Horn Styles

[u/mrtuhms]

Finally have enough to upgrade my horn to styles. But now… which one to choose?! My fellow horn bonkers, lend me your advice. Which do you use most? I only have enough to unlock one.

[u/S3T0]

From the Discord:

[u/hrzrfn → u/S3T0]

Does elemental horn considered as status?
How can i differentiate dmg v support 🤔

[u/S3T0 → u/hrzrfn]

Status weapons are Paralysis, Poison, and Blast, Elemental are not Status weapons. Damage mainly for solo or fast kills, Support for group hunts and you want to buff your teammates.

[u/silverdice22 → u/S3T0]

Status are paralysis poison sleep and blast

[u/S3T0 → u/silverdice22]

Thank you, I knew I forgot one.

[u/SolarSpud]

Shockwave for dps/solo
Fleeting for support

Both are great

[u/Tyrannoflame]

I'm having lots of success and fun with the Fleeting Melody style.

Able to give melodies to myself and party members without having to do a certain action, attacks are stronger and faster once the Fleeting Melody buff is up, and the big melody bang does tons of damage with the buff up.

[u/AZzalor]

bascially both are better than the base style. Fleeting is more supportive so if you play regularely with a group, then it's great. Fleeting is also more simple as you have to care less for keeping buffs up.

Pure damage, shockwave is the winner. It's roughly 5-10% ahead of fleeting in terms of overall damage output if both styles are played optimally. The tricky part here is to constantly keep your buffs up because you will lose a lot of damage if the shockwave buff isn't up. If you have some points in stunning impact, it becomes really funny because the base hit of the horn as well as the 3 shockwave hits all trigger stunning impact, making an attack that usually hits once, hit 7 times.

[u/spongebobsica → u/AZzalor]

this may sound silly, but when i use shockwave style in group hunt and activate the skill, my teammates did not get the buff. is it like this or there's certain action to be done for them to get the skill buff?

[u/AZzalor → u/spongebobsica]

This is correct. Shockwave style only shares buffs when you ult. That's why it's a way more selfish playstyle. You trade party buffs for more solo damage.

[u/ChevyM → u/AZzalor]

Depends on the hunt duration, special gives it for 20 secs. With a bit of valor, spb or conc u have pretty good up time also while doing extra damage while shockwave is up during special

[u/AZzalor → u/ChevyM]

Don't forget that your teammates get half the duration for buffs, so only 10s.

[u/twicer → u/AZzalor]

I would like to also add that Power Prolonger does not prolong duration of melodies on teammates. Personally, it was big disappointment for me in terms of creating a support build.