@redtiger 82 Awesome! I love to see other high level Horizon players in this community! I’m glad you’re able to learn something from my videos. I try to strike a balance between giving beginner/intermediate people useful info, but also having tips to help “pro” level players out too. Glad you’re enjoying my videos!
Pro tip: change to story difficulty for the arena weapons, so you dont have to spend multiple frustrating days of grinding it and instead can do it in an hour or less. As someone who values their time and prefers to have fun in video games, this helped so much!
highly recommended! I've been playing for 1.5 months on normal difficulty, never paying much attention to the arena. After watching this video, fixing the arena and changing the difficulty mode to story, 2 hours later-boom! I have all the legendary costumes, weapons, and coils that you can buy in the arena.
NGL, I avoided these videos for so long because I found the thumbnails so cringe, but now I totally regret it. These are by far the most informative Horizon videos on RUclips. Hands down, no contest. Added bonuses includes - no awful time wasting intro - doesn't delay the actual content further by an extended plea to like and subscribe, only asks after presenting helpful content deserving of a like - effective use of chapter markers make it easy to return to a previously watched video and jump to the section you're looking for - proper pronunciation of words like "icon" or "armor". Every video I've watched is loaded with high quality tips/advice/loadouts that has been new to me and has improved my experience with the game. Well done, you have my like and my subscription.
Hey thanks a lot! Glad you’re finding my content to be high quality and helpful 😄 Sorry to hear the thumbnails were off-putting for you. If you’d be willing to give me some more feedback on that I’d be happy to know what exactly you don’t like about them. Also, I’d be curious to know if you like my more recent thumbnails better. I’m always looking to improve my content, and I’d hate to miss out on an opportunity to help people and grow my channel just because my thumbnails are keeping people from clicking. Any feedback you have would be much appreciate 👍 And thanks again for your kind words! 🙏
@@ArktixOfficial It's the FONT! I just can't understand why you're not willing to use Papyrus. Just look at what James Cameron has achieved. You too could drive men mad. :')
The Tenakth Tactician actually has some of the highest damage potential of any armor in the game if you throw the Stealth Ranged and Low Health Ranged weave on it. Since it has the Mounted Archer buff built in, making this the literal highest damage potential you can possibly have in the game. That is literally every damage buff you can possibly have from armor. Combine this with the proper weapon build w as many 25% damage buffs as you can and a Valor Surge & you can kill most foes with just 1 shot if you do things right.
Hey thanks a lot! 🥳 Glad you've been finding my content helpful 😄 Hope you're enjoying your quest to 100%! Thanks again for your support. I appreciate it 🙏
I find it hilarious and comforting to see you having the exact same weapons in your weapon wheel as I do (except for one, which is my 'interchangable' slot). I don't agree with a lot of coil configurations you use, which is fine. This difference is mostly because of our different playstyles. Like, I put my crits and agility coils on ascenders return, use shocked damage coils on my sharpshot for synergy and the corrosive version on carja bane. It makes me able to utilize the status effects in my favour instead of seeing it as a disadvantage. I like how situational coils shape my playstyle. This game gives you that freedom and I love it. For the spike throwers: Overdraw coil works for both impact AND explosive damage giving it a higher damage boost compared to explosive or normal damage coils ; hope this helps I love the informative video's you post. I've invested a lot of hours in research, just like you, and find it interesting to see where our choices overlap and differ. I have learned a lot watching your video's. Thank you
@Sem Bohle Glad to hear we have a similar loadout! You have some very interesting coil configurations. Thanks for sharing those! I’ll have to give some of them a try. Shock damage on your sharpshot seems very unique. Could you maybe explain your thinking there a bit more? I like the suggestion for overdraw coils on spike throwers. Of course, that assumes you take the time to overdraw most/all of your spike throws. I agree it’s pretty cool how much variety we have to coil things differently and customize weapons for different playstyles. It does make it tough to make recommendations though! I want to do a video on “the best ways to cool every weapon”, but as you know there’s so many possibilities that the video could easily either be really limited in scope or really long and boring lol I’m glad you’re enjoying my videos and learning something from them! That’s definitely my goal with this channel. Thanks!
@@ArktixOfficial when I use the Forgefall, I need to be careful with the amount of ammo I use because it is expensive. So having extra setup time is necessary, that way I don't waste ammo. My main weapon is the Ancestor's return, so I often get my enemies shocked or corroded. Seeing the stun as a byproduct, I can make my attacks more efficient to use said stun. For example a high damage weapon that already needs time for a setup can be used . I got three purple shocked enemy damage coils, so I decided to put them to use (it also helps that the bow already has +25% damage boost to shocked enemies). With two remaining slots I use sharpshot tear arrows. I got a reasonable amount of time when enemies are shocked so I could shoot components off for high damage and extra resources or I can use the blast shot with normal plasma arrows (that deal the same amount of damage as advanced arrows) for raw damage . Corrosive is kind of the same story. Corrosion needed a use. I saw that Carja Bane had a +25% damage boost to corroded enemies and decided to boost it with two purple corrosion coils and 3 damage coils. The rest is history. My configuration for the legendary gauntlet shredder is my pride and joy. Two agility coils, two crit chance (making crits hit 45% total, with a x2 multiplier) and one component tear +25% makes it viable for any situation. Crits for damage (I've seen it do 1000+ damage on a good throw, no surges) and when the explosion happens every component comes off. Because of all the movement you have to do for the catch, I often get annoyed at Aloy for being stuck at a crouch after a slide. By jumping out of the slide you negate the crouch. This is often the prime moment to retailliate. The Agility coils give this moment a use. The weapon is not affected by the power shot Valor surges, so you can stack the status effects (preferably shock) untill they are active and then use a different weapon that does use the valor e.g. sharpshot or spike thrower for damage. For the overdraw, yes I overdraw almost all throws. The only sad part about the coils is that it doesn't work with splitting spike. (I usually use my stamina for other weapons so that is no problem for me) I'm going to test if it works with propelled spike, but don't expect it to. Otherwise it is still able to utilize it's potential with the powershot valor surges, which can sometimes make it outperform my sharpshot bow.
@Sem Bohle Oh shocked DAMAGE coils on your sharpshot bow! Sorry, I wasn't reading your original post carefully enough. I though you said you were putting regular shock coils on your sharpshot bow. My mistake! And thanks for explaining that. Yeah that make a lot of sense and sounds very strong. I like your focus on resource efficiency! I like your coil set for the Ancestor's Return too. I think I'll have to give that a try! Thanks for sharing all of this! Not sure if Discord is your thing, but we have a pretty cool group over on my Discord server if you want to join. We talk about stuff like this a lot. No pressure, but you'd be more than welcome! The link is in all my video descriptions.
For the Tenakth Vanquisher you're better off using a Stealth Ranged weave in one of those slots and use that armor for a stealth playstyle for absolute maximum damage. Combining both Low Health Ranged, Stealth Ranged and a Valor Surge can kill most enemies in just one or two shots. You can also extract multiples of weaves that come on armor by upgrading an armor to get the weave off it, selling the armor and then re-buying it fresh from the vendor who used to sell it, then rinse lather repeat. It will reappear at the shop again once sold. That way you don't have to remove important weaves from other armors to use it on another, can have multiples. Only armor you can't do this with are ones earned thru quests or ones bought at the Arena.
Just got the game after a year and I've been playing for a week now, and your videos are absolutely the best. Literally trying to watch everything you've posted in preparation for burning shores 😅. Incase people don't say it enough, THANK YOU, and you've got a permanent Fan in me. Keep up the amazing work
Great work...again. Loving how different this is from most videos about legendary gear...particularly 1) how you critically evaluate and makes cases for your preferred gear and 2) you're not afraid to say when purple gear makes more sense. Is there a reason you made recommendations about coils on this vid versus your previous ones? Either way, it's helpful.
@Furious Styles Thanks! I’m glad you appreciate the depth I go into. I do put a lot of time into researching all the content for these videos to make them as useful and accurate as I can. As for recommending coils, I did that because I got a number of comments asking about coils and I figured it would be useful info this time around, especially since people are kind of optimizing their loadout in the endgame. In retrospect I probably should have done that in the previous gear videos too, but live and learn! 😊
I wish you'd give a tutorial for how to complete the Gauntlet Runs to get Carja's Bane, because I am _struggling_ on the last race. I remember you saying elsewhere that they were pretty easy, but I know I'm not the only one who's having trouble with them. Your guides are always excellent, thanks so much for all the work you've put into them!
8:20 Sharpshot Bows have a base 5% critical hit chance so with the three 15% critical hit chance coils you total out to a 50% critical hit chance :) Sharpshot Bows have a base critical hit damage multiplier is 2.5x which is actually pretty good in itself. After the 3 coil slots are used up, the remaining 2 coil slots can be used for long range damage or impact damage coils. If you don't like situational coils - very rare impact coils go very well for the 2 remaining coil slots. Compared to 5x very rare 25% situational damage coils, which is 125% damage boost. It doesn't make those coils are useful for active combat gameplay as you have to be at a long range, at high ground and in stealth to take full advantage of the 125% boost. So coiling a Sharpshot Bow with critical hit chance/damage is a pretty good idea :) Edit: made some changes after some testing
@K G Hey thanks for sharing this! I actually just checked and I don’t have a single critical hit damage coil. Can you believe it? I kill a lot of machines, so I feel like I should have at least one! You haven’t found them for sale anywhere, have you? Anyway, I agree with you that your suggested set of coils is more optimal. I honestly didn’t even know critical hit damage coils existed. I’ll have to keep an eye out for those. Thanks for sharing this!
@@ArktixOfficial My pleasure :) I've enjoyed playing around with the weapons in this game a lot and min maxing the damage. Happy to contribute and interact! So I have 3 rare 15% critical hit damage coils. Which I think I bought from merchants or got them from firegleam/metal flower chests. Can't recall which ones exactly. But if I find the vendors that do sell them, I'll reply to this thread. :) The rare critical hit damage coils don't seem that worthy, hopefully we get very rare 25% critical hit damage coils in the DLC to make them worthy of filling the 2 remaining slots on Forgefall :)
@K G Looks like there’s blue 15% crit hit damage coils in Arrowhand, but I don’t think there’s purple ones for sale anywhere. I guess I thought you were referring to purple ones for some reason, but yeah these blue ones would work pretty well. Like you said though, hopefully we’ll get some purple 25% ones at some point!
I am HIGHLY excited for the Stealth specialized build because I have a build that, while admittedly resource expensive, is super powerful and uses basically everything in your versatile build.
I didn't like warrior bows too much until I began playing with Carja's Bane. I like combining it with burning enemy damage coils, then using the fire option from the bow and switching it to normal arrows once the machine is burning. I slap a melee follow-up coil on it too, and I'll usually hit the machine at least once when I get it burning to pile on the damage. It's amazing how quickly that bow can bring down a machine when you're speed firing arrows at it.
An alternative coil setup for the Death-seeker's Shadow is to spec it into crit chance/damage to take advantage of its native crit perks. I use two 15% crit chance coils and one 15% crit damage coil, boosting total crit chance up to 35% and crit damage to 40%. About every 3rd arrow will be a crit, which means you're almost guaranteed to get at least one with each triple notch. Combine that with 25% component tear and 12% impact damage coils and you've got a really strong all-purpose damage dealer. It's really fun to put it together with the Tenakth Tactician armor to take advantage of maxed-out Mounted Archer too. If you shock a machine (I've found the base shock value for the Shadow's shock arrows is good enough in most situations), you get a very spicy stat stack: 35% crit chance + 40% crit damage + 25% shocked enemy damage + 15% overdraw damage + 50% damage from Mounted Archer. Knocking a machine down with a mounted Clawstrider heavy attack instead of shocking it gives you even more by swapping the shocked enemy damage for 40% knockdown damage. Super fun!
Nice build J.Q.! I agree your coil set for the DSS makes for a great all-arounder! Personally, I prefer to dedicated my DSS (and now the TLG) to component removal and use boltblasters and shredders for damage, but that's what cool about Forbidden West gear, there's so many ways you can set it up!
