Having the strongest weapons is crucial to taking down machines in Horizon Forbidden West, so players want to use the best coils to upgrade their weapons. Coils are modifications players can attach to their weapons that grant them various bonus effects and stat increases to help Aloy during combat.
Coils can be obtained from chests, as an item-drop from dead machines, as a reward for completing side-quests, or from merchants and stores. Coil modifications can be equipped by selecting the weapon players would like to upgrade in their inventory and selecting the modification they want to use.
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Coils and weaves are both types of modifications; however, they have different uses. For example, coils can only be used to modify weapons in Horizon Forbidden West, while weaves are for modifying armor. In addition, the effectiveness of a coil or weave is determined randomly by its rarity (there are six rarity levels), so players are going to want to use their strongest versions of each of their coils to get the most benefits.
There are 40 different coils available in Horizon Forbidden West that players can use to upgrade their weapons. However, it's important to note that coils don't add status effects to normal weapon ammo. Thus, if players are using regular arrows, using the Fire coil that increases fire damage won't do anything unless players are using Fire arrows.
Players who don't deal enough damage to take down machines fast in Horizon Forbidden West will want to use damage-boosting coils that are great for shredding machines in every context. The Tear Damage coil increases tear damage to armor, allowing players to rip off machine parts easily. Draw Speed increases
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