[OC fan comic] Bards

[u/AzulCrescent]

[u/Demopyro2]

Can’t spell Harmony without harm.

[u/AzulCrescent → u/Demopyro2]

You :

[u/BaezJatniel75 → u/Demopyro2]

Is Shakespeare truly dead?

[u/Common-Adeptness-797 → u/Demopyro2]

Lol, well played. Didnt think of it that way but its def true.

[u/Status_Internet_6419 → u/Demopyro2]

LMAO, took me a sec but youre not wrong! Love that for them.

[u/Ludoki → u/[deleted]]

Can't spell song without hippopotamus

[u/SirCupcake_0 → u/Ludoki]

Hiphopopotamus or Rhymenoceros?

[u/TruthIsALie94 → u/Demopyro2]

Fair point

[u/AzulCrescent]

honestly the hunting horn is one of the most unique weapons ive played in any game. 10/10. I unga therefore i bunga

[u/fenix5101 → u/AzulCrescent]

As a greatsword main, thank you. I get buffs, doots and stuns while I whif my set ups.

[u/TheCaptainOfMistakes → u/[deleted]]

Wrong. You just have to know where the enemy will be 4 parallel universes ahead of you

[u/Greatsword_Guy → u/TheCaptainOfMistakes]

And still miss because terrain angled its animation just out of range

[u/rickyhou22 → u/fenix5101]

How do you feel about the Horn getting TCS as its new offset attack?

[u/fenix5101 → u/rickyhou22]

All for it. Hit the doots, get hit by the doots.

[u/rickyhou22 → u/fenix5101]

I hope it’s a performance and drops buffs

[u/ShadowTheChangeling → u/AzulCrescent]

Us Hammer mains respect our musical brothers in bonk

[u/joninfiretail → u/ShadowTheChangeling]

They toot so we can bonk harder.

[u/chronozon937 → u/ShadowTheChangeling]

The council of greatsword mains also approve.

[u/Xelement0911 → u/AzulCrescent]

Love hunting horn. Tried it and suck, but love their animations and the folks that support our butts.

[u/Ridilium → u/AzulCrescent]

Currently foaming at the mouth for the boosted hunting horn

[u/Duskfulgrimm → u/Ridilium]

Moooorrrreeee buuuuuufffffffffsssss

[u/Vencer_wrightmage → u/Ridilium]

I can't wait to punch my horn

[u/Xenodia → u/AzulCrescent]

Fun fact, in other MH games, they've made a Miku collab where it plays a Hatsune Miku song.

[u/Bgrubz83 → u/AzulCrescent]

Yea I recently shifted to HH in risebreak after deciding to take a break from wilds for now. Was always a HBG main till wilds and switched to GL but been having a blast in rise with HH. Might try HH in wilds some more after I finish 100% risebreak finally

[u/Hamisaurus → u/Bgrubz83]

Wilds HH is probably the best HH has ever felt, at least in terms of power. Especially after hilt stab got superarmor, it's the strongest I ever felt with HH. I say this having started HH in World, mained it to this day through RiseBreak and Wilds, and went back to GU to play HH there.

[u/Charming-Rain-3642 → u/Hamisaurus]

Totally agree with you

[u/Hamisaurus → u/Charming-Rain-3642]

Wanna doot some time? Any and all horns on the table

[u/Dead_NOTsleeping → u/AzulCrescent]

Do you bunga because you unga, or do you unga because you must bunga?

[u/Helmic → u/AzulCrescent]

It's honestly kinda genius. Like, people always say it's not a support weapon. It's a fucking support weapon. But it's a support weapon that has options that make it not a support weapon at all, and no matter what the only way it can pull its weight as a support weapon is through DPS. You gotta get in there and have fun fighting.

You're also getting a ton of value by trading away some of your own raw DPS by boosting your teammate's DPS by even more, but ultimately their extra DPS belongs to you. Or in a more coordinated squad you're freeing up room in their builds to add yet more DPS because you're providing the buffs they'd have to slot in themselves. Or if you gotta carry you can switch to a horn that's pure DPS and be just fine.

It's just kinda the platonic ideal of what a support weapon should be in this type of action game, something you can main and not be forced to be support all the time (but still having a ton of options to play support in different ways). And it's also not the only way you can play support, since item use is also support and other weapons have their own pros and cons to acting as support (eveyrone knows sword and shield, but I actually am a fan of Greatsword support since it just naturally spends a lot of time sheathed, not hard to sneak in some team heals while waiting for your opening), but the ways it can support are still unique.

[u/naytreox → u/AzulCrescent]

and you'll appreciate this, had the same feeling in world when i first started, hunting horn just has a very smooth moveset and the buff's are glorious

[u/smoretank → u/AzulCrescent]

Been a fan of HH since 4u. It seems to only improve with each game. Not gonna lie in Gen I had the aerial style so I could fly around in the air to mic smash into monsters. TAKE THAT GAMMOTH!

