Why is bow damage so low?

[lilkillpappy]

I noticed in other Monster Hunter games as well, that the bow seems to have the lowest damage output. I personally find it the most alluring weapon and always want to use it, but it sucks. Am I doing something wrong or does the bow just suck?

[Soren]

Първоначално публикувано от HunterXCooL:

do you tried dragon piercer?? bow is so weird now with dragon piercer doing super crazy damage than its normal comboing counterpart

It might seem like a lot. But it comes with a lot of drawbacks, and even at it's best, it can't out DPS the usual dodge into basic shot into power shot combo. As for some reason you can fire the first power shot a lot faster specifically when following it up like that. So it's like you're firing 8 arrows at once rather than 3 or 5.

Those 8 arrows can deal something like 300-400 damage to the head of the monster, and you can probably get off that combo around 4 times for every dragon piercer fired and done. So the dragon piercer is probably dealing around 400-600 if it's a good monster to dragon pierce against. And the dodge shot, power shot combo is probably dealing 1200-1600 damage in the same time frame based on my estimates.

[Velacroix]

Post just means he doesn't know how mechanics and coatings work.

[Varagonax]

Първоначално публикувано от lilkillpappy:

I noticed in other Monster Hunter games as well, that the bow seems to have the lowest damage output. I personally find it the most alluring weapon and always want to use it, but it sucks. Am I doing something wrong or does the bow just suck?

Bow is absurdly good for damage. You just need to use them correctly. Bow is a fairly obtuse class where if you arent matching damage types to enemies you arent going to be doing ok.

Gotta remember, Bows and the bowguns are VERY reliable, consistent damage compared to some of the other weapons.

[BraveLeeDX]

Първоначално публикувано от Lynsis:

the ranged weapons will usually have the lower dmg cause you're trading the dmg for the safety of ranged combat.

Unless your a bowgun… those things shrewd like crazy.

[⇜SOVEREIGN⇝]

Първоначално публикувано от Varagonax:

Първоначално публикувано от lilkillpappy:

I noticed in other Monster Hunter games as well, that the bow seems to have the lowest damage output. I personally find it the most alluring weapon and always want to use it, but it sucks. Am I doing something wrong or does the bow just suck?

Bow is absurdly good for damage. You just need to use them correctly. Bow is a fairly obtuse class where if you arent matching damage types to enemies you arent going to be doing ok.

Gotta remember, Bows and the bowguns are VERY reliable, consistent damage compared to some of the other weapons.

Right now Elemental bow is in a pretty mid spot. You can still do it, but Artian Bow with 25-30% affinity at every other roll being rat atk up does more damage than every elemental bow, even accounting for correctly matching the weaknesses.

Tidus69 did a vid on it, in the most generous scenario, raw makes up 90%~ of your damage and elemental will only make up 10%, even less if you go outside of those ideal scenarios.

We saw this in MhRise too, should be fixed in due time.