Why Your GS Damage Sucks and How to Not

Monster Hunter World Iceborne

[naota]

btw forward roll cancel provides a faster sheathe than a side/back roll cancel

[phailupe]

From my experience playing the game, being greedy with any weapon is a massive hit to your DPS. Being greedy in monster hunter may in fact be the root of all evil

[sonofwotan]

Interesting, this actually matches my experience. I intuitively leaned toward those “medium length, minimal charge” combos because it seemed they did pretty good damage and I wasn’t missing. Only used the long charge sequences if I had a knockdown and knew I had time. Thought I was playing sub-optimally but maybe not. Thanks for taking the time to share this.

[mangoxmochi]

nice video!
another benefit to the draw slashes and charging them would be frostcraft and critical draw. Crit draw only costs 3 skill points for 100% affinity so it's easy to build for and combining those two will probably make draw slashing even better.

[scragglie]

id love to see an expansion of this video into tcs, slinger burst, wide slash, etc... this is excellent information for any gs user new or old.

[C-Vite]

Bro the time of the upload is wild, but I'm here as well lmao

[Tree.lancer]

very interesting,
How about a set which has crit draw instead of CE and WEX to slot in more "comfy" skills (like a Velkhana set that also gets access to frostcraft)
would it make sense to charge the draw slash instead of the SCS?
Perhaps a DS3-SCS0 for the 6 second window for example.
Btw I love your videos man, it is thanks to you in great part that I managed to solo MH4U all the way to Gog earlier this year, which is something I had wanted to do for a long time but I never thought I'd be good enough to pull off, cheers!

[ceekei_]

So playing GS with Safi'jiiva set is kind of counter-intuitive, then? Because you need to keep your weapon drawn in order to recover any hp after some hits?

[rkerver]

Then you get the AT Velkhana set and your damage is amazing 😁 then you get health Regen augment on your GS and now the endgame is I will try to never use healing items.

[Mandraken]

What's the reason we are counting the animations until we sheathe, instead of counting until the frame we can roll after our attack?

[gabrielleite]

Whenever I try to play GS I get caught on overcharging or being greedy for TCS. I felt the "noob" hunter comment hard hahah I might at some point try it again. Also, Focus seems like a trap for GS

[protos]

So DS0>SS1 is more damage than DS3, but if you had a frost craft build would DS3 be stronger?

[jtdubs]

One point for DS3 vs scs1 combo would be using it predictively, no?

Since all the damage comes in a single hit it’s better in scenarios where you’d miss the scs1 because the monster moved….

[matthewhoover]

My damage doesn't suck, its just fun sized 😢

[lucifer-ygo]

How to do more damage with GS => use SnS instead