Hunting horn users, need help on builds

[Xilia]

What armor sets synergizes well with Hunting horns, also I try to get any HH as long as it has Attack up L on it. Anything else is optional.

What are your suggestions?

Also the new note attack is freaking awesome!

I am post-velkhala repel in iceborne as of now

[JPM岩]

https://imgur.com/a/4XWesU2 Link with the meta HH sets

[Xilia]

Originally posted by JPM岩:

https://imgur.com/a/4XWesU2 Link with the meta HH sets

Damn, those are indeed nice sets. I am not there atm though.

Would you suggest exhaust on HH ? it used to be THE exhaust weapon. Haven't played around with it in this game

[puzzlefox]

My early game HH set used artian 2p for critical status, the dogogama blast HH, and I forget the rest. It was just mixed set pieces of whatever looked useful. Handicraft charm for purple sharpness.

[Waffles]

Free Meal Secret + Wide Range + Speed Eating + generic crit skills = One godly HH hunter

[Holografix]

4 pieces of Namielle armor = True Element Acceleration, bring your element hunting horns for bonus damage. Namielle's armor is great against Water and Lightning monsters.

I haven't used the Drain (exhaust) decos in my sets, but i'm sure the skill is viable.

[puzzlefox]

Originally posted by Gen:

Free Meal Secret + Wide Range + Speed Eating + generic crit skills = One godly HH hunter

This too.
I also had a support build with all the fast food+wide range+ ect bonuses.

[Vahnkiljoy]

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ those builds are boring as ♥♥♥♥ imo. More fun to ko and make the monsters tired minutes into the fight.

[noupo]

I use 3 pieces of savage jho, kirin body, and garuga leg, all beta.
You can get crit eye +7, crit boost +3, wex +3, stamina drain +5 (savage stamina drain secret), and still have some empty slot. I don't think attack boost is that good anymore, it's better to put defensive skill or handicraft instead.

It's not that strong compared to the boring set above and it's considered as meme build, but at least it's my original build and if you play as a female character, she's gonna looks like a sadistic person.

[GamingWithSilvertail]

Originally posted by Vahnkiljoy:

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ those builds are boring as ♥♥♥♥ imo. More fun to ko and make the monsters tired minutes into the fight.

Subjective.

[Xilo The Odd]

Originally posted by JPM岩:

https://imgur.com/a/4XWesU2 Link with the meta HH sets

ok like ALL those sets are speed run meta for HH. its all about your damage and not survival. keep that in mind OP. some of these builds will get you 1 shotted for being out of place on say, a tempered elder dragon.

if you want a decent comfy set, Gold rath belt and boots as your starter, then any combo of a 3 piece or two piece set you think you could make use of, make sure divine prot is at 5 and health boost is at 3, add damage from there.

i see sets like this all the time and they die to the silliest of things if they had just more buffer for when they get hit.

edit: additional thought, attack up large is great and all, but dont neglect getting horns with wind pressure negate and earplugs, or affinity s + health s. stam reduction L and stun immunity are also pretty great abilities as well when joining a mission people typically cart for poor reasons.

after watching my friend who is an agressive HH user, Slugger secret and maxing out for KO is hillarious, you get about 2 min gaps between KO if you run HH right.

[McMurphy]

Originally posted by Gen:

Free Meal Secret + Wide Range + Speed Eating + generic crit skills = One godly HH hunter

nah better play SnS than

[Walhalla]

Originally posted by Gen:

Free Meal Secret + Wide Range + Speed Eating + generic crit skills = One godly SnS hunter

Ftfy.

[Xilia]

Originally posted by puzzlefox:

Originally posted by Gen:

Free Meal Secret + Wide Range + Speed Eating + generic crit skills = One godly HH hunter

This too.
I also had a support build with all the fast food+wide range+ ect bonuses.

I was looking at the tigrex set for this, looked very promising!

[Xilia]

Originally posted by Xilo The Odd:

Originally posted by JPM岩:

https://imgur.com/a/4XWesU2 Link with the meta HH sets

ok like ALL those sets are speed run meta for HH. its all about your damage and not survival. keep that in mind OP. some of these builds will get you 1 shotted for being out of place on say, a tempered elder dragon.

if you want a decent comfy set, Gold rath belt and boots as your starter, then any combo of a 3 piece or two piece set you think you could make use of, make sure divine prot is at 5 and health boost is at 3, add damage from there.

i see sets like this all the time and they die to the silliest of things if they had just more buffer for when they get hit.

edit: additional thought, attack up large is great and all, but dont neglect getting horns with wind pressure negate and earplugs, or affinity s + health s. stam reduction L and stun immunity are also pretty great abilities as well when joining a mission people typically cart for poor reasons.

after watching my friend who is an agressive HH user, Slugger secret and maxing out for KO is hillarious, you get about 2 min gaps between KO if you run HH right.

pretty much what I was looking into, the tips are very appreciated. And I am really looking at a HH with notes i could use for 'most' hunts. And then a few HH for specialised hunts
I generally like to join random SOS to help out, so yes. The anti-stun and such are god-tier

[[reaVerNL@Rumble]ᚱᛖᚨᚠᛖᚱ]

Originally posted by puzzlefox:

Originally posted by Gen:

Free Meal Secret + Wide Range + Speed Eating + generic crit skills = One godly HH hunter

This too.
I also had a support build with all the fast food+wide range+ ect bonuses.

Please don't do this. The horn itself already has the necessary support features, granted you picked the correct one, there is no need to waste more slots on additional support features. Furthermore, the hunting horn a slow sheathe speeds, so you cannot properly employ your wide range to save your teammates.

Instead amplify what the horn does and pick the horn that you wish to use. If you want to heal your teammates, look for a horn with health recovery M or H, if you wish to buff your teammates with increased damage or health, look for a horn that does that. Do not pick up a support weapon that you tug away to use other, otherwise inaccessible, support skills; that is just not how support weapons work. If you wish to use wide range and chug items, you're better off with SnS which doesn't need to sheathe, or LBG which has the ammo types and sheathes quickly enough.

For hunting horn you will want to amplify what the horn does: buffs (horn maestro), stun (KO jewels) and exhaust (exhaust jewels). You can add jewels for any status effects on your horn and get the equipment to use those status effects. Otherwise build for health boost 3 and maximum affinity like the rest (crits give 25% + 5%*boost extra damage, which is further amplified towards stun for any KO jewels you got equipped), the horn does the supporting; hence it's a support weapon.