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Bow or Crossbow?
A common question that seems to always appear is which one do I choose? Well it mostly depends on your playing style? Do you like speed or power? Aoe or solo?

The Mighty Bow
A quicker weapon with 1.1 second attack rate, higher aim, and with 4% crit. This is a great choice for soloing for it being quick. You can spam skills quite well on this and the aim is very good for any archer. Not only that, but the bows look prettier then the crossbows. Thought I would throw that in there. ;3

This is all figuratively speaking & random thoughts:
Okay this will either make sense or no sense. Today I was thinking out loud today about how well a bow would be up against a monster with about 500 health and 20 defense. How I was thinking this is if the base damage of the bow is 150 then the bow will only be doing about 100 or so damage due to the monster's defense. Now if you say, have the same defense, but 400 health and the monsters base damage is 100 then the monster is doing about 55 damage to towards you. Now if the bow's speed is 1.1 seconds and you are to not use any skills, but you have STR points which further bump up you constant damage to about 10 damage then you increase the bow's damage to 110, this is saying that the STR points are almost passing the monster's defense. So if you are to use the bow it will take you approximately 4.7 seconds. Now if you are to hit a crit on one of these hits for about 200 then you are decreasing the time taken to kill the monster by about half the time without one. Now let's take in account how long it takes for the given monster to kill you and let's say this monster has a special attack, though not all monsters do, this is in the case they do. Let's say his special attack damage is 200, but hits for 150 due to your defense and he hits at least one of this every time you attack one of these monsters. Let's also say it attacks every 1.3s. So, taking that in the monster will kill you in it will kill you in about 6.5 seconds. This is saying that neither you are missing or the monster is missing. If the monster misses you, then you are increasing the chance of survival with the bow, but if you miss just once then your chances of survival decrease.

The thing though is the bow is most likely a better tool for soloing since you have to worry about this survival and time is the essence of survival. The bow may seem a bit weak, but in the long run the time it takes further increases that little survival. Now through crits, skills, more defense, more damage, and other variables and you see how much better a bow can be versus a crossbow for solo wise. Do not take what I have written as true, they are just random thoughts and things I was thinking of as possibilities, they may or may not be true at all.

If anyone can show me different stuff for this part of the section & only on the bow then it would be much appreciated. I will be giving more in-depth thought to this as my thoughts come along.

The Sturdy Crossbow
A powerful, but slow weapon. Most known for its skill spamming abilities. It is best used in parties for its high crit %. With 161 aim, 6% crit rate, & 1.4 seconds this weapon was built for power.

This is all figuratively speaking & random thoughts:
Today I was thinking about how well a crossbow would be up against a monster with about 500 health and 20 defense. How I was thinking this is if the base damage of the crossbow is 190 then the crossbow will only be doing about 140 or so damage due to the monster's defense. Now if you say, have the same defense, but 400 health and the monsters base damage is 100 then the monster is doing about 55 damage to towards you. Now if the crossbow's speed is 1.4 seconds and you are to not use any skills, but you have STR points which further bump up you constant damage to about 10 damage then you increase the crossbow's damage to 150, this is saying that the STR points are almost passing the monster's defense. So if you are to use the crossbow it will take you approximately 5.2 seconds. Now if you are to hit a crit on one of these hits for about 240 then you are decreasing the time taken to kill the monster by about half the time without one. Now let's take in account how long it takes for the given monster to kill you and let's say this monster has a special attack, though not all monsters do, this is in the case they do. Let's say his special attack damage is 200, but hits for 150 due to your defense and he hits at least one of this every time you attack one of these monsters. Let's also say it attacks every 1.3s. So, taking that in the monster will kill you in it will kill you in about 6.5 seconds. This is saying that neither you are missing or the monster is missing. If the monster misses you, then you are increasing the chance of survival with the crossbow, but if you miss just once then your chances of survival decrease.