Squishy at lower levels - when you're training at lower levels you may find yourself low on HP, but post-level 200 this should not be an issue at all or during bossing.Relatively simplistic Nodes - Bowmaster's nodes are easy to understand and it's relatively easy to obtain perfect trios compared to other jobs.Speed Mirage provides excellent coverage when it procs to clear out stray mobs. Storm of Arrows and Quiver Barrage/Fury of the Wild can be rotated in 5th Job for very excellent post-5th mobbing. Great mobbing - Arrow Blaster can take a platform (and then some) and Arrow Stream provides nice vertical mobbing.Decent Holy Symbol and Decent Speed Infusion, although Bowmaster does not need the latter for any sort of bossing).
If you have three pets, you have free slots for Decent Combat Orders, Decent Advanced Blessing, and two other skills as you wish (e.g. Low amount of buffs - buffs last 5 minutes at minimum and only has two.Additionally, does not require Decent Speed Infusion either.
Mobile attacking - while using Hurricane, you can jump and move at full speed with no cast delays.Scales well to high PDR mobs - Armor Break gives bursts of final damage based on monster PDR (up to 100% of the monster's PDR, so 300% PDR = +300% Final Damage, etc.).Highest constant Status Resistance in the game - quickly stackable 120 Status Resistance from Focused Fury while attacking monsters.It even has a hover/second jump after its flash jump! Arrow Blaster in certain maps can allow for braindead grinding, especially when combined with Blink Shot. High mobility, versatile grinding - has left, right, upwards, and downwards flash jump, along with Blink Shot to teleport to specific locations with almost no cooldown.It might be mid-20's ranking in GMS, which, post-Destiny is not a big deal due to the balancing gap being significantly reduced. In GMS, this might make Bowmaster relatively lower (due to Attack Speed differences in KMS vs GMS) but it doesn't make Bowmaster absolutely weak or anything. High damage - in the latest KMS DPM charts, Bowmaster is rank 13.Best HP recovery skill in the game - Blood Arrows are toggled on/off with Magic Arrows without restriction.The general pros and cons of Bowmaster are listed below: If you're on the fence of playing Bowmaster, I'd recommend you just try playing it because the best way to know that you like (or dislike) a class is by simply playing it! Whether you like it or not depends on what sort of playstyle you prefer. Click on the tabs at the top of the guide to switch sections.īowmaster is a ranged, utility-based and varied class. Please note that there are several sections in this guide, such as a Skill Info section and a Gameplay/Skill Explanation section.