Horizon Forbidden West: How to complete all Hunting Grounds Trials in The Raintrace

Horizon Forbidden West's Hunting Grounds are among the most difficult activities. They're strewn across the Forbidden West, waiting for you to come along and face the Trials inside. This tutorial will show you how to complete each Trail in The Raintrace Hunting Grounds and earn the highest reward.

Shock and Remove Trial

You must first shock the Tremortusk in the Hunting Grounds before removing two of its tusks in the Shock and Remove Trial. To earn the ultimate reward, you must complete the task in under two minutes, which is not much time when a Tremortusk is closing in on you. As a result, equipping your most powerful shock weapon is the best approach to complete this Trial. Glide into the arena and ride over the nearest Clawstrider. This will keep it from attacking you and obstructing your path. While using Purgewater is recommended in the Trial's guidelines, we found that it merely slowed things down.

To disable the Tremortusk, use your shock weapon to do enough shock damage. Try aiming for its tusks while firing to deliver some early damage to those components. Using a weapon like Kue's Bow to hit a tusk before applying shock damage can make shearing the tusks easier later. Once the Tremortusk has fallen, use a Warriors Bow or another quick-firing bow to repeatedly hit the tusks until they fall off. If you get it right the first time, you can accomplish it in one go, but you have enough time to down the Tremortusk twice if necessary.

Mounted Combat Trial

This is the simplest Trial in the Hunting Grounds, but it won't work until you've completed the IOTA Cauldron and unlocked the Clawstrider override. To begin, glide into the arena and ride over the nearest Clawstrider. After that, ride over to the other two Cawstriders and slaughter them. To harm those Clawstriders, shoot shots at them, but make sure the last blow is delivered by the Clawstrider you're riding, otherwise, it won't count.

Heavy Weapons Trial

The final Trial is the most difficult of all. You must take the Tremortusk's cannons and utilize them to kill three machines. This means you have three minutes to enter the arena, remove several cannons from the machine, and kill the three Clawstriders.

Tearblast arrows and any weapon with a high Tear rating are required for this. Glide into the arena and strike the nearest Clawstrider with a quiet strike or an attack from above. Then try to hit another adjacent Clawstrider with a couple shots to weaken them as well. After that, remove the two shock cannons from the Tremortusk's back using Tearblast arrows and whatever else you have. These are going to fall into the arena.

After that, draw the Tremortusk away from the weapons and approach them. When you have one, focus on slowing time and blasting any Clawstriders you see. You might be able to get away with using just one cannon to kill all three, but we needed two to finish the Trial.