 and detonates for 12, while its full burst shells each deal 26 damage and detonate it for 20 each.

Looking at charge shots, Long Lv4 deals 73 but only detonates WSB for 54, while Wide4 deals 59 and detonates for /66/.

Wide4 actually detonates for the same damage with its normal shells and charged ones as Normal Lv5 does (22/66), but this doesn't scale directly. Wide5 detonates for more than Norm6 -- 32/96 for normal/charged shelling, vs Norm6's 26/78.

The move is an absolute headache to calculate.

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when was gunlance added to monster hunter?

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I've heard from quite a few sources that Shelling is affected by the Stamina Thief skill (Drain Jewels and such). Is this true? I've yet to test it myself.

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Does slinger capacity affect Wyrmstake Blast?

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As of IB DLC, the Y+B (or Triangle+Circle) attack can be deflected when used against the, to keep somewhat spoiler free, 'Xeno 2.0' that appears near the end, during the first phase. Unsure if it can be deflected off of anything else; Had white sharpness R10 Guild Water-GL at the time.

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Noob here, considering switching to this as my main is getting boring... what are considered the meta GLs and gems? TIA

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I've been avoiding using Gunlances as much as possible. However, they've been starting to grow on me and I'd like to try them out. I'm curious: When choosing a Gunlance, what is the most important stat? Raw dmg, elemental/status effect, or shelling type?

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I used this weapon a lot on a full bagel set. My friend noticed it and I said, " I'm feeling adventurous", to which he replied, " more like suicidal. You should have seen his face when I got pancaked 5 times in a row by a mud fish boi.

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What effects wrym stake blast (the tag) I know shelling effects it. Do blast effects and barrel bombs effect it to? And what else? I must know this I need moar boom booms

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Lance lacked for me in the offensive so I switched to the gunlance quite early (first Rathian). Guard Up is a must have around the time you fight Nergi with its dive bombs and then later (much later) not even that helps anymore. It's great for playing solo cause of the damage potencial and beeing able to block 95% of all attacks with the right equipment BUT...but the game is definitivly not made for poking weapons. If your opponent flys or runs around nonstop that are the times in which you wish you would have chosen another weapon. Besides that it's a very fun weapon and you will love the firework it can produce.

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Was the weapon new in iceborne ?

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A.k.a. Portable Dragonator a.k.a. Pick-a-Boom

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A very fun and viable weapon. Strong defense, yet can still pack quite a punch. The quick hops that are your evade still count towards getting rid of blights. Guard and Guard Up make you able to tank even Arch-Tempereds with ease; you can also do standard critical damage builds, and even shell burst damage builds if you have the Artillery and Capacity Boost skills. I've used this weapon class alone in easily over 300 hunts. TLDR; 10/10, would recommend.

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Who needs mobility when you can just power through everthing.

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loving this thing, basically a lance, a blunderbuss and a shield combined and can be used in the same time

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Handy chart:

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Do wyvern fire/wyvern stake count as shelling? If not do they benefit from increasing your attack power? (I already know shelling(burst/normal/charged) are only affected by artillery/food buff)

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Do the shells deal blast damage?

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Having two of them in your group and the battle turns into a warzone.

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NOTE: There is a Fake Gunlance Page there is no such thing as a Blazing Gunlance 3 I would delete it but idk how too delete pages

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Thrust and Burst'em up!

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I love this weapon, I like the mix of defensive and offensive capabilities.

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Gunlance is very powerful weapon is used correctly but sadly its not very popular. Don't see it as much as other weapons in multiplayer.

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I've been playing since Tri and I've never used the gunlance until now. What is wrong with me?! This thing is fantastic!

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If you have more time then the other comment after the burst fire and sweeping hit, quick reload, triangle and burst again depending on the battle I've gotten 3 bursts off before i impale him.

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Triangle x3, Triangle + Circle, Triangle, Circle, Triangle x2 is my favorite combo so far. If you have the time/safety for it.
In case I typed the inputs wrong: Three hit basic combo, upthrust, downthrust, burst fire, wide sweep, wyvern stake .

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