MHW TU4 Bow Build

Bow is in a solid place in Monster Hunter Wilds Title Update 4. Bow builds drifted even harder toward high risk, high input setups, with constant repositioning and zero room for mistakes. That’s fun, but for about two hunts. This Comfort DPS Bow build takes a different route. It trades a bit of theoretical peak damage for consistency, survivability, and uptime, which in practice often means more real damage over the course of a hunt.

If you like Bow but don’t enjoy living on the edge of a stamina bar meltdown every 20 seconds, this one’s for you. The core idea is simple: keep stamina stable, stay aggressive without panic rolling, and let passive bonuses do the heavy lifting. Let’s break it down.

About the build

This is a comfort-first Bow build that still hits hard. Not comfort as in “safe but weak,” and not a speedrun glass cannon either. The goal here is simple: a Bow setup that keeps working when hunts get messy. When the monster won’t sit still. When you’re forced to dodge three times in a row. When you lose Peak Performance for a moment and don’t want your damage to fall off a cliff.

This setup is built around the Gogma Artian Bow, Calamitous Angel, paired with a mixed Gog / utility armor set that leans heavily into stamina management, weak point damage, and comfort skills. Instead of gambling everything on affinity stacking, the build focuses on raw attack scaling, burst windows, and a surprisingly strong elemental boost from the Gog set bonus. With this build you can stay comfortable, stay alive, and keep shooting as much as possible without stressing over every input.

The core idea is built around three pillars:

1. Stamina stability
   You should be able to shoot, dodge, and reposition without constantly watching your stamina bar or waiting for it to refill.

2. Passive damage that doesn’t disappear
   The build avoids damage setups that collapse the moment you take a hit or stop attacking for two seconds.

3. A built-in safety net
   The Gog 4-piece bonus gives you a damage barrier, which smooths out mistakes, helps keep Peak Performance active, and makes Bow feel far less punishing.

This is the core of the build. Everything else supports these three points.

Weapons You Should Use

The build uses the Gogma Artian Bow, but nothing here is automatic. Artian weapons must be rolled, and this setup assumes you are actively aiming for specific bonuses — not just settling for whatever the forge gives you.

What you want on the bow:

• Attack Focus
  Raw attack scales better here than affinity. With Pierce coatings locked in, stacking affinity simply doesn’t give the same return.

• Gogmapocalypse (weapon skill)
  This ties directly into the Gog armor synergy.

• Lord’s Soul (group skill)
  Strong passive value in multiplayer hunts and fits a sustained DPS playstyle.

If you don’t roll these, the build still functions — but it loses efficiency and part of its identity. This isn’t a “free” Artian setup.

This build deliberately uses four Gog armor pieces, and not just for damage.

Yes, the Gog set bonus boosts element:

• Around 25% with two pieces

• Around 40% with four pieces

But the real reason we go to four pieces is the damage barrier.

That barrier:

• Absorbs small hits

• Reduces how often you need to heal

• Helps keep Peak Performance active

• Makes Bow gameplay far less punishing

For a comfort build, this is huge. It’s the difference between “one mistake ruins the flow” and “I can recover and keep going.”

Armor Setup

Here’s the armor setup, without overexplaining each slot:

• Udra Mirehelm Y – Constitution 3

• Gog Mail B – Weakness Exploit 1, Stamina Surge 1

• Rey Sand Braces Y – Weakness Exploit 2

• Gog Coil W – Constitution 2, Stamina Surge 1

• Gog Greaves W – Adrenaline Rush 1, Stamina Surge 1, one Level 1 slot

This combination lets you:

• Cap Weakness Exploit

• Reach high Constitution and Stamina Surge

• Activate the Gog barrier

• Add comfort skills without sacrificing damage

Nothing here is accidental. Instead of listing everything again, here’s what the skill package does in practice.

You get high Weakness Exploit for reliable crits when you aim properly.
Burst ramps up naturally because Bow hits often.
Constitution and Stamina Surge keep stamina from becoming a constant problem.
Adrenaline Rush rewards normal dodging instead of perfect play.
Peak Performance stays active more often thanks to the Gog barrier.

Add in Evade Extender, Speed Eating, and basic Bow skills, and you end up with a setup that feels smooth instead of demanding.

Decoration Slots

Once you have the correct armor and a properly rolled bow, decorations are about priorities, not exact copies.

Slot	Decoration	Why
Lv3	Weakness Exploit	Cap WEX
Lv2	Constitution	Lower stamina cost
Lv2	Stamina Surge	Faster recovery
Lv2	Burst	Consistent DPS
Lv1	Adrenaline Rush	Dodge-based damage
Lv1	Speed Eating	Faster healing
Lv1	Flex slot	Mobility or terrain

Exact placement depends on your rolls, but this table shows what actually matters when assembling the build. Once the build is fully assembled and you have spare resources, it’s worth investing into Transcendence for a bit of extra survivability.

Rolling the right Artian bow, farming Gog parts, and finishing this setup can take time — sometimes a lot of it.

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