User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: Bowguns/@comment-4775842-20121018002815

I have a character on Tri that I've decided to make exclusively a gunner. His name is Joam, though I don't play Tri too often anymore.

Anyways, my definite favorite guns from Tri would have to be the Aquamatic series (even though the "Spark" sucked at everything except crag rapid fire). I've heard rumors there's a frame for the Aquamatic "Needler", but I have yet to see it. Allegedly it can only be found as an Ancient Shard.

Because the "Spark" sucks and the "Needler" is incomplete, the Aquamtic "Longshot" would have to be my favorite of the guns. The Vulcannon comes close behind, simply because it looks so badass.

It also sucks that the Agnaktor bowgun doesn't have a barrel, which I'm sure has bummed out a bunch of people, especially since it would obviously be modeled after aggy's beak. Barioth lacks a barrel as well, though I'm supposing it's supposed to go with the Thundacrus "Rex" barrel since it's the only barrel that rapid fires Ice shot.

Personally, I think bowguns have come about as far as they can without turning into crude replicas of modern weapons (which some of them have done anyway. The Chaos Wing practically sounds like a laser gun from COD Zombies). Bows are what CAPCOM needs to begin making some improvements to, since they were dreadfully underpowered IMO in MHF2.