How does Light Bowgun really work?

[Christine Wurmblut]

Hey all,
I wanted to try a new weapon, the Light Bowgun and i am having some troubles with it.

1. What controls would you recommend? I figured keyboard and mouse would actually be decent, because of aiming but when I try to use an item while walking, that object wheel thing goes crazy. Do you bowgun users use a controller?

2. How do those mines work? Do i shoot them or should i lure the monster in it? Because both kinda work, but tutorial guys on Youtube all say different things.

3. Is the healing and buffing ammunition good? Or should i just go for wide range? And when i want to be a support Light Bowgun hunter, for the rest should i focus on just raw damage or stat things like paralys or sleep or even poison?

[Kakaroto]

1. I'm using a controller and it's pretty good, just need to get used to it and since you don't need to HS someone far away...

2. Both, depending on the situation and the monster.

3. Never used them.

[HARNNY]

1. Ranged Weapon on Keyboard and Mouse Is Pretty Decent,
(You Can Change the Item Crafting Menu From Radial to Using Keyboard Shortcut (F1 - F4) and Number 1 - 8)
(Dont Forget to Save Your Loadout and Keyboard Menu to Item loadout)
for the item wheel, dont bring all ammo type) (Mostly For LBG is Slicing, Normal 2, and Elemental Ammo Type)

2. For The Wyvernblast You Can Place it anywhere, if monster stomp on it they will explode, or you can trigger the explode with ammo or Bowgun Melee (Ctrl + Right Click)

3. Just Use Normal Wide Ranged Build, You Dont Need Bring Armor / Demon Ammo
but Sleep and Paralysis ammo you Should Bring It

[Yukkuri_Dango]

1. I'm using M+K, I bind push-aim to right mouse button, mouse scroll to ammo, X+C for item scrolling and use my thumb for that. You can try switching those ammo/item binds depending on how often you need to switch item/ammo. Alternatively, bind Q+E to the scroll, that works better for some.
Edit: I bind 1-8 for crafting, mainly ammo, flashpod and bombs. You can craft during reloads, this is especially useful for long reloads where you can't move, slicing and sticky comes to mind.

2. Some notes on using the mines:
-They're a great addition to sleep bombing, place them with the bombs for extra damage.
-You can use them defensively, for example place them around when fighting Lavasioth and it can flinch him out of his land swims. With monsters like Barroth that does nicely telegraphed attacks on your spot, place them down and stand around it, then hop back to get out of range as they attack your spot and they'll trigger it and you can keep shooting immediately.

3. With how hectic some fights go, recovery ammo is hard to use. Behemoth with tank might be the only good use for it. Buffing ones are fine. Your main focus should be CC as support, and wide-range for heals. Some monsters have annoying hardening coverings for melee (Lavasioth, Radobaan, etc.) so you could prioritize getting rid of those so melee can attack more freely. Also, some monsters have breaks that are hard to hit for melee, as a ranged you can focus on those spots instead.

[Xilo The Odd]

it goes pew pew pew ka chunk ka chunk ka chunk BOOM

otherwise good advice from the other three posts.

[Christine Wurmblut]

Ah alright, thanks everyone. Guess im becoming a part of the wiggler head cult after all