silver rath armor, safi armor or fatalis armor ?

[Applethal]

trying to build elemental bow builds

did some bit of googling, silver rathalos is much better than safi but i still need your confirmation guys, also why people do not have ATK boost skills with other gems ? instead they put only they boost only the elemental attack skills as i planned to include them both hmm i mean ATK boost and ELE boost

[Ember]

Safi + velkhana or 4p Fatalis and Velkhana Gamma Helm or Greaves.

[Andy_RK]

People use specific elemental bow for specific monster because the element hitzone value is high that is why they usually abandon attack boost. Come join the lazy path and build physical bow instead lmao

[Applethal]

Originally posted by Andy_RK:

People use specific elemental bow for specific monster because the element hitzone value is high that is why they usually abandon attack boost. Come join the lazy path and build physical bow instead lmao

well im not going that path, made a raw build and hated it thats why i wanted to make elemental builds, thanks for the calrification

[Emerald Lance]

Silver rath armor is better than safi armor, but kjarr weapon + safi armor is even better still. Then attack boost can be disregarded outright in favor of critical eye, which will boost crit element rate. This will be further boosted by safi armor.

[Kawalorn]

Assuming you use Kjarr Bow, then Safi armor is better, because you can stack both Critical Element and Safi boost, while Silver Rathalos will overwrite Critical Element from Kjarr.

Fatalis is more for comfy builds than pure DPS, and it's what I use.

[AKYM |]

on paper in short,
Silver win with ez entry, KT Safi win with over-all field performance, KT Fatty win in utility
They all ended up in the same damage in practice field (aka same in theory). They only have 1~3 damage diff.

In detail,
On bow, Ture ele crit give 1.55x and ele crit give 1.35x on elemental damage dealt.
So silver is heavier on elemental output, lowering your damage rely on good HZV as long as it proc WEX and have a 20~25+ element weakness.
The only issue is even mix with a Safi bow your gear is still not rich enough to pack every skills in, forcing you to cut down supportive skills and git-gud.

KT Safi was once the top damage setup since the safi set give 150 element and 40% crit. In field, you can stack crit eye with that plus the base affinity on weapon and reach a flat 90%+ crit, even allowing you to skip tenderizing without losing too much.
Only downfall is the bleeding from safi made the setup only suit for the good ones. Though this can be relieved via health aug.

KT fatty just specked for itself: a tons of slots to pack everything in one, simple.
In general this is what everyone is using,That even you're using a KT weapon you're still physical based since your skills are all boosting that side, you will under perform once target's HVZ suck.

Att boost is very un-obvious on small motion value, go practice field and quick test the relationship on "Every 10 att added, this move will gain X amount of damage" on a 80hvz.
On bow that is 10 att for 1 damage per arrow, meaning in battle field, your hard traded lv7 att from what ever skill you ditched will turn into possibly 1.2~1.8 per arrow.

TLDR:
If you lazy, go raw or KT fatty.
If you serious and big brain, check HVZ & Ele weakness https://mhworld.kiranico.com/monsters
Make builds based on the proportion of physic : element and field needs.

[AfLIcTeD]

Azure Age -> Silver los armour.

Silver Los armour is just outright terrible. You are literally getting an entire amour set for 1 set bonus and no other useful skills.. It has useless skills and terrible slots. Avoid it like the plague.

[♋Phenex]

https://mhwbowbuilds.wordpress.com/15-02/

Ye olde meta sets. Mostly 4 pce fatty with some azure age and silverlos mix.

[Namie]

Well if you are looking for a huge elemental damage id say safii, thing is it can be a bit suicide, at least to me, i dont ever pick this one, silver rathalos is good for the true elemental crit but fails in everything else (id use the azure era instead that gives the same skill but with better defenses and some other goodies) now being a bow user id mostly stick to fatalis (i strongly suggest the gamma namielle cowl for the stamina recovery) , it offers a ton of options for survivability and critical damage, comboing with a raw weapon for abusing the raw + crit damage or going for a kjar (at least on bow they have elemental crit by themselves idk the other weapons i never use em)