BEST Bow/Light Bow/Great Bow (Ultimate Bow Guide) Elden Ring

For barrage, winged sword talisman and milicents talisman, do they work with that ash of war?

Did they make misbegotten bow infusable? I can infuse mine

HARP BOW.

Very complicated but very useful thanks man.

Why does sleep dip into every class? Faith users get the torch, not that great. Arcane users get bows, sort of. And intelligence users get the sword, typically the best option.

I know it’s been nearly a year since this was posted, but in case anyone scrolls the comments- golden arrows (with fully upgraded bow) one shot skeletons and Beastman skeletons, you don’t need to kill them twice. They come in super handy in catacombs, graves, and Farum Azula

I read in reddit, it's said that fire arrow and golden arrow scale with faith scale of Erdtree Bow. So if my build is Dex/Faith, against beast type enemies that is weak against fire, is it better to use Erdtree Bow than Albinauric Bow?

You said the Lion's bonus is applied after defense calculations. Does this mean defense is calculated form raw AR*MV only? Also are buffs applied over the reduced damage (after defense calculations) or on the full amount (before defense calculations)?

why is being on PC make it easier to get some of the arrows? like the Golems?

Where is the moon bow

Are scaling modifiers applied before or after the arrow AR is added to the bow?

Invaluable info, man. Much appreciated

Love your videos but your volume is too low

This was an amazing bow explanation video. I found the great bow today and couldn’t figure out why my arrows were not working .

So just to clarify, does the range stat just change when the arrow drops, or does it actually affect the actual damage as well?

why the golem arrows are farmeable easier on PC? I dont understand that part

crossbow vid when?

The only reason I like Fletched vs Unfletched is that it lets me have two stacks of essentially the same arrow. Really handy for taking out some annoying bosses and mini-bosses.

Lion Greatbow is my favorite bow in the whole game. Thanks for letting me know that the Radahn Spears are the best option for it and that it double-stacks with two of the bows.

Mighty Shot also ignores shields partially, about 60%. Kinda like Impaling Thrust.

Hey well done and thank you.

Advantage of skyshot is that if you can lock on, it is in range. It's good to pull or knock guards off of ballistas.

Thanks for the video, although I am not really into using bows but I must respect your effort.

Thank u

You said the full moveset of a lightbow is on the black bow but that isnt entirely true. The standard light attacks are slow on black bow and also you cant use them on horse back like the other light bows. This is very small difference but for pvp having a faster r1 might come in handy in situations. Personally im gonna go for missbegotten on a strength build as i want that faster r1.

so… so—so the harp is bad 😔 shame

I know it might not be worth to cover in a whole new video, but would you be interested digging deeper into Ballistas? (Jar Cannon and Hand Ballista respectively) I know everyone who uses them just applies some buffs and calls it a day, but I was curious to see if there was more to it. For example, are the elemental bolts affected by scorpion charms and tears? do the bolts do poise damage? (I know stormwing arrows do) If so, are they affected by the stonebarb tear and such? Is the ballista damage affected by jumping attacks buffs? What about thrusting damage? (Spear Talisman) Are they affected by RKR? Anyways, love your content, keep it up!

Damn, as a faith build, I invested so many stones into upgrading both erdtree bows...

For those looking to do a bow only run:
Longbow/albinauric bow with rain of arrows is going to be your go to for applying status especially to large bosses. Wish I could say I found the serpent bow to be more effective, but it's basically just a pvp/single small target bow.
Radahn spears + lion greatbow with the ash of war is going to be your boss shredder if they have high status resistance.

Question about elemental damage from split arrows... do buffs like flame grant me strength & terra magica apply to such damage?

Fletched arrows should have flown faster for PVP or something as it's so easy to dodge arrows. But the main advantage of having both Fletched and normal is it doubles your arrow pool for that status.

Arrow crafting should yield more per craft though, it's pretty lame resting at sites of grace to then go and collect more resources and you use soo many arrows to fight a boss compared to no time investment in melee or magic. They could have at least made enemies and items respawn over time in open areas so you don't need to always rest etc. One thing I think Monster Hunter did really well.

Also it was very disappointing to see drawstring greases weren't for bows or that successive hit effects aren't effected by bows.

You forgot to mention that Mighty Shot increases the effective range and bypasses blocks, but this is otherwise pretty complete.

Yo, i love your vids can you explain how blackflame's damage over time works? Like how much it will do and if it stacks with itself?

Fortune favours the bowed

I complain about the poor damage of longbows and people just tell me to use a greatbow and that's kind of the whole problem isn't it

I main bows, and switch out my equip based on what I'm up against in PvE.

Black Bow for NPC invaders and other agile enemies, Pulley Bow for sniping to clear out mobs, and Longbow with Rain of Arrows for dragons and other large slow enemies.

Based Chrightt continues to prove he is the real Wiki

Edit: Good job as always, Chrightt.

Not sure if anyone has mentioned it yet or not but I'm fairly certain you can apply the Golden Great Arrow's version of Golden Vow on enemies as an invader. I haven't tested it out personally but from what I've seen from dangitjim's videos, this is the case.

If infuse with enchant shot, some buff and dwelling arrow, horn bow is best bow to snipe some guy in pvp with 700 ar max and 360 ar when no buff

Inb4 ThatBruhYouDK

In DS1 there was an extremely obscure mechanic where headshots did something like 10-30% damage to metal helmeted targets depending on whether the helmet was open-faced!

Hey Chrightt, great stuff as always but i felt the gameplay volume was a bit loud, scared the shit outta me with the headphones lol

I mainly use the standard light bow with barrage on it and either bleed or sleep arrows. You can slap it on any build as a status tool.

Hey man I hate to ask I know there's a lot of comments but is the black bow also the best for PVE? thanks

I think you give the golem greatbow too much credit. Yeah, it does do the most damage, but it is prohibitively heavy. Unless it is your primary weapon, you'll have to hardswap to it to use it, which is not a great strategy, especially in duels. I believe the greatbow that should be considered the baseline is the lion greatbow.

thanks for all you do for the community man, I wish you all the success!!

Something to note is that the Black Bow cannot be used while galloping on torrent but other light bows can. This is likely to effect your choice for pve on a bow run.