Best Lance Weapon Build in Dynasty Warriors: Origins

This build guide explains the key aspects of playing with the Lance weapon in Dynasty Warriors: Origins (DWO): battle arts, traits, accessories, and gems.

Dynasty Warriors Origins (DWO) is a big game with many things to learn and explore, including 10 different weapons to choose from, determining your build and playstyle. DWO is set in ancient China during the Three Kingdoms era. You play as a hero without a name, on a journey to uncover your identity and help different groups through battles and conversations. Along the way, you’ll slowly learn about essential features like riding horses, using guards, planning tactics, mastering battle arts, and teaming up with companions. This guide will explain how to use the Lance build, what are the best combos, battle arts, skills, and gear.

Lance Weapon Overview in Dynasty Warriors: Origins

The Lance weapon in Dynasty Warriors Origins is similar to the Staff and Spear, matching range and damage. However, the Lance has a unique built-in counterattack when charging a strong attack. While charging an attack, you can retaliate against enemies with a powerful sweeping blow, giving you offensive and defensive capabilities built into one weapon. Moreover, the Lance’s skills and abilities (battle arts) are balanced and low-cost. Therefore, the weapon doesn’t rely on just one high-cost ability for damage.

However, the Lance has lower mobility than some other melee weapons and less range than the Wheels. The mechanics and combos are depending on charging or holding strong attack and skills for optimal damage. Therefore, players must be confident in there timing to get the most out of this weapon type. Lastly, the animations can be slow for the Lance vs. the Staff.

Players should choose the Lance if they want a versatile weapon not dependent on battle arts or combos for damage. You can pick and choose when the situation dictates, giving you greater flexibility.

Lance Build Pros	Lance Build Cons
Built-in Counter Attack	Lower Mobility
Balanced	Hold Dependent
Combos	Slower Animations

Lance Weapon Build Features and Mechanics in DWO

We will explore all the various components of the overpowered Lance build in Dynasty Warriors Origins. Not all of these variables will be available immediately if you’re a new player. Moreover, you can unlock new content after completing the game, so expect some battle arts, tactics, and gear to come later as you progress. However, we have beginner and advanced setups to guide you through the story campaign. The following list presents all the essential Lance Build Features and Mechanics in Dynasty Warriors Origins:

• Best Battle Arts
  • Skirmisher Strike
  • Vengeful Stormquake
  • [Sp.] Power Shot
  • Crushing Earth Gambit
• Weapon Traits
  • Boost Musou Guage
  • Grants a very small chance of generating a whirlwind when attacking
  • Increases the drop rate of weapons (farming)
• Best Combo: Hold strong attack (Endure Attack)
• Gems: Ascendance Gem (block), or Oblivion (range)
• Accessories: Red Dragon’s Talon, and Dragon’s Spleen
• Horse: Birch
• Tactics: Flaming Volley, Encirclement, Mounted Charge
• Companion: Guo Jia, Sun Shangxiang

How to Unlock the Lance Weapon

To unlock the Lance weapon in Dynasty Warriors Origins, complete the Battle of Xu Province, where you must defeat Tao Qian. The lance is a more defensive weapon, and you charge it up for attacks by blocking enemy blows. Using the lance will require skill and patience. Moreover, you’ll have to approach combat strategically, creating gaps to charge attacks while keeping yourself from being surrounded. After you collect the weapon, you can purchase upgrades in the store or find various drops against enemy combatants.

Weapon	Grade	Attack
Iron Viper Lance	1	22
Iron Viper Lance EX	2	42
Serpent Spear	3	80
Serpent Spear EX	4	136
Marauding Serpent	5	204
Training Lance	6	300
Sky Shaker	7	326

Best Battle Arts for Lance Weapon

The best battle arts for the Lance weapon are Vengeful Stormquake, Skirmisher Strike, and Crushing Earth Gambit. Vengeful Stormquake costs two bravery and twirls your lance in a 360 radius. The damage is powerful, and players can hold the battle art to continuously spring and damage enemies at the cost of two bravery per rotation. Therefore, you can get great on demand damage and hold the animation as long as necessary when AOE is needed.

The other high-cost ability is the Crushing Earth Gambit. This deals burst damage and cost five bravery. You lift up debris in front of you and it has a dramatic knockback effect at the end of the animation. This skill is ideal when cone damage is needed in front of you, not behind.

Lastly is Skirmisher Strike which cost two bravery but does a massive amount of damage. Use this low-cost skill to bust through fortitude on officers for assaults.

