Read this Monster Hunter World: Iceborne guide to know the best & recommended armor skills for the melee weapon - Light Bowgun!!!
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| Recommended Skills | Endgame Tier List |
Light Bowgun Features & Overview
High Mobility During Hunts
The Light Bowgun is known to be one of the most mobile weapons in Monster Hunter World. You can keep shooting ammo even while moving and you aren't locked into animation, leaving your free to dodge when a monster attacks.
Can Play As Support Weapon
Due to its mobility and steady stream of shots, the Light Bowgun is ideal in playing a support role in multiplayer mode. Adding abnormal status effects such as Paralysis, Sleep, or Stun can greatly help in any hunt.
Recommended Skill List For Light Bowgun
| Skill | Recommendation Criteria |
|---|---|
| Attack Boost | Increases attack power and affinity at later level, allowing you to deal more damage to the monster |
| Weakness Exploit | You'll deal more damage and have increased affinity rate when landing hits on monster weak spots |
| Critical Boost | Damage of critical hits is increased, letting you deal more damage to monster's health when landing critical hits |
| Agitator | Attack & affinity increases when monster is enraged which lets your attacks hit harder than when monsters are calm |
| Peak Performance | Attack power is increased when HP bar is full |
| Special Ammo Boost | Increases damage of bowgun special ammo |
| Normal Shots | Adds more attack damage to normal ammo & arrows |
| Piercing Shots | Adds more power to piercing ammo & the Dragon Piercer move |
| Spread/Power Shots | Increases damage of spread ammo & power shot arrows |
| Maximum Might | Since this weapon doesn't readily consume stamina, you'll have increased affinity rates when your HP bar is full |
| Critical Eye | Increases affinity rate, allowing for more chances of making critical hits |
| Free Elem/Ammo Up | Increases the amount of ammo loading capacity, best when using rapid fire |
Best Light Bowgun Skills To Equip
Attack Boost
| Lvl | Effect |
|---|---|
| 1 | Attack +3 |
| 2 | Attack +6 |
| 3 | Attack +9 |
| 4 | Attack +12 and Affinity +5% |
| 5 | Attack +15 and Affinity +5% |
| 6 | Attack +18 and Affinity +5% |
| 7 | Attack +21 and Affinity +5% |
Critical Skill To Have For Any Weapon
Since this skill increases a weapon's raw physical damage and then increases affinity rate at later levels, it's a very important basic skill to have in any loadout or build.
Weakness Exploit
| Lvl | Effect |
|---|---|
| 1 | Attacks that hit weak spots have 15% increased affinity |
| 2 | Attacks that hit weak spots have 30% increased affinity |
| 3 | Attacks that hit weak spots have 50% increased affinity |
Allows For Efficient Hunting
Weakness Exploit gives you bigger chances to deal more damage to monster weak spots, making it easier for you to break monster parts or lower monster health. Utilize the Light Bowgun's reach to target weak spots & make for efficient hunts.
Alternative Sword And Shield Skill List
Critical Boost
| Lvl | Effect |
|---|---|
| 1 | Increases damage dealt by critical hits by 30% |
| 2 | Increases damage dealt by critical hits by 35% |
| 3 | Increases damage dealt by critical hits by 40% |
Combine With Attack Boost & Weakness Exploit
When you combine this skill with Attack Boost, Weakness Exploit, and Critical Eye, you'll be dealing a whole lot of damage to any monster you encounter in any hunt.
Agitator
| Lvl | Effect |
|---|---|
| 1 | While active, grants attack +4 and increases affinity by 3% |
| 2 | While active, grants attack +8 and increases affinity by 6% |
| 3 | While active, grants attack +12 and increases affinity by 9% |
| 4 | While active, grants attack +16 and increases affinity by 12% |
| 5 | While active, grants attack +20 and increases affinity by 15% |
Deal More Damage When Monster Is Enraged
The Agitator skill boosts your attack and affinity rate when the monster is enraged. Since monsters enrage multiple times during a fight, you'll be able to do more damage to it and defeat it more easily.
Special Ammo Boost
| Lvl | Effect |
|---|---|
| 1 | Increases the power of bowgun special ammo and Dragon Piercer by 10% |
| 2 | Increases the power of bowgun special ammo and Dragon Piercer by 20% |
This skill is useful in increasing the attack power of the Light Bowgun's Wyvernblast, allowing it to deal vasts amount of damage to any monster it hits.
Normal Shots
| Lvl | Effect |
|---|---|
| 1 | Increases the power of normal ammo and normal arrows |
A recommended skill to equip for Light Bowgun users as it powers up your Light Bowgun's normal ammo. It's best in tandem with the Spread/Power Shots skill.
Spread/Power Shots
| Lvl | Effect |
|---|---|
| 1 | Increases the power of spread ammo and power shot arrows |
A useful skill to increase the damage of your Light Bowgun's spread ammo. Recommended for all Light Bowgun users. It's best in tandem with the Normal Shots skill.
Piercing Shots
| Lvl | Effect |
|---|---|
| 1 | Increases the power of piercing ammo and Dragon Piercer |
This skill is useful when using piercing ammo as it boosts their attack power. However since there are only choice moments to use piercing ammo, this skill is at a lower priority.
Maximum Might
| Lvl | Effect |
|---|---|
| 1 | While active, increases affinity by 10% |
| 2 | While active, increases affinity by 20% |
| 3 | While active, increases affinity by 30% |
Best For Weapons That Don't Consume Stamina
Since the Light Bowgun doesn't consume that much stamina except for dodging, this skill will help you increase your affinity rate. You'll be able to deal more damage when your stamina bar is full.
Critical Eye
| Lvl | Effect |
|---|---|
| 1 | Affinity +3% |
| 2 | Affinity +6% |
| 3 | Affinity +10% |
| 4 | Affinity +15% |
| 5 | Affinity +20% |
| 6 | Affinity +25% |
| 7 | Affinity +30% |
Skill To Increase Damage
Critical Eye essentially increases your affinity rate. Having a higher affinity rate allows you to deal more damage with weapons, letting you kill monsters faster.
Free Elem/Ammo Up
| Lvl | Effect |
|---|---|
| 1 | Draws out 33% of hidden element and expands clip size for some ammo |
| 2 | Draws out 66% of hidden element and expands clip size for some ammo |
| 3 | Draws out 100% of hidden element and expands clip size for some ammo |
Crucial For Rapid Fire Builds
This skill is highly important when you want to fully utilize the Light Bowgun's rapid fire feature. This increases your loading capacity, letting you shoot more ammo at your target.