@@ArktixOfficial Yes, shredders are super fun and highly effective. I still naturally gravitate towards hunter bows for damage and utility mainly out of habit from so much time spent in Zero Dawn :D Have you considered trying out the AR while mounted and wearing Tenakth Tactitian? There may be some crazy damage/crowd control synergy potential there if one can get the hang of catching shredders while on a mount.
Thanks a lot! Many videos only cover the legendary weapons, but yours also covers the best very rare weapons and much more. That was exactly what I needed :D
The weapon and clothing variety is crazy big no complaint but zero dawn it was the same 4 weapons. For me I used the stealth armor from the banuk and shield weaver when things went south
Ng+ is around the corner! I cant wait to try out your build for the forge fall that uses crit chance to get a guaranteed critical hits and thanks dude for the awesome video and would love to see your horizon video when ng+ is out
Hey thanks Anthony! I have lots more HFW content planned and I'm looking forward to covering new games like GoW and Hogwarts Legacy 😄 Thanks for your support! 🤜🤛
Really enjoying your videos. Lots of explanations, details and information on locations for the items or tutorials. Your videos are great. You are the man!
I’ve definitely been learning something new watching your guides, as I watched this video couldn’t help but notice our same taste in outfit with the Nora thunder warrior (currently wearing that at endgame). I definitely need to use the shredder gauntlet more for sure… I use to but then I stopped idk what happened lol, but you getting me motivated to use em once again
Awesome! Glad you can learn something from my guides 😄 And yeah the Thunder Warrior is a great outfit. I’ve tried to use others, but I just always come back to it lol. Check out my shredder master class if you’d like some tips for them! Shredders are my favorite 😄 Thanks for your comment!
I'm not one to comment or subscribe but you've really nailed these HFW videos mate. As someone new to gaming you've been a savior. Really appreciate the way you go about it. Cheers legend!
I never would have thought about using the boltblaster but after watching this video and see it being used as well as your explanation about it I'm really reconsidering it. Thanks alot for the excellent video
My endgame loadout is death seeker's shadow , sun scourge , forgefall , skykiller , wings of the ten and ancestor's return. And by the way when i first got the slicing shredder gauntlet i had no idea what to do with it so thank you so much for teaching me how to use it , it's absolutely amazing once you get to kno whow to use it so thank you.
@@ArktixOfficial Turned out well is an understatement. Above and beyond all the other content creators putting out carbon copies of each others work within the first day of release telling us what the “BEST WEAPONS YOU NEED NOW!!” are. But I digest. The shock coil that you discussed in your death seekers shadow bow… you said you got that legacy’s landfall but I’m not seeing any weapon coils for sale there. Am I missing something or is it because it’s 4:45 in the morning and I am well overdue for some sleep? Keep up the good work man!
@Lame Cat Games Thank you! Thanks very kind! 😊 As for the shock coil, it's at the Hunter Merchant in Legacy's Landfall. You have to do a quest with him first though before he becomes a regular merchant. That might be why you can't find it.
@@ArktixOfficial I thought that might be the case and I opened him up shortly after leaving that comment. Thanks again man! Now if you can tell me where to find a dozen other shock coils that would be great. Why are there so few? Lame.
A few comments (sorry I wrote a book!). First, with regard to coils, one point that I didn't see you say, but I might have missed, is that some types of coils seem to boost *everything* in my testing. For example, Agility coils, Concentration coils, and I believe overdraw coils, boost just not damage (including, I think, tear) but also elemental buildup. This has a big impact on how you want to coil some weapons depending on whether you care about multiple categories of things, and leads to me disagreeing with some of your coiling decisions. For example, the top coil pick on Ancestor's Return is the purple Agility coil. It's a 15% bonus to damage, shock buildup, and acid buildup. Secondary choices would be blue agility/concentration or purple shock coils depending on your priorities. For DSS, the 25% component tear is great, but 12% tear is just not worth it, when you can get 10% overdraw or concentration that will apply to impact damage, tear damage, and shock buildup (also, I wouldn't put agility on DSS as they're better saved for AR, and it's a bit more annoying to make those precision shots while jumping). Second, with regards to knockdown, I was surprised to see your recommendations. You mentioned knockdown in the context of Thunderbolt, but not the Vindicator. So I went back and tested: ruclips.net/video/vI3ZMzvHR5s/видео.html. Even a maxed Thunderbolt with 3 Knockdown power coils, scores barely any knockdowns on this Apex Slaughterspine. On the other hand, Vindicator with 3 knockdown coils, a single drill spike to the leg is almost always going to knock it down (though you do need to wait a bit). So I think your recommendations here are a bit backwards. You can see here just how powerful Vindicator is; I barely have to fight the Slaughterspine at all, just one drill spike to the knee -> knockdown -> 2x splitting spike, repeat. For the shredders generally, I think the emphasis towards the knockdowns in the discussion and coiling doesn't really make sense. AR shock shredders are one of the top ways in the whole game to kill machines while barely giving them any chance to move. Shock resistance, etc doesn't matter, this Apex TJ still barely gets to do anything while I spam shock shredders ruclips.net/video/I84pUQUUOis/видео.html. For this reason also, I don't think Thunderbolt serves any purpose except as a stopover to AR. Shock/Acid shredders do almost as much damage as advanced shredders, and the difference will mostly be made up by the extra coils, and of course the elemental buildup is incredibly valuable. I do agree that tear shredders are not great though. For outfits, I think if you're talking about low health stuff, may as well talk about the Tenkath Tactician, which will you get up to a monster 50% damage bonus mounted. For most players I think accessing mounted bonuses is going to be less annoying than low health ones. Also, I honestly do think that the Thunder Warrior is a bit overrated. The Nora Valiant gives you both Stamina skills on the armor itself, which effectively frees up a weave spot, which can go to something like Potent Medicine. With Nora Valiant I already never run out of concentration, Heavy Weapon+ is pretty niche (and I don't think it applies to the boltblaster). So, you have to really think Stealth Ranged is pretty amazing to prefer Thunder Warrior, I think; Valiant is just more versatile. For the overall gear, I ended up evicting sharpshots from my main loadout. If you think about it, outside of power shots valor surge, and braced shots, they don't give you all that much. Less damage than the spike thrower, and more awkward to use except at very long range.
@Nir Friedman Wow! Thanks for this very extensive comment! I promise I'll come back and respond in more detail, but it will probably have to wait a few days. I'm just busy at work during the week 😅
@Nir Friedman As promised, I'm back to fully respond to this! Sorry for the delay. Thanks again for all your thoughts here and the extensive testing you shared. So this is pretty cool because I'm working on a coils/weaves video right now and I've been doing some more testing regarding the points you brought up. So I agree it looks like certain coils like agility and concentration damage do indeed boost everything like you said, including elemental buildup. Since I've confirmed this for myself, I agree with you that agility coils make a lot of sense for the AR, primarily for using shock shredders. I agree with you on the DSS, too. My preference would be concentration instead of overdraw coils since it's a bit more versatile. Personally, I still like an agility coil or two on my DSS. I actually don't find it too difficult to land shots while jumping or sliding, especially if I activate concentration at the same time (further stacking the effects from a concentration damage coil!). I actually find it a little harder to land precision shots with a shredder gauntlet, but I think that's down to personal preference. You have a very good point about knockdown coils on drill spikes. I should have mentioned that as an option. It does seem to be more effective than shredders. However, while watching your video where you were testing it, I noticed you didn't use the Triple Shredder Weapon Technique. If you do this, you of course have 3x the chance for a knockdown to be triggered because you have 3x the shredder hits. I find this works particularly well on Slitherfangs, but the drill spike approach works well too. Also, I noticed you were focused on hitting the leg/foot. I'd be curious to hear what your experience is here, but I've found there doesn't seem to be an increased chance for knockdown when trying to use knockdown coils on a leg. I think it's still true (like in HZD) that dealing damage to a leg will have a higher chance of trigger a knockdown than other parts of the body, but I haven't seen an increased effectiveness by using knockdown coils on a leg. In other words, I think you can apply knockdown coiled ammo to any part of the body. I've also tested the Knockdown Shot Weapon Technique on machine legs and the rest of their body and there doesn't seem to be a difference. So you can use Knockdown Shot on any part of the body with equal effectiveness as far as I can tell. I've also been gravitating more towards the shock shredders on the AR and leaving my Thunderbolt in my inventory, so I think I agree with you here too. Something I didn't fully realize until recently was that the shock explosions won't destroy components, instead they tear them off, so that makes a big difference to me. I'd be curious to know what difficulty you're playing on in your testing video so I can compare to my own experience with the shock shredders. You have an interesting point about the Thunder Warrior and Valiant as well. I assumed the Heavy Weapon+ skill applied to boltblasters, but it looks like I was wrong about that. I just did some testing and I saw no difference. I'll have to test some more how I might set up the Nora Valiant as an endgame outfit to replace the Thunder Warrior. The biggest problem in my mind is the lower damage resistance stats, but honestly, I don't take that much damage normally as I've gotten more used to the machines' attack patterns and how to dodge them. Maybe giving up the extra damage resistances is worth it for a more optimized outfit in the Nora Valiant. Thanks for suggesting this! It's funny you mention removing the Sharpshot bow from your loadout. I've actually started taking it out a lot too in favor of the Vindicator for drill spikes. I think Braced Shot is pretty important for a big chunk of the game, but in the endgame I find myself using it less and less and instead relying on shredder explosions. Maybe I'll have to do an updated endgame build video at some point! Overall, thanks a lot for all your comments here. I'll be doing more focused videos on coils and good ways to coil each weapon. This one was mainly a overview of all the endgame gear and I threw the coil recommendations in there as an extra. Maybe I should have left them out until I had done more research first. Anyway, thanks again for sharing your findings! And by the way, if you'd like to join my Discord server we talk about stuff like this over there. Would love to have you there! The link is in all my video descriptions. No pressure though 😊
Being deep into fashion souls in the souls series, I found the legendary armor not to be the best looking outfit in HFW. I tweaked the settings to boost my concentration skills so I can focus on other skills with my outfits. I really love the tenakth reaver and ot offers interesting skills for stamina and valor surge. I can enjoy the variety of the game more by using weapons skills and valor surge more often.
@Gorge-Profonde Cool! That’s a good idea to use the concentration settings to balance your outfit choice. Smart! Personally, the aesthetics of the outfits don’t bother me much, so I focus on the stats, but you’re certainly not alone in caring about how your outfit looks. I know a lot of people would love for the game to have transmog so we can just move perks and stats between outfits. Maybe they’ll add this in an update or Horizon 3. Thanks for your comment!
Awesome video, congrats on finishing your gear recommendation series! Until NG+ or DLC anyway. Thanks for adding in coil recommendations & their locations too. Our endgame weapon wheel is exactly the same lol. Death Seeker, Sun Scourge, Forgefall & Blast Forge. The others get swapped in & out. I'm going to add in the Instant Brittle coils to my Sun Scourge now though, I never thought of that. 9% is pretty good!
@Sonny Thanks! That’s cool we have the same loadout. Great minds think alike! 😄 Yeah give the instant coils a try. Honestly, I still waffle a bit about whether it’s worth it or not, but it’s pretty fun to get the instant brittle!
@@ArktixOfficial The Sun Scourge has huge elemental buildup stats even without coils & if a machine resists those elements, purgewater will take care of that. I think the lottery aspect of getting an instant freeze is totally worth the 2 coil slots. Especially if it procs mid-fight! Yeah I'm gonna try it lol.
Good point! Hey so if we have the same endgame weapon wheel, do you find yourself bringing out the Lightning Hunter Bow or Corrosive Blastsling for purgewater at all? Just curious what you use for purgewater when you want to use it.