You have two options for interruption skills called special battle arts: [Sp.] Palm Strike or [Sp.] Power Shot. The strength of a palm strike is that it costs only one bravery. Therefore, you always want to have at least one bravery (resource for skills) in the tank to interrupt an enemy if needed. The alternative is Power Shot. This is unlocked in the expert skill tree later in the game. While it costs two bravery, it launches at range and is a better interrupt skill against harder bosses later in the game.

Battle Arts are actions or skills used in combat consuming Barvery, the resource required to use them. Bravery is the octagon icon in the lower left of your screen (orange). You can increase the total amount of Bravery and how you gain it through skill passives, portables, and weapon traits. You can master skills by using them, gaining an additional effect like reduced bravery cost, more range, or increased damage.

Beginner Lance Battle Arts

Arts	Name	Description
Left	Skirmisher Strike	Perform forward attacks rapidly
Up	Spirit Wave	Swings lance around you send enemies flying
Right	[Sp.] Palm Strike	Focus your bravery into a palm strike which can stop and stagger enemies
Down	Relentless Charge	Charges forward with lance dealing damage

• Skirmisher Strike: low cost and decent damage in front of you (one bravery).
• Spirit Wave: Good damage that causes stagger (three bravery).
• [Sp.] Palm Strike: Special Battle Art interrupt in melee range (one bravery).
• Relentless Charge: Mobility and damage (three bravery).

Advanced Lance Battle Arts

Arts	Name	Description
Left	Skirmisher Strike	Perform forward attacks rapidly
Up	Vengeful Stormquake	Swings lance can be held
Right	[Sp.] Power Shot	Fire one powerful arrow can be done midair and interrupts
Down	Crushing Earth Gambit	Launches debris and enemies upward

• Skirmisher Strike: low cost and decent damage in front of you (one bravery).
• Vengeful Stormquake: swings lance dealing damage per rotation can be held costing bravery great AOE (two bravery).
• [Sp.] Power Shot: ranged interrupt that can be done while mid-air (two bravery).
• Crushing Earth Gambit: high-cost, high-burst knockback (five bravery).

Best Lance Skills and Passives

The best skills talents are Meat Bun Glutton, Item Investor, Perfect Evade, Extreme Musou Attack, and Rage Restored. Meat Bun Glutton increases your overall healing potential and is vital for survivability. Once fully upgraded, you can obtain 6 meat buns per battle and refill them with pots in towns. Item Investor allows you to carry one more portable (consumable) to each battle, and fully maxed gives you four. This is helpful later in the game when you need to heal allies, burst down a boss, or obtain bravery on demand.

The most important skills and combat goal is to boost your Musou meter so you can enter Rage more frequently. Once in Rage form, you can heal while doing damage, become immune to damage, max out your bravery, and are essentially god mode for 15 or so seconds. Therefore, talents that enable you to heal more, like Rage Restored Upgrade, or stay in Rage longer, like Prolonged Rage, are the best. Lastly, the Extreme Musou Attack allows a companion to activate rage simultaneously, giving you twice the effect on a Musou attack.

Skills and Passives List

Name	Tree	Description	Skill Points
Whirlwind Kick	Knight-Errant Rank	Unleash a swinging kick with blinding speed.	20
Chain Evade	Knight-Errant Rank	Enables you to evade repeatedly	30
Meat Bun Glutton	Knight-Errant Rank	Enables you to hold more meatbuns.	50
Perfect Evade	Adept Rank	Grants bravery when evading just as the opponent attacks	50
Meat Perceiver	Adept Rank	Allows you to see meat buns with Sacred Bird	40
Army of One	Adept Rank	Boosts Musou Guage after 1k kills	60
Item Investor	Expert Rank	Hold +1 portable	50
Extreme Musou Attack	Expert Rank	Enables Extreme Musou Attacks with Companions	80
[Sp.] Power Shot	Expert Rank	Skill that interrupts at range two bravery cost	100
Meat Bun Glutton	Mastery Rank	Enables you to hold more meatbuns.	70
Bolster Bravery	Mastery Rank	Increase Bravery gain 10%	80
Accessories Artisan	Mastery Rank	Equip +1 accessory	80
Meat Bun Glutton	Hero Rank	Enables you to hold more meatbuns.	70
Item Investor	Hero Rank	Hold +1 portable	70
Endurance Accumulation Increase	Hero Rank	Increase Endurance Accumulation	120
Bolster Bravery	Musou Rank	Increase Bravery gain 10%	100
Prolonged Rage	Musou Rank	5% less drain in rage mode	200
Rage Restored Upgrade	Musou Rank	Restores HP when landing attacks in rage	200

Weapon Traits for Lance Weapon

The best weapon traits are extending input for parries, boosting damage to officers, increasing Musou Guage, and increasing the drop rate of weapons. Below is a list of our favorite traits for beginners and advanced players in Dynasty Warriors Origins:

Beginner

• Grants a very small chance of obtaining a meat bun from a defeated enemy.
• Boost Bravery Gain.
• Boosts Battle Art strength
• Increase drop rate of Nectar Water (increase bravery).

