Character worth

Maybe archers just that common on Windia, but on Khaini at least someone to give SE isn't a given. I've attended zakums where I was the only one who had high leveled SE, some organizers actually ask for me to come to their boss runs mainly to provide it.

Wow, really? Since 4th job I've almost never not-had SE. Granted, most of my time since 4th job was spent on a Bowmaster so I gave it to myself. However my Corsair has had SE since... forever. Carlos and I used a friend that quit as an SE mule in our early 7x (he was using it since 5x, actually) until Carlos got a good level of SE. Once he got SE, I had it every time I've been training ever since. I've had it on every non-solo boss run I've ever been to. SE is as common to me as booster.

And Cider adds 6k to my DPS while SE adds 8k (4k and 11k for RF). Just sayin.

 For Dusk

I know you don't consider this kind of stuff, but Octopus can actually add a pretty large amount of DPS to RF and Cannon. Even in unfavorable conditions, I found it adding at least 20k DPS to Rapid Fire and 15k to Cannon. Octo is our Snipe <3