Bows, Malignent Force Or Hammershot.

[GFSchneider]

So, im a big fan of bows in this game and have a standard build for both my PP and Dread, Vital Sense, Serration, Point Strike, Split Chamber, Speed Trigger and 2 elements.

 

I´ve alwaus used Hammershot but i recently managed to get my hands on a pretty cheap Malignent Force and was wondering if it's worth to replace it.

 

Thanks for the help.

[Anunymau5]

If it's a crit build, you're gonna want Hammer shot. However if you're looking for raw elemental dmg then use Malignant Force instead. Honestly it's up to you.

[djentlemenBehold]

Unless it's a crit build, I prefer to boost elemental damage. Maxed out, it gives you more status chance than Hammer Shot, so it's well worth looking into.

[Cemges]

Bow = crit build = you dont have place for neither

[Liverslices]

Hammer shot, definitely. It will increase your crit, witch is a MUST for bows. Since their recent buff, bows do the highest single target damage in the game, because of crit

[(PSN)Keiji_Haku]

Bow = crit build = you dont have place for neither

um yeah he does, hammershot increases crit damage,  you know thats kinda like the essence of a crit build

[LukeAura]

You can definitely do a Crit+Procc build. Serration, Split Chamber, Vital Sense, Point Strike, Heat or Cold mod, cicero mod, tethra mods, Hammershot.

Although I think it'll probably always be overkill though, so unless you mod blast/gas+electric, AoE effects, you probably won't see much effective use out of it.

Edited April 8, 2014 by LukeAura

[Cemges]

Replace heavy cal with hammer shot? Dunno.

Well definitely not malignant force.

Whatever, build is,

Serration, split chamber, point strike, vital sense, speed trigger, 2 elements ( magnetic for corpus, rsdiation for grineer, corrosive for corrupted + infested) . Now there is one more remaining slot, if you can trade a little accuracy, use heavy caliber that is around 6/10, you'll still be getting headshots at range easily. Or you can use hammer shot to not give up accuracy, but that really lowers crit damage badly. Status is obsolete on weapons like this. Btw heavy cal works better on dread because of its extreme flight speed.

Edited April 8, 2014 by Cemges

[Darzk]

Hammer Shot is 5.6/4.4 = +27.27% damage

Mal Force is 340/280 = +21.43% damage.

 

Seems obvious to me. Proc doesn't really matter because whatever you headshot is dead.

 

Edit:

+105% HCal is ~+40% damage

Max HCal is 62.26% damage but the acc loss becomes considerable.

 

Bows are one of the only weapons I would consider a midrank hcal on.

Edited April 8, 2014 by Darzk

[Zenn]

I use the Cernos, which is actaully alright. You don't have to make a Crit Build, just invest in what that weapon does best in. My Cernos has a high 3 digit number, I dont remember, but kills Corpus and Grineer Easy. Still need to make some improvements, but does the job for it's damage type.

[(PSN)witch3rDC52]

You can definitely do a Crit+Procc build. Serration, Split Chamber, Vital Sense, Point Strike, Heat or Cold mod, cicero mod, tethra mods, Hammershot.

Although I think it'll probably always be overkill though, so unless you mod blast/gas+electric, AoE effects, you probably won't see much effective use out of it.

If you put on the Cicero and Tethra mods plus cold you get corrosive and cold, perfect for Void so for status, I would think you would see enemies frozen in their track plus hopefully faster armor reduction for heavy gunners.  Just need to get myself a Hammer Shot mod.