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Bow is hard to use and you need to adapt yout strat to some bosses.
- use Sharp bomber in your banish combos if enemies are very agressive, it's less damage but movement and invincibilty helps tons...

if you're BR/PH you need the DEX mag because both Braver and Phantom mag stack to give you twice the base S-ATK. If you play any other subclass, S-ATK mag is fine.
Not sure what you mean about tech...

base power/utility with katana is now equivalent to power/utility upon gear release (you get the extra PP recovery, crit from combination and extra % damage, only the stat increase doesn't apply...

radius arca should be as strong as Austere, if not more provided you use it properly (a.k.a step dodge attacks to boost the pot). I think only Atra EX and Lighstream can edge it out neatly

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I'd add that penetrating arrow damage is pretty bad in banish combos unless you do them at the right distance, in which case each arrow hits twice, making for a...

Master shot has different uses charged and uncharged

Uncharged master shot fires 3 arrows that spread away in a cone fashion. this one can be spammed after banish against big and/or slow targets...

Without being as sarcastic as Falco, if you're a bow main, chances are you'll only be using Million storm to clear trash mobs or line spawns, and even then the radius arca bonus doesn't amount to...

which is exactly what I said in my post, but thanks for reminding people

Wow I guess just removing the critical part of the stance for BR/RA lets you do a dual stance tree. good to know !

taste the irony of katana having most of its high SP cost skills go to 1, letting them freely invest into a few bow skills if they want, but bow is still at a point where dual stance is a pipe dream...

for these, Hunter or Fighter would be best because simple conditionals.HU takes the cake because Automate + MassiveHunter makes you veeery hard to kill.
SU would suffer here because it needs to...

Bow is a very weird weapon right now. It has theoretically very high DPS on paper, but it mainly relies on double penetrating arrow x 6 after banish arrow (as in, if you use penetrating arrow from a...

I overall agree with this, but just my opinion from playing various bow builds.

BR/FI actually fares very decently on Ultimate type of quests, mainly because it has very nice TAJA options for...

Well I should have added that Gear guard release is definitely not a main ring, and more something you swap in and out depending on content. Its only goal is to make it easier to get gear fast in...

Answering both questions at once lol.

You'd better level it mainly because gear drain is still really fast, even with Atra/Kazami gear save properties (they do influence the gear release). The...

Yeah and that's true for pretty much every double hitting pene arrow. It's boss-dependent but it's often around two steps away from what you're hitting

Bow actually is in a better place that it has ever been. The massive buff to PAs combined to power creep pretty much offset most of the nerf-batting they did to banish, so you do more damage with it...

For good bow usage, you need, the 3 minimum points in rapid shoot, then rapid shoot up, mastery and advance 1 and 2 and maxed out, along with bullet bow charge bonus, for a total of 28 points. The...

as it was said above 5% is a really rough estimate of what you get by eliminating variance from weapon with crit bonus added, provided you didn't take any crit skills if you went for Keeper ring. In...

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That's not completely true : actually just Fury critical on the HU side coupled with gear activation gives you 100% critical already, so adding stance critical for BR is useless. so yeah with gear...

Bullet bow homing is alright. For Right ring, I'd go for either of these
-Massive Hunter to tank during banish sequences
-PP Convert for sustaining you're banish sequences more easily
-Perfect...

To be honest, if you work on having a decent rifle, wb into rifle PAs still makes short work of all these beefy targets (except you train Ghidoran, enemy of all ranged classes). Although your wbs...

BR/GU's damage outside of chain is really bad, so unless you're in a party that allows you to build chains, I wouldn't recommend it.
Also, no you have tons of heads and weakpoints, more than enough...

Thing is, Sakura Endou, Hatou Rindou and crafted Kazan Nadeshiko, which are all your best tools against tough mobs and bosses that won't let themselves be kamikaze arrow (think kitties and their...

It's doable, but losing katana is really terrible for mobbing in general. Not to mention that even with HU sub, you'll be wanting to hit weakpoints whenever possible to maximize your damage output,...