Heavy Bowgun

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[edit] Weapon Overview

The Heavy Bowgun is a powerful weapon, but may take some getting used to, due to its slow nature. Its main role in the gunner class is to provide players with support fire that delivers high damage and range, though at a fairly reduced movement speed and usually reload rate.

The Heavy Bowgun sports as much as twice the firepower of a Light Bowgun, and most weapons in this category have the ability to fire powerful bullets like the Crag and Clust series, such as the Profusion. Heavy Bowguns may be leveled up, fixed with a zoom scope (which allows zooming in and out while in the aiming mode), a small shield (which can block incoming attack), or a power barrel (which adds to your gun's power, while reducing the way your bullet rolls to the left or right when shooting long range).

The basic strategy you would take with the Heavy Bowgun is a sort of hit and run playstyle (when facing boss monsters). The best thing to do is to roll away from a monster's attack and shoot at it while they attack, or during the brief lag times after they do a move. Sometimes you would have to sacrifice the time you could take to attack a few times to reload, which is another weakness of the Heavy Bowgun. Unlike Bows, which have unlimited ammo, bowguns need to be reloaded. You might even run out of ammo during a fight, which forces the usage of the weak, however infinite, Normal (level 1) ammunition.

Overall, the Heavy Bowgun is a mighty weapon that a lot of players often take for granted. In truth, it lets you do a lot that other weapons can't. It is able to deal huge damage, however not as significant as a Great Sword or Long sword damage, it is quite respectable. The rate at which you can shoot is also quite fast, except with the Crag and Clust series of ammo, which can only shoot one shell before needing a reload, usually. You also do not need to change weapons to gain advantages as often as other weapons, as you can exploit the enemies' elemental weaknesses with the right bullets rather than to change the weapon itself.While the shield that you can attach cannot be relied on to stop more powerful attacks, it can stop roars handily and can defend against weaker or minor attacks, and can become very useful combined with carefully timed rolling.

In summary, the Heavy Bowgun allows for heavy damage at safe distances.

[edit] Bowgun ammo Combination Guide:

Please refer to the MHF2: Combination List for all the combinations.