@@ArktixOfficialOh yeah I keep both the Lightning Hunter Bow & the Corrosive Blast Sling in my inventory. Like you said in the video, the elemental bombs are useful for saving on Volatile Sludge. I've modded both with Purgewater +15% coils but I prefer using the Bow for Purgewater because of Triple Notch. Gets the job done faster since neither the Lightning Hunter Bow nor the Corrosive Blast Sling have nearly the same elemental build-up stats that the Sun Scourge has. Edit: Oh & sorry I missed part of your question. I still use Purgewater a lot even though the Sun Scourge has a high frost stat. Mostly against the large machines that resist ice. I tend to burn through Chillwater lol.
@Sonny Ok yeah I do about the same. I was thinking I maybe should have mentioned the Lightning Hunter Bow in the video, but it was getting long 😅 I prefer the bow over the sling since you can hit canisters too. Also, wanted to share this with you, I’ve been experimenting lately with using high volley with elemental arrows like purgewater to build up an elemental state faster. Still not sure about it, but thought you might be interested in that idea. Sounded like you’re winding down your Forbidden West playtime to save it up for NG+, but maybe give it a try some time!
I wish they had a true rare hunting outfit. Like maybe with flippers for faster swimming and double rare resource chance finds. Great video… I’m running similar end game gear… still stuck on the final race though. RNG in that race is frustrating.
@EpicScarsBro That’s a really cool idea! I’d love to see an outfit like that! I’ve also been thinking it would be cool if outfits could be assembled in pieces. For example, your flippers could be an item that can be added on to any outfit to add faster swimming. Maybe we’ll get something like that in Horizon 3!
you deserve much more followers as now… you did a really good job with your videos :) so thank you for your content… hopefully see more of you in the future :)
I would also recommend Spread Blast for a Boltblaster build as the shots can Crit. It works VERY well with a couple Crit coils on the weapon and the Crit Boost Valor Surge. Against the toughest machines tho it does indeed seem to work better when using Sustained Burst as this keeps them stun locked most of the time, but you HAVE to freeze them first. You definitely want to always freeze first when using boltblsters or anything else that doesn't aim well.
Whats the thought on Gravesinger's Lament? Higher tear than Glowblast, higher strikethrough than Regalla's Wrath. You can still keep Glowblast for tear blast arrows.
You are a real hero for the Horizon-Community! Just want to thank you a lot! Such a great content, also for experienced players! Also it is crazy that you reply to every comment a Video being 10 months old! Thank you for your Videos and keep up the good work! You deserve way higher amount of attention - we can See the passion you put into yours Videos! :))
Hey thanks a lot! 😄 I love the games and the community is something special, so it’s a labor of love for me 🙂 Glad you appreciate my content, and I do try to keep up with as many comments as I can! It’s getting tougher as the channel grows though 😅
Thats a thing that really makes you special:) The qualitiy of Video and Content is very high - unargueably, but i haven't seen other youtubers commenting and answering that detailed, fast and interested over such a long time😊🙌
Best explanation of things Horizon. Your thoroughness and easy to understand concepts coming from a sincere desire dwarfs others guide strategy laced with self absorption and prideful boasting.
Hey Arktix, I have been trying the Tenakh Vanquisher build you recommended (plus the defy death valor surge) but my only problem is the continuous vibration due to the critical health indicator. Have you figured out a way to turn off this annoying feature?
Arktix, another great video and by far the best youtube channel for HZD Forbidden West content. Could you do a video on a rebel camp build/killing humans build? I find myself using more of my sharpshot ammo infiltrating rebel camps and outposts compared to hunting thunderjaws/tremortusks with Ancestors Return where I can replenish my ammo after each throw. I am guessing its a hunter/warrior bow build with a stealth outfit/weave. I want to fire lots of shots at human enemies without wasting a ton of ammo! I'd use this build to work through all posts/camps in one session/defeat human enemies.
Hey thanks Alex! I do have a video like that on my list, but I probably won’t get to it for a little bit. To give you some suggestions now, I generally like using strikethrough precision arrows on a Sharpshot Bow (Delta or Regalla’s Wrath) and stealth tactics to take down rebels. I start by sneaking around and headshotting as many rebels as I can with this arrows, which on VH or lower, can generally kill them in one shot. The Stealth Stalker Valor Surge is helpful as well. I stay stealthy until I can’t anymore, then I do a combination of melee, hitting resonator blasts with a Hunter Bow, and regaining stealth to hit more strikethrough precision arrows shots. Shredders are also surprisingly good on rebels if you can land them. Explosive bombs on a blastsling are helpful too.
with instant breeze - you can get some really fast warrior bow and just put 5 3% instant breeze coils, 15% chance to breeze and its super fast so u will get that instant breeze almost all the time, i recommend using the warrior bow with breeze arrows cuz uh yes
Yer videos are awesome and you have a definite subscriber. I'm not so great at this game... so I hate the freaking Arena. I even dropped down the hardness to the lowest when I'm there.
Thank you! I appreciate your sub 😄🙏 And don’t worry about the Arena being tough. Is basically the hardest content in the game and lots of people drop the difficulty to get through it. If you don’t enjoy the challenge of doing the Arena and you just want the items, I wouldn’t feel bad about dropping the difficulty to get it done 🙂👍
Thanks! And good question. Yeah purgewater isn't totally necessary once you have a fully upgraded Sun Scourge. You can just frost whatever you want lol. And Regalla's Wrath is a bit better for stealth, but the Delta is a great bow too.
Hell, theres even a blue weapon that offers something that none of the other weapons do. The Spinthorn spike thrower has the highest knockdown in the game, and I suspect it might also have the best DoT of any spikethrower, though I've not actually maxed out the higher drillspike throwers to compare yet, but inherent 40% DoT boost before coils even come into it will be tough to beat. Only way I can see the purples and legendaries competing is if their base damage is so much higher that the 40% doesn't come into play.
The Spinthorn is great! Highest possible knockdown power of any weapon. It won’t do more DoT than the Vindicator though, so the Vindicator is better if you like using drill spikes for damage.
The death seekers shadow was always a special bow to me as not only am I using a good old nora hunter bow but lore wise Rost was a death-seeker hence why he was outcasted on his return and I can never help but imagine whether this was Rost's bow
@@ToraXII try using the Legendary boltblaster with the regular bolts. Equip it with at least 2 critical change coils. You can take down apex stalkers and such with just one blast. Also equip a draw speed and reload speed coil for more fun
@@garyhall2770 great minds my friend! That's basically the setup I have right now actually. I figured that Crtical mods would be ideal for the Boltblaster for sure.
So I’m just getting back into the game after a year, trying to farm some top tier upgrade mats and get some of the last top tier NG weps I need, so forgive me if some of this info is in one of your vids somewhere already Just curious, as I know a bunch of stuff has been balanced/nerfed and whatnot after all this time, like braced shot ik was… so about skykiller for example, I remember at one point I saw people saying the spike trap ability with explosive spikes was insanely powerful, but you seem to only use splitting spike, which I never even got as it seemed underutilized by a lot of people. Was spike trap nerfed or is there some other reason you prioritize splitting spike? Similarly, I had always used blast forge with the clip dump ability I forget the name of that you use, but I used it with explosive bolts, and you appear to only use the regular bolts. It’s true I am starved for blast paste, is that why you seem to avoid them entirely? Also, that instant brittle Sun scourge build seems awesome, I had been running acid/fire coils on it (I haven’t done any of the supremely tedious farms for legendary upgrades yet so I only have a couple coil slots) and just using elite canister rope caster for freeze, as you can only carry so much volatile sludge at a time and canisters are so much cheaper. Is it really that much more worth it to use advanced freeze arrows before you have a full instant brittle setup running, or should I stick with canisters for now? I went bankrupt trying to farm upgrade mats and had to farm tremortusk tusks for some shards just to upgrade and buy blastpaste for ammo and traps lol, never used shredders but I do have ancestors return, wondering if I should focus on upgrading that before Sun scourge/forge fall or armors for long term ammo efficiency so I can start building up a reserve of stuff for dlc… it seems like weapon abilities aren’t worth it on shredders btw since you don’t conserve ammo with them? Unfortunately I don’t remember whether I spared or killed regalla, but either way I must have sold her gear bc I sold a ton of stuff to try and afford upgrades and coils lmao, RIP Sorry for the 21 questions, awesome content btw, wish I found your channel when I was originally playing lol, thinking about doing an ultra hard run on NG+ for the new legendaries after dlc tho so I’ll be sure to utilize it then haha
I always hated how you’d get one shot by plasma detonation when wearing the thunder warrior so I ended up having a backup set of armour to switch to that was plasma resistant to soak the damage and not die
Got inspired and am now trying to make use of agility damage in the hunter bow, but it is pretty difficult so far to reliably hit the parts you want. Any aiming tips that can be helpful? Any different aiming sensitivity settings when you were getting comfortable jumping and shooting?
Hey @Arktix I have small question to u: Are you sure that Nora Thunder Warrior +2 Heavy Weapon skill apply also to boltblasters? Because I feel a bit confused by the description of this skill which talks about heavy weapons being detached from machines. 🤔🙄
Hey! Yeah sorry about that. I misspoke in the video regarding that Heavy Weapon skill. You're right that it does only apply to weapons removed from machines.
Great tips man, as always. Really nice info on when/why you should use each specific weapon over another. I find myself in the exact same situations with respect to the sharp shot bows and shredders 👍
My go to set up is the glowblast sharp shot bow fully upgraded with damage boosting and tear boosting coils along with the sun scourge frost ammo fully upgraded or not it really don’t need any coils it’s a beast buy itself those two alone can get me through any machine in the game in just a couple shots.
Hey, with death seekers shadow being nerfed (207->175 tear / 211 -> 175 shock buildup damage) do you think it’s better to just get Marshal Hunter bow? Or can you point me in the correct direction for best end game (pre ng+) for 1.18?) Cheers, and thank you for your guides. Learnt so much about this game and the mechanics of combat, so thanks
Thanks! Glad you've found my content helpful 😄 I made this video after the nerf, so I still stand by my recommendations. Which stat are you looking at on the Marshall exactly? Tear damage?
Great video but what about purge water? What do you use for that? I had been using the lightning hunter bow because it has both Lightning types of arrows and purge water
Good question. I actually find that I don’t really use purgewater much in the end game since I have the fully upgraded Sun Scourge. Even machines resistant to frost and acid don’t stand much of a chance against the Sun Scourge lol.
That is not an advisable strategy for the Sun Scourge. It only takes a few Advanced Frost arrows to freeze pretty much any enemy in the game, so you are kind of wasting those slots on the Instant Brittle Chance coils. It will never proc before you're already going to inflict freeze anyway. You should definitely be using more Frost coils instead. I'd recommend having the instant brittle chance coils on your Hunter Bow that you're using most of the time as it will proc very often.
I'm working towards getting the forge bow but I usually use my hunter bow fir tear bc it's more precise and faster to reload AND it doesn't have special materials to make its arrows but that's just me. I prefer all around damage and crit then I do anything else 😅
As someone who isn't rushing through the main questline, I already got the Death Seeker's Bow and after getting access to Tenakth territory, I completed only the Broken Sky and the Kulrut(I haven't yet brought the function back to the Base though). After that, I completed the Salvage contract that gives you the Vindicator Spike Thrower, spammed it in the Arena to get my first legendary weapon. I'm currently working towards these prioritised gear: Forgefall, Sun Scourge, Nora Thunder Warrior and the Utaru Winterweave They aren't necessarily "late game" gear except for some like the Skykiller of course. There are some difficulties involved in attempting all that early on like not getting Tiderippers spawning. Everything was done on Very Hard Speaking of which, how do you get Tiderippers to spawn?
Wish we could hide the ammo types we don’t care about. That selector gear just gets so crowded with copies of the same thing… Hint for anyone struggling with arena, just get the legendary spike thrower first.