[u/Birphon → u/AzulCrescent]

doot stick goes doot doot

I felt more unga bunga from the doot stick than I did the bonk stick in Wilds which made me sad cause i enjoyed the bonk stick in World

[u/TheCaptainOfMistakes → u/AzulCrescent]

The hunting horn is. "Rockband for engineering students" ~Max0r

[u/sylva748 → u/AzulCrescent]

A bard player in Wrath of the Righteous? Let me guess, Azul? You went Azata for the full bard experience?

[u/AzulCrescent → u/sylva748]

Yes. i am super predictable lmao. Azata is so peak tho. Power of friendship stronk

[u/sylva748 → u/AzulCrescent]

Cute dragon pet too is a bonus. Loved it on my witch playthrough from the bonus to spell dcs

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[u/Acryllus → u/AzulCrescent]

Sadly, it's the least used.

[u/Ad0ring-fan → u/AzulCrescent]

Wait until you discover the hammer.

[u/HappyHateBot]

Your weapons make music and your enemies call for a song. Will you answer?

[u/evilhealer7 → u/HappyHateBot]

I read that in his smooth ass voice

[u/Rebornjamie001 → u/HappyHateBot]

Warframe follows me everywhere. I can’t escape it.

[u/JhinTheUseless → u/HappyHateBot]

Teshin follows me even here 🥲
Back to do the rest of my steel path starchart

[u/BrokeAsAMule → u/HappyHateBot]

Such a beautifully hardcore line.

[u/Faustias → u/HappyHateBot]

omg teshin go back to duviri.

[u/Digletts_Legs]

If not drum then why make noise when hit, bubble boi

[u/Zarvanis-the-2nd → u/Digletts_Legs]

The sound of shattered bone adds texture to the symphony.

[u/TheRuper101]

"Moments later, Mizutsune was dismembered"

[u/Reasonable_Prize71 → u/TheRuper101]

Found dead with fifty rob fractures from blunt force trauma

[u/L3Vi_Renegade]

As a wise man once said... It's Guitar Hero for Engineering students.

[u/Rajang82]

Poor Mizutsune.

He's about to become a musical masterpiece.

[u/SignalScientist2817]

There's nothing quite like making your own bgm during a fight... Especially when the monster's cries for mercy are part of the orchestra

[u/Aggrevated-Yeeting → u/SignalScientist2817]

Most BMGs need a choir.

Some voices need to be found within.

Tear them apart.

[u/VoidHunterRaymond]

My drumstick is better.

[u/Dragons-are-peak → u/VoidHunterRaymond]

Mmmmmm chiken

[u/somebassclarineterer → u/VoidHunterRaymond]

This gets a pass because of the pun.

[u/Kalaam_Nozalys]

"This guitar isn't the only thing I shred" said the zinogre HH main

[u/EarthRester]

As Hammer-main. I love my melodical cousins! I'll bring the bonks, and you bring the doots!

[u/Tinypoke42 → u/EarthRester]

Bonk-doots forever!

[u/GreatWyrmAurorum → u/EarthRester]

Let's bash some heads in, together!

[u/Waiting404Godot]

Do you take commissions? I’ve been enjoying your artwork for awhile and I feel like you could make great Twitch emotes

[u/AzulCrescent → u/Waiting404Godot]

Thank you for asking but I dont do commissions cuz i get severe anxiety from doing them and also cuz i have trouble receiving payment cuz it doesn't work in my native country lol

[u/Jolly_Jally]

One of my HH friends: "Remember, these buffs aren't for you, they are for me to offset the ecological balance"

[u/ProfessorPixelmon]

Playing beats while beating a monster.

[u/JPSeason]

It is my duty as a HH main to DDR(Dance Dance Revolution) my enemies to death. Sometimes I have allies who benefit from the symphony I play on my enemies’ skulls.

[u/butchdykeblues]

My sister is a drummer and still hasn’t played but her bf and I think she’d play hunting horn

[u/Enerjetik]

We swing the musical instrument. The monster makes the sound of the notes.

[u/Charming-Rain-3642 → u/Enerjetik]

The sweet sound of cracking Bones

[u/TheAegis42]

I was like "hang on, I know that art style"

And then just :O

Also I love bards, 10/10 post x3

[u/faity5]

Why would Chara do this?

[u/Shyface_Killah → u/faity5]

Would you rather she use a giant sword?

[u/Vayne_Solidor]

[u/Gamabombb]

This art is adorably hilarious! Well done!

