Dealing with insane chip damage on Lance?

[u/Traditional_Tune2865]

Basically the title. Really high chip damage wasn't really a thing in World until the final couple monsters if you had a decent build, but in Wilds I'm already coming up against really high chip damage, with max lvl guard, against attacks from monsters like tempered Gore and Zoh Shia. I've been trying to hit more perfect guards and play some evade lance, but I don't play lance so I can dodge attacks or the need to have perfect timing against half the attacks from these monsters. My understanding of Guard Up is that the reduction in damage is only for unblockable attacks so I don't think that would help any either.

Does lance now just require perfect timing in order to keep you from sheathing every couple attacks to heal or am I missing something?

[u/Traditional_Tune2865]

I tried a different weapon for base Rise and never got around to Sunbreak so can't speak for it, but in World I didn't really even need to worry about chip damage for the most part until Alatreon and Fatalis - not base game HR content.

And the game doesn't just reward perfect blocks - it's starting to actively punish not using them.

Edit - also not sure all the "jUsT perfect gUarD brO" comments actually bothered reading my post - because I wasn't asking for advice on if I should be perfect guarding. I understand that solves the chip damage issue. I was asking if they made perfect guarding a hard requirement for Lance or if I was missing something, and they more or less did and I wasn't missing anything.

[u/fayt03 → u/Traditional_Tune2865]

It's not really a hard requirement, but it's definitely optimal. Since we lack health augments the only way to heal chip damage is to sheathe and chug, which is standard even in base World.

Tbf only apex tier tempered monsters even deal notable chip damage, and we're expected to play at least semi-optimal at that point so i wouldn't consider the game punishing non-perfect blocks

[u/Lahk74 → u/[deleted]]

They were trying to be helpful and you had the option to just ignore their comment. But you chose to be a rude asshole instead. Nice.

[u/Traditional_Tune2865 → u/Lahk74]

Nah man tons of people have been helpful, but a handful have given less than useless advice of "LuL juSt pErfEcT bLoCk nO cHiP" because they apparently couldn't be bothered to actually read my post. Imo that's rude, but you can be upset over my attitude all you want.

Oh and btw you had the option to just ignore my comment, but you chose to be rude insulting asshole. Nice.

[u/Lahk74 → u/Traditional_Tune2865]

Just keep your headass advice to yourself, thanks.

[u/Traditional_Tune2865 → u/Lahk74]

Lmao he did not like that 🤣