How are the bows in this game?

[Frisky Dingo]

I use to play it a lot in freedom unite and loved the bow. I love that you can poison or paralyze monsters with it. How much does it differ from MHFU? Also looking for friends to help me out, feel free to add me.

[Zelph]

Pretty bad early game, but very strong mid to late game.

[Player]

it's a fun weapon.
got new combo and good dragon pierces

[Pook and Pie]

Bows are fantastic in Rise. They are both at the weakest it's ever been in the series, but also the strongest it's ever been in the series, all in the same title. They also play completely differently from what you're used to in Freedom Unite (which is also where I fell in love with Bow).

At early game, Bow is a melee weapon. It's that bad in low rank. You get dodgebolt and you will deal more damage sidestepping into the monster than you will with the shots you fire.

In World and Rise, firing shots raises your charge level, and sidestepping after shots maintains your highest charge level. This means that you can do, for example, level 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 shots, sidestep, level 4 shot > level 4 power shot > sidestep. This is the ideal DPS rotation when using Heaven-Sent or Berserk+Strife armor sets (because they provide you with bottomless stamina like you used a Mega Dash Juice). Mega Dash Juice isn't in this game, but those skills sure act like it!

In any case, I'd recommend you look up some Bow gameplay tutorials by Tidus69, because Bow doesn't play like a ranged greatsword anymore. But it's still very fun, and still very strong. I've played Bow in every game for the last 15 years and Berserk+Strife Bow and Adept Bow from GU are my favorite iterations of Bow in MH as a whole.

By end of high rank, bows become great, and by end of master (G) rank, bows become unstoppable and one of the best weapons in Risebreak overall.

[OrganicPee]

bows have been given a lot of love especially with the new switch skills, however you should get used to getting one shot

[Rena Ichigawa]

I've found bows to be immensely fun myself. Been using them since launch, and still use them now. They can fit so many different play styles from defensive, to just hyper aggression.

[mawasa]

Good

[pananaweKing]

You can become Legolas or Robin Hood using bow in this game... Bow Action incoming!

[Violeta]

Absolutely AWFUL in the early game. Soo bad I just used its melee all the time

[Fingusa of the East]

Very good DPS-wise and they do give you a fair amount of control over a fight that your usual melee weapons don't get.

Sadly the price for this is that most monsters just one-hit you. The good news is that you don't really have to care about armor values or grab HP permas cause even with those you might as well not have a health bar.

Keep track of your stamina. If you ever run out, most monsters will immediately kill you for it. Always keep enough for at least two dodges, sometimes three based on the monster you are hunting.

Invest heavily in dodge skills and assume you are playing some weird version of one shot Dark Souls. Otherwise go full monke damage skills with a bit of stamina stuff to ease up on stamina pains.

[Frisky Dingo]

Originally posted by Fingusa of the East:

Very good DPS-wise and they do give you a fair amount of control over a fight that your usual melee weapons don't get.

Sadly the price for this is that most monsters just one-hit you. The good news is that you don't really have to care about armor values or grab HP permas cause even with those you might as well not have a health bar.

Keep track of your stamina. If you ever run out, most monsters will immediately kill you for it. Always keep enough for at least two dodges, sometimes three based on the monster you are hunting.

Invest heavily in dodge skills and assume you are playing some weird version of one shot Dark Souls. Otherwise go full monke damage skills with a bit of stamina stuff to ease up on stamina pains.

nice, sounds good ill give it a go. Im just now getting to HR2 lmfao.

[Fingusa of the East]

Originally posted by ユグドラシル:

Originally posted by Fingusa of the East:

Very good DPS-wise and they do give you a fair amount of control over a fight that your usual melee weapons don't get.

Sadly the price for this is that most monsters just one-hit you. The good news is that you don't really have to care about armor values or grab HP permas cause even with those you might as well not have a health bar.

Keep track of your stamina. If you ever run out, most monsters will immediately kill you for it. Always keep enough for at least two dodges, sometimes three based on the monster you are hunting.

Invest heavily in dodge skills and assume you are playing some weird version of one shot Dark Souls. Otherwise go full monke damage skills with a bit of stamina stuff to ease up on stamina pains.

nice, sounds good ill give it a go. Im just now getting to HR2 lmfao.

Coolio, welcome among Bow mains.

If you ever need help with a hunt, add me on Steam. I enjoy helping newbros.

[Fleshly Delight]

Well, to give you an idea, I don't like Gunner weapons and primarily play heavy weapons, but I decided to try Bow out on a whim and found out that I LOVE 5th Gen Bow.
I personally like the skill that throws you into the air and lets you fire off three shots that hold you in the air a short time while you fire.

It's a lot of fun.

Coatings feel pretty "eh..." though, but you'll at least be able to get off like one paralysis and sleep, more if you restock, but, personally, it feels useless to do it like that.
Blast and Power feel very good to me.

I still don't like Bowguns

[Razzle]

no more thousand dragon attack :C