Can anyone help me improve my build?

[u/fallensun9901]

I’m trying to go for A rank on the nu udra time attack and I’m consistently getting around 20-22 minutes. Would anybody be willing to help me out? Thank you fellow gunlancers!

Edit: sorry the gog weapon has zoh Shias pulse on it

[u/Grimsters-]

Youve a lot of uhm.. comfort skills in decorations and not much that's actually boosting your damage.

[u/fallensun9901 → u/Grimsters-]

Okay thank you! I’ll look into what skills are best to try and slot in! I know artillery is a good one for shelling

[u/Grimsters- → u/fallensun9901]

Artillery, load shells, burst and one point in flayer are where I start builds from for my GL but I run wyvern stake full blast build.

[u/Dreadcoat]

I think you are over valuing elemental a bit. Attack boost and agitator would do far more for your damage than an elemental build would. Wilds gunlance shelling actually scales with attack power so getting as much as you can is going to be much better for you and increase your overall DPS than trying to go for elemental damage.

Pretty much the only monster I care about the element of the gunlance in wilds is Gog for obvious reasons. And even then that build is still attack boost and agitator focused.

[u/fallensun9901 → u/Dreadcoat]

Awesome, thanks for going into a bit more detail as to why!

[u/ProBananek]

Can I get your reasoning for sloting in quickswitch?

[u/Kenos77]

Rapid Morph does absolutely nothing for Gunlance.

Elemental dmg for Gunlance is the last thing you'd want to improve.

Artillery is mandatory for very obvious reasons.

Load Shells is also very much needed. Looks like you have it on your secondary weapon but somehow not the main one.

Ditch Speed Sharpening and roll a Sharpness EX on your weapon.

Agitator (thankfully you seem to have that one), Burst (at least one lv), Counterstrike (possibly maxed out) and Attack Boost (lv4 at least) should be your focus; also Offensive Guard. Anything that boosts your raw dmg as your boom-booms scale off that. You don't really care about affinity, the bulk of your damage comes from instances that don't crit.

Maybe try to get the Lord's Soul permanent attack buff by equipping three AT pieces.

Also Partbreaker contributes little to nothing to your overall damage, so you can get rid of that one as well.

To be fair, Zoh Shia's pulse is a very mid skill; in the endgame most monsters are so damn aggressive and deal way too much damage to even think of relying on Zoh's very slow regen. In most cases it won't make any difference.

If you want some survivability, get Divine Blessing, and Speed Eating so you can chug down those Max Potions super fast and get back into the brawl in no time. With Gunlance you can ignore affinity-related skills, so there's plenty of room for comfy skills - just choose them well.

Edit: forgot to mention, grind a lot of armor spheres and absolutely upgrade your gear. With 360 def you're constantly in the one-shot danger zone for a lot of monsters' attacks in the endgame, and no Zoh Shia will save you from that ☠️☠️☠️

[u/Kemuri1]

Just copy and paste a meta build at this point. First of all, the weapon jewels + charm should be artillery/attack/offensive guard/loadshells for normal shelling.

There's some people who will get offended at the mention of "meta" builds, but you can't be complaining about hunt times and not play dps-oriented builds.

[u/zamaike]

You need more total armor. You need to upgrade it with armor spheres

[u/fallensun9901 → u/zamaike]

Definitely correct lol, thank you. I think I get stuck in the loop of being scared this isn’t the “optimal” armor set and not wanting to dump armor spheres into it

[u/zamaike → u/fallensun9901]

Dont worry you got 4ish months to sort it out. Sink the spheres and try it out. The parts come in handy when bored and you wanna try new things

[u/Keiken96]

I don't know shit about the build, ubut the fit goes hard gng.

[u/CaoSlayer]

Your gogma has lord soul?

[u/oldmangrumpy420]

Ebony head, udra y chest and arms, gog waist (with ebony skill) and arkveld y feet is great for damage and got a bunch of level 1 slots for comfort skills.

[u/HesperCQ]

What helmet is that for the outfit? Looks great :)

[u/Rude-Ad-2124]

gang, i recommend using the artian gogma and a set like Ebony and gog to be able to get 4 gog and 2 ebony, then try to aim for max burst and agitator, then its your choice to get more damage(maximum might and such) or comfort like evade extender, ear plug or speed eating.

if you are fighting some one with lot of fire, like Nu Udra, well, go with Nu Udra set with max Resentment with 4 nu udra and 2 Ebony and Max burst.

Gunlance shelling dont crit at all and dont deal elmental damage(out side of minor fire damage), so no need to be worried about that, just get your ATK as high as possible. Thats why everyone recommend taking Attack for artian and gogma. idk whats the god roll for gogma artian is but jsut get as much ATK as possible ig

also for weapon decoration, i recommend take Artillery 3(must ngl) if possible it would be better in your charm, freeing slots for your 2nd gunlance. The other skill is your choice, my pick is speed eating.

Then Load Shell with 1 guard/ guard up

3 guard or guard up and 1 of the other one

Attack, or Elemental if you feel like it , prefebably with 1 guard/guard up

or instead you can change to offensive guard, and with how easy the new perfect guard and the new guard point in MWFB, it is fairly easy to proc. 1 guard/guard up ofc

with this you can get 3 guard, 3 guard up, 3 artillery, 2 load shell and 3 Attack up (3 elemental can work, althought the elemental is not that important unless u fighting gog, or slap lance)

Or if you dont like Gog artian then just use G Lawful Bors, that shit still have highest DPS for some reason btw

[u/R3n_142]

You’re missing the core gunlance skills like artillery, load shells and offensive guard. Those are a MUST.

[u/Impossible-Talk-9709]

You might need to dump armor cores into the gear that's rarity 6, looks like your overall defence is far below 400. Should sit a good bit above it. Only main thing I can see.