What's up with bow?

[Mythily]

Whats even the point of it being a ranged weapon?
My melee attacks are clearly at least double dps. Will it become good later (hope)?

[Anoyun?]

did you make a build for it? if not its yes you're melee will hit harder but if you did make a proper build for it and you're doing a crap damage then there something wrong.

[Mythily]

Originally posted by Anoyun?:

did you make a build for it? if not its yes you're melee will hit harder but if you did make a proper build for it and you're doing a crap damage then there something wrong.

Yea well, I kind of forgot to mention that I'm still really early in the game. Just got to two star quests. So I don't really have build options.

[Thomastronaut]

I think you forget that this is a multiplayer game, and some weapons are meant to support a team of hunters.

[cees09]

Bow is a weapon that has a really bad start in all MH games. The skills it requires to do good damage shows up until high rank late game. At end game it usually becomes one of the best high dps weapon.

[FromChaosTheory]

It's for fun. You won't really get the most out of it until you have a dedicated build for it. Which I'm guessing the progress you are at isn't there yet.

[Zhou Yu]

Builds, knowledge, playstyle preferences, resources, and monster your fighting will all effect damage output. All the weapons are effectively as good as each other, and the high end true damage potentials only really apply to speed running. If you're not sure about a weapon, looking up a weapon guide (either for builds or simply how to play) is always a smart choice. At the very least you'll remind yourself of all the moves you have access to.

Originally posted by Thomastronaut:

I think you forget that this is a multiplayer game, and some weapons are meant to support a team of hunters.

Well yes, you can get a lot out of using certain weapons and statuses in groups. By no means will it actually be limiting you by using them alone.

[Thomastronaut]

Originally posted by Zhou Yu:

Originally posted by Thomastronaut:

I think you forget that this is a multiplayer game, and some weapons are meant to support a team of hunters.

Well yes, you can get a lot out of using certain weapons and statuses in groups. By no means will it actually be limiting you by using them alone.

Of course, you are right. My first rathalos kill was actually with the bow.

[Zelph]

Originally posted by Thomastronaut:

I think you forget that this is a multiplayer game, and some weapons are meant to support a team of hunters.

No weapons aren't meant to "support". They all have relatively good dps, with bow actually being 3rd highest in the game. Its insanely strong when you have a build for it.

Its already been mentioned, but bow is a weapon that suffers early game for whatever reason. When you start building elemental sets, damage should shoot up pretty decently.

[Laughing kookaburra]

bow is a melee weapon if you play dodge bolt

[Dorg4s]

bow has no dmg at start so they purposely made the melee attacks in rise to compensate that, end game you main dmg is from arrows by far

[Brate]

Bow endgame is one of the highest if not the highest dps weapon.

[Zachmark571]

Originally posted by Brate:

Bow endgame is one of the highest if not the highest dps weapon.

LBG would like a word, but in all seriousness Bow has very high dps.

I don't know the effectiveness of raw bow, but elemental bow gets way stronger once you get element attack up. Until then you get to suffer.

[Pook and Pie]

Bow in MHRise low rank *is* a melee weapon.

Rise is basically the worst bow has ever been in low rank, for sure. The damage is low, the weapon is relatively unsafe for the defense penalty you have, etc (8 frame parry with dodgebolt at 60fps vs the 40 frame counters of LS, for example).

Once you reach end game and are able to stack elemental skills, Bow becomes the #2 or #3 best weapon for damage in the game. It's incredibly reliant upon armor skills in this game, even more so than usual, and you won't be able to acquire most of those armor skills until high rank at earliest.

[hell-dew]

yeah fun little thing with bow in the start of rise the melee is actually weird as heck.

like i was hitting harder with Close coating and just slamming a monsters weakpoints with it then i was using a sword and shield.

the play style i adapted early on was using my stamina while approaching the monster and meleeing while out of stamina or in a good position to slam them. the animation is a big sluggish so its still worth firing your arrows for the more consistent uptime. also melee is stam positive so you can regen your stamina while slaming an arrow into the monster.

you will get Armour skills and builds that will pass the melee damage in pretty decent ish time then by that point you can opt to using the switch skill to recover stamina. also using dash juice early on is very good (later on don't really need them as bad so feel free to use them)
the good thing about the melee style early on tho is that it will prep you for dodge bolt and spread builds which are basically shotgun builds that dish out absurd amounts of damage.