Wyrmstake Blast Duration

[Pottross]

Hey all,

in case you have ever wondered, if it's a good idea to increase Slinger Capacity to increase the duration of your Wyrmstake Blast, I have made a list with all slinger ammo that can be loaded onto your Wyrmstake. I'll give durations for each ammo type at 0 and maximum effective Stonethrower level (only up to 3 since I don't have access to Slinger Ammo Secret).

Brightmoss:

• Maximum effective rank of Stonethrower = Level 3
  
• Duration with max Stonethrower = 220s
  
• Duration without max Stonwthrower = 180s
  
• Duration profit = 40s

Crystalburst:

• Maximum effective rank of Stonethrower = Level 1
  
• Duration with max Stonethrower = 190s
  
• Duration without max Stonwthrower = 180s
  
• Duration profit = 10s

Dragon Pod:

• Maximum effective rank of Stonethrower = Level 2
  
• Duration with max Stonethrower = 190s
  
• Duration without max Stonwthrower = 180s
  
• Duration profit = 10s

Piercing Pod:

• Maximum effective rank of Stonethrower = Level 3
  
• Duration with max Stonethrower = 340s
  
• Duration without max Stonwthrower = 300s
  
• Duration profit = 40s

Redpit:

• Maximum effective rank of Stonethrower = Level 3
  
• Duration with max Stonethrower = 160s
  
• Duration without max Stonwthrower = 120s
  
• Duration profit = 40s

Scatternut:

• Maximum effective rank of Stonethrower = Level 1
  
• Duration with max Stonethrower = 190s
  
• Duration without max Stonwthrower = 180s
  
• Duration profit = 10s

Slinger Bomb:

• Maximum effective rank of Stonethrower = Level 3
  
• Duration with max Stonethrower = 340s
  
• Duration without max Stonwthrower = 300s
  
• Duration profit = 40s

Slinger Thorn:

• Maximum effective rank of Stonethrower = Level 2
  
• Duration with max Stonethrower = 360s
  
• Duration without max Stonwthrower = 300s
  
• Duration profit = 60s

Slinger Torch:

• Maximum effective rank of Stonethrower = Level 3
  
• Duration with max Stonethrower = 220s
  
• Duration without max Stonwthrower = 180s
  
• Duration profit = 40s

Stone:

• Maximum effective rank of Stonethrower = Level 1
  
• Duration with max Stonethrower = 210s
  
• Duration without max Stonwthrower = 120s
  
• Duration profit = 90s

Watermoss:

• Maximum effective rank of Stonethrower = Level 3
  
• Duration with max Stonethrower = 210s
  
• Duration without max Stonwthrower = 180s
  
• Duration profit = 30s

Hope this is interesting for some Gunlancers. Feel free to provide data for Slinger ammo secret, if you have it :)

Cheers!

[Velkhana's Summer]

Super underrated post, cheers dude this is awesome stuff and should definitely be what this forum is mostly made of. not these sissy whine babies or troll threads. Thank you for making the forums worth a damn

[Pottross]

Thank you, that might be the nicest response to any post I have seen on these boards :)

[Greb]

Seems like a great post. I haven't used a Gunlance yet but this kind of information is pretty useful, thank you! You might want to immortalise it in a Guide so it never falls off the front page, so to speak. I can see it being something a lot of Gunlancers would want to look over.

You could enhance it a bit by listing the effects each slinger ammo has, maybe? I think I saw it mentioned in a tutorial that the effects of your Wyrmstake Blast depends on the type of slinger ammo you loaded into it, right?

[Pottross]

Originally posted by Greb:

You might want to immortalise it in a Guide...

done! Thanks for the tip, didn't even realise there was a function like that in all those years xD

[_Platypus™]

Originally posted by Greb:

Seems like a great post. I haven't used a Gunlance yet but this kind of information is pretty useful, thank you! You might want to immortalise it in a Guide so it never falls off the front page, so to speak. I can see it being something a lot of Gunlancers would want to look over.

You could enhance it a bit by listing the effects each slinger ammo has, maybe? I think I saw it mentioned in a tutorial that the effects of your Wyrmstake Blast depends on the type of slinger ammo you loaded into it, right?

The only difference is duration.

[Greb]

Originally posted by _Platform™:

The only difference is duration.

Really? I could have sworn there was a loading tip or a tutorial tip that mentioned different types did different stuff? Maybe I read it wrong, I dunno. Either way, cheers!

Originally posted by Pottross:

done! Thanks for the tip, didn't even realise there was a function like that in all those years xD

Wahey! I rated it and favourited it for later, thanks man!

[Pottross]

Originally posted by Greb:

Originally posted by Pottross:

done! Thanks for the tip, didn't even realise there was a function like that in all those years xD

Wahey! I rated it and favourited it for later, thanks man!

[Netsa]

Super informative!

6 minutes on Slinger Thorn, wtf. I knew that little missile seemed to last a long time, but I didn't know it was that long. That's longer than pretty much every other non-permanent buff in the game.

[iNol]

Why some ammo has maximum effective rank of Stonethrower only 1 while some can 2 or 3? I dont get it

[Fregi]

Originally posted by iNol iGunggung:

Why some ammo has maximum effective rank of Stonethrower only 1 while some can 2 or 3? I dont get it

Stonethrower levels only broaden the range of ammo types that are affected. The only way to get past this is the Stonethrower Secret, which is part of the silverlos set bonus.

[Pottross]

Originally posted by iNol iGunggung:

Why some ammo has maximum effective rank of Stonethrower only 1 while some can 2 or 3? I dont get it

Slinger Thorn for example shows max. effective rank of "Level 2". This means that you will increase your slinger capacity for Slinger Thorn at Level 2 Stonethrower skill. Any rank after Level 2 will not increase capacity further (except maybe Slinger Ammo Secret, which I don't yet have). So in this case you will have more capacity at Level 2 and therefore have reached longer duration on Wymrstake Blast.
Things like Watermoss will increase in capacity from 7 (at Level 0) by 1, up to 10 capacity (at Level 3), obviously increasing Wyrmstake Blast duration per Level as well.

[ICountFrom0]

I'm honestly just commenting so I can easily stuff this into my subscriptions so when slinger secret comes out on PC I can check on this again.

It already is going to cause me to use glow and water instead of redpit

[Pottross]

In the meantime better info than what I have measured myself has surfaced:

https://imgur.com/gallery/ZnWFu65

Super informative, quickly referenced, includes slinger capacity secret, and gain per "bullet".

Originally posted by ICountFrom0:

I'm honestly just commenting so I can easily stuff this into my subscriptions so when slinger secret comes out on PC I can check on this again.

It already is going to cause me to use glow and water instead of redpit

We already have slinger secret on PC, just at the time of compiling the info *I* didn't have access to Silver Rathalos myself.

[Crusader]

Thank you so much for this. I was wondering about this for a long time now!

[Osaizuchi]

Thanks you so much! Literally one of the best thread in this forum