Let's be honest: gunlances makes every other weapon almost worthless

[Tourette's Guy]

It's a fact. They make you a walking fortress, and with Uragaan set and proper decorations, basically you won't need anything else to kill every single monster. Maybe you will have to change some decorations to get immunities against specific monsters (like Vaal Hazak, Viper Tobi Kadachi and black Paolumu), but that's all.

Shelling provides very solid and reliable damage since they pass through armor and they always deal the same amount of damage, so you don't have to worry about hitting weak points. Just shoot at any monster part and there you go.

Sure, maybe you can use stronger builds with heavy bowguns for example, but they need an extra-effort and they need ammunition, skill, preparation against almost every monster and a ton of decorations to be really effective. Gunlance build only needs Taroth Buster Bomber with health augment, Uragaan set and artillery charm. And basically you can beat down the entire game with the same setup.

[langnao]

Even with wide level 6, 5x artillery skill, u r doing around ~85 dmg per shell. The dmg is not great if u compared to melee build like GS or even LS. Now that you can soften monster parts, attack on weakness is not an issue. Furthermore, guard up is not 100%. There are a few moves from monsters that cannot be guarded even with guard up.
Heavy bow gun sticky 3 build, 1 sticky bomb does around 125 dmg not to mention it also KO monsters.

[Xilo The Odd]

huh no mention of how OP Long shelling became in iceborne when the meta before with GL was either wide shelling, full burst normal shelling or slap lance?

things get tweaked and changed and rebalanced all the time. gunlance does have a weakness. (its other players playing with you who are bad or very mobile monsters)

if you want a hunt to take 30 mins when you could have ended it in 10 yeah gunlance is great for a high success rate on what would otherwise be a challenging quest but, its far from a broken OP weapon.

[Smug Kot]

引用自 langnao：

Even with wide level 6, 5x artillery skill, u r doing around ~85 dmg per shell. The dmg is not great if u compared to melee build like GS or even LS. Now that you can soften monster parts, attack on weakness is not an issue. Furthermore, guard up is not 100%. There are a few moves from monsters that cannot be guarded even with guard up.
Heavy bow gun sticky 3 build, 1 sticky bomb does around 125 dmg ,,,

85 ? do you even gunlance bro ?

[langnao]

引用自 Undertale: SHRIFTED Edition：

引用自 langnao：

Even with wide level 6, 5x artillery skill, u r doing around ~85 dmg per shell. The dmg is not great if u compared to melee build like GS or even LS. Now that you can soften monster parts, attack on weakness is not an issue. Furthermore, guard up is not 100%. There are a few moves from monsters that cannot be guarded even with guard up.
Heavy bow gun sticky 3 build, 1 sticky bomb does around 125 dmg ,,,

85 ? do you even gunlance bro ?

Wide shelling build just doing pure shell attack.

[Smug Kot]

引用自 langnao：

引用自 Undertale: SHRIFTED Edition：

85 ? do you even gunlance bro ?

Wide shelling build just doing pure shell attack.

you are just shellling with wide ?......wow...no wonder.

[Yuck Fourself]

I played lance on PS4. Lance was OP as ♥♥♥♥. That counter-clutch is ridiculous. Combine that with mounts for days, and you've got a fully weakened monster who spends its entire fight on the ground. It was so bad I had to put the lance away and switch it up.

Might not work as well in single player, but if PC is anything like console, you don't want peoples' "help" anyway. All they do is die when they come to rescue you. Or when you come to rescue them. Solo. All day, er'day.

[:bestgamerchina#1最好的中國]

引用自 langnao：

引用自 Undertale: SHRIFTED Edition：

85 ? do you even gunlance bro ?

Wide shelling build just doing pure shell attack.

lul. You are noob at gunlances my friend. I agree they were(dunno if still are) not op compared to pleb unsheath GS or bomb spam.

[langnao]

引用自 I Get Offended：

I played lance on PS4. Lance was OP as ♥♥♥♥. That counter-clutch is ridiculous. Combine that with mounts for days, and you've got a fully weakened monster who spends its entire fight on the ground. It was so bad I had to put the lance away and switch it up.

Might not work as well in single player, but if PC is anything like console, you don't want peoples' "help" anyway. All they do is die when they come to rescue you. Or when you come to rescue them. Solo. All day, er'day.

Basically what OP mentioned in the title is not true. Its a good weapon balance between attack & defense but definitely not make other weapon worthless.
You play on console and guess u know which weapon is mostly used or seen during the siege event? Guard up can't block u against the "bite", jho bite too and velkhana "front sticky mist attacK" ,etc ...