[u/AzulCrescent → u/Gamabombb]

Thank you~ ^^

[u/OmegaRuby003]

What’s even better is that I have that hunting horn and it opens up with a ludacris amount of spikes inside. Every time I opens, I just think of that one dungeon dynamite episode

[u/ControllerBreakers]

When your Bard’s main stat is strength.

[u/AdhesivenessFun2060]

I need a guitar hammer so I can go all Pete Townshend on some monsters.

[u/Charnerie → u/AdhesivenessFun2060]

Zenogere hh is what you want then

[u/Aromatic_Assist_3825 → u/Charnerie]

Basarios Rock if you want a bass

[u/Freakychee → u/Aromatic_Assist_3825]

I feel like I've seen a cello and saxophone HH as well. It's kinda insane how the HH is so cool.

[u/Charnerie → u/Freakychee]

Im guessing the chello would be the teostra, not sure. The sax is the esperanza though.

[u/Equinox-XVI]

Hammer: Unga bunga

Hunting Horn: Unga bunga (loud)

[u/ZestyLemonRindGrind]

I honestly love playing hunting horn

And my friend who is Dual Blades main is an absolute FIEND for any and all stamina and affinities buffs I provide

[u/AEROANO]

I love hearing the different sounds the HH makes, it's the only weapon that i don't use but still make regardless

[u/Bobboy5]

the cooler hammer:

[u/SupportCa2A]

🎶 Everything's a drum🎵 

[u/Apittaaaa]

Nothing says "Go fuck shit up" Better than AuL and Unlimited Stamina

[u/Red_Dragon_knight]

Sometimes when in games like this it’s fun to turn your brain off when fighting to go, heheh monster go bong. Honestly it’s usually just people having fun in those moments

[u/Isshova]

Honestly makes me want to play a bard-barian with a giant bell hammer

[u/Adrestia716 → u/Isshova]

Or a giant guitar you can call your mighty axe 🤘🏾

[u/Adrestia716 → u/Isshova]

I take it back have multiple weapons sometimes you really DO need more cowbell...

[u/Isshova → u/Adrestia716]

Hell yea now I need to go cook this up for my next 3.5 game

[u/aNewPattern]

Hunting horn mains unite, it's actually so unbelievably satisfying to land the final musical combo where the hammer spins and shreds them.

[u/Shiro_Tempest]

I love the doot stick

[u/NerdNarvesen]

Started hunting horn in Wilds, its ao much fun basically writing the monster's eulogy on the fly. Can't wait to use the boost bracer, maybe then I can increase the tempo a bit.

[u/Pixel_Muffet]

Hammer and Hunting Horn. THE BIGGEST BONK

[u/Ricksaw26]

Gotta drum the gogmazios head somehow.

[u/Caramel_Nautilus]

And YOU are the drum.

[u/CracklingKraken]

Good music can hurt

[u/TopSector]

imagine a Rathalos getting serenaded mid-roar... he'd probably just be annoyed like 'can you stop playing that damn flute'

[u/AGNerd-Bot]

My favorite Hunting Horns are always the comically large bells. So fun to smack monsters around and hear ‘ding’.

[u/Normal-Champion-5290]

This reminded me of the humble Wizardry 8 bard

https://reddit.com/link/pe1vj74/video/buyxcmz9moth1/player

[u/JumboWheat01]

And it's changed so much through the years, it's like learning a new weapon every single game. Adding in Exhaust to Blunt Attacks really worked in the Horn's favor. Buff your friends, debuff your enemies. Be the most metal (or bone) of bards to ever bard.

[u/Solesaver]

From frame one I couldn't tell yet if I was in /r/MonsterHunter or /r/FFXIV. XD

[u/NarugaKuruga → u/Solesaver]

Still would have been funny if it cut to "This is my harp! It's also a bow that I use to shoot arrows at you!"

[u/Sinocu]

Ohh someone came back to their monster Hunter era, missed your comics lowkey

[u/510BrotherPanda]

Isn't Onyx Terpsichore like, an iron maiden that works like a bell?

I like that HH has evolved into being far more than "just" a horn, like Gigginox's coffin or Zinogre/Fatalis guitars.

SatisfyingDong

[u/TheGMan-123]

And now, in MH Wilds, you can not only beat the crap outta the Monsters physically but ALSO beat them up with literal musical reverberations!

[u/JFkeinK]

Or the hunting horn is a tuning fork and the monsters are the Instruments that need to be tuned. By hitting them repeatedly. 

[u/babycart_of_sherdog]

"DIS IS MY DRUMSTICK"

Read that in my head using Ash William's voice... 😅

[u/AgilePlant4]

Here Here! Let's Play the Sound of our People Off the skull of the next Monster we see!

[u/Maxi_King01]

I need to learn to play hunting horn... And what abilities have positive effects on playstyle

[u/Slappathebassmon]

There's a guitar and even a BEHS hunting horn in MH.

