Why are bows so bad?

quote vincentrago83

Ok so i wanted to try the bow out so i went to the training school and selected a tigrex quest. The fight went on for like 20 min and still no death! Am I doing something wrong, or does the bow just suck?

bows dont suck but they have less damage jus keep triangle pressed and trow a lvl 2 charge

quote vincentrago83

Ok so i wanted to try the bow out so i went to the training school and selected a tigrex quest. The fight went on for like 20 min and still no death! Am I doing something wrong, or does the bow just suck?

Scatter bow like the one in Tigrex training is unfortunately one of the worse bow. Not to mention that the armor skill isn't helping much, and not charging the bow to max isn't going to help at all.

If you want to use bow, you should find the 3rd shot (or 4th with Load up skill) as Rapid or Pierce (depending on the monster that you want to kill). And the 4th shot isn't really a must, considering that they also takes more time to charge. Getting a Focus might be better than Load up Skill. Except for some bow like Dragon Harp (or something) where it need Load up to be the Gravios killer Bow.
Or just get both the focus and Load up >.>

Anyway, I think Bow is so mobile that it is almost impossible to get hit when you are using one (in exchange for some power), so Adrenaline/Heroic is a really good skill to have when using bow (you will die in one hit mostly in gunner armor with full health, so why bother with half health?).

Bow is one of the easiest to kill Gravios, Rajang and Fatalis, so it can't be that bad.

Don't forget your power coating though (and all combines to make them. bullet limit will help greatly). it increase the damage output for around 1.5x... (kinda forgot the exact number) and Close Range Coating also increase shot damage if you shot it from around 0-3 backhop range for either same or more than power coating. But close range coating isn't a must.

Thanks! I got the Queen Blaster I today and I just tried it on a low rank Kut Ku and took him down in less than 5 min! (I think thats a good time with a bow...) anyway i almost got the Tiger Arrow I but decided that raw bows are not as good as status bows, like poision on the Queen Blaster. Tiger Arrow I also has -30% affinity with equals about 240 damage when that negative affinity does its thing. Now i just need to make gunner's armor and im all set! Can you get the skill Heroics on an armor set, or only from food?

there's adrenaline though. in armor skills