Is blast bad for bows?

[Invader]

Someone told me it bad for bows. I was thinking of working on kulu bow for hidden blast damage.

[Lital]

Blast coating seems to have a significantly lower dps output than close-range or power coating. I don't recommend it. Elemental Crit seems to be the best output, though Dragon Pierce with the Diablos Bow is also pretty fun.

[MeatShake]

Blast is for breaking parts. If that's your goal go for it.

[Goilveig]

The main issue is that blast resistance goes up with each blast you trigger, so its usefulness diminishes. Elemental bows deal as much damage at the end compared to the beginning of the fight.

[teravisor]

it's nice, with one huge but:
Monster gains resistance to any ailment you put on him (poison/paralyze/blast/etc), so expect limited amount of blast procs (I've heard numbers of 5-6, but didn't check it) from everyone in party total per run.
With blast coatings+blast bow it's easy to solo make those 5-6 blast procs which means if there's someone else doing blasts on boss, a lot of potential is wasted for both you and him.

Solo it's not bad, from what I've seen blast bow+coatings is somewhere on par or a little better compared to power bow with power coatings in short fight, but gets far worse as fight drags on. It's usually better to use power bow with blast coatings for 2-3 blast procs then switch to power coatings.

[Justy311]

Free Element is a hard skill to do on Bows as well. There are so many things that are better suited for a bow play that wasting 3 skills/deco slots just to have access to an element is not really useful.

[Somath]

For fast weapons elemental dmg/status works great.

Im not sure about the coatings on the kulu bow i would say great hunters bow if u are looking for blast

And it all depends on the monster and there resistance btw;)