Curious about Crossbowman/Sniper/MM leveling speed

As everyone knows I think they are slow in 4th Job.

I got around 5mill exp an hour at Skelys and 6-7mill an hour at OB4...soloing on 1x of course. Compared to Arch Mages and Bishops that I hear can get 20+mill an hour on 1x, I've heard some DK's can get 20+mill an hour too.

You're doing something wrong if you're getting those low rates. I get like 12.5mil per hour on 1x soloing oblivion 4 and much higher splitting map, and you definitely don't have half my damage.

I've started to train off royal guards now, they take about 30-40 mins for me depending on how much I chat while doing it, and they give 15.5mil exp each, which is like 25-30mil exp/hour. I'm still going to train at oblivion 4 though because killing royal guards is pretty dull, they don't drop time pieces, and sometimes I die when I zone out.

Well you cant say it in genaral because a Bow is faster than a xBOW but the xbow usually deals more dmg, so there is not
a real difference. Thats what i can say because Im playing both classes.

Crossbows