Are LBG viable? Just started using one and feel like I'm doing nothing to monsters, even when using piercing, slicing etc. It clearly doesn't have the same meaty feeling as my main weapon - the hammer - but I wanted to give it an honest shot and am not sure if I'm doing it right.
Does anyone have some advice, a guide, or even a video where I can learn how to git gud with the LBG?
It's viable. Elemental Rapid Fire completely destroy Beetlejuice, Lavasioth, Diablos/Black Diablos, Uragaan, Legiana. And Rapid Fire Normal 2 deals lots of damage against monster with many weak hitzone like Odogaron.
Also the Status ailments you can inflict is ridiculous, unlike melee weapon, status shot have 100% chance to apply status instead of 33%. Using Jyura LBG, you can get 2 Para, 2 Sleep, and 2 Poison per monster.
- Make sure to shoot from critical distance and always aim for weakspot.
- Rapid Fire is the most important thing about LBG. Barroth LBG and Odogaron LBG are great for general use as they have Rapid Fire Normal 2 (second to last Odo LBG deals 30+15+15 to Beetlejuice wing/neck per shot) and Spread 1 and can use Para shot.
Jyura LBG is good for monsters that weak against Water (Lavasioth, Uragaan, Diablos/Black Diablos, Teostra, Anjanath), can use ridiculous amount of Status shot with very little recoils, and big Spread 2 capacity.
Thunder LBG is good against monster that weak against Thunder (Raths, Beetlejuice, Legiana, Odogaron), have access to big amount of Paralysis shot and big Pierce capacity.
- Elemental Shot have Piercing properties. but unlike Pierce shot, the initial damage is comparable to Normal Shot, that's why it completely destroy Diablos, Uragaan, Beetlejuice (using second to last Thunder LBG, shooting him from head to tails deals 100+ damage per shot), and Lavasioth. Personally not a fan of Pierce shot for LBG, the capacity is too small for most LBG.
- Make sure to Mod your Bowgun, I usually just stack Recoil Mods.
- Wyvernblast deals ridiculous amount of damage, one mines can deals between 200 to 250 damage, and three mines deals up to 750 damage. The best way to use them is when the monster is downed/sleep/paralyzed , sets all three on monster head then melee them and the monster head to KO them and trigger the explosion. Another good way to use them is to set them randomly and try to bait monster into triggering it (monster attack also triggers the explosion), pretty good against monster like Diablos, Odogaron, or Beetlejuice.
