Heavy Bowgun Builds in Monster Hunter Rise are Builds that cover a few popular recommended and some personally crafted builds for and from the community. These builds were created around the weapon types, each with a specific set of handpicked Weapons, Equipment and complementing Skills and Decor Items. These builds with Specific Weapons may be paired with a set of Armor to optimize the combination in order to create a Build type focused on the Skills available with the selected equipment.
Best Heavy Bowgun Builds Monster Hunter Rise
MH Rise Heavy Bowgun Build Guide
The Heavy Bowgun is known for its powerful-long range damage, Its ammo has the ability ot explode and create more damaging effects unlike the Light Bowgun. It has that extra explosive step to consider when choosing Armor and the Skills that accompany them. Since this weapon attacks at a slower speed, it is important to highlight some Skills to help enhance the damage output and increase the speed to make up for the mobility of this weapon type. Ammunition comes in every elemental and status damage type, as well as ammo suitable for short or long range. Ramp-up Skills can further add more ammo types to your bowgun. Always check the ammo capabilities of your bowgun before building.
The Heavy Bowgun is a tanky ranged weapon that comes with a built-in shield capable of blocking most monster attacks. This allows the Heavy Bowgun to approach monsters head on, firing shot after shot before using their shields to guard against any incoming attacks from the monster before resuming its unceasing barrage of damage. Because of the Heavy Bowgun's ability to tank monster attacks while also dealing a massive amount of damage in return, the Heavy Bowgun will benefit mostly from skills that improve its defensive capabilities as well as its DPS. As one of the two "Bowguns" in the game, the Heavy Bowgun also has an entire set of skills that are designed specifically to enhance its performance as a ranged weapon.
MH Rise Heavy Bowgun Elemental / Status or Raw Damage?
For the Heavy Bowgun, raw damage is almost always the better choice when it comes to dealing the most DPS. Unlike the Light Bowgun, the Heavy Bowgun cannot rapid fire elemental ammo, meaning it has no reliable way to apply elemental damage quickly. Rather, the Heavy Bowgun was designed with the intent of making each shot do enormous amounts of damage, compared to the Light Bowgun which generally can shoot ammo more quickly, but with less damage per shot. As a result, the best Heavy Bowgun builds are usually those that focus on making each shot do as much damage as possible, which means stacking up on as much raw damage as possible.
MHRise Defense Heavy Bowgun Build
This first build is a basic one focusing on defense for early game quests. This boosts defense levels while also enhancing damage to take advantage of the existing stats. of the the Iron Assault II
Build Skills and Weapons
Build Skills
- Critical Eye Lvl 3
- Attack Boost Lvl 2
- Water Attack Lvl 1
MHRise Critical Heavy Bowgun Build
This build starts off with a solid 220 Attack level and a 155 Defense. Focusing on a higher attack and damage output allows characters to deal damage while still keeping a distance. While using a Heavy Bowgun it is also important to keep up the momentum with a quick reload speed and attack time.
Build Skills and Weapons
Build Skills
- Weakness Exploit Lv. 3
- Recoil Down Lv. 3
- Maximum Might Lv. 3
- Spread Up Lv. 3
- Reload Speed Lv. 3
- Critical Boost Lv. 3
- Dragonheart Lv. 1
- Flinch Free Lv. 1
- Latent Power Lv. 1
- Ballistics Lv. 1
Monster Hunter Rise Community Builds
Additional Monster Hunter Rise Builds are welcomed to be submitted and shared here. Players may share their favorite recommendation and information on various Weapons and Skill combinations or what they used to defeat specific Monsters or parts of the game.
Mh Rise Heavy Bowgun Builds
Late game MR crit-pierce HBG build (with slicing ammo)
The Forlorn Firestorm (or other Rakna weapon) comes with a base 40% affinity, increased to 70% by Crit eye, and 100% on weak spots with WEX. Pierce up to increase damage, Ballistics to greatly increase range (especially helpful in multiplayer). Recoil Down to do what it says, and reload speed allows for almost unnoticeable reload times. everything else is just bonus or nuisance. ENJOY!
Build Equipment
- Forlorn Firestorm (Rakna weapon)
- Tenderizer jewel 2, Absorber Jewel 1 x2, Spiribird Jewel 1
- Kaiser Crown (teostra Helm)
- Quickload jewel 1 x3
- Damascus Mail
- Tenderizer Jewel 2, Absorber Jewel 1
- Pukei Pukei Braces
- Pierce Jewel 3
- Nargacuga Coil
- Precise Jewel 2
- Grand God's Peer Feet (rajang boots)
- Sniper Jewel 1 x2, other 1 Jewel
- Talisman: at least one 2 slot (Wirebug wisperer lvl 3 or partbreaker lvl 1-3 recommended)
- Expert Jewel 2 (Thrift Jewel 2 recommended)
Build Skills
- Critical Eye lvl 6
- Critical Boost lvl 3
- Ballistics lvl 3
- Pierce Up lvl 3
- Reload Speed lvl 3
- Recoil Down lvl 3
- Flinch Free lvl 3
- Weakness Exploit lvl 2
- Handicraft lvl 2
- Steadiness lvl 2
- Evade Extender lvl 2
- Latent Power lvl 1
- Spare Shot lvl 1
- Tremor Resistance lvl 1
- (Wirebug Wisperer lvl?)
- (Partbreaker lvl?)
- that extra jewel slot on the feet
Mh Rise Heavy Bowgun Builds
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