How good is Lance in Sunbreak?

[Harrowick]

Been primarily playing Sword & Shield as of late, was wondering how folks have found the traditional Lance to be in the DLC!

[Dark Angel]

Very very good. All the new moves are excellent. With damage buff (weapon balance) Lance is awesome now. (disappointed with Lance dmg in base RISE)

Last time I enjoyed Lance was PSP series, now the passion has returned.

[Harrowick]

Originally posted by Lolo Gougarf:

Very very good. All the new moves are excellent. With damage buff (weapon balance) Lance is awesome now. (disappointed with Lance dmg in base RISE)

Last time I enjoyed Lance was PSP series, now the passion has returned.

That's nice to hear! I was sorta inspired to use Lance when I saw a really good Lance user in one of our hunts.

[Misfit]

i main lance since freedom and switched to lbg during rise.
it just lacks damages, even if you play and build super offensive and only use insta block, it just does ok. but why play lance if nearly every other melee weapon has better counters now and does much more damage?
you still can play super defensive, but then you take forever to finish a hunt, compared to any other weapon.

[Remi]

Lance is really good in Sunbreak, you benefit a lot from elemental damage on your weapon and with good elemental matching spamming the Leaping Thrust (triple hit stab after backwards Shield Advance) does really solid dps.
Skyward Thrust is both meme-tier and godly at the same time, I can hit less damage than a triple poke with it on some monsters and hit up to 2000 damage in one use of it on other monsters.

You can also just poke and have a good time, Enraged Guard offers a damage buff and you can swap scrolls to access Spiral Thrust or Skyward Thrust while having said 20% raw buff to hit big numbers. It can also stun monsters with ease with Shield Charge, and now has a sheathe silkbind move that has generous iframes and solves Lance's biggest weakness, its painful sheathing speed.

[(ノ°□°)ノ]

Super satisfying if you enjoy gameplay that revolves around timing your guards.
Surprisingly lance does very chonky numbers as well in sunbreak.
It might get a bit awkward in multiplayer to get counters but stabbing away always works.

[76561198378545136]

leaping thrust is very addictive, I need to remind myself stop spamming leaping thrust and instablock sometimes

[Sera]

Enjoyable, I still think the damage is low.. Its better then what it was.

I tend to use it for certain foes who are just hyper aggressive. Turn them to cake walks.
Mostly easy an Easy button to get past stuff thats slowing you down.

Thou.. it helps if you know how to play it. duh. XD

[Lair360]

Lance and Gunlance are like butter on bread! Its soooo good!!

I love it!!

[amathy]

no idea why people think the damage is low, slap->leaping thrust can do very competitive dps

[cklambo]

Look up lance speedruns & tell me how its a low dps weapon

[Misfit]

Originally posted by cklambo \T/:

Look up lance speedruns & tell me how its a low dps weapon

HBG 1.29
BOW 1.16
GS 1.11
LBG 1.07
SA 1.04
DB 0.99
HH 0.98
LS 0.92
CB 0.91
IG 0.88
HM 0.87
SnS 0.85
LA 0.84
GL 0.8

only gunlance is worse and thats for speedruns, where every counter is perfect. now take that into a multiplayer hunt.

[76561198378545136]

Originally posted by Misfit:

Originally posted by cklambo \T/:

Look up lance speedruns & tell me how its a low dps weapon

HBG 1.29
BOW 1.16
GS 1.11
LBG 1.07
SA 1.04
DB 0.99
HH 0.98
LS 0.92
CB 0.91
IG 0.88
HM 0.87
SnS 0.85
LA 0.84
GL 0.8

only gunlance is worse and thats for speedruns, where every counter is perfect. now take that into a multiplayer hunt.

this doesnt mean lance is ♥♥♥♥, every weapon in sunbreak is viable now

[Misfit]

sure its "viable", but its just one of the worst weapons in rise and sunbreak made it even worse, because most other weapons got amazing new skills, while lance got nothing really gamechanging.
i am (or was) a lance main. i want the weapon to be good, but there is something wrong if i kill monsters much faster on weapons where barely know the moveset.

[amathy]

Originally posted by Misfit:

HBG 1.29
BOW 1.16
GS 1.11
LBG 1.07
SA 1.04
DB 0.99
HH 0.98
LS 0.92
CB 0.91
IG 0.88
HM 0.87
SnS 0.85
LA 0.84
GL 0.8

only gunlance is worse and thats for speedruns, where every counter is perfect. now take that into a multiplayer hunt.

this is fairly useless info when people still haven't mathed out all the meta sets and half the monsters in the game don't even have runs for any given weapon, or really suboptimal runs like lance's hermitaur where they can shave off a ton of time dragging down the overall score - i just beat the record by 35 seconds without trying that hard

and ignoring everything changes in a multiplayer hunt, greatsword falls off hard when it can't strongarm stance every other attack

[Valentine (Lunaticus)]

Yeah it's pretty good. I definitely recommend trying Leaping Thrust, it's very good AND very safe. It also uses only 1 sharpness per use so it's far more efficient than just triple poking all the time.