With the bow, you can attack from ranged in Monster Hunter Wilds and exploit the weaknesses of the monsters with various coatings. For optimal combat in the endgame, we show you the best build with weapons, armor, and decorations that you need.
How is the build structured? We first provide a brief overview of the essential items like weapons and armor for the best bow build. Following that, we will detail the most important information about crafting your gear, as well as selecting the right decorations for your armor. Finally, we reveal the strength of the build.
This build will be continuously updated and completely modified according to updates, so that it corresponds to the current meta. So feel free to check back after each update to see what has changed.
With our directory, you can quickly jump to the individual points of the build:
Bow Build: All about Weapons, Armor & Decorations
What is the best build for the bow? With the bow, you can perfectly exploit the weaknesses of the monsters, and to make it worthwhile, it makes sense to focus on damage and affinity with a high chance of landing critical hits. It is also important to emphasize stamina management, as the bow is very resource-intensive.
The element itself is secondary here; the focus should primarily be on affinity and attack strength. So, this build is mainly about an aggressive play style.
| Weapon | Angel’s Leg (Artian Weapon) or alternatives depending on desired element |
| Armor | Gore Helm B Arkveld Armor B W.Arkveld Arm Guards B Gore Waist Belt B Gore Leg Guards B |
| Talisman | Energy Talisman III |
How to craft the best Artian weapon for the bow
What do I need for the construction of Angel’s Leg? For Angel’s Leg, you should pay attention to choose three attack infusions for your materials in order to increase your damage.
The element does not matter and can be chosen based on personal preference or the weakness of the target monster. It is important that the elements match to gain the element infusion bonus.
If you don’t have good components yet or if you’re unlucky with the reinforcement bonuses for Angel’s Leg, you can also rely on alternative weapons that you can craft from monster parts. It depends on the element you want to play with:
- Dark String (Fire)
- Bookwilthes Punisher (Water)
- Fulgur Bow-Guardiana (Thunder)
- Despair (Dragon)
- Shingha Sharanga (Ice)
As a secondary weapon, dual blades are worth it, as they benefit from the build in the same way and can quickly deal high damage in close combat. Alternatively, a sword and shield can be useful to exploit the strengths of the build and be able to block if necessary.
Which reinforcement bonuses should I focus on? When reinforcing your Artian weapon, the following bonuses are particularly important in priority:
- Attack
- Affinity
- Element
Which decorations are important? For the decorations, you should choose the following options:
- Critical Jwl III 3
- Shotgun Jwl 3
- Variable decoration with Element Attack 3 or Crit Element Jwl 3
Bow Build: Armors and Decorations
Which armors are important? The choice of armor focuses on the following equipment and effects:
Armors
- Gore Helm B
- Arkveld Armor B
- W.Arkveld Arm Guards B
- Gore Waist Belt B
- Gore Leg Guards B
Set Bonuses
- Gore Magalas Tyranny
- Black Darkness I: Causes frenzy in battles against large monsters
- Scale Coating
- Adrenalin: Temporarily reduces stamina loss when health is at 40% or below
Which decorations should I use? For armor, it’s mainly about choosing decorations that increase your affinity and reduce your stamina consumption. Additionally, you need an effect through frenzy that increases your recovery rate from infection while enhancing your critical damage at the same time.
Since the bow has a high stamina consumption, the focus here is on easing the management of it. There’s also an emphasis on increasing your critical damage and affinity. Therefore, you should equip the following decorations:
- Head
- Chain Jwl 3
- Buffer Jwl 1
- Chest
- Chain Jwl 3
- Phoenix Jwl 2
- Arms
- Figure Jwl 1
- Figure Jwl 1
- Figure Jwl 1
- Waist
- Chain Jwl 3
- Phoenix Jwl 2
- Legs
- Chain Jwl 3
- Reason Jwl 1
- Reason Jwl 1
How does the strength of the build unfold?
The bow is one of the more complex weapons which is especially very mobile and versatile. If you need some support, here’s a guide to help you play the bow perfectly: Monster Hunter Wilds: Bow Guide – How to play the versatile weapon for ranged combat
In combat, you especially need to keep an eye on stamina consumption, which is optimized with this build. This build also optimizes your critical damage. With the bonuses on affinity, you can further exploit the weaknesses of the monsters and deal increased damage.
Your damage and the affinity of your weapon will be increased the more aggressively you play, and the stamina consumption will be reduced. Lastly, this build also utilizes the frenzy mechanic to enhance affinity. This can also be well combined with the Corrupted Mantle to consistently deal critical damage.
If you are lucky with the reinforcement bonuses of your weapon, you can even reach up to 100% affinity – but only while using the Corrupted Mantle.
To utilize the strengths of the build perfectly, you can choose either the dual blades as a secondary weapon, which benefit similarly from this build, or sword and shield if you also want to block and play defensively.
These were all the important details about the best bow build in Monster Hunter Wilds. In addition to build information, tips for combat are also important for emerging victorious. Therefore, we have explained everything important again in the combat guide: The ultimate combat guide to Monster Hunter Wilds: Everything about elements, status system, and important details for hunting