I just wanted to ask if you're going for the Platinum on horizon forbidden West is there a difficulty trophy and also what's the best way and level to do the arena or at least to start
Delta sharpshot bow is my sniper of choice. Very versatile! I also molded my death seeker with 3 15% crit mods and 2 tear. The crits help remove components quicker while giving it a solid damage boost. It's definitely my work horse
I wish there was some way to upgrade earlier weapons to legendary. Theres some really neat purple weapons that I feel bad for not using to their full potential. Like the Warden and Lightning Hunter bows.
Tenakth Vanquisher is very fun to use, but I feel guilty, the low health bonuses can feel like a crutch at times. Damage boost is very high though. Utaru seems useless for anything except stealth IMO, as Carja is basically the same outfit but with better bonuses for combat. Nora Thunder is probably easiest to use. Carja Elite makes it more viable to use traps in combat, which is effective against aggressive enemies, shame traps are so expensive! The Oseram outfit surprised me on Ultra Hard as a very viable and fun playstyle, as the spear charges very quickly and Resonators stagger enemies. Tactician IMO not as good on UH due to abundance of Apex machines but you can still bring a Clawstrider to a fight and watch it solo all the machines for you, lol.
When discussing Regallas wrath you state that picking the nicer option will mean you get her armour. I can’t find any info on this. Could you please explain? Thanks!
Ah ok. Yes, I've answered below, but SPOILER ALERT! So, when you get to the end of the main storyline, you'll be presented with a choice to kill her or spare her. If you kill her, you get her bow. If you spare her, you get her armor. Hope that helps!
@@ArktixOfficial Spoiler Alert Nah man you don’t get HER armour. You get a set of armour from Hakkaro that he gifts his most trusted marshals. This sucks because regallas armour looks awesome
With outfits there is a really good one you didn't cover, Utaru Winterweave is incredibly good. It fits really well with almost every weapon type and is more versatile then the others believe it or not. Silent Strike Heal will overheal your health which is a great initiator. You don't need heavy weapon movement when you can initiate with the Bolt Blaster. Low Health Builds are done better with this due to being incredibly hard to spot and more Smoke Bombs. Since you're in Stealth having Stealth Range coils let you boost damage even more. With Hunter Bows this boosts damage helping you do more damage while ripping off the components you want to loot. With Sharpshot this boosts damage and helps you remove components you don't want to loot. Bolt Blaster's Sustained Burst can empty the entire clip to start. Shredder Gauntlets can be chained/exploited to never detonate to not cost any resources complimenting any build. Spikes and Blast Slings are another great initiator against medium health machines. Warrior Bow's, especially Melee Follow Up obviously work great with getting into melee range. Trip Casters naturally work with this. Part of the difficulty in Forbidden West is machines which have side/rear parts tend to be only visible when you're in those positions. Your damage will be lower if you're not ripping out parts so head on fights tend to be much slower and harder.
Yeah the Winterweave is very good! I can’t remember now, but I’m pretty sure I did mention it briefly in this vid. If not, then I covered it in more depth in my ultimate outfit and weave video.
Is it better to keep using your mostly/fully upgraded purples and upgrade the legendaries as they sit in your inventory or should you equip the legendaries and then upgrade as you use them? I feel like the former would be better cause weapons, especially the accuracy part of bows, can suck when not upgraded. Plus it seems like you get to use the purple gear you upgraded more and make all that effort more worth while.
Good question! If you have purple gear upgraded pretty far, then, when you first get legendary gear, I would agree that it's better to keep using your upgraded purple gear before you can get the legendary items upgraded a level or 2.
my issue with the blast forge boltcaster is that wont its 4% insta shock chance remove the brittle status while im trying to dps a mob down with sustained burst? i only have it at base level atm but im wondering how far to take its upgrades
Would be awesome if they made some layout manager so we could create custom weapon and armor layouts for different purposes without spending time on it... (
I wish I made tutorials long ago when Skyrim first came out. Since then I havnt played a game below hardest difficulty, however, this was first game I had to really think on custom and highest difficulty. But this game is so deep with combat that it made me appreciate game more since I had to properly use every skill and arrow type and plan out battles l. I’m saying this cuz I agree with almost everything you’re saying except your position on trip casters. I just started another game after loosing my old ps4 disc but excited to redo cus now ps5. I am Xbox die hard but bought PlayStation just to play this, god of war, uncharted, and last of us. And horizon is Definetly in my top 5 games of all time. I think the go bad is best I’ve ever seen in a rpg. There’s no game that comes close with variety and the fluidity. Obviously there’s games with hundreds of weapons and spells but there combat lacks. Elden ring is only game that could argue is better in this game category
Question about the sun scourge: I always have a very small amount of volatile sludge available to use to craft its ammo, but when I go to another weapon such as the spike thrower, I have my full amount of volatile sludge available. Why is that?
@Benjamin Yoder Yeah I think you’re seeing the bug that @bashir Remali mentioned. For some reason the spike thrower shows all the volatile sludge in your stash.
Quick question as I love this guide if I’ve sold an outfit. Can I buy it back? If so how because I go to certain merchants and can’t find the outfits I’ve sold
Good question. So, the merchants have a buyback section, but it only allows you to buy back the last 30 items sold. So, if you've sold more than 30 items since selling the outfit, you won't find it there. If it's an outfit that's sold from regular merchants, you should be able to buy it again now that you don't have it in your inventory anymore, but if it's from a quest, unfortunately, there's no way to get it back except for doing a NG+ playthrough. Hope that helps!
@@ArktixOfficial ok I sold the regalla bow that’s all. As I only use Nora thunder warrior outfit and forgegfall and a few others but I should have kept them. Last question. If I start new game plus will I keep everything ? & shall I start it after I’ve done burning shores ?
did you beat all the arenas on very hard or did you lower the difficulty? Becasue those arenas on very hard are wildly more difficult than the rest of the game.
Hey James. I dropped the difficulty for a couple that I got frustrated with, but then I had to go back and do them on VH to prove to myself I could do it 😅 lol. They are very challenging though, and honestly more of a grind than fun. I hope they do something to update the Arena at some point. I don’t like how it works at the moment.
@Andrew Harrison Volatile Sludge mostly comes from apex machines. If you aren’t fighting many Alex machines you’ll run out of volatile sludge pretty fast unfortunately.
@@ArktixOfficial I've found the most effective way to farm Volatile Sludge is to use the chain damage valor surge and kill the 3-4 spikesnouts north of the desert (north of the Slitherfang). Two braced-shots using the normal sharpshot arrows will take them all out. You'll have a mix of apex and normal spikesnouts, but it's an easy and fast kill from a distance using cheap ammo.
I think you might be sleeping on the potential of crits on some of the other Legendary weapons. Since the Wings of the Ten has both Crit Chance and Crit Boost buffs built in, it's definitely a good idea to put some Crit Chance coils on it. That is going to do a lot more damage overall than Explosive Damage coils and combos nicely w the Crit Boost Valor Surge.
@skins4thewin I thought we talked about this before when you’ve left some semi-aggressive comments on my videos. No one here appreciates all the negativity and the fact that you spam like a dozen comments at once. I’m honestly tempted to just delete your comments since you’re being so toxic here.
@@ArktixOfficial My apologies, am just trying to give some good advice is all. I don't like seeing bad advice, although I admittedly have seen far worse elsewhere.
@@ArktixOfficial Ok, I removed the negative bits from my comments. I just feel that I have a responsibility to share good advice cus I think it's detrimental when bad advice is shared on places w as much views as RUclips. I just hate it when misinformation gets spread in the gaming community. Make of that what you will. I don't find any fault at giving expert level advice sometimes. If you want to delete them that's your call.
@skins4thewin Thanks for editing your comments. Like I said, I appreciate your input since you clearly know what you’re doing in Horizon. I just wish you would be less toxic with your comments from the start. Also, if you really don’t think I know anything about the game and I don’t give good advice, you’re perfectly welcome to not watch my videos.
@@ArktixOfficial You're absolutely right, that is something I really need to work on and is a real fault of mine. I need to learn to actually care what others think when I comment online, I know it's not a good look. My apologies.
I am a long time fan and an expert of both HZD and HFW, yet I always learn something new by just watching one of your videos. Thank you!
@redtiger 82 Awesome! I love to see other high level Horizon players in this community! I’m glad you’re able to learn something from my videos. I try to strike a balance between giving beginner/intermediate people useful info, but also having tips to help “pro” level players out too. Glad you’re enjoying my videos!
Hello expert! 👋 😂
Same
You’re no expert.
Stupid joke coming up. If you always learn something new every time then your not really an expert are you?? 😂😂
Pro tip: change to story difficulty for the arena weapons, so you dont have to spend multiple frustrating days of grinding it and instead can do it in an hour or less. As someone who values their time and prefers to have fun in video games, this helped so much!
highly recommended! I've been playing for 1.5 months on normal difficulty, never paying much attention to the arena. After watching this video, fixing the arena and changing the difficulty mode to story, 2 hours later-boom! I have all the legendary costumes, weapons, and coils that you can buy in the arena.
Story for the hunting grounds aswell
NGL, I avoided these videos for so long because I found the thumbnails so cringe, but now I totally regret it. These are by far the most informative Horizon videos on RUclips. Hands down, no contest.
Added bonuses includes - no awful time wasting intro - doesn't delay the actual content further by an extended plea to like and subscribe, only asks after presenting helpful content deserving of a like - effective use of chapter markers make it easy to return to a previously watched video and jump to the section you're looking for - proper pronunciation of words like "icon" or "armor".
Every video I've watched is loaded with high quality tips/advice/loadouts that has been new to me and has improved my experience with the game. Well done, you have my like and my subscription.
Hey thanks a lot! Glad you’re finding my content to be high quality and helpful 😄 Sorry to hear the thumbnails were off-putting for you. If you’d be willing to give me some more feedback on that I’d be happy to know what exactly you don’t like about them. Also, I’d be curious to know if you like my more recent thumbnails better. I’m always looking to improve my content, and I’d hate to miss out on an opportunity to help people and grow my channel just because my thumbnails are keeping people from clicking. Any feedback you have would be much appreciate 👍 And thanks again for your kind words! 🙏
@@ArktixOfficial It's the FONT! I just can't understand why you're not willing to use Papyrus. Just look at what James Cameron has achieved. You too could drive men mad. :')
@@ArktixOfficial Strange how much preferences can differ. I actually LIKE your thumbnails!
@@citizenatlrge Hey, if Comic Sans is good enough for CERN and the Higgs announcement, it's good enough for an HFW video.
The Tenakth Tactician actually has some of the highest damage potential of any armor in the game if you throw the Stealth Ranged and Low Health Ranged weave on it. Since it has the Mounted Archer buff built in, making this the literal highest damage potential you can possibly have in the game. That is literally every damage buff you can possibly have from armor. Combine this with the proper weapon build w as many 25% damage buffs as you can and a Valor Surge & you can kill most foes with just 1 shot if you do things right.
Thanks! Your guides have been super helpful for me in my quest to 100% Forbidden West. :) Keep up the great content!
Hey thanks a lot! 🥳 Glad you've been finding my content helpful 😄 Hope you're enjoying your quest to 100%! Thanks again for your support. I appreciate it 🙏
I find it hilarious and comforting to see you having the exact same weapons in your weapon wheel as I do (except for one, which is my 'interchangable' slot). I don't agree with a lot of coil configurations you use, which is fine. This difference is mostly because of our different playstyles. Like, I put my crits and agility coils on ascenders return, use shocked damage coils on my sharpshot for synergy and the corrosive version on carja bane. It makes me able to utilize the status effects in my favour instead of seeing it as a disadvantage. I like how situational coils shape my playstyle. This game gives you that freedom and I love it.
For the spike throwers: Overdraw coil works for both impact AND explosive damage giving it a higher damage boost compared to explosive or normal damage coils ; hope this helps
I love the informative video's you post.
I've invested a lot of hours in research, just like you, and find it interesting to see where our choices overlap and differ.
