What is the best bow atm?

[Mido]

What is the best bow we can craft right now before getting all these DLCs?

[Final Journey]

There is no "best bow" in the regular sense.

Bow's rely on elemental damage/crit so the best choice is to have multiple bows.
Legiana for Ice, Anja for Fire, Tobi Kadachi for Electric etc.

The only exception would be a Crit-Draw Dragonpierce build. You want to use the Diablos Bow on that.

[Mido]

Yes, I'm going for the dragonpierce build. So Diablow Bow II is the strongest pure damage bow right now? What about Cera Coilbender?

[Wren]

For the most part, if a Diablos version exists, that's the best version

But yeah, it depends on what perks you want

[Arthur.C]

Originally posted by Behedes:

There is no "best bow" in the regular sense.

Bow's rely on elemental damage/crit so the best choice is to have multiple bows.
Legiana for Ice, Anja for Fire, Tobi Kadachi for Electric etc.

The only exception would be a Crit-Draw Dragonpierce build. You want to use the Diablos Bow on that.

This, also Tobi Kadachi is only the best Electric bow in the base game, late we will have taro weapons, but those need skills to unlock element.

[Dark3nedDragon]

There is no 'best bow', as the person above stated, you (typically) want an Elemental/Status Bow and coatings that counter your intended target. There are 'general' weapons that (like requested/stated) are more well rounded without any advantages/disadvantages, but at the same time in certain (many) fights you won't be able to safely get off a full Dragon Piercer.

High Rank Monsters rekt me, and if you're fighting a Pukei Pukei, you can beat it to death with a dull club and kill it. An Odogaron on the other hand, will make sweet love to you if you ever try to stand still (not to mention the ton of adds usually around it that will love to interrupt it).

Don't get me wrong, I call it God-Slayer for a reason, when properly used it is outrageously powerful, but still more like a double-edged sword.

Best suggestion if you intend to use it like that, is to carry multiple traps, and use them to guarantee your devastating attacks, and simply refreshing your traps by heading back to a camp after the monster switches zones. And don't bother to bring it in areas in which you know you won't be able to get it off in (i.e. Rotten Vale in any area with Bugs, Freaky Lizards, or Flappities).

[Final Journey]

Originally posted by Mido:

Yes, I'm going for the dragonpierce build. So Diablow Bow II is the strongest pure damage bow right now? What about Cera Coilbender?

Cera Coilbender is the end path of the Diablos Bow