Best armor for ranged?

[fuzz]

Which armor do you use for Ranged? Why do you use it?

[Xilo The Odd]

well its all about skills it has, teo has some pieces with special ammo boost which depending on which ranged weapon you use is very good for boosting your special shot and dragon piercer damage.

mix it with 3 pieces of Xeno jiva for spare shot, a 25% chance to not use your bullet upon firing it, is a lot of fun with a lot of different set types. then simply grab any other relevant skill and you've got a solid ranged set for awhile, atleast until jho, taroth, and lunastra and the arch tempers come out.

[Rockwallnut]

it's depend on what you use for range
HBG LBG or Bow

I ues HBG and LBG
my prefered skill set are
Artillery lv.3
Free Elem/Ammo up Lv.3
Special Ammo Boost Lv.2


Head - Dober Helm Beta (Free Elem/Ammo Up 1)
Body - Kaiser Mail Beta (Special Ammo Boost 2)
Arm - Dodogama Vambraces Alpha (Bombardier 2)
Coil - Kirin Hoop Beta (for lv.1 decoration 3 slot)
Leg - Kirin Leg Guard Beta (Free Elem/Ammo Up 2)

and Artillery Charm III

you can use decoration slot for "evede window" "attack up" and Bombardier for use Mega Barrelbomb after use sleep ammo

this is my set when i play on PS4

[JebKerman]

Originally posted by Rockwallnut:

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my prefered skill set are
Artillery lv.3
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Why Artillery? just curious, the tooltip only says it affects sticky ammo.

[J]

The dragonking eyepatch for the weak point skill. Affinity is the way to go on ranged.

[Waffles]

I use dragon king eyepatch for obvious reasons with nergigante mail beta, stamina surge. Rest Xeno beta for lots of coatings.
Weakness Exploit is so.. so good if you can hit weak points decent enough.
Level 2 Stamina Surge with Level 5 Constitution means I can dance around any monster blasting it to bits.
With a bow of course.

[ImHelping]

I have an unrelated but incredibly stupid now that I say it out loud question regarding ranged weaponry.

Does bow gun tranq ammo wake up sleeping monsters?

That seems like the mind bending backwards video game logic one would expect from monster hunter, but I'd rather not test it in the field.

Back on topic. How useful/useless are sleep skills for Bow (When fighting stuff that can be captured)? Since Bows don't get Tranq options so you have to walk over and shove a tranq bomb in their face regardles, being able to put a limping monster to sleep sounds (hopefully) more convenient than digging for your flash ammo then sprinting to close the distance before it wears off.

[awanderingswordsman]

For bow it kinda depends on your jewels. I'm going with this.

Elemental bow (legiana bow, tobi bow, anja bow, vaal bow, or jyura bow)
Rath soul B (hp boost) (hp boost)
Rath B (hp boost)
Teo B (spreadshot up)
Depends on element
Diablos nero B (mighty bow)
Stun res/ conditioning charm

For the waist I fill the entire elemental attack out. For ice its kushala waist with 2 ice attack gems. For dragon its deathstench with 2 dragon attack gems. For everything else its Damascus with 3 elemental attack gems matching the bows element.

If you have normal up instead of spread up you replace the legs with jyura beta legs.

[DarkFenix]

Originally posted by Rockwallnut:

it's depend on what you use for range
HBG LBG or Bow

I ues HBG and LBG
my prefered skill set are
Artillery lv.3
Free Elem/Ammo up Lv.3
Special Ammo Boost Lv.2


Head - Dober Helm Beta (Free Elem/Ammo Up 1)
Body - Kaiser Mail Beta (Special Ammo Boost 2)
Arm - Dodogama Vambraces Alpha (Bombardier 2)
Coil - Kirin Hoop Beta (for lv.1 decoration 3 slot)
Leg - Kirin Leg Guard Beta (Free Elem/Ammo Up 2)

and Artillery Charm III

you can use decoration slot for "evede window" "attack up" and Bombardier for use Mega Barrelbomb after use sleep ammo

this is my set when i play on PS4

That's a very gimmicky build, not what I'd recommend to someone for general purpose. Lots of skills that benefit only very specific parts of your offensive capability.

The general purpose skills for all ranged are Weakness Exploit and Attack Boost. They work for all weapons and very few builds don't have them.

Normal, Pierce, and Spread/Power Shot abilities can benefit any ranged weapon, if you're going to be using that kind of shot for your main damage.

Free Elem/Ammo Up is very useful on any bowgun, while Bow Charge Plus is great for bows.

Non-elemental Boost is basically mandatory for any non-elemental build and gives great damage, Critical Element is much the same for elemental builds, and if you're going to reach 100% affinity Critical Boost is another excellent damage increase.

And your best survival tool is probably Evade Extender (dodge further, a godsend at lvl 3).

So, first priority is Weakness Exploit. That's followed by anything that gives % damage to your build specifically; that means the ammo type boosts, Non-elemental Boost, and Critical Element. Third is Free Elem/Ammo Up or Bow Charge Plus. Then fourth is Attack Boost (only to lvl 4, where it gives 5% affinity, anything further is an optional luxury).

Since several of those are single point skills, it shouldn't be hard to grab them along with everything else once you have decorations. After that, worry about QoL skills like ones that improve your survival, or push your damage even higher (like Critical Boost, more Attack Boost etc.).

[Rockwallnut]

Originally posted by JebKerman:

Originally posted by Rockwallnut:

...
my prefered skill set are
Artillery lv.3
...

Why Artillery? just curious, the tooltip only says it affects sticky ammo.

I use sticky ammo and HBG can use Wyvernfire not sure that skill an affect with LBG Wyvernblast (cause it's explode too)

when i play on ps4 special ammo reload faster when have this skill or may be just my imagination

or just change a charm to weakness exploit

[DarkFenix]

Originally posted by Rockwallnut:

Originally posted by JebKerman:

Why Artillery? just curious, the tooltip only says it affects sticky ammo.

I use sticky ammo and HBG can use Wyvernfire not sure that skill an affect with LBG Wyvernblast (cause it's explode too)

when i play on ps4 special ammo reload faster when have this skill or may be just my imagination

or just change a charm to weakness exploit

Wyvernfire is specifically the gunlance attack. It's been tested, and it doesn't affect any ranged weapon special ammo, whether it explodes or not (those are only affected by Special Ammo Boost). Apparently it does affect wyvern ammo, but it doesn't affect cluster ammo.

[Otterly Confused]

I just beat the 'final boss' of the story, so my gear is by no means optimal and once I get better gems I'm liable to change it entirely.

Helm: Dragonking Eyepatch (Weakness Exploit +2)
Chest: Dober Mail B (Attack Boost +2)
Arms: Kaiser Vambraces (Weakness Exploit +1)
Legs: Nergigante Coil A (Attack Boost +2, Stamina Surge +1) (Liable to switch to the B as I don't need Stamina as LBG.)
Feet: Negigante Greaves A (Maximum Might +1, Agitator +1)
Charm: Blessing Charm 3 (This one is definitely going to be removed, but as I'm a newbie to the series I like having breathing room while I learn the fights. Once I 'git gud', it'll be changed appropriately.)

I can't speak much on decorations since I legitimately have only two that are of any use beyond the odd resistance buff, but so far this set has done me rather well. Particularly at offsetting the inherent low attack power, but genuinely decent sustained damage of the LBG. It needs tweaking, as I said I don't need stamina as LBG so the Legs are subject to change, but I've been pretty happy overall.

[Rockwallnut]

Originally posted by DarkFenix:

Wyvernfire is specifically the gunlance attack. It's been tested, and it doesn't affect any ranged weapon special ammo, whether it explodes or not (those are only affected by Special Ammo Boost). Apparently it does affect wyvern ammo, but it doesn't affect cluster ammo.

Thanks, I just forgot that HBG use wyvern ammo not all guns can use that ammo

[DarkFenix]

Originally posted by Happy Spooder:

I just beat the 'final boss' of the story, so my gear is by no means optimal and once I get better gems I'm liable to change it entirely.

Helm: Dragonking Eyepatch (Weakness Exploit +2)
Chest: Dober Mail B (Attack Boost +2)
Arms: Kaiser Vambraces (Weakness Exploit +1)
Legs: Nergigante Coil A (Attack Boost +2, Stamina Surge +1) (Liable to switch to the B as I don't need Stamina as LBG.)
Feet: Negigante Greaves A (Maximum Might +1, Agitator +1)
Charm: Blessing Charm 3 (This one is definitely going to be removed, but as I'm a newbie to the series I like having breathing room while I learn the fights. Once I 'git gud', it'll be changed appropriately.)

I can't speak much on decorations since I legitimately have only two that are of any use beyond the odd resistance buff, but so far this set has done me rather well. Particularly at offsetting the inherent low attack power, but genuinely decent sustained damage of the LBG. It needs tweaking, as I said I don't need stamina as LBG so the Legs are subject to change, but I've been pretty happy overall.

As my decoration count got higher, I found myself quickly switching to B armour more than A. For instance in your build stamina surge and agitator are pretty worthless, but until you actually have decorations to replace them the A set is great. I think the only A armour I use now is Kaiser Vambraces A in some builds where I'm not using the eyepatch, the extra slots are more useful 99% of the time.

[Otterly Confused]

Originally posted by DarkFenix:

Originally posted by Happy Spooder:

I just beat the 'final boss' of the story, so my gear is by no means optimal and once I get better gems I'm liable to change it entirely.

Helm: Dragonking Eyepatch (Weakness Exploit +2)
Chest: Dober Mail B (Attack Boost +2)
Arms: Kaiser Vambraces (Weakness Exploit +1)
Legs: Nergigante Coil A (Attack Boost +2, Stamina Surge +1) (Liable to switch to the B as I don't need Stamina as LBG.)
Feet: Negigante Greaves A (Maximum Might +1, Agitator +1)
Charm: Blessing Charm 3 (This one is definitely going to be removed, but as I'm a newbie to the series I like having breathing room while I learn the fights. Once I 'git gud', it'll be changed appropriately.)

I can't speak much on decorations since I legitimately have only two that are of any use beyond the odd resistance buff, but so far this set has done me rather well. Particularly at offsetting the inherent low attack power, but genuinely decent sustained damage of the LBG. It needs tweaking, as I said I don't need stamina as LBG so the Legs are subject to change, but I've been pretty happy overall.

As my decoration count got higher, I found myself quickly switching to B armour more than A. For instance in your build stamina surge and agitator are pretty worthless, but until you actually have decorations to replace them the A set is great. I think the only A armour I use now is Kaiser Vambraces A in some builds where I'm not using the eyepatch, the extra slots are more useful 99% of the time.

Yeah I'm definitely going to be switching entirely to B once I have the decorations to do it. Sadly just barely dipped my toes into the large grind of the game, so it might be a few days if RNGesus decides to favor me.

[awanderingswordsman]

Xeno arms A is also quite useful for some things since its one of 3 non jewel crit boost points in the game (and has flinch free for online play). Less relevant to gunners though.