Best mantle and decorations for bow dps

[MAGICK]

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I use elemental bows

[Twice]

Critical Eye, Critical Element, Mighty Bow and as much as possible of your element of choice.

Evade Extender if you want to live.
Evade Window if you feel confident and want to live, pretty good for behemoth tanking.

Constitution if you want to shoot for longer before growing tired, though you can opt in for Dash Juice instead.

Impact mantle is pretty good.

[AfLIcTeD]

Crit Eye
Weakness Exploit
Elemental damage, whatever element you are using.
Might Bow
Constitution
Stamina Surge
Critical Element set bonus at least.

Health Boost
Evade
Divine Blessing

I think that's all the best ones.

Mantles would be Rocksteady and Temporal.

[CourtesyFlush09]

Temporal. Always. It turns this game into EZ baby mode.

[Tustle]

No idea when it comes to the bow as far as decorations go, but something to keep in mind: the Glider Mantle+ resets the fastest out of the mantles, does not degrade in use when damaged, and has two Level 4 decoration slots.

The Assassin's Hood+ also resets pretty quickly and has a nice long duration when in use, plus level 3 and level 2 decoration slots. Just have to avoid attacking the monster when it's unaware of you to make the most use of it.

[Mana Banana]

imo the best general use mantles are glider+ for the huge deco slots and any elemental resist mantle that isn't the dragon one. They're all identical in the sense that they have fairly long durations/moderate cooldowns and with tool specialist 2 you'll have close to 100% mantle uptime. I specifically don't recommend the dragon resist mantle because it has a slightly longer cooldown for some reason.

[Tustle]

Originally posted by Mana Banana:

I specifically don't recommend the dragon resist mantle because it has a slightly longer cooldown for some reason.

Capcom trying to make things more difficult for us when hunting ol' Jho perhaps?

[Emerald Lance]

Mighty bow is the most imoortant skill on a bow for damage.

[K]

I'm surprised nobody has brought up evasion mantle. It should just be locked into one of your mantle slots for obvious reasons.