bow > xbow?

[Kixira]

Actually a bow will kill something faster than an Crossbow with just regular attack. At lvl 20 (I'm full SPR) I had a crossbow. Now i went to roumen and saw
someone selling a roumen bow for 1 silver. So i quickly bought to sell it for more. Before i sold it i decided to do a little comparisin(misspellled). The bow did 40 dmg to a smart phino. A crossbow did 50. Now take into comparisin(misspelled again!) The speed and the bow did more. Now a crossbow did way more with skills.

Now i'm wondering, in higher lvls you have to party to lvl up. And since archers skill have such a high cooldown, would it be better to use a bow for dps?

PS: Can someone tell me how to spell comparisin.

Bow most likely won't be better for DPS because xbows have a higher crit % on top of the fact that they do more damage skill wise. The aspd isn't enough to deter the fact that xbow will have a higher dps, even with skill cooldown time factored in.

I could be easily wrong since no one has really done a test with this with a semi-high level archer.

Comparisin is spelled comparison.

[O-mie]

If you can get a bow with an upped crit rate (like mine :3~ though its not AMAZING D< But saved me 17 silvers... SHUT UP!) you could probably suffice. :3

[Rzpect]

i am a lvl 44 archer...i wa using xbow from lvl 20 to 40 and then i switch to bow...it seems to be faster and more accuracy..it does less dmg..but faster to kill... or u can say xbow and bow are at the same lvl there is no right or wrong answer for this one

[mashin]

i made some tests with my lv 25 archer (25 spr ) with both sun bow and sun xbow.

I killed a lot of mara pirate of many type and calculated the average damage of both weapon.

Not so high difference like i was thinking but still xbow >> bow for DPS with regular hit.

But if u add the crits (not on skill, just regolar hit) too the difference is clear. Xbow > bow.

So as far i've seen bow dont kill faster than xbow. Viceversa is true.

U can get green bow with crit % same as the base xbow, but there are xbow with even more crit (like 8%). Same for base atk. There is sun bow, but there is sun xbow too.... plus xbow with his higher damage get more bonus on enchant.

Bow is good for kitting ( "hit, run, hit, run,hit, run" and not "skil, run 4 skill to recharge, skill") and for the good looking sprite.
The Aim too, but there are aim scroll on that purpose.

[Rzpect]

but xbow is slow

[a.L]

I thought crossbows were slow too, at first. Now I'm used to its speed.

[mashin]

Just start use them and u wont notice the speed anymore...anyways i dont mind shoot slower if every hit do more and more damage. I love purple crit.

[tonyyvo]

heres what i got from reading the replies, if you could get a bow/xbow thats green or special in someway, get it, use it.

[MagesRequiem]

Am I the only one who keeps thinking "Xbox" every time they see "Xbow"? Anyways, I don't use Archers often and I never got mine to level 20 so I wouldn't know about the whole "Bow vs Xbow" debate thats going on here. But what I do want to know is... how the hell does an Archer out DPS a Mage? Unless that Archer can pop off like fifty arrows a second that ain't happening. Or... unless... the Mage is an idiot and doesn't know what he/she is doing. Then again... all Mages do is usually spam Magic Missile [01]. So its possible I guess. But not for my Mage... he's too great. >3>

[Kiedo]

Am I the only one who keeps thinking "Xbox" every time they see "Xbow"? Anyways, I don't use Archers often and I never got mine to level 20 so I wouldn't know about the whole "Bow vs Xbow" debate thats going on here. But what I do want to know is... how the hell does an Archer out DPS a Mage? Unless that Archer can pop off like fifty arrows a second that ain't happening. Or... unless... the Mage is an idiot and doesn't know what he/she is doing. Then again... all Mages do is usually spam Magic Missile [01]. So its possible I guess. But not for my Mage... he's too great. >3>

You'll see when PvP is implemented. You'll see.