I've compared the HBG and LBG and I have faster clear times when using the HBG, but I still enjoy the LBG and use it regardless. HBG vs LBG vs Bow? It’s one of the best Normal Level 3 Bowguns in the game and, with the new Rajang armor, building it got much easier. (It's free! Picking the best Heavy Bowgun in MHW Iceborne entirely depends on your playstyle and build. I will admit skill may play a factor, but I'm mostly talking about things that are hard wired in. I can give consistent damage the whole fight and provide some cc with specialized ammo. ジンオウガ亜種 (Jinōga ashu) in Japanese. © 2021 GAMESPOT, A RED VENTURES COMPANY. I have over 300 hours of playtime in MHW and 80% of the time I've been using HBG. Im at work(so cant make a screenshot) but my fastest time with karma was sub 7 and i have seen much faster lbg times on him. The shield is really nice for up close too. the big thing with LBG VS bow to me is simply the stamina, bow drains a ton of stamina to use effectively and you are bad at managing that it performs very poorly. It's less DPS than HBG or bow is, we all know that, however it still ranks very high on damage vs melee, and is an extremely versatile weapon with no bad matches in the game. The whole point to LBG is mobility. It does feel really slow compared to other weapons. My sloppy run with fire build bow on the same investigation took 10 minutes. I don’t think that’s a priority in discussion as of yet. I made a max affinity set with Karma and a crap load of crit and crit damage. 08 Dec 2020 17:24 . LBG was initially supposed to be a support weapon using status and elemental for damage so if you mix status effects with dps and your special ammo the LBG is extroidinarily powerful. Bow’s major down fall is its stamina control, and often you have to sacrifice atk skills to keep up with the bow dancing. While the base weapon can be crafted after some … Let me preface with this, I love this game. Slicing is probably ok where it is but the others could use love. This is due to a couple reasons. And I don't mean to imply the big is not viable. I have full ammo up and normal shots +. Light bowgun dps is just lacking. Rajang; Follow @kiranico_en . It’s my go too for group play because I can stay back where it’s safe but get nice dps off. The final version will require the Tempered Rajang in Guiding Land. A water elemental build featuring 5 Safi Armor pieces for the life drains. You're browsing the GameFAQs Message Boards as a guest. I can't make the comparison between LBG and bow since I've never used the bow and don't intend to, but what I can suggest is that you avoid comparing the weapon types in the first place. Timing and positioning make the difference between a crappy run and a great one. I still have my LBG set saved but I haven't touched in a bit. The HBG is supposed to be more powerful after all, at the expense of mobility. ~15 minutes. LBG does great with element and status, something a HBG wouldn't be capable of, and a LBG with element rapid fire can indeed keep up on pair with a raw HBG. Normal HBG and Normal LBG are comparable on damage over time, yes. Reloading sucks ik. Nargacuga is a Large Monster in Monster Hunter World (MHW).ナルガクルガ (Narugakuruga) in Japanese. Yeah, I second this. as for the cons, HBG is slower than LBG (but mhw made it kinda less sluggish than it was), and both can't take hits. So the damage is def comparable. I've never used Bow, but I've always used Light Bowgun (except at the very start when I tried Heavy Bowgun), and I think you might have missed something when using the Light Bowgun. In my Long Sword guide (and almost all of the melee weapons) The Drachen set is dominating the current meta, this is because of the high Affinity focus armor skills of the set as well as other powerful skills for melee players. Maybe it's just your skill with the bow is greater than the LBG? Even though I was still learning the timing for counters and such I still finished quests faster with lance than LBG. May 16 - updated albums for GS, LS, SnS, CB, SA, hammer, HH, lance, GL, bow and HBG. Hunter Build Guide… A detailed guide on Nioh 2 new weapon from Darkness in the Capital, featuring Limitless – the most powerful Fist skill of all time. LBG also does better with elemental & Normal 2 via Rapid Fire though it can make use of Pierce 2 and Spread 2/3 with some good effectiveness. Keyboard I decided to try the evade reaload perk but I dont know how to trigger it at all. A subreddit dedicated to the Monster Hunter series of video games, including things like merchandise, fan art, organizing hunts, and helping players. MHW Iceborne Best Hunting Horn Builds [Top 7] At this point, with no one even using the hunting horn really, I think any build will do the job. My point was that the bow has very little downside compared to the lbg and yet does many many things better. TAROTH … MHW LBG … Home; About; Publications Lbg is sooo much better than the bow in terms of status. You have to time your attacks to land the big hits and avoid getting hit in the process. Even with close coating on my arrows I can hit for full damage at a significantly farther distance than the bowgun can with normal shots. Dont want to sound mean but 15 mins on a vaal with a min maxed karma build is really slow. I have over 300 hours of playtime in MHW and 80% of the time I've been using HBG. As it is now... you really only end up focusing on one ammo type anyway. But recently I've been using the LBG, and as I've been getting better my times have significantly decreased. The only things lbg comes out ahead with are their mines and the wife variety of ammo they can carry. Fatalis), please report to … It's boring yes, but it'll bring so much damage boost into your team especially GS mains. Subscribe and follow me on : Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Kappa.Lair/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Kappas_Lair I don't like it that they added the Defender line of weapons. I agreed with you on LBG damage should be buff, My fire LBG setup usually got tempered Vaal just under 8 minutes while fire bow can be faster. With the latest update to Kulve Taroth in Master Rank, MHW Light Bowgun got a slight change to the meta. Hopefully it's just an oversight that will be tweaked and not an intentional design choice. So I've been playing range since HR 49 and haven't looked back. Seems pretty good to me. HBG feels more powerful in terms of raw damage, but LBG has generally higher mobility allowing it to be safer and have a good uptime on its damage. I've finally finished making his set and getting my charge blade. Something is going wrong then. While I get your point, I do think comparing overall effectiveness can be useful. I have to drop two fangs, open the fight with 2 mega barrel bombs and hit weak spot almost every time on my Fire LBG run to get that time. My set with karma can get 78/38/38 per n2 bullet (3 close range aug) against the pole in the training room w.o buffs. anjanath one shot me with his flame from full health. More mobility to stay far enough away. Like the range. My goal is to just kite the monster around in solo and aim groups. Privacy PolicyCookie SettingsDo Not Sell My InformationReport Ad. I just started using the legiana hbg with shields. Tempo is critical with the bowguns. MHW:I MR4レウス亜種 ヘビィ通常弾04'46"90 TAwiki rules+claw. I feel sticky ammo is just bad. May 21 - added Behemoth Farming sets. I have the same LBG. I just noticed that bow seems to get the best of all worlds without any real trade off except some easy stamina management. Oh I still really enjoy playing with my Karma crit set. I've compared the HBG and LBG and I have faster clear times when using the HBG, but I still enjoy the LBG and use it regardless. Similar to other bowgun setups, focus on stickies when loading artillery and slugger to your skill for more stun buildup! I think the ammo types as a whole need a buff. I seem to get the most breaks and staggers, then when the monster gets pissed at me and starts focusing on me, I just let him beat on my shield, and the other party members can beat on him freely. In previous games, both bow and lbg are more mobile options to hbg: lbg can dish out dmg faster because it doesn't need to charge their shots. It has spread lv3. Hopefully this has given you some hope for the poor old LBG! But I play very badly, hardly doing combos and still manage to get good time. Below is a build that utilize Frost Ammo from Alatreonâ s Dominator. Order Online; Printable Order Form $ 0.00 Cart 0.00 Cart. Been focused on Lance from HR 25-53 and I feel like I'm finishing hunts a lot faster. I consider myself pretty decent with LBG, I finished the entire story mode with one, but once I switched to lance I noticed my kill times were going a lot faster than with LBG. I’ve found the HBG to be better with spread over the LBG due to less recoil, allowing for faster walking shots. I'm not necessarily wanting a damage boost. The first bowgun in our list is the Nergigante Heavy Bowgun. Added normal/spread LBG meta album. Early Game Transitional Sets section has been completely remade with a new album. Sticky HBG is better for solo because you make better use of wyvern ammo and clusters that knock team mates away. That’s just me though. Swap over to my first lance set (which was just cobbled together from stuff I already had) using the nerg lance and dropped my time to sub 10min. The gender poll - are you male or female? Cluster HBG is super fun tho, just throwing that out there. Jarrude. Edit 2: Also, I think that LBG was designed as a support weapon more than anything with its good status ammo count and such. For Spread Nerg HBG is King imo.. the high damage of Spread 3, low recoil out damages all other HBG and LBG. Also you burn through 50 power coatings like its nothing. The crit distance on HBG is also significantly longer than LBG's, so you don't have to be in a monster's face. When you compare two similar style weapons you can usually see where trade offs are made Hammer and GS for example are both slower, heavy hitting weapons. I sub lbgs and I agree that lbgs are lacking in this game compared to bows. But there needs to be a way to build to support that archetype. I feel like not a lot of people use Insect Glaives, but for various reasons everyone uses bows or switch axes. I can't comment on Generations, but in 4U, I'm using Nether Phloxion for LBG, and alternating between a few HBGs. I'm not asking this to complain, but to express a concern and hopefully get some feed back. Next off is definitely the Ice Ammo. The damage outputs are similar. They're almost on par with my Bow now. 5/4/2020 Added Kjarr Focusless builds Added Kjarr Anti-Rajang build How to Beat Alatreon in MHW: Iceborne HBG is preferred for its raw power. I have tried hbg, but couldn't get over how slow it felt, so I feel in no way qualified to comment on their state in the game. Its fun but not the fastest around, and I think my cat did more harm than good, but its ok. They obviously have their strengths and weaknesses. That said, it'd be nice if it got a bit of a buff, just not enough of one that it makes the HBG look bad. MHW Iceborne HBG Build – Armor. Edit: If you're going to use elemental then use rapid fire and try to stack some elemental attack up. U can try the nerg hbg i think. June 6 - removed separation between PC/console albums. It seems lik e apretty mean pierce bowgun. Is it possible for a Preowned Copy of MHW to already have the Iceborne DLC? If bowgun is supposed to be the versatility weapon, then great! I have been able to approach the numbers I get with bow, but the reloads ( even at fast) do slow down the dps. This page was last updated on 04 December 2020, 1:18PM . The bow to me and im sure most others is just much easier to use and a lot more simple! I've put together the best mixed sets I can, and I've come to the conclusion that now beats out the lbg in just about every metric. Hopefully we'll see another patch that buffs normal, spread, and elemental shots for lbg sometime. Don't want to miss any new video ? usually you'll be using pierce. Sticky lbg is better for monsters like Rajang and Stygian because its very hard to evade those monsters super moves with HBG so you have to block them for over half your health bar with guard 5. It's quite a good benefit i've found. < > Showing 1-5 of 5 comments . Does anybody use these regularly? I.E use the mines you can place down. What do you think? I have put well over a thousand hours into the MH series as a whole but have literally never dabbled in the ranged playstyles. That said, it'd be nice if it got a bit of a buff, just not enough of one that it makes the HBG look bad. I can run a min-maxed Karma build against Vaal Hazak and not have any downtime while hitting weak points. judging from how fast i killed barroth in the demo, that thing still rocks. Not a fan of these kind of posts two different weapons two different playstyles similar to comparing a GS and a hammer or a SnB and a DB weilder or a SA and a CB. I played LBG from HR1-25 or so. Mar 7, 2020 @ 3:51am just spam the space bar after you are done #1. Changelogs ... -Assault > Introduced Elemental Bowguns with modified ammunition, credits to MutantDemocracy for the concept - Namielle LBG and HBG - Kirin LBG and HBG - Velkhana LBG and HBG - Teostra HBG; Version v1.00SJ. Jyura Bullet is the best spread LBG over Odo's. The HBG is supposed to be more powerful after all, at the expense of mobility. MHW LBG Build & Best Light Bowgun in MHW Iceborne[Updated 2020] Leave a comment. It is a subspecies of Zinogre.. Has a symbiotic relationship with Dracophage Bugs, which it releases like bullets. Stygian Zinogre is a Large Monster in Monster Hunter World (MHW).Stygian Zinogre is the 2nd free major title update for the Iceborne Expansion that is set to be released on December 5, 2019 (March 12, 2020 for the PC). Aim for the head! I SOLD MY FISHING ROD AND CAPTURE NET, HOW DO I GET ANOTHER. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, More posts from the MonsterHunter community. Mar 7, 2020 @ 3:48am How in the world Evade Reload works on LBG/HBG? Edit: I forgot a point in lbgs favor: healing and buff shots. It’s nasty, I love it. Infinite ammo, better range, better application of elemental damage, seamless switching between shot types, no loading, faster fire rate. It has its faults, but just like the Bow, it has its own tempo. May 23 - updated IG albums. :\The Furious Rajang Pump action N3https://youtu.be/LUYFj4LULlA*SHOOT THAT SUBSCRIBE BUTTON!#HBG #LBG #ICEBORNE LBGs also historically excel as a ranged element option similar to bows, but the elemental dmg of lbgs in MHW just suck compared to bows. It's not for everyone. I use Insect Glaives because they are fast and also kinsects can help me to extract from monsters but the vaulting is the best part because I … Personally, I favor the LBG for Piercing. Both have their pros and cons. In GS you get the shoulder bash for defense and do cutting damage primarily, conversely the hammer has greater mobility, it's charge shielding effect and does primarily KO. Similar to Light Bowgun, you can now use the Raging Brachy Chest and Waist for Agitator Secret unlock and 5 points in Agitator, the rest can be supplemented with Challenger Jewel 4. You've just got to use it's strong points as much as possible. LBG's RF N2 volleys do more damage than a single shot of HBG N3, but N3 can also generally be fired twice per N2 volley. You can do a ton of damage with them! I believe one reasons is that bows can combo now to charge up their shots. I don't want lbg to be the new meta or go back to the silly slicing spam, but I do think they could use some love. I love the mines and so have no issues there, but the ammo variety is of questionable benefit, because if you don't build for a specific ammo, their utility drops off pretty quick. For Pierce damage output-wise Legiana HBG is King. 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