I have learned a lot watching your video's. Thank you
@Sem Bohle Glad to hear we have a similar loadout! You have some very interesting coil configurations. Thanks for sharing those! I’ll have to give some of them a try. Shock damage on your sharpshot seems very unique. Could you maybe explain your thinking there a bit more? I like the suggestion for overdraw coils on spike throwers. Of course, that assumes you take the time to overdraw most/all of your spike throws. I agree it’s pretty cool how much variety we have to coil things differently and customize weapons for different playstyles. It does make it tough to make recommendations though! I want to do a video on “the best ways to cool every weapon”, but as you know there’s so many possibilities that the video could easily either be really limited in scope or really long and boring lol
I’m glad you’re enjoying my videos and learning something from them! That’s definitely my goal with this channel. Thanks!
@@ArktixOfficial when I use the Forgefall, I need to be careful with the amount of ammo I use because it is expensive. So having extra setup time is necessary, that way I don't waste ammo. My main weapon is the Ancestor's return, so I often get my enemies shocked or corroded. Seeing the stun as a byproduct, I can make my attacks more efficient to use said stun. For example a high damage weapon that already needs time for a setup can be used . I got three purple shocked enemy damage coils, so I decided to put them to use (it also helps that the bow already has +25% damage boost to shocked enemies). With two remaining slots I use sharpshot tear arrows. I got a reasonable amount of time when enemies are shocked so I could shoot components off for high damage and extra resources or I can use the blast shot with normal plasma arrows (that deal the same amount of damage as advanced arrows) for raw damage .
Corrosive is kind of the same story. Corrosion needed a use. I saw that Carja Bane had a +25% damage boost to corroded enemies and decided to boost it with two purple corrosion coils and 3 damage coils.
The rest is history.
My configuration for the legendary gauntlet shredder is my pride and joy. Two agility coils, two crit chance (making crits hit 45% total, with a x2 multiplier) and one component tear +25% makes it viable for any situation. Crits for damage (I've seen it do 1000+ damage on a good throw, no surges) and when the explosion happens every component comes off.
Because of all the movement you have to do for the catch, I often get annoyed at Aloy for being stuck at a crouch after a slide. By jumping out of the slide you negate the crouch. This is often the prime moment to retailliate. The Agility coils give this moment a use.
The weapon is not affected by the power shot Valor surges, so you can stack the status effects (preferably shock) untill they are active and then use a different weapon that does use the valor e.g. sharpshot or spike thrower for damage.
For the overdraw, yes I overdraw almost all throws. The only sad part about the coils is that it doesn't work with splitting spike. (I usually use my stamina for other weapons so that is no problem for me)
I'm going to test if it works with propelled spike, but don't expect it to. Otherwise it is still able to utilize it's potential with the powershot valor surges, which can sometimes make it outperform my sharpshot bow.
@Sem Bohle Oh shocked DAMAGE coils on your sharpshot bow! Sorry, I wasn't reading your original post carefully enough. I though you said you were putting regular shock coils on your sharpshot bow. My mistake! And thanks for explaining that. Yeah that make a lot of sense and sounds very strong. I like your focus on resource efficiency!
I like your coil set for the Ancestor's Return too. I think I'll have to give that a try! Thanks for sharing all of this! Not sure if Discord is your thing, but we have a pretty cool group over on my Discord server if you want to join. We talk about stuff like this a lot. No pressure, but you'd be more than welcome! The link is in all my video descriptions.
For the Tenakth Vanquisher you're better off using a Stealth Ranged weave in one of those slots and use that armor for a stealth playstyle for absolute maximum damage. Combining both Low Health Ranged, Stealth Ranged and a Valor Surge can kill most enemies in just one or two shots.
You can also extract multiples of weaves that come on armor by upgrading an armor to get the weave off it, selling the armor and then re-buying it fresh from the vendor who used to sell it, then rinse lather repeat. It will reappear at the shop again once sold. That way you don't have to remove important weaves from other armors to use it on another, can have multiples. Only armor you can't do this with are ones earned thru quests or ones bought at the Arena.
Just got the game after a year and I've been playing for a week now, and your videos are absolutely the best. Literally trying to watch everything you've posted in preparation for burning shores 😅. Incase people don't say it enough, THANK YOU, and you've got a permanent Fan in me. Keep up the amazing work
Great work...again. Loving how different this is from most videos about legendary gear...particularly 1) how you critically evaluate and makes cases for your preferred gear and 2) you're not afraid to say when purple gear makes more sense. Is there a reason you made recommendations about coils on this vid versus your previous ones? Either way, it's helpful.
@Furious Styles Thanks! I’m glad you appreciate the depth I go into. I do put a lot of time into researching all the content for these videos to make them as useful and accurate as I can. As for recommending coils, I did that because I got a number of comments asking about coils and I figured it would be useful info this time around, especially since people are kind of optimizing their loadout in the endgame. In retrospect I probably should have done that in the previous gear videos too, but live and learn! 😊
I wish you'd give a tutorial for how to complete the Gauntlet Runs to get Carja's Bane, because I am _struggling_ on the last race. I remember you saying elsewhere that they were pretty easy, but I know I'm not the only one who's having trouble with them.
Your guides are always excellent, thanks so much for all the work you've put into them!
I was having troubles with the last one as well. It helps a lot if you collect and use the speed boost items.
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Sharpshot Bows have a base 5% critical hit chance so with the three 15% critical hit chance coils you total out to a 50% critical hit chance :)
Sharpshot Bows have a base critical hit damage multiplier is 2.5x which is actually pretty good in itself.
After the 3 coil slots are used up, the remaining 2 coil slots can be used for long range damage or impact damage coils. If you don't like situational coils - very rare impact coils go very well for the 2 remaining coil slots.
Compared to 5x very rare 25% situational damage coils, which is 125% damage boost. It doesn't make those coils are useful for active combat gameplay as you have to be at a long range, at high ground and in stealth to take full advantage of the 125% boost.
So coiling a Sharpshot Bow with critical hit chance/damage is a pretty good idea :)
Edit: made some changes after some testing
@K G Hey thanks for sharing this! I actually just checked and I don’t have a single critical hit damage coil. Can you believe it? I kill a lot of machines, so I feel like I should have at least one! You haven’t found them for sale anywhere, have you?
Anyway, I agree with you that your suggested set of coils is more optimal. I honestly didn’t even know critical hit damage coils existed. I’ll have to keep an eye out for those. Thanks for sharing this!
@@ArktixOfficial My pleasure :) I've enjoyed playing around with the weapons in this game a lot and min maxing the damage. Happy to contribute and interact!
So I have 3 rare 15% critical hit damage coils. Which I think I bought from merchants or got them from firegleam/metal flower chests. Can't recall which ones exactly. But if I find the vendors that do sell them, I'll reply to this thread. :)
The rare critical hit damage coils don't seem that worthy, hopefully we get very rare 25% critical hit damage coils in the DLC to make them worthy of filling the 2 remaining slots on Forgefall :)
@K G Looks like there’s blue 15% crit hit damage coils in Arrowhand, but I don’t think there’s purple ones for sale anywhere. I guess I thought you were referring to purple ones for some reason, but yeah these blue ones would work pretty well. Like you said though, hopefully we’ll get some purple 25% ones at some point!
I am HIGHLY excited for the Stealth specialized build because I have a build that, while admittedly resource expensive, is super powerful and uses basically everything in your versatile build.
@Sam Green Cool! I’d be interested to here your ideas for a stealth build over on Discord! I’m still figuring out the optimal build…
I didn't like warrior bows too much until I began playing with Carja's Bane. I like combining it with burning enemy damage coils, then using the fire option from the bow and switching it to normal arrows once the machine is burning. I slap a melee follow-up coil on it too, and I'll usually hit the machine at least once when I get it burning to pile on the damage. It's amazing how quickly that bow can bring down a machine when you're speed firing arrows at it.
An alternative coil setup for the Death-seeker's Shadow is to spec it into crit chance/damage to take advantage of its native crit perks. I use two 15% crit chance coils and one 15% crit damage coil, boosting total crit chance up to 35% and crit damage to 40%. About every 3rd arrow will be a crit, which means you're almost guaranteed to get at least one with each triple notch. Combine that with 25% component tear and 12% impact damage coils and you've got a really strong all-purpose damage dealer.
It's really fun to put it together with the Tenakth Tactician armor to take advantage of maxed-out Mounted Archer too. If you shock a machine (I've found the base shock value for the Shadow's shock arrows is good enough in most situations), you get a very spicy stat stack: 35% crit chance + 40% crit damage + 25% shocked enemy damage + 15% overdraw damage + 50% damage from Mounted Archer. Knocking a machine down with a mounted Clawstrider heavy attack instead of shocking it gives you even more by swapping the shocked enemy damage for 40% knockdown damage. Super fun!
Nice build J.Q.! I agree your coil set for the DSS makes for a great all-arounder! Personally, I prefer to dedicated my DSS (and now the TLG) to component removal and use boltblasters and shredders for damage, but that's what cool about Forbidden West gear, there's so many ways you can set it up!
@@ArktixOfficial Yes, shredders are super fun and highly effective. I still naturally gravitate towards hunter bows for damage and utility mainly out of habit from so much time spent in Zero Dawn :D Have you considered trying out the AR while mounted and wearing Tenakth Tactitian? There may be some crazy damage/crowd control synergy potential there if one can get the hang of catching shredders while on a mount.
Good point! I don’t really like mounted combat myself, but I should give that a try. You’re right that it could be super strong!
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This video answered a ton of questions I had, thank you.
Awesome! That's great to hear!
Thanks a lot! Many videos only cover the legendary weapons, but yours also covers the best very rare weapons and much more. That was exactly what I needed :D
Glad to hear you found the series helpful! 😄
The weapon and clothing variety is crazy big no complaint but zero dawn it was the same 4 weapons. For me I used the stealth armor from the banuk and shield weaver when things went south
Your videos are always so comprehensive and easy to follow! AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME!!! THANK YOU!!!
Hey thanks! I’m glad you’re enjoying my videos 😄
Ng+ is around the corner! I cant wait to try out your build for the forge fall that uses crit chance to get a guaranteed critical hits and thanks dude for the awesome video and would love to see your horizon video when ng+ is out
@Danish Haikal Thanks! I'm glad you're excited to try things out in NG+. I hope it's here soon!
When is NG+ coming out ?
Watched every single one of these and I found myself needing to take notes lol. Great videos dude!
Haha awesome! Yeah that’s a lot of info to get through! I hope you found these tips helpful 😄
@@ArktixOfficial dude 100%, don’t stop making videos cause you’re going places for sure!
Hey thanks Anthony! I have lots more HFW content planned and I'm looking forward to covering new games like GoW and Hogwarts Legacy 😄 Thanks for your support! 🤜🤛
I’ve been enjoying this game a lot, but min/maxing has made my head spin. Great video OP!
Thank you! Glad you’re enjoying the game and hopefully you found this helpful 😄
You are a god damn saint, you Literaly answer all my questions in a concise yet descriptive manner, never stop, no other RUclipsr is like you
Haha thanks! Glad you found this helpful 😁 I appreciate your support 🙏🏼🙂
@@ArktixOfficial Of course my man!
Your the most underrated RUclipsr. Keep the amazing work up
@Catofnbr Wow thank you! That's a very kind comment 😊
Really enjoying your videos. Lots of explanations, details and information on locations for the items or tutorials. Your videos are great. You are the man!
Hey thanks! Glad you’re enjoying them and finding them helpful 😁
I’ve definitely been learning something new watching your guides, as I watched this video couldn’t help but notice our same taste in outfit with the Nora thunder warrior (currently wearing that at endgame). I definitely need to use the shredder gauntlet more for sure… I use to but then I stopped idk what happened lol, but you getting me motivated to use em once again
Awesome! Glad you can learn something from my guides 😄 And yeah the Thunder Warrior is a great outfit. I’ve tried to use others, but I just always come back to it lol. Check out my shredder master class if you’d like some tips for them! Shredders are my favorite 😄 Thanks for your comment!
