General

Based on what I've seen I'll give a summary of the 2 classes. Pick a class for your self not based on others.

Dark knight: the class is COMPLETELY revamped. The only simularity in playstyle is the weapon. Amazing mobber with good 1vs1 and the second highest health in the game (right now my 121 DrK has 24k hp) A very sought after buff (HB) and overall a good balanced class. DrK is probably the best soloer in red (ignore zero he's not a class he's jesus). I know very little about DrKs except the amazing multi enemy damage.

Bowmaster: ALMOST completely revamped the bow master class recieves a small survivability boost and a huge gain to mobbing and 1vs1 (making them near the top on 1v1 again). Most notably the 4 enemy hurricane that can be placed as a turret (kinda like puppet / kaiser dragon statue) Highest DPS against 3-4 enemies pre zero RED.
Do note that bowmaster's version of the RED class ability is an arrow head style quiver system (you press a button to load *type* arrows and the next 30 abilities use them or w/e) It can be a pain to use effectively as you fire roughly 21 arrows/sec 1vs1.

Archer mobility sky rockets.

Marksman: Strafe is removed and snipe is spammable at level 100. Piercing arrow's charge time is removed and they get a damage buff for being far away and a crit buff for being close. Snipe is condensed to one H U G E hit (mine will deal roughly 21mil per hit 3 hits (=3)). Our survivability skyrockets in the form of a 65% of our health shield per attack. At a certain level (snipe extra hit hyper) snipe's damage triples (snipe+extra strike+bonus bolt). And we have the hook dash thing from Kai in vindictus/Legend of zelda hookshot.

@Blackest: the red equips are good enough for you to be decent as a DB. they are also fairly cheap, so if you had red tickets, you could buy the whole set and then you would be funded enough to get higher lvl

[quote=derpypie]both look like they get some nice revamps. Dark Knight will still be your strongest damage outputter, but I agree with @ExiaNick, make a DB, red tickets and the new mastery book system eliminates any need for funding or Nx on a DB at all. And with shared cash shop inventories with explorers, you can get that DB looking as s3xy as you knew it could be this whole time[/quote]
what do red tickets have to do with funding it

both look like they get some nice revamps. Dark Knight will still be your strongest damage outputter, but I agree with @ExiaNick, make a DB, red tickets and the new mastery book system eliminates any need for funding or Nx on a DB at all. And with shared cash shop inventories with explorers, you can get that DB looking as s3xy as you knew it could be this whole time

[quote=nijit15]Make a Marksman. Spammable Snipe <3

Or make a F/P.[/quote]
i have both at lv120
[quote=PentaKill]Shadowers!
Peanut butter jelly time[/quote]
i have a lv 120 shadower

I would say Bowmaster since this is my favorite job... but after red i really don't know if i'm gonna like my job...

u shud make Bow Master cause too many Dark Knights are gonna be wandering around.

[quote=nijit15]Make a Marksman. Spammable Snipe <3

Or make a F/P.[/quote]

People are calling to call Marksman OP when they see complete noobs do beyond 1mil damage as Snipe changes from 440% X 9 to 4410% X 1 hit lol.

[quote=xTagg]Make a f/p mage[/quote]

i already have one waiting thats lv120

Make a Marksman. Spammable Snipe <3

Or make a F/P.

Bowmasters are fun right now in my opinion, and I expect them to stay that way after RED, but I suggest waiting until Zero comes out later in RED, since they'll only be available for creation this one time and will never be released again.

Make a f/p mage