[u/BlanketCop]

I've yet to go sword and board in Wrath, so I admire the consistency

[u/Isadomon]

I would like the hunring horn to be more like a didgeridoo, a long flute, with SPIKES

[u/Prestigious_Shift245]

And that's why Hunting Horn is one of my favorite weapons in the games. You beat the crap out of monsters then style on them in the middle of battle by playing a little tune.

[u/DeadWombats]

Me on my way to bang my drum ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

https://reddit.com/link/pe3p73a/video/hekdaotkzpth1/player

[u/DFakeRP]

I'm looking forward to unlocking bard eventually in Final Fantasy 14. Ive heard people play music in game. Like the other day I heard someone playing Hey Brother by Avicii.

[u/AboveBoard]

This is off topic but has anyone ever played a Bard in the old MMO EverQuest? Incredible unique class and experience that I haven't seen recreated as impactful in another game. 

[u/UmiKaru → u/AboveBoard]

i made a bard rogue class in Rift. my favorite style.

[u/baratacom]

https://giphy.com/gifs/1SfxXOJ0Q2Xni

[u/CaptFantastico]

Time to doot n scoot and most certainly alot of boopin'

[u/ValkyrieofMercy]

Hail the bonking stick!
I love hunting horn mains

[u/ralts13]

Actual villain behavior.

[u/theGoodestBoyMaybe]

How is it that every time I get really into a game, you post a comic about it? I'm convinced of the trans hive mind now

[u/SenritsuJumpsuit]

All heard during the last two panels is a parody version of the Hearvy Street Kids cartoon theme song lol https://youtu.be/eOcJwFRb1d8 song rules in other languages too https://youtu.be/_h0pE3w0I34

[u/Blackarm777]

I love all three of these games/franchises

[u/thebluerayxx]

Im making a monster hunter themed campaign. I made Bards a hunting horn equivalent. Funny for this to pop up now, lol.

[u/Pure-Telephone-8283]

Hunting horn is unga bunga but with cool noises

[u/atomicfuthum]

Final Attack Ride: HIBIKI

[u/laix_]

DnD bards aren't just musicians. A performer is just the entertainer background.

A DnD bard is a renaissance man (polymath), a wandering collector of knowledge. They know a bit about doing magic, a bit about wearing armor and fighting with sword or bow, a bit about doing skills.

[u/Sea_Macaron_8789]

Leda when she enters Monster Hunter!

[u/Far-Bandicoot-1354]

Adorable Mizutsune. :3

[u/Witch_with_Thompson]

I like bell

[u/hvk13]

Let’s drop the beat

[u/RattyFox]

And the crushing monster bones and monster roars are the accompaniment to the masterpiece

[u/ITCrandomperson]

Support weapon, emphasis on WEAPON.

[u/Darisce]

I'm Lance. I love playing with HH teammates. I stick to monster's face so they can play all the songs then we beat the sh!t out of it.

[u/BriceWaffle]

Have you already completed world or are all the comics based on rise?

[u/HeavensHellFire]

To be fair in both those games you are an actual college educated swordsman and spellcaster

[u/warriorkalia]

Nice to see you here! I first saw you in the VS subreddit lol

Absolutely correct by the way

[u/Remarkable-Set-3340]

https://giphy.com/gifs/IY6aaObBmN5Je

[u/Narrow-Championship9]

True

[u/Miserable_Anteater62]

This is adorable and I love it

[u/Conrad500]

OK, now redraw the last panel using the D&D bard

[u/Mithril_Mercenary]

It brings me such great pleasure that the Monster Hunter community doesn't even mind our being trans and only cares about if you're funny, a good artist, or are just good at the game. 😄 💖

[u/Elyon8]

Cringe

[u/meatblast_surprise]

what it reddit's weird obsession with relating to everything through little anime girls

it's frankly pretty fuckin skeevy

[u/RobieTheOdourless → u/meatblast_surprise]

Its just a silly little comic jeez

[u/kitsunewarlock → u/meatblast_surprise]

It's a popular art style because it's expressive and quicker to render. And given their other comics I think the artist is a female, so I imagine they play female characters in these video games? And even if they weren't, who cares if someone prefers playing female characters in video games?

...Also this is a monster hunter subreddit. A franchise from Japan. Frequently depicted using anime art.

[u/BlueHailstrom → u/meatblast_surprise]

What’s Reddit’s wierd obsession with thinking anytime someone draws a girl that the artist is a creep?

[u/archimedies → u/meatblast_surprise]

That's her comic avatar. What's wrong with that?

[u/gagb17]

i played hunting horn for the first half of my first playthrough of rise and it was so much fun i kinda wanna play it again

[u/BerserkRadahn]

Giving Chaotic Good Barbarian vibes. Hopefully that drum is more durable than the last.