Hi, went with my favorite weapon (super forged rift) on a hunt on Alnitans! I had a lot of “elemental resist” which meant I have to shoot the mobs 20-30 (felt like 30… more like 5-15) times to get them dead.
I can’t find any info on Rift Slingbows vs Chill planets (Alnitans is Chill). But what type is my Rift Slingbow?
ps. Below picture doesn’t help me
Regards,
My trick is always to ask myself what gems I can find on a planet. And usually those weapons will not be good against the creatures there.
On rift exo planets you find Topaz and Sapphire. So I would definitely not recommend bringing a rift bow on a chill/shock hunt. It most likely works really well on a burn world though and will most likely perform good too on the other planet type.
On chill planets Ruby bows are best. For lucents, I would go with blink or umbris
Rift planets have sapphire and topaz,
Blink planets have ruby and diamond,
Umbris planets have emerald and amethyst
My understanding is that the lucent elements act as a combination of two elements, each corresponding to a pair of elements:
| Lucent | Element A | Element B |
|---|---|---|
| Blink | Burn (Ruby) | Blast (Diamond) |
| Rift | Shock (Topaz) | Chill (Sapphire) |
| Umbris | Toxin (Emerald) | Corrosion (Amethyst) |
(Note that these pairs are the same pairs with -60% resistance to each other, and also the pairs that can be swapped with a transformation chisel.)
Based on these combinations, Rift is effectively like a Topaz + Sapphire slingbow built into one. Which means that at best it will experience a -60% resistance versus chill creatures (as it can act like a Topaz slingbow versus them). That would also mean that Rift can do +30% damage against corrosion and burn creatures, and should do normal damage against Toxin and Blast creatures. (Note that I haven’t analyzed the game code so I can’t guarantee any exact behaviors or resistance numbers.)
Hope that helps!
Then I guess that’s why I have been successful with my forged rift -> because it seems that it only has a huge disadvantage on Chill worlds and nowhere else.
I’ll just have to make sure I don’t hunt on Alnitans of Houchus I 
Regards,
