"What to buy" for archers~Guide + Questions

With 500m, you can't really get much of an improvement as far as your cape is concerned. 6% is doable I suppose. I was thinking it would be a better idea to focus on skillbooks and get an htp. What server are you in?

I'm in Demethos D: Ghetto FM haha.

I have SE20+30, Hurri 20+30, and BE30 already, just missing BE20 right now, so I don't think skillbooks are a present worry, not until I'm 150+ and Jump is out anyway. HTP seems like a very expensive upgrade especially when it's outdamaged by a MoN without an awesome pot; is there any reason I should try for one? Other than how waiting on Nexon to fix something probably isn't the best idea, lol.

I have max mesos + 8 gm bow scrolls (I saw one in the Khaini fm sell for 650m~ and I bought them for 400-450, so let's say I have around 7bil to work with). My current bow is a 118 attack reverse engaw. My original plan was to get a von leon bow and use a 20% scroll, then 9 gm scrolls, but unfortunately, aggro got fixed and VLing is now more of a pain in the ass. Now I'm at the point where I am wondering if I should buy a bow, make a bow, or wait for a 140 bow D:

Well, waiting for a 140 bow seems like a bad idea IFF Empress is still unkillable after Ascension. I'd buy a nice vip bow and scroll it, or a VL bow. I can sell you tokens or, as it turns out I happen to have 5 tokens atm so, yeah hit me up on that. I'd be careful about those 20%'s and instead save the risk and save some cash and possibly blown up VL bows, and use that cash on cubing.

Personal experience: buy premade. That guy, next time you're on i'll give you the ign of a guy that has a good VIP bow, and Nessa might not have sold hers yet as well.

So currently I have a 142 att Engaw with 0 slots and 0 hammers used. It'll be 152 att if I can get hammers and one more GM bow scroll (already have one), 160 if I pass two AEEs (but I may just use one and save the rest for shielding wards because even at a 90% success rate, I am not willing to risk that).

So other than that, I also have at least 9% DEX on all but my helm, glasses, bow (all 0%), pendant (MoN) and face acc (lol level 10 branch, will replace with a mustache if I can stand to renew it every few days). I have no shoulder yet, currently working on Silent Crusade quests for that.

What options do I have for upgrades if I don't want to use cubes (or really, any NX at all)? HTP with %DEX, possibly? CHTP is far too pricey at the moment for me to even think about it.