windarcher vs bowman

[sony777]

Why is bowman (bowmaster and sniper) critical shot have 60%success rate, critical damage 250% and +140 attack range, but windarcher only have 40% success rate, critical damage of 200%, + 120 attack range, both is 1st job skill, but so much different. can make it same please

 

[Catzi]

I agree with that! This is very unbalanced and make bowmaster so strong than wind archer.

I think passive skill must be at the same level. And change 4th job skill damage to balance archer job.

Such as:
1. bowmatser is strongest ST DPS
2. Marksman is strongest cleaver DPS
3. Wind archer have 90% stance not bad in both ST and cleave

 

[chinny]

I disagree with this. I have personally tested bowmaster and wind archer. Both are pretty balanced. Thanks to wind archer's touch of the wind stance skill, it allow wind archers to cleave 6 parts in horntail or chaos horntail. Which will outdps bowmaster at most. Not only that, wind archer also have wind walk skill to increase damages, I find no issue to autopot by pet during wind walk macro as well. This is a great QoL for wind archer by Yuna. Which I believe wind archer is strong if you know how to play with the technique. (such as using stance and cleaving skill when there are more than 2 target, and use st skill when stance is down, and know where you should position when stance is down)

I believe all class has its own pro and con. Such as wind archer rely on si buff to possibly outdps bowmaster, but bowmaster does not rely si buff.

 

[sony777]

Haha, the popularity speaks for itself, in this server, no one care about koc anyway, just play explorer

 

[yuna]

We cant use 1-2 skills as an anchor for reasoning for/against a certain class doing more/less damage. There are many factors that go into DPS, and the numbers for each are intentional. KoC in general has received plenty of buffs and I don't believe we need to make any adjustments just yet. Sorry!