What type of effect does a Gunlance Shelling has?

[Greslus]

Like a hammer has the obviously KO effect. But does the GL has exhaust or something similar? Cause I can downed the Kushala easy with the shelling but it's not a KO downed.

[ChaosFred]

It doesn't apply any effect or weapon effects either as far as I know. But if you consider it's defense-piercing damage as an effect then so be it.

[Katitoff]

True damage.
Impossible to bounce and always full, non mitigated damage, regardless of part targetted.

[Fat Pigeon]

Originally posted by Katitoff:

True damage.
Impossible to bounce and always full, non mitigated damage, regardless of part targetted.

You should mention that as soon you are at yellow sharpness, shells get a damage loss,
that mean make sure you sharp your boomstick in time =)

A Sharpness Jewel is your best friend with a GL

[pls giff First Berserker]

Well it has fire damage, so youll see bigger numbers against monsters weak to fire, but not that much to be significant. Im talking about 2-3 more damage on wide shells

[Stationary Traveller]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfRrooUNZuU
Wyvern's Fire and charged shots deal additional stagger damage.

[Greslus]

That's all huh. It's weird how the shelling downed Kushala so much. In a 3 minute tempered kushala hunt, i downed him 4-5 times. Much much more than I would using any other weapon,

[Greslus]

Originally posted by Moonmadness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfRrooUNZuU
Wyvern's Fire and charged shots deal additional stagger damage.

Oh, that is interesting. Does the KO jewel increase this value?

[Remi]

Shells don't do fire damage in World, i'm always seeing the same numbers on level 4 shells with varying monsters. You're thinking of Gen/GenU where a hunter art locks your heat gauge at max and also adds fire damage to your shells.

[pls giff First Berserker]

Originally posted by Remi:

Shells don't do fire damage in World, i'm always seeing the same numbers on level 4 shells with varying monsters. You're thinking of Gen/GenU where a hunter art locks your heat gauge at max and also adds fire damage to your shells.

Really? Im pretty sure GL shells did a bit of fire damage since their release in 2nd gen. I didnt even play 4th gen games so I have no idea how GLs work with their heat gauge.

Also GL shells tend to keep Lavasioth's armor from cooling so Im inclined to believe that they still do fire damage.

[Stationary Traveller]

https://i.imgur.com/Anm0DCJ.png
Shelling does deal fire damage in World.

[ciel]

kushula is kinda a wet paper bag once you find a way to pump it full of consistent damage. IMHO gunlance is one of the best weapons for taking it out. If you set bombs at its feet, then put on rocksteady and blow them up with a burst fire it's basically a guaranteed knock-down at the start of the fight.

But yeah it doesn't have any special effect that makes it knock down monsters, it just hurts them so much that they fall over lol

[Remi]

I tested Wide 4 shells with Artillery 3 and no food skills, you're right!
Highest Fire weakness i found was Lavasioth's magma armor but his head breaks too fast to actually test it, so I used Kirin Head with 25 fire.

Single uncharged shell on 0 fire HZ : 62 damage
Single uncharged shell on 25 fire HZ: 65 damage

Wyvernfire on 0 fire HZ : 134*3
Wyvernfire on 25 fire HZ: 141*3

Didn't do Wyrmstake since it's not pure shelling.

I never noticed and I also never saw the proper MVs listed, thanks for clearing that up.

[Stationary Traveller]

Originally posted by Greslus:

Originally posted by Moonmadness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfRrooUNZuU
Wyvern's Fire and charged shots deal additional stagger damage.

Oh, that is interesting. Does the KO jewel increase this value?

KO increases stun, which is separate from stagger.

[Venusgate]

Long shelling with earplugs 5 vs kushala is magic. Especially when she's mounted.

[Greslus]

Originally posted by Moonmadness:

Originally posted by Greslus:

Oh, that is interesting. Does the KO jewel increase this value?

KO increases stun, which is separate from stagger.

Ah, gotcha.