Best Heavy Bowgun Build Guide for Monster Hunter Wilds

This guide explores the best Heavy Bowgun build that you can use in Monster Hunter Wilds to absolutely shred any and every monster.

If you want to engage in ranged combat that does heavy damage, the Heavy Bowgun is a weapon that you might want to look at. Monster Hunter Wilds has seen a big change to this weapon, and they mostly improve the overall gameplay. Other than the obvious shooting options, you can also guard and engage in Power Clashes.

Heavy Bowgun is a low-mobility weapon that offers amazing damage output. If you are a beginner, this weapon might easily appeal to you owing to its unique playstyle and potential. However, you need to master the Ingnition Mode to be actually effective and tackle tough monsters like Arkveld. In this guide, we will explore the best Heavy Bowgun build that you should use in Monster Hunter Wilds to absolutely rain fire on your opponent.

Monster Hunter Wilds Heavy Bowgun Overview

The Heavy Bowgun is a slow weapon in Monster Hunter Wilds, although it boasts decent firepower. Its main damage comes from the Ingnition Mode, which basically allows it to have a special magazine that fires off unique damages. Similar to other weapons with special properties, you will need to fill up a gauge in order to use this. However, there are no combos that you need to memorize for this weapon. You simply shoot, and that’s about all you have to do.

One of the most interesting aspects of the Heavy Bowgun is that it does not have an innate elemental attack. Instead, you can carry ammunition for specific elements that you can use anytime in a fight. On the downside, Heavy Bowgun is very prone to reloading, and you might often be vulnerable during a battle. Luckily, mechanics like Perfect Guard can help you out here. Here are the pros and cons of the Heavy Bowgun in Monster Hunter Wilds:

Pros	Cons
– High damage and rate of fire. – Can deal multi-shot damage. – You can play from a distance without necessarily getting close to the monster. – Not reliant on combos.	– Very slow mobility. – Boring gameplay style overall. – Very reliant on reloads and Ignition Mode.

Our best Heavy Bowgun build guide for Monster Hunter Wilds focuses on maximizing the damage output of this weapon by using the most appropriate decorations and armor sets.

Best Heavy Bowgun Build in Monster Hunter Wilds

Here are the full details of the best Heavy Bowgun build in Monster Hunter Wilds:

• Element: None
• Weapon: Greifen (Artian Weapon)
  • Crafting Materials:
    • Crushed Tube: Attack Infusion (any element)
    • Crushed Tube: Affinity Infusion (any element)
    • Rusted Device: Attack Infusion (any element)
• Weapon Decorations:
  • Critical Jewel III [3]
  • Pierce Jewel [3]
  • Bandolier Jewel [1]
• Armor: Guardian Ebony β (2-piece set) + Jin Dahaad β (2-piece set) + Arkvulcan Mail β (1 piece)
  • Guardian Ebony Helm β
    • Decorations:
      • Mighty Jewel [2]
  •  Arkvulcan Mail β
    • Decorations:
      • Challenger Jewel [3]
      • Mighty Jewel [2]
    • Dahaad Shardbraces β
      • Decorations:
        • Challenger Jewel [2]
    • Guardian Ebony Coil β
      • Decorations:
        • Counter Jewel [2]
        • Physique Jewel [1]
    • Dahaad Shardgreaves β
      • Decorations:
        • Refresh Jewel [2]
• Talisman: Chain Charm 2
• Mantle: Corrupted Mantle

Best Monster Hunter Wilds Heavy Bowgun Build: Statistics

If you equip all of the above items, you should have the following stats:

Attack Status

• Attack: 300
• Affinity: 10%
• Element: None

Note: These are the stats for Artian Weapons that are not reinforced. They are at base level, and reinforcing them to their maximum level (5) is suggested, which will further boost some random statistics for this weapon. Ideally, an increase in Affinity is the most desired buff.

Defense Status

• Defense: 295
• Fire Res: -8
• Water Res: -7
• Thunder Res: -2
• Ice Res: 0
• Dragon Res: 3

Note: These stats are for armor parts that are at base level. Upgrading them to their maximum level (7) will further increase your defense.

Best Monster Hunter Wilds Heavy Bowgun Build: Active Skills

This best Heavy Bowgun build in Monster Hunter Wilds will give you the following skills (and levels):

Equipment Skills

• Agitator: Level 5
• Critical Boost : Level 3
• Burst: Level 5
• Maximum Might: Level 3
• Tetrad Shot: Level 3
• Constitution: Level 1
• Piercing Shots: Level 1
• Weakness Exploit: Level 1
• Stamina Surge: Level 1
• Divine Blessing: Level 2
• Recovery Up: Level 2
• Adaptability: Level 1

Set Bonus Skills

• Ebony Odogaron’s Power:
  • 2-set bonus active: Burst Boost I
• Jin Dahaad’s Revolt:
  • 2-set bonus active: Binding Counter I

Monster Hunter Wilds Best Heavy Bowgun Build Explained

Our best Heavy Bowgun build for Monster Hunter Wilds focuses on the following aspects:

• Maximize affinity.
• Gain more attack with successive shots.

Here is an explanation of the above-mentioned points:

Maximize Affinity

The core part of our best Heavy Bowgun build in Monster Hunter Wilds is to build on affinity as much as possible. This is achieved by a variety of skills, all tuned to amp it up to the maximum value you can reach. The Agitator and Maximum Might skills directly give you a 45% affinity increase when their conditions are met. This is further amplified by Tetrad Shot, which increases your attack and affinity further.

With all of the effects stacked, you can gain as much as a 70% affinity boost during a fight, which makes dealing critical damage much easier in Monster Hunter Wilds. Moreover, critical hits also give you more opportunity to create wounds on monsters, which can easily deal more damage.

Gain Successive Stat Boost

The Heavy Bowgun is a weapon that does “spam” damage. In essence, it can create multiple hits in a short span of time. To this effect, the Burst Skill works extremely well to boost your stats by a significant margin after your fifth hit. Your attack and affinity are both increased here. This also further increases your affinity, giving you bonus attack with a massive affinity boost to deal a lot of damage to any monster.

How To Use This Best Heavy Bowgun Build in Monster Hunter Wilds

One of the major advantages of the Heavy Bowgun is that you do not need to remember combos because there are none. That said, here is the normal gameplay loop that you should look to achieve:

• Start the fight from a distance, and use your normal Piercing Damage arrows. This will gradually build up your gauge, which will allow you to use Ignition Mode.

• Once the gauge has filled, switch to Ignition Mode and deal as much damage as you can. Unlike other weapons that can make the Ignition Mode a machine gun, this does burst damage, which is elemental. The element will depend on your Artian Weapon.

• Make sure to carry a lot of special ammunition, especially the Tranq Ammo.

• If you are going to fight a monster who is weak to a particular element, make sure to carry ammunition of that type, especially.

• If the monster rushes you, you can Perfect Guard and initiate a Power Clash, which will further do a lot of damage to the monster.

• Since Heavy Bowgun has poor mobility, try to stay at a distance from the monster and fight as much as you can.

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