Don't get me wrong - boomerangs are great fun, and are really really good. I can't remember the last time I was legitimately worried about losing a fight with one.) But there are a lot of options for prowlers, and surely there must be some other ways to combine them into a viable build, besides stacking boomerang buffs? (sometimes I honestly worry they're TOO good. So I've been messing around with bomb cats, since they seem relatively unexplored. I'm pretty happy with the results! (Basically, I've been doing a lot of theory crafting, and tweaking things until my clear time with bomb-cat builds is within 10 seconds of my clear time with a boomerang cat.) (And I like the idea of bomb damage that scales off your attack!) And melee attacks, since that is ALSO fairly unexplored. This takes a fairly specific build, and is not quite as flexible as the boomerang build. But it brings roughly the same damage to the table, so once you get used to it git gud you can bring it on hunts and not feel like you're forcing innocent strangers to carry your nonsense build. Sorry in advance for the length of this thing. There’s a lot of information I wanted to cover, and it was hard to figure out what to cut! A lot of the end bit is math, so feel free to skip that if you're just looking for 'how to build and play' advice. The skill and type requirements are fairly different from boomerang cats. Yes, this probably means you'll be scouting and leveling up yet another cat. Sorry.īecause you're playing something unconventional, people online will occasionally assume you're either trolling or incompetent, even if you totally just carried them for the last three missions.Īshen Whiskers is a fantastic general-purpose cat weapon. 170 melee/160 ranged damage, blue sharpness, and 26/15 blast status. It does good damage, but in almost every case, if you pick a weapon with an element that the target is weak to, you'll do more damage. They're decent against pretty much everything not named Teostra or Brachydios, but they can't keep up with a boomerang cat with a targeted elemental weapon. And because the build relies so much on stacking explosion modifiers, you can't just swap to an elemental weapon yourself without losing some efficiency. This is why I think boomerang cats are probably still better, overall. So if you're speedrunning, this probably isn't the build for you. On the other hand, boomerang cats are REALLY GOOD, so being within 5-10% of really good is still quite good, and perfectly playable. guarding cats comes down to individual playstyle. It's a lot like the tradeoff of Figher vs.

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