I'm not one to comment or subscribe but you've really nailed these HFW videos mate. As someone new to gaming you've been a savior. Really appreciate the way you go about it. Cheers legend!
Hey thank you! Glad you're finding my content helpful 😁 I appreciate your comment and support! 🙏🤜🤛
I never would have thought about using the boltblaster but after watching this video and see it being used as well as your explanation about it I'm really reconsidering it.
Thanks alot for the excellent video
Thanks! And yes you should totally give the bolt blaster a try! It’s very strong with sustained burst on frozen machines!
My endgame loadout is death seeker's shadow , sun scourge , forgefall , skykiller , wings of the ten and ancestor's return. And by the way when i first got the slicing shredder gauntlet i had no idea what to do with it so thank you so much for teaching me how to use it , it's absolutely amazing once you get to kno whow to use it so thank you.
Nice loadout! And glad to hear my shredder video eloped you! Shredders are my favorite 😄
Thanks
I wasn’t waiting for this video but I love horizon and videos about it so it adds up the same
Not an easy video to put together but you hit some great points and gave a lot of awesome load outs to consider. Awesome job!
@Lame Cat Games Thank you! I’m glad you thought it turned out well!
@@ArktixOfficial Turned out well is an understatement. Above and beyond all the other content creators putting out carbon copies of each others work within the first day of release telling us what the “BEST WEAPONS YOU NEED NOW!!” are.
But I digest. The shock coil that you discussed in your death seekers shadow bow… you said you got that legacy’s landfall but I’m not seeing any weapon coils for sale there. Am I missing something or is it because it’s 4:45 in the morning and I am well overdue for some sleep? Keep up the good work man!
@Lame Cat Games Thank you! Thanks very kind! 😊 As for the shock coil, it's at the Hunter Merchant in Legacy's Landfall. You have to do a quest with him first though before he becomes a regular merchant. That might be why you can't find it.
@@ArktixOfficial I thought that might be the case and I opened him up shortly after leaving that comment. Thanks again man! Now if you can tell me where to find a dozen other shock coils that would be great. Why are there so few? Lame.
A few comments (sorry I wrote a book!).
First, with regard to coils, one point that I didn't see you say, but I might have missed, is that some types of coils seem to boost *everything* in my testing. For example, Agility coils, Concentration coils, and I believe overdraw coils, boost just not damage (including, I think, tear) but also elemental buildup. This has a big impact on how you want to coil some weapons depending on whether you care about multiple categories of things, and leads to me disagreeing with some of your coiling decisions. For example, the top coil pick on Ancestor's Return is the purple Agility coil. It's a 15% bonus to damage, shock buildup, and acid buildup. Secondary choices would be blue agility/concentration or purple shock coils depending on your priorities. For DSS, the 25% component tear is great, but 12% tear is just not worth it, when you can get 10% overdraw or concentration that will apply to impact damage, tear damage, and shock buildup (also, I wouldn't put agility on DSS as they're better saved for AR, and it's a bit more annoying to make those precision shots while jumping).
Second, with regards to knockdown, I was surprised to see your recommendations. You mentioned knockdown in the context of Thunderbolt, but not the Vindicator. So I went back and tested: ruclips.net/video/vI3ZMzvHR5s/видео.html. Even a maxed Thunderbolt with 3 Knockdown power coils, scores barely any knockdowns on this Apex Slaughterspine. On the other hand, Vindicator with 3 knockdown coils, a single drill spike to the leg is almost always going to knock it down (though you do need to wait a bit). So I think your recommendations here are a bit backwards. You can see here just how powerful Vindicator is; I barely have to fight the Slaughterspine at all, just one drill spike to the knee -> knockdown -> 2x splitting spike, repeat.
For the shredders generally, I think the emphasis towards the knockdowns in the discussion and coiling doesn't really make sense. AR shock shredders are one of the top ways in the whole game to kill machines while barely giving them any chance to move. Shock resistance, etc doesn't matter, this Apex TJ still barely gets to do anything while I spam shock shredders ruclips.net/video/I84pUQUUOis/видео.html. For this reason also, I don't think Thunderbolt serves any purpose except as a stopover to AR. Shock/Acid shredders do almost as much damage as advanced shredders, and the difference will mostly be made up by the extra coils, and of course the elemental buildup is incredibly valuable. I do agree that tear shredders are not great though.
For outfits, I think if you're talking about low health stuff, may as well talk about the Tenkath Tactician, which will you get up to a monster 50% damage bonus mounted. For most players I think accessing mounted bonuses is going to be less annoying than low health ones. Also, I honestly do think that the Thunder Warrior is a bit overrated. The Nora Valiant gives you both Stamina skills on the armor itself, which effectively frees up a weave spot, which can go to something like Potent Medicine. With Nora Valiant I already never run out of concentration, Heavy Weapon+ is pretty niche (and I don't think it applies to the boltblaster). So, you have to really think Stealth Ranged is pretty amazing to prefer Thunder Warrior, I think; Valiant is just more versatile.
For the overall gear, I ended up evicting sharpshots from my main loadout. If you think about it, outside of power shots valor surge, and braced shots, they don't give you all that much. Less damage than the spike thrower, and more awkward to use except at very long range.
@Nir Friedman Wow! Thanks for this very extensive comment! I promise I'll come back and respond in more detail, but it will probably have to wait a few days. I'm just busy at work during the week 😅
@Nir Friedman As promised, I'm back to fully respond to this! Sorry for the delay. Thanks again for all your thoughts here and the extensive testing you shared. So this is pretty cool because I'm working on a coils/weaves video right now and I've been doing some more testing regarding the points you brought up.
So I agree it looks like certain coils like agility and concentration damage do indeed boost everything like you said, including elemental buildup. Since I've confirmed this for myself, I agree with you that agility coils make a lot of sense for the AR, primarily for using shock shredders. I agree with you on the DSS, too. My preference would be concentration instead of overdraw coils since it's a bit more versatile. Personally, I still like an agility coil or two on my DSS. I actually don't find it too difficult to land shots while jumping or sliding, especially if I activate concentration at the same time (further stacking the effects from a concentration damage coil!). I actually find it a little harder to land precision shots with a shredder gauntlet, but I think that's down to personal preference.
You have a very good point about knockdown coils on drill spikes. I should have mentioned that as an option. It does seem to be more effective than shredders. However, while watching your video where you were testing it, I noticed you didn't use the Triple Shredder Weapon Technique. If you do this, you of course have 3x the chance for a knockdown to be triggered because you have 3x the shredder hits. I find this works particularly well on Slitherfangs, but the drill spike approach works well too. Also, I noticed you were focused on hitting the leg/foot. I'd be curious to hear what your experience is here, but I've found there doesn't seem to be an increased chance for knockdown when trying to use knockdown coils on a leg. I think it's still true (like in HZD) that dealing damage to a leg will have a higher chance of trigger a knockdown than other parts of the body, but I haven't seen an increased effectiveness by using knockdown coils on a leg. In other words, I think you can apply knockdown coiled ammo to any part of the body. I've also tested the Knockdown Shot Weapon Technique on machine legs and the rest of their body and there doesn't seem to be a difference. So you can use Knockdown Shot on any part of the body with equal effectiveness as far as I can tell.
I've also been gravitating more towards the shock shredders on the AR and leaving my Thunderbolt in my inventory, so I think I agree with you here too. Something I didn't fully realize until recently was that the shock explosions won't destroy components, instead they tear them off, so that makes a big difference to me. I'd be curious to know what difficulty you're playing on in your testing video so I can compare to my own experience with the shock shredders.
You have an interesting point about the Thunder Warrior and Valiant as well. I assumed the Heavy Weapon+ skill applied to boltblasters, but it looks like I was wrong about that. I just did some testing and I saw no difference. I'll have to test some more how I might set up the Nora Valiant as an endgame outfit to replace the Thunder Warrior. The biggest problem in my mind is the lower damage resistance stats, but honestly, I don't take that much damage normally as I've gotten more used to the machines' attack patterns and how to dodge them. Maybe giving up the extra damage resistances is worth it for a more optimized outfit in the Nora Valiant. Thanks for suggesting this!
It's funny you mention removing the Sharpshot bow from your loadout. I've actually started taking it out a lot too in favor of the Vindicator for drill spikes. I think Braced Shot is pretty important for a big chunk of the game, but in the endgame I find myself using it less and less and instead relying on shredder explosions. Maybe I'll have to do an updated endgame build video at some point!
Overall, thanks a lot for all your comments here. I'll be doing more focused videos on coils and good ways to coil each weapon. This one was mainly a overview of all the endgame gear and I threw the coil recommendations in there as an extra. Maybe I should have left them out until I had done more research first. Anyway, thanks again for sharing your findings! And by the way, if you'd like to join my Discord server we talk about stuff like this over there. Would love to have you there! The link is in all my video descriptions. No pressure though 😊
Very comprehensive. Thankyou
Glad you found it helpful!
these videos are so well made I can't believe you're not a huge account
Hey thanks! Glad you think my videos are good quality 😄 Hopefully I will be a bigger channel someday!
Thanks so much for sharing the link to our guide :)
Hey game8! Of course! Your guides are some of the best out there for Forbidden West! You were on it way before anyone else from what I could tell!
Being deep into fashion souls in the souls series, I found the legendary armor not to be the best looking outfit in HFW. I tweaked the settings to boost my concentration skills so I can focus on other skills with my outfits. I really love the tenakth reaver and ot offers interesting skills for stamina and valor surge. I can enjoy the variety of the game more by using weapons skills and valor surge more often.
@Gorge-Profonde Cool! That’s a good idea to use the concentration settings to balance your outfit choice. Smart! Personally, the aesthetics of the outfits don’t bother me much, so I focus on the stats, but you’re certainly not alone in caring about how your outfit looks. I know a lot of people would love for the game to have transmog so we can just move perks and stats between outfits. Maybe they’ll add this in an update or Horizon 3. Thanks for your comment!
Gotta look good to play good.
Tbh i am totally not agreeing with Aloy, i do like Sobecks Raiment. Only good looking legendary is the carja one imo.
THEY ADDED OUTFIT TRANSMOG! Finally
Awesome video, congrats on finishing your gear recommendation series! Until NG+ or DLC anyway. Thanks for adding in coil recommendations & their locations too. Our endgame weapon wheel is exactly the same lol. Death Seeker, Sun Scourge, Forgefall & Blast Forge. The others get swapped in & out. I'm going to add in the Instant Brittle coils to my Sun Scourge now though, I never thought of that. 9% is pretty good!
@Sonny Thanks! That’s cool we have the same loadout. Great minds think alike! 😄 Yeah give the instant coils a try. Honestly, I still waffle a bit about whether it’s worth it or not, but it’s pretty fun to get the instant brittle!
@@ArktixOfficial The Sun Scourge has huge elemental buildup stats even without coils & if a machine resists those elements, purgewater will take care of that. I think the lottery aspect of getting an instant freeze is totally worth the 2 coil slots. Especially if it procs mid-fight! Yeah I'm gonna try it lol.
Good point! Hey so if we have the same endgame weapon wheel, do you find yourself bringing out the Lightning Hunter Bow or Corrosive Blastsling for purgewater at all? Just curious what you use for purgewater when you want to use it.
@@ArktixOfficialOh yeah I keep both the Lightning Hunter Bow & the Corrosive Blast Sling in my inventory. Like you said in the video, the elemental bombs are useful for saving on Volatile Sludge. I've modded both with Purgewater +15% coils but I prefer using the Bow for Purgewater because of Triple Notch. Gets the job done faster since neither the Lightning Hunter Bow nor the Corrosive Blast Sling have nearly the same elemental build-up stats that the Sun Scourge has.
Edit: Oh & sorry I missed part of your question. I still use Purgewater a lot even though the Sun Scourge has a high frost stat. Mostly against the large machines that resist ice. I tend to burn through Chillwater lol.
@Sonny Ok yeah I do about the same. I was thinking I maybe should have mentioned the Lightning Hunter Bow in the video, but it was getting long 😅 I prefer the bow over the sling since you can hit canisters too. Also, wanted to share this with you, I’ve been experimenting lately with using high volley with elemental arrows like purgewater to build up an elemental state faster. Still not sure about it, but thought you might be interested in that idea. Sounded like you’re winding down your Forbidden West playtime to save it up for NG+, but maybe give it a try some time!
I wish they had a true rare hunting outfit. Like maybe with flippers for faster swimming and double rare resource chance finds. Great video… I’m running similar end game gear… still stuck on the final race though. RNG in that race is frustrating.
@EpicScarsBro That’s a really cool idea! I’d love to see an outfit like that! I’ve also been thinking it would be cool if outfits could be assembled in pieces. For example, your flippers could be an item that can be added on to any outfit to add faster swimming. Maybe we’ll get something like that in Horizon 3!
@@ArktixOfficial Yeah.. they should add a underwater speargun in DLC or HRZ 3
@EpicScarsBro Yeah! Underwater combat would be cool!
you deserve much more followers as now… you did a really good job with your videos :) so thank you for your content… hopefully see more of you in the future :)
@Fernando Lange Thanks! I appreciate your support! Lots more HFW content planed!
Would you say that burning shores hunter bow and sharpshot bow are better than the arena weapon equivalent weapons?
I would also recommend Spread Blast for a Boltblaster build as the shots can Crit. It works VERY well with a couple Crit coils on the weapon and the Crit Boost Valor Surge. Against the toughest machines tho it does indeed seem to work better when using Sustained Burst as this keeps them stun locked most of the time, but you HAVE to freeze them first. You definitely want to always freeze first when using boltblsters or anything else that doesn't aim well.
Good work , I can tell u put alot of effort into this. Very helpful. Thank u
Hey thanks! I do put a lot of effort into my videos. Glad you found this helpful 😄
Whats the thought on Gravesinger's Lament? Higher tear than Glowblast, higher strikethrough than Regalla's Wrath. You can still keep Glowblast for tear blast arrows.
You are a real hero for the Horizon-Community!
Just want to thank you a lot! Such a great content, also for experienced players!
Also it is crazy that you reply to every comment a Video being 10 months old! Thank you for your Videos and keep up the good work! You deserve way higher amount of attention - we can See the passion you put into yours Videos! :))
Hey thanks a lot! 😄 I love the games and the community is something special, so it’s a labor of love for me 🙂 Glad you appreciate my content, and I do try to keep up with as many comments as I can! It’s getting tougher as the channel grows though 😅
Thats a thing that really makes you special:) The qualitiy of Video and Content is very high - unargueably, but i haven't seen other youtubers commenting and answering that detailed, fast and interested over such a long time😊🙌
Thanks M. Loos 😊 I’ll always do my best to keep it up as much as I can! 👍
Best explanation of things Horizon. Your thoroughness and easy to understand concepts coming from a sincere desire dwarfs others guide strategy laced with self absorption and prideful boasting.
Thanks Andrew! I’m glad you’re liking my content 😄
Hey Arktix, I have been trying the Tenakh Vanquisher build you recommended (plus the defy death valor surge) but my only problem is the continuous vibration due to the critical health indicator. Have you figured out a way to turn off this annoying feature?
Controller shake can be switched off in options.
Arktix, another great video and by far the best youtube channel for HZD Forbidden West content. Could you do a video on a rebel camp build/killing humans build? I find myself using more of my sharpshot ammo infiltrating rebel camps and outposts compared to hunting thunderjaws/tremortusks with Ancestors Return where I can replenish my ammo after each throw. I am guessing its a hunter/warrior bow build with a stealth outfit/weave. I want to fire lots of shots at human enemies without wasting a ton of ammo! I'd use this build to work through all posts/camps in one session/defeat human enemies.
Hey thanks Alex! I do have a video like that on my list, but I probably won’t get to it for a little bit. To give you some suggestions now, I generally like using strikethrough precision arrows on a Sharpshot Bow (Delta or Regalla’s Wrath) and stealth tactics to take down rebels. I start by sneaking around and headshotting as many rebels as I can with this arrows, which on VH or lower, can generally kill them in one shot. The Stealth Stalker Valor Surge is helpful as well. I stay stealthy until I can’t anymore, then I do a combination of melee, hitting resonator blasts with a Hunter Bow, and regaining stealth to hit more strikethrough precision arrows shots. Shredders are also surprisingly good on rebels if you can land them. Explosive bombs on a blastsling are helpful too.
been waiting for this one🙌
I hope you like it and find it helpful!
with instant breeze - you can get some really fast warrior bow and just put 5 3% instant breeze coils, 15% chance to breeze and its super fast so u will get that instant breeze almost all the time, i recommend using the warrior bow with breeze arrows cuz uh yes
Yer videos are awesome and you have a definite subscriber. I'm not so great at this game... so I hate the freaking Arena. I even dropped down the hardness to the lowest when I'm there.
Thank you! I appreciate your sub 😄🙏 And don’t worry about the Arena being tough. Is basically the hardest content in the game and lots of people drop the difficulty to get through it. If you don’t enjoy the challenge of doing the Arena and you just want the items, I wouldn’t feel bad about dropping the difficulty to get it done 🙂👍
Great video! Are Purgewater Arrows not needed anymore in the endgame as they are not discussed at all? And why Regala's Wrath over Delta Sharpshow?
Thanks! And good question. Yeah purgewater isn't totally necessary once you have a fully upgraded Sun Scourge. You can just frost whatever you want lol. And Regalla's Wrath is a bit better for stealth, but the Delta is a great bow too.
Hell, theres even a blue weapon that offers something that none of the other weapons do. The Spinthorn spike thrower has the highest knockdown in the game, and I suspect it might also have the best DoT of any spikethrower, though I've not actually maxed out the higher drillspike throwers to compare yet, but inherent 40% DoT boost before coils even come into it will be tough to beat. Only way I can see the purples and legendaries competing is if their base damage is so much higher that the 40% doesn't come into play.
The Spinthorn is great! Highest possible knockdown power of any weapon. It won’t do more DoT than the Vindicator though, so the Vindicator is better if you like using drill spikes for damage.
The death seekers shadow was always a special bow to me as not only am I using a good old nora hunter bow but lore wise Rost was a death-seeker hence why he was outcasted on his return and I can never help but imagine whether this was Rost's bow
Very Informative Video, It Seems I've Got Alot To Do Post Game💯
Glad to hear you found this helpful! Thanks!
Glad to see you implementing the Drill Spikes
@Travis Moncrieffe Yeah! I went back to them after that comment you left me on my Shellsnapper video. Thanks for putting me onto them!
yes the drill spikes are awesome
@@garyhall2770 I honestly think they're my favorite weapon
@@ToraXII try using the Legendary boltblaster with the regular bolts. Equip it with at least 2 critical change coils. You can take down apex stalkers and such with just one blast. Also equip a draw speed and reload speed coil for more fun
@@garyhall2770 great minds my friend! That's basically the setup I have right now actually. I figured that Crtical mods would be ideal for the Boltblaster for sure.
So I’m just getting back into the game after a year, trying to farm some top tier upgrade mats and get some of the last top tier NG weps I need, so forgive me if some of this info is in one of your vids somewhere already
Just curious, as I know a bunch of stuff has been balanced/nerfed and whatnot after all this time, like braced shot ik was… so about skykiller for example, I remember at one point I saw people saying the spike trap ability with explosive spikes was insanely powerful, but you seem to only use splitting spike, which I never even got as it seemed underutilized by a lot of people. Was spike trap nerfed or is there some other reason you prioritize splitting spike? Similarly, I had always used blast forge with the clip dump ability I forget the name of that you use, but I used it with explosive bolts, and you appear to only use the regular bolts. It’s true I am starved for blast paste, is that why you seem to avoid them entirely? Also, that instant brittle Sun scourge build seems awesome, I had been running acid/fire coils on it (I haven’t done any of the supremely tedious farms for legendary upgrades yet so I only have a couple coil slots) and just using elite canister rope caster for freeze, as you can only carry so much volatile sludge at a time and canisters are so much cheaper. Is it really that much more worth it to use advanced freeze arrows before you have a full instant brittle setup running, or should I stick with canisters for now?
I went bankrupt trying to farm upgrade mats and had to farm tremortusk tusks for some shards just to upgrade and buy blastpaste for ammo and traps lol, never used shredders but I do have ancestors return, wondering if I should focus on upgrading that before Sun scourge/forge fall or armors for long term ammo efficiency so I can start building up a reserve of stuff for dlc… it seems like weapon abilities aren’t worth it on shredders btw since you don’t conserve ammo with them?
Unfortunately I don’t remember whether I spared or killed regalla, but either way I must have sold her gear bc I sold a ton of stuff to try and afford upgrades and coils lmao, RIP
Sorry for the 21 questions, awesome content btw, wish I found your channel when I was originally playing lol, thinking about doing an ultra hard run on NG+ for the new legendaries after dlc tho so I’ll be sure to utilize it then haha
I always hated how you’d get one shot by plasma detonation when wearing the thunder warrior so I ended up having a backup set of armour to switch to that was plasma resistant to soak the damage and not die
I have a 100% tear boost coil on the glowblast. It’s a monster bow man.
Thanks for the vid. Very informative! 👍👍
You’re very welcome! Glad you found it helpful 😄
I didn't know you could turn off the headpiece! There's a few outfits I like but haven't used because I don't like the headpiece. Thanks! 👍
@Lissbirds Great! I’m glad that tip helped you out! 😄
Ohh man thanks for this like your content keep the grind ✌🏼✌🏼
@Carlos Suazo Thank you! I’m glad you’re enjoying it!
If you, like me, didn't choose the option that gives you Regalla's wrath, the Delta Sharpshot bow has similar benefits.
@Zach Brown Yes, good point! I should have mentioned that in the video. Thanks for bringing it up here!
@@ArktixOfficial Delta actually reloads and draws faster than forgefall because of some hidden increase. The speed is very noticable.
@UuuummmMe Interesting. I haven't noticed that. I'll have to check it out. Thanks for sharing the tip!
hey, great video by the way but can i learn the outfit name shown in the thumbnail please?
Thanks! So that outfit is the Carja Stalker dyed with the NG+ dye.
thanks bro this is what i was looking for
Got inspired and am now trying to make use of agility damage in the hunter bow, but it is pretty difficult so far to reliably hit the parts you want. Any aiming tips that can be helpful? Any different aiming sensitivity settings when you were getting comfortable jumping and shooting?
Glad you’re giving agility coils a try, and good question! It can help to first trigger concentration and then jump. Give that a try!
Hey @Arktix I have small question to u: Are you sure that Nora Thunder Warrior +2 Heavy Weapon skill apply also to boltblasters? Because I feel a bit confused by the description of this skill which talks about heavy weapons being detached from machines. 🤔🙄
Hey! Yeah sorry about that. I misspoke in the video regarding that Heavy Weapon skill. You're right that it does only apply to weapons removed from machines.
Great tips man, as always. Really nice info on when/why you should use each specific weapon over another. I find myself in the exact same situations with respect to the sharp shot bows and shredders 👍
@ScotCinamon Thanks! Glad you liked it!
Horizon MMO rumors, if true, sound so awesome
I know! I really want some more news on that.
My go to set up is the glowblast sharp shot bow fully upgraded with damage boosting and tear boosting coils along with the sun scourge frost ammo fully upgraded or not it really don’t need any coils it’s a beast buy itself those two alone can get me through any machine in the game in just a couple shots.
Hey, with death seekers shadow being nerfed (207->175 tear / 211 -> 175 shock buildup damage) do you think it’s better to just get Marshal Hunter bow?
Or can you point me in the correct direction for best end game (pre ng+) for 1.18?)
Cheers, and thank you for your guides. Learnt so much about this game and the mechanics of combat, so thanks
Thanks! Glad you've found my content helpful 😄 I made this video after the nerf, so I still stand by my recommendations. Which stat are you looking at on the Marshall exactly? Tear damage?
Great video but what about purge water? What do you use for that? I had been using the lightning hunter bow because it has both Lightning types of arrows and purge water
Good question. I actually find that I don’t really use purgewater much in the end game since I have the fully upgraded Sun Scourge. Even machines resistant to frost and acid don’t stand much of a chance against the Sun Scourge lol.
@@ArktixOfficial good to know thank you so for purge water weak machines I’ll try out frost thank you for the tip
Thanks now i know wich weapons. I neede to use for the and game👍
That is not an advisable strategy for the Sun Scourge. It only takes a few Advanced Frost arrows to freeze pretty much any enemy in the game, so you are kind of wasting those slots on the Instant Brittle Chance coils. It will never proc before you're already going to inflict freeze anyway. You should definitely be using more Frost coils instead. I'd recommend having the instant brittle chance coils on your Hunter Bow that you're using most of the time as it will proc very often.
I'm working towards getting the forge bow but I usually use my hunter bow fir tear bc it's more precise and faster to reload AND it doesn't have special materials to make its arrows but that's just me. I prefer all around damage and crit then I do anything else 😅
Nice! Yeah Hunter Bows are definitely a lot faster lol
the tremortusk reminds me of the elephander from zoids new century.
Very helpful content 👍
@Calum McLeam Thanks! I’m glad you found it helpful!
As someone who isn't rushing through the main questline, I already got the Death Seeker's Bow and after getting access to Tenakth territory, I completed only the Broken Sky and the Kulrut(I haven't yet brought the function back to the Base though). After that, I completed the Salvage contract that gives you the Vindicator Spike Thrower, spammed it in the Arena to get my first legendary weapon. I'm currently working towards these prioritised gear: Forgefall, Sun Scourge, Nora Thunder Warrior and the Utaru Winterweave
They aren't necessarily "late game" gear except for some like the Skykiller of course. There are some difficulties involved in attempting all that early on like not getting Tiderippers spawning. Everything was done on Very Hard
Speaking of which, how do you get Tiderippers to spawn?
Wish we could hide the ammo types we don’t care about. That selector gear just gets so crowded with copies of the same thing…
Hint for anyone struggling with arena, just get the legendary spike thrower first.
Oh yes, hiding ammo types you don't use would be great.
Is the skyhammer blast sling good if one doesn't have wings of ten?
I just wanted to ask if you're going for the Platinum on horizon forbidden West is there a difficulty trophy and also what's the best way and level to do the arena or at least to start
There is not a difficulty trophy for the platinum. I have a video that walks you through how to handle the Arena.
Delta sharpshot bow is my sniper of choice. Very versatile!
I also molded my death seeker with 3 15% crit mods and 2 tear.
The crits help remove components quicker while giving it a solid damage boost. It's definitely my work horse
@Zelisius Nice! Yeah the Death-Seeker is a workhorse for me, too!
I wish there was some way to upgrade earlier weapons to legendary. Theres some really neat purple weapons that I feel bad for not using to their full potential. Like the Warden and Lightning Hunter bows.
Yeah it would be nice if upgrading rarities was possible. Perhaps in the third game we’ll get a new gear system that allows that
I love horizon forbidden west because it is a very fun to play and I have finished All the main quests
I was mad when I noticed the difference btwn Knockdown Damage and Knockdown Power coils, I had it wrong for a minute.
Watching this after I beat the game and only have 1 legendary weapon unlocked lol. Now the real grind begins
Ah true true. It really is a grind! Good luck my friend 👍🏼
Tenakth Vanquisher is very fun to use, but I feel guilty, the low health bonuses can feel like a crutch at times. Damage boost is very high though.
Utaru seems useless for anything except stealth IMO, as Carja is basically the same outfit but with better bonuses for combat. Nora Thunder is probably easiest to use. Carja Elite makes it more viable to use traps in combat, which is effective against aggressive enemies, shame traps are so expensive! The Oseram outfit surprised me on Ultra Hard as a very viable and fun playstyle, as the spear charges very quickly and Resonators stagger enemies. Tactician IMO not as good on UH due to abundance of Apex machines but you can still bring a Clawstrider to a fight and watch it solo all the machines for you, lol.
When discussing Regallas wrath you state that picking the nicer option will mean you get her armour. I can’t find any info on this. Could you please explain? Thanks!
Ah ok. Yes, I've answered below, but SPOILER ALERT!
So, when you get to the end of the main storyline, you'll be presented with a choice to kill her or spare her. If you kill her, you get her bow. If you spare her, you get her armor. Hope that helps!
@@ArktixOfficial Spoiler Alert
Nah man you don’t get HER armour. You get a set of armour from Hakkaro that he gifts his most trusted marshals.
This sucks because regallas armour looks awesome
Oh I see. Yeah you’re right. That is technically what it is. No way to get her exact armor I guess.
I was really hoping for the shield Weaver armor but I figured that they would have gotten rid of it. Too bad I was right, no more invincibility😢
Ah yeah, no more Shieldweaver 🥲 Lots of other good options though!
Amazing video.
@carlton small Thank you!
Thank you for not spoiling story
No problem! I do my best to keep story spoilers out of my content 👍
With outfits there is a really good one you didn't cover, Utaru Winterweave is incredibly good.
It fits really well with almost every weapon type and is more versatile then the others believe it or not. Silent Strike Heal will overheal your health which is a great initiator. You don't need heavy weapon movement when you can initiate with the Bolt Blaster. Low Health Builds are done better with this due to being incredibly hard to spot and more Smoke Bombs. Since you're in Stealth having Stealth Range coils let you boost damage even more.
With Hunter Bows this boosts damage helping you do more damage while ripping off the components you want to loot.
With Sharpshot this boosts damage and helps you remove components you don't want to loot.
Bolt Blaster's Sustained Burst can empty the entire clip to start.
Shredder Gauntlets can be chained/exploited to never detonate to not cost any resources complimenting any build.
Spikes and Blast Slings are another great initiator against medium health machines.
Warrior Bow's, especially Melee Follow Up obviously work great with getting into melee range.
Trip Casters naturally work with this.
Part of the difficulty in Forbidden West is machines which have side/rear parts tend to be only visible when you're in those positions. Your damage will be lower if you're not ripping out parts so head on fights tend to be much slower and harder.
Yeah the Winterweave is very good! I can’t remember now, but I’m pretty sure I did mention it briefly in this vid. If not, then I covered it in more depth in my ultimate outfit and weave video.
Is it better to keep using your mostly/fully upgraded purples and upgrade the legendaries as they sit in your inventory or should you equip the legendaries and then upgrade as you use them?
I feel like the former would be better cause weapons, especially the accuracy part of bows, can suck when not upgraded. Plus it seems like you get to use the purple gear you upgraded more and make all that effort more worth while.
Good question! If you have purple gear upgraded pretty far, then, when you first get legendary gear, I would agree that it's better to keep using your upgraded purple gear before you can get the legendary items upgraded a level or 2.
Awesome, thanks! Any recommendation on which arena item to get first? (Armor, hunter bow, boltblaster)
my issue with the blast forge boltcaster is that wont its 4% insta shock chance remove the brittle status while im trying to dps a mob down with sustained burst? i only have it at base level atm but im wondering how far to take its upgrades
Would be awesome if they made some layout manager so we could create custom weapon and armor layouts for different purposes without spending time on it... (
I wish I made tutorials long ago when Skyrim first came out. Since then I havnt played a game below hardest difficulty, however, this was first game I had to really think on custom and highest difficulty. But this game is so deep with combat that it made me appreciate game more since I had to properly use every skill and arrow type and plan out battles l. I’m saying this cuz I agree with almost everything you’re saying except your position on trip casters. I just started another game after loosing my old ps4 disc but excited to redo cus now ps5. I am Xbox die hard but bought PlayStation just to play this, god of war, uncharted, and last of us. And horizon is Definetly in my top 5 games of all time. I think the go bad is best I’ve ever seen in a rpg. There’s no game that comes close with variety and the fluidity. Obviously there’s games with hundreds of weapons and spells but there combat lacks. Elden ring is only game that could argue is better in this game category
Question about the sun scourge: I always have a very small amount of volatile sludge available to use to craft its ammo, but when I go to another weapon such as the spike thrower, I have my full amount of volatile sludge available. Why is that?
That is a bug spike thrower draws resources from the stash instead inventory which it shouldn’t
@Benjamin Yoder Yeah I think you’re seeing the bug that @bashir Remali mentioned. For some reason the spike thrower shows all the volatile sludge in your stash.
@@ArktixOfficial interesting thanks!
@@iRemBash thanks!
Quick question as I love this guide if I’ve sold an outfit. Can I buy it back? If so how because I go to certain merchants and can’t find the outfits I’ve sold
Good question. So, the merchants have a buyback section, but it only allows you to buy back the last 30 items sold. So, if you've sold more than 30 items since selling the outfit, you won't find it there. If it's an outfit that's sold from regular merchants, you should be able to buy it again now that you don't have it in your inventory anymore, but if it's from a quest, unfortunately, there's no way to get it back except for doing a NG+ playthrough. Hope that helps!
@@ArktixOfficial ok I sold the regalla bow that’s all. As I only use Nora thunder warrior outfit and forgegfall and a few others but I should have kept them.
Last question. If I start new game plus will I keep everything ? & shall I start it after I’ve done burning shores ?
did you beat all the arenas on very hard or did you lower the difficulty? Becasue those arenas on very hard are wildly more difficult than the rest of the game.
Hey James. I dropped the difficulty for a couple that I got frustrated with, but then I had to go back and do them on VH to prove to myself I could do it 😅 lol. They are very challenging though, and honestly more of a grind than fun. I hope they do something to update the Arena at some point. I don’t like how it works at the moment.
Very detail.
Thanks!
I have trouble with getting
for Volatile Sludge advanced ammo
@Andrew Harrison Volatile Sludge mostly comes from apex machines. If you aren’t fighting many Alex machines you’ll run out of volatile sludge pretty fast unfortunately.
@@ArktixOfficial I've found the most effective way to farm Volatile Sludge is to use the chain damage valor surge and kill the 3-4 spikesnouts north of the desert (north of the Slitherfang). Two braced-shots using the normal sharpshot arrows will take them all out. You'll have a mix of apex and normal spikesnouts, but it's an easy and fast kill from a distance using cheap ammo.
@Hien Ngo That's a really good tip! I tried it out and you're totally right. That's a great way to farm volatile sludge. Thanks for sharing that!
I think you might be sleeping on the potential of crits on some of the other Legendary weapons. Since the Wings of the Ten has both Crit Chance and Crit Boost buffs built in, it's definitely a good idea to put some Crit Chance coils on it. That is going to do a lot more damage overall than Explosive Damage coils and combos nicely w the Crit Boost Valor Surge.
@skins4thewin I thought we talked about this before when you’ve left some semi-aggressive comments on my videos. No one here appreciates all the negativity and the fact that you spam like a dozen comments at once. I’m honestly tempted to just delete your comments since you’re being so toxic here.
@@ArktixOfficial My apologies, am just trying to give some good advice is all. I don't like seeing bad advice, although I admittedly have seen far worse elsewhere.
@@ArktixOfficial Ok, I removed the negative bits from my comments.
I just feel that I have a responsibility to share good advice cus I think it's detrimental when bad advice is shared on places w as much views as RUclips. I just hate it when misinformation gets spread in the gaming community. Make of that what you will. I don't find any fault at giving expert level advice sometimes. If you want to delete them that's your call.
@skins4thewin Thanks for editing your comments. Like I said, I appreciate your input since you clearly know what you’re doing in Horizon. I just wish you would be less toxic with your comments from the start. Also, if you really don’t think I know anything about the game and I don’t give good advice, you’re perfectly welcome to not watch my videos.
@@ArktixOfficial You're absolutely right, that is something I really need to work on and is a real fault of mine. I need to learn to actually care what others think when I comment online, I know it's not a good look. My apologies.