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Welcoming Changes

So Gunlance received some changes while moving to Wilds. And we mean really good changes:

Gunlance shelling now has a new stat called “Power” which boosts the shelling attack by a small percent based on the raw damage stat: Slight Weak (6%), Normal (8%), and Slightly Strong (10%).

New attacks have been added that allow us to move after shooting shellings, the newly improved advancing wide sweep, an extra Wyvern’s Fire ( WF ) shell, and new ways to fullburst and spam Wyrmstake Cannon ( WSC ) on our opponents.

The addition of focus mode grants better attack directioning which is basically an autocorrector so we never whiff attacks. However, Drake Auger (Focus Strike) is considered rather weak for a majority of our playthrough so better be reasonable when using it (like on tempered monsters).

Skill Priority

Artillery Very High (Mandatory in Endgame)

Load shells Very High (Mandatory in Endgame)

Burst High

Guard Medium

Agitator Medium

Divine Blessing Confort Tax

Evade Extender Confort Tax

Peak Performance Low

Handicraft Very Low

Maximum Might Situational

Weakness Exploit Not Necessary

Critical Boost Not Necessary

Partbreaker Not Necessary

The takeaway is: Raw scales better, shellings don’t consume as much sharpness as before, and crit skills are out of the game for now because half of our damage can't crit.

LR Builds (...or build)

Welcome to the story mode. Here, builds do not really matter. Our best friend through the whole game up to High rank endgame will be Quematrice tree.

That being said, one good LR build will serve before tackling High Rank

Do know it does not have to be the same build as the picture. It is in case people feel a little underpowered before the final boss. We only invest in higher rarity to prevent getting one-shotted due to the lack of the higher priority skills for gunlance.

Early HR (up to HR20)

Here’s when the fights get tougher but so do our builds. Since we fight some monsters to raise our rank, we make the best out of their gear.

Mid HR (up to HR40)

Endgame HR (HR40+)

There is a separate guide for this section since everything after this point are meta builds.

Wilds Gunlance Guide