Stereo Wrote:Just a comment, BoA stacks with Bless/Focus, but you can't have Bless & Focus (or acc pills for that matter) so if you want to maximize accuracy, BoA is better first (I believe the typical 2nd job FA-less build ends up with spare points into both skills anyway, something like 11 points which gives you 23 total between the 2).
I know that bless and focus dont stack and especially with higher level'd training, you'll more often than not be with a priest (or at the very least an hs mule) that will have bless, making focus "somewhat useless". However, Blessing of Amazon is "useless" as well as there is not a monster out there that we cant hit with our ACC as it is. In terms of getting extra ACC, yes Blessing is better. However, what's the point of maximizing ACC when that extra ACC isnt needed?
The way I look at it, its not "What's better? More acc that can stack or avoid" but rather "I have extra points. Where do I dump them?" The 20 avoid from focus is useful but not life changing and especially with the number of HS mules out there for skele/newtie training(they're autoing, hence they dont bless), focus actually somewhat has use there. That's just me though. Im not saying that either is a "must max": Im just saying that blessing isnt a must max, which is something that you're stating in your guide that's not true.
After maxing all the "neccessaries" of 1st job (20 in either AB or DS, 20 in Crit, 8 in Eye, 3 in Blessing to activate eye), you have 9 points left (assuming you went DS and needed the 1 point in AB to unlock DS). After maxing all the 2nd job "necessities" (20 mastery, 30 bomb/IA, 20 PKB) and the other "luxury" skills (20 booster, 20 soul arrow), you have 11 points left.
This means you have 20 points leftover before 3rd job to put into either focus, arrow blow or blessing. If you put them in blessing, then you'll have leftover for focus but if you max focus, then you should have nothing left for blessing.
I would also want to add one more thing for the AB vs DS that you seem to have missed. AB has more of a chance to flinch monsters, often giving people more time before they get overrun by monsters or guaranteeing 100% aggro.
As a person who maxed both AB and DS, I found Arrow blow very useful at gobies to aggro bone fish so I can properly puppet them when I was in my 8x and couldnt take them down fast enough before they'd attack me and cause me to burn potions (This only applies to rangers as snipers can freeze them).
As for xbowman, many of them used to get arrow blow to flinch monsters so they dont have to bow whack as much (as the speed of xbows vs bows IS noticeable with DS/AB compared to the almost innoticeable aspect of that with strafe). With better equips now, it is somewhat irrelevant (as DS arrows now will outdmg AB arrows 2 years ago because of the equipment available now) but its worthy of mention all the same I would say.
Ps. DS = DOUBLE Shot, not dual shot.