Advanced

• Grants a 10% chance of not draining bravery gauge when activating a battle art.
• Extends the input window for parries
• Boosts damage to officers.
• Boost Musou Guage.
• Grants a very small chance of generating a whirlwind when attacking
• Increases the drop rate of weapons (farming).
• Boosts attack by 30% after a perfect evade.

Your weapon comes equipped with a grade and a number. The Grade indicates its rarity, with beginning weapons at 1, and epic at 7. You can increase your weapon’s damage by leveling it, and therefore, you will see a +number. Traits are randomly assigned to weapons, and the diamond shape indicates how many traits a weapon can have. However, you can unlock the reforge option at the weapon shop after beating the campaign. This allows you to take unused weapons and repurpose the traits to a more powerful weapon.

Best Lance Weapon Combos in DWO

The best combo for the Lance weapon is holding the Strong attack button to charge “Endure attack.” Your character will turn red, and you are rewarded for extra damage on two distinct sounds and visual indicators. Your character will have a greyish glow around and a chime will sound off. During this charging phase, when an enemy attacks you, you will retaliate with a powerful damage attack. This is helpful when you have 2-3 seconds and know an incoming melee attack is inbound.

The other combos with the lance are either six normal attacks or triple strong attack. The Lance also has an upgraded midair knockup pressing block and holding the strong attack key. Once in the air, you can jump up and normal attack for some free damage to the enemies.

Best Gems for Lance Weapon

The best gem for the Lance is the Ascendance Gem, which blocks officer attacks automatically. The Oblivion Gem can be helpful if you struggle with mobility or miss a target, as it increases your attack range. The Wellspring gem is helpful when it lacks passive healing or meat buns. Wellsprings gives you health after every 100 kills and is great in large-scale campaign battles.

Gems are accessories that grant special effects to weapon attacks. You can obtain Gems by using Pyroxene, a material found in the open world, to create them.

Best Accessories for Lance Weapon

Red Dragon’s Talon and Dragon’s Spleen are the best accessories for the Lance build because they help with Musou and enter rage more frequently. Red Dragon’s Talon increases your Musou Gauge accumulation by 10% and stacks with other bonuses like portable items granting additional resources. Dragon’s Spleen is helpful because you gain Musou Guage when attacked.

Beginners should consider a health increase accessory or Ravenous Spirit Amulet. This accessory heals you by 5% when defeating an officer. Early in the game, you limited meat buns, and any extra heal can be a lifesaver.

Below are the best accessories for the Lance weapon build in Dynasty Warriors Origins:

• Red Dragon’s Talon (advanced): Increases Musou Gauge accumulation by 10%
• Dragon’s Spleen (advanced): Slightly increase your Musou Gauge when you are attacked.
• Ziluan’s Sash (beginner): boosts health by 3%.
• Ravenous Spirit Amulet (beginner): restores health by 5% when an officer has been defeated.

You can increase your accessory to two via the Accessories Artisan skill passive in the Mastery Rank tree.

Best Horse for Lance Weapon

The best horse is Birch because it increases your charge maximum distance by 20% and staggers enemies when you summon the horse. Ultimately, you want high speed, endurance, and longer charging to reach locations faster. To level your mount, simply select from the equipment menu and take into battles with you.

Best Tactics for Lance Weapon

The best tactics for a Lance build are Mounted Charge, Flaming Volley, and Encirclement. Mounted Charge is a massive damage, cooldown tactic that hits many enemies in a wide radius. This is ideal to open up with when entering from a far distance into a large opening with many enemies facing you. The same strategy can be employed with Flaming Volley, however, with a much faster cooldown of 240 seconds. To trigger this tactic, look for the high ground when entering a large field area. Lastly, the Encirclement tactic is for tough boss challenges requiring a distraction. This will send allies and guards to swarm an officer and harness them. Consider this a flex skill, but essentially in tough boss battles.

Below are the recommended tactics for a Lance build in Dynasty Warriors Origins:

• Flaming Volley: unleash a powerful fire arrow volley, 240-second cooldown.
• Encirclement: Surround the enemy before unleashing an attack, 210-second cooldown.
• Mounted Charge: Perform a fearsome cavalry charge, 420-second cooldown.

To activate a tactic, look for a blue line indicating “Dramatic Success.” Using a tactic with a blue (not white) appearance can lower enemies’ morale and do increased damage. Therefore, when charging into combat, immediately hit Eagle Eye when you see a blue line appear as you approach.

Best Portable Items for Lance Weapon

The best portable consumable items are Incense of Vitality and Spirit Pill. Incense of Vitality heals you for 70% of your health and everyone around you. This includes officers, companions, and allies. Therefore, Incense of Vitality should be used in battles with multiple allies, and survival is required for victory. Pay attention to victory conditions before the battle starts; it’s not just you as a main character. The second best consumable one-time use is Spirit Pill, which grants Musou Gauge resources. Therefore, you can use the Spirit Pill to gain enough resources to enter rage more frequently, granting you god mode for a limited time.

Below are the recommended portable consumable items for a Lance build in Dynasty Warriors Origins:

• Meat Buns: Restore some of your health
• Strength Potion: Increase your attack by 60% for a limited time.
• Incense of Vitality: Restores Health by 70% for you and nearby allies.
• Spirit Pill: Restores some of your Musou Gauge.
• Arbogreen (progression): Increases proficiency gained by 200% until you defeat 100 enemies.
• Crimson Cress (progression): Grants you 20 skill points

Portable items are consumables granting effects and are one-time-use items. You can buy them at stores or earn them through various quests. Additionally, skill passives can increase your effectiveness with meat buns, capacity, and storage of items. These are critical to select as you progress and obtain more portable items.

Best Companion for Lance Weapon

The best companion for Staff build is Guo Jia or Sun Shangxiang. Guo Jia uses a sword and once a strong area damage attack, Divine Eagle Dance. Once summoned, you can activate this battle art for massive AOE damage in a 360 radius. This attack will also destroy the fortitude of officers and will help make up for the lack of AOE in the staff.

The secondary option is Sun Shangxiang, who uses the wheels weapon and has more range than Guo Jia. She comes equipped with Twin Tiger Blast, one of the most powerful battle arts in the game, and even more AOE damage and range than Guo Jia. However, the bravery cost is high, so use it sparingly or the companion will despawn.

Companions can be selected in the battle preparation menu and come with important battle arts and skills. Look for a blue line connecting you to a “Battle Chain Art.” When in range and active, if you cast a battle art (regardless of cost), the companion will follow up with another attack of their own. The battle art UI menu lights up blue, indicating a Battle Chain Art is ready. This is essentially a way to increase damage passively when a companion is near.

Best tips and tricks for Lance Weapon

Below are the top 10 tips and tricks for using the Lance Weapon in Dynasty Warriors Origins:

1. Rage: The easiest way to dominate DWO is via Rage and Musco Meter; when in doubt, always try to build this gauge.
2. Battle Arts Setup: Make sure to have one high-cost, low-cost, and mobility battle art to start the game.
3. Interrupt: Always save at least one bravery in reserve to interrupt incoming battle arts from enemies with Palm Strike.
4. Build Bravery: Don’t automatically use bravery and battle arts; saving up is okay when fighting an easy officer.
5. Mobility: Use a combination of evading, jumping, and Whirlwind Kick battle art to stay near enemies.
6. Weapon Traits: Look for weapon traits that fit your build, not just increase your attack power.
7. Increase Portable: Take skill talents that increase your meat buns, portable items, and healing effectiveness since healing is limited.
8. Combo: Look to stun, parry, or evade an attacker, then perform a six-button long combo, knocking the enemy in the air.
9. Companions: Use your companion’s two most important abilities: Extreme Musco Attack (yellow line) and Battle Chain Arts (blue line).
10. Tactics: Look for a blue line indicating a Tactic can be used for Dramatic Success to increase effectiveness.

Build Summary – Best Lance Weapon in Dynasty Warriors Origins

FAQs about Lance Weapon Build Dynasty Warriors: Origins

Is the Lance weapon good in Dynasty Warriors: Origins?

Yes, the Lance is a powerful weapon because of its Endure Attack. Endure Attack allows the player to charge a strong attack and counter any incoming damage with huge AOE. Moreover, the Lance has a balanced battle arts ability kit and is good in all situations.

What is the best alternatives for Lance Weapon in Dynasty Warriors: Origins?

The best alternative to the Lance is the Staff or Spear. The Staff is faster, with an emphasis on airborne attacks. The Spear is a slower weapon but has great reach and different combos.

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