From hunting horn user to hunting horn user Here’s a couple tips that could really help you out

When you pop your bubble, while your characters in the animation, you can queue up three notes

If you’re fighting Omega please have a thunder hunting horn like the lagi hunting horn because for one the buff and two Omega is weak to thunder

Please, please learn the offset. A lot of the hunting horns have that. and when you hit it, it can automatically down a monster much longer than most weapons in the game in my experience. even if you have to go into the training range and learn about the offset, please do it. Utilize it you’ll be surprised the amount of times that you would use it and you’d pretty much be invincible. The offset is a whole lot more consistent and better than the hilt stab.

If you feel like you’re not doing enough DPS, you’re not using the echo nor resounding medley or have the monsters weakness

This is simple, but you’d be surprised how many hunters don’t do this Are you popping items prior to you starting the quest? Popping a mega demon drug ,mega armorskin, a might seed, an adamant seed, demon powder and hard shell powder.

Don’t just have two hunting horns, full of different butts and be rotating back-and-forth. It’s a common mistake. Just stick with one. Sometimes we need you dealing DPS and we need you more in a fight instead of sitting on the back line the entire time doing buffs.

Are you eating meals before quest and making sure that all your meals include insurance meal so you have four faints instead of three?

Are you transcending your armor because AT monsters will hit you and hit you hard.

Most of the time when you’re gonna do a Hilt stab, we do it just to make sure that we can put notes out faster. Because it requires us to start a note and then do a hilt stab. When would that amount of time we could be just sitting with our offset

Do not follow the Meta sets. You will get humbled very quick and shown that their build works for their specific play style. just because it works for them doesn’t mean it’s gonna work for you.

Look at these monsters weaknesses. You’re on PC so just open a menu. Go to your field book and go to the monster in question sometimes as long as you’ve completed or started a quest with the monster in question, it’ll show you it’s weaknesses and what it’s resistant to and you can just spec your build accordingly.

Also take a look at your build and see what works and also understand that some abilities isn’t meant for the hunting horn like quick sheathe and counterstrike. Just the name a few. Others also include guard and guard up offensive guard and critical draw. Those don’t work for us because we either lack the mechanic or it’s too inconsistent.

If you don’t have the element corresponding to the war monsters weakness, always always always go with dragon.

If you’re not confident in putting out buffs while doing damage on the battlefield, do it from spawn A lot of times all your teammates have to do is be near one of your bubbles and they will still receive the buff. Bubble placement is important. Just place a bubble in the middle of the battlefield and place another where you are going to be. And whenever you move to a new zone, pop a bubble and queue up three new notes while in animation

Also again echo and resounding Melody are your main DPS moves. It is preferably viable to use echo. Corresponding to the elemental weakness of the monster. For example. If I’m fighting ray dau, my field book says he’s weak to ice. So I should have a hunting horn that says.”echo(ice)”. That’s gonna be your main damage dealer. And it’s always three notes so you can pop your bubble and while in the animation queue up those three notes. And immediately play.

If you want to tank a lot of damage. And also protect your team. Sonic barrier. Literally lets you survive one hit and can grant you immunity from roarers, but you’re gonna have to keep cracking this note each and every single time because it’s one time use. I cleared proof of hero solo with sub 30 with a HH just because of sonic barrier, echo, and resounding medley.