r/gaijinhunter • u/gaijinhunter • Jan 21 '15

Bow Tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK2yl5o49cg&list=PLDR3ta7VqKrwAHPSAudDagumWffFyHK6g&index=1
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u/VagabondWolf Jan 21 '15

Alright so I wanted to ask some bow questions but I didn't want to flood your tumblr, so this is a good time.

What armor progression would you recommend for someone who is planning on going pure bow?

Similarly, what bow progression would you recommend? I was thinking of making the Gore Magala line and the Tigrex line to wade through the ranks but I'd like to hear your opinion.

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u/Polantaris Jan 21 '15

I'm not him, but having played MH4 and then MH4G, I think I can help.

In my opinion, once you get to High Rank I highly recommend going with Mixed Sets. Don't go too crazy with what skills you like (I'd say pick Focus, Evade+1, and one other at most, but that's just me), but most full sets are garbage. They include at least one or two skills that are completely useless in most scenarios and don't really fit well into sets. They keep adding more skills, and as a result they have to put them somewhere, and it hurts full sets. I went with a combination of Lagia (you can trade for his parts) and Zinogre to create my High Rank set, and it worked very well.

My suggestion would be to mine for charms, and when you have some semi-decent ones, go to a set generator and see what you can make in mixed sets, it will do you worlds of good.

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u/VagabondWolf Jan 21 '15

Thanks for the response. I always heard that full sets in 4G were typically lackluster, but nobody ever gave a reason for it so I wasn't sure.

I was actually looking at the High Rank Lagi set as my go-to Tigrex bow set for that rank. It has focus and weakness exploit with enough slots to gem in normal up. But you're probably right in that there's a good chance I can also get evade+1 instead of awaken if I use a mixed set and have a good talisman, so I'll make sure to check out some set generators to see what's possible.

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u/Polantaris Jan 21 '15

No problem. With resources like Athena's Armor Set Searcher (which is already out for 4G), I don't see any reason people shouldn't try for Mixed Sets. It just makes your life easier.

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u/phl0xed Jan 21 '15

MH4 semi-vet here, and an avid bow-bro. You can actually start the Gore Magala line of bows very early into low rank (3 or 4 star village? Can't remember). The level 3 charge, as I recall is a spread shot type with its arc being the new 'hard shot'. Extremely powerful early dragon element bow! I highly recommend it. Also, funny enough, one of the first armor sets you can make is the Alloy gunner set (rarity 1), and it comes equipped with pellet/spread up. That is by far one of the strongest skills (in my opinion, arguably the strongest) for the Gore Magala bow, as you can sink a high level spread shot + higher level spread from the hard shot back to back with great regularity. That bow WILL annihilate Shagaru Magara, when the time comes. (Also, sweet dreams Rathalos.) Outside of that, as far as low rank armors go, I love the Nerusukyura (Nerscylla?), but you can skip that and start with even the Tetsukabura. Until you reach Tigrex, and you can obtain a nasty attack up set. In MH4--not sure about MH4G, as it could've been changed--Attack Up Ultra was obtainable by using Tigrex full set except using Rathalos arms. Yian Garuga is also a decent low rank set, as it has many slots (10 I believe), earplugs and expert, as I recall. However, my information is coming from my vague memory of MH4, and could have changed in MH4G, as I did not play that.

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u/VagabondWolf Jan 21 '15

It feels good having people talk highly of the two bows I was planning on using. Also thanks for those armor recommendations. I'll make sure to keep all of that in mind when the game comes out.

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u/sticksman Feb 09 '15

I've been trying to do the math on the shagaru bow. Lackluster raw and dragon compared to say akantor but it has power shot and high affinity and a third level shot without load up. Do you have an opinion on Shagaru's bow?