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Switching to Bowmaster / Wild Hunter?

As I'm getting into the higher levels of funding and closer to "endgame", wind archer has started to seem a little lackluster compared to the other classes. The single line hurricane and the fact that we pretty much only use song of heaven after 4th job is kind of boring... I'm barely getting close to soloing the true endgame bosses like CRA (not CVel dear god) and hard mag, so I'm wondering if it's worth switching from wind archer to bowmaster or wild hunter. I would lose a pretty good brilliance and boss arena emblem but would be able to keep the bow for bowmaster or I could join the OP wild hunter bandwagon... thoughts?

August 28, 2015

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The21stSpartan

[quote=athmyst]I found it easier to kill these end game bosses on a WA compared to BM. Switching over, there was a fairly significant damage drop...
But in the end, its really up to you. I swapped over, few regrets, but w/e[/quote]

Yeah I did see that bowmasters tend to have lower damage without hyper-funding. I think I'm going to switch to wild hunter instead anyways, just trying to keep the game interesting.

Reply August 28, 2015
athmyst

[quote=the21stspartan]I'm barely getting close to soloing the true endgame bosses like CRA (not CVel dear god) and hard mag[/quote]
I found it easier to kill these end game bosses on a WA compared to BM. Switching over, there was a fairly significant damage drop...
But in the end, its really up to you. I swapped over, few regrets, but w/e

Reply August 28, 2015 - edited
WowChowMein

[quote=rachelll]WH

BMs are basically WAs w/ our broken turret right now (it's an exaggeration before someone quotes me)[/quote]

i take it they didn't fix platter yet :'(

Reply August 28, 2015 - edited
The21stSpartan

[quote=omgpineapples]I made the transition from WA to WH and the only thing I really miss is how elegant the WA skills look. After switching, I found out that WA is going to be nerfed soon, so I think I made the right decision! I can sell my brilliance or use it on another Cygnus character, but I did lose my beautiful emblem and my super awesome sw bow (I still don't know why I chose sw over CRA at the time). WH has a variety of skills to use, pretty good at bossing and is pretty OP. I haven't made a bowmaster, but they seem to be quite fun and powerful.[/quote]

Yeah, I do like WA's theme and the overall flashiness of the skills but I feel like 99.99% of the time we're just holding down song of heaven
I guess I'll begin to make the switch, thanks guys!

Reply August 28, 2015 - edited
Rachelll

[quote=the21stspartan]Are WH's expensive to fund (in terms of damage %ages, etc)? Not sure if the cost of remaking a perfect weapon should deter me or not [/quote]
http://www.basilmarket.com/forum/2893151/0/Question_for_capping_WHs.html

By the time you cap on cpierre/cqueen/cvb/magnus on a BM (with hurricane), you can cap on everything on a WH*

*YMMV depending on your PDR

Reply August 28, 2015 - edited
The21stSpartan

[quote=rachelll]WH

BMs are basically WAs w/ our broken turret right now (it's an exaggeration before someone quotes me)[/quote]

Are WH's expensive to fund (in terms of damage %ages, etc)? Not sure if the cost of remaking a perfect weapon should deter me or not

Reply August 28, 2015 - edited
OMGpineapples

I made the transition from WA to WH and the only thing I really miss is how elegant the WA skills look. After switching, I found out that WA is going to be nerfed soon, so I think I made the right decision! I can sell my brilliance or use it on another Cygnus character, but I did lose my beautiful emblem and my super awesome sw bow (I still don't know why I chose sw over CRA at the time). WH has a variety of skills to use, pretty good at bossing and is pretty OP. I haven't made a bowmaster, but they seem to be quite fun and powerful.

Reply August 28, 2015 - edited
Rachelll

WH

BMs are basically WAs w/ our broken turret right now (it's an exaggeration before someone quotes me)

Reply August 28, 2015 - edited