Am i doing something wrong hunting pukei pukei?

[Bexnard]

First off all just to make clear im a new player.
I am struggling with pukei pukei, i cant kill him, last time i tried it took 40 minutes of shooting endless in him and nothing seems to do damage, im using the light bowgun and normal ammo, since the other types of ammo didnt seem to do more damage than the regular one

[Hatwox]

Are you that same person who had problems with Pukie Pukie? (No problem either way!!!)

Anyway Light Bow Gun(LBG) has .. REALLY LOW damage... Like.... OMG ITS LOW damage...
Switch weapons

OR..... Do elemental attacks.. Like poison.. Or sleep then barrel bomb the ♥♥♥♥♥♥
Always use Wyvern Bomb trap thing.

Apparently Its a thing that LBG has low Raw damage but high Elemental Damage
(tho i don't know the math on that since... last i remember it was all based on Motion Value.. Aka the longer your Attack animation took the more raw damage...... And elemental just didn't have Motion Value... Every weapon just had its own Elemental Value , meaning every move did same flat damage..... Uh... If you wanna you can deep dive into it.)

[Bexnard]

Messaggio originale di Hatwox:

Are you that same person who had problems with Pukie Pukie? (No problem either way!!!)

Anyway Light Bow Gun(LBG) has .. REALLY LOW damage... Like.... OMG ITS LOW damage...
Switch weapons

OR..... Do elemental attacks.. Like poison.. Or sleep then barrel bomb the ♥♥♥♥♥♥
Always use Wyvern Bomb trap thing.

Apparently Its a thing that LBG has low Raw damage but high Elemental Damage
(tho i don't know the math on that since... last i remember it was all based on Motion Value.. Aka the longer your Attack animation took the more raw damage...... And elemental just didn't have Motion Value... Every weapon just had its own Elemental Value , meaning every move did same flat damage..... Uh... If you wanna you can deep dive into it.)

Idk, kinda thinking of uninstalling, seems too "bullet spongy" for me

[Zand]

Messaggio originale di Emerald Lance:

Messaggio originale di Bexnard:

The problem is that i really wanna main some kind of light - ranged class, its my thing, but i cant seem to progress solo with this gun, anyways than you all for answers, you all make an amazing community, keep it up :)

Give bow a shot. I feel like it's lighter than LBG, arrows count for slicing damage (ie they can cut tails), you feel really cool dodging and weaving around enemies, and bow has great damage when specced properly. Speccing bow is a chore, but speccing LBG is a great deal harder and more restrictive.

Arrows do not count as slicing damage, they are shot damage and can not cut tails. That said Bow has a couple of options to cut a tail one is the jumping melee attack and the other is Dragonpiercer. If you want to cut a tail use something else, Bow was not made to do it.

[Zand]

Messaggio originale di Bexnard:

Messaggio originale di Hatwox:

Are you that same person who had problems with Pukie Pukie? (No problem either way!!!)

Anyway Light Bow Gun(LBG) has .. REALLY LOW damage... Like.... OMG ITS LOW damage...
Switch weapons

OR..... Do elemental attacks.. Like poison.. Or sleep then barrel bomb the ♥♥♥♥♥♥
Always use Wyvern Bomb trap thing.

Apparently Its a thing that LBG has low Raw damage but high Elemental Damage
(tho i don't know the math on that since... last i remember it was all based on Motion Value.. Aka the longer your Attack animation took the more raw damage...... And elemental just didn't have Motion Value... Every weapon just had its own Elemental Value , meaning every move did same flat damage..... Uh... If you wanna you can deep dive into it.)

Idk, kinda thinking of uninstalling, seems too "bullet spongy" for me

There are a lot of things that could help with damage, for example Critical Distance, its not explained in game and is a common cause for newer players thinking ranged is bad.

When aiming the reticle will change depending on how far you are from a monster, too far and you are out of range, a little closer and the reticle will go yellow indicating you can hit the monster but it will do very low damage. Depending on the ammo you are using you can get away with this Sticky and Slicing will still do full damage if you hit at this range.

Get a little closer and the reticle will change to orange, this is critical distance and you will do proper damage. This changes again based on the ammo you are using, Normal ammo has a medium range, Piercing ammo has quite a long range and will be at critical distance from further away and Spread has the shortest range.

Ammo level also has an enormous effect on damage and you want to avoid Normal 1 at all costs if you can. The blue box at camp will have a supply of Normal 2 for you to take for free and you can craft more in the hunt with some Gunpowder 2.

[Wulfenburg]

Messaggio originale di Bexnard:

The problem is that i really wanna main some kind of light - ranged class, its my thing, but i cant seem to progress solo with this gun, anyways thank you all for answers, you all make an amazing community, keep it up :)

Hey Bexnard, I know I'm late to the post, but if you're interested I'd love to help you out with some hunts. Might be helpful having a melee between you and your mark. I'm not super high level (HR8) and I can use some lower level gear too so it's not just overkill. Anyway, I'll shoot you a friend request, accept if you want to play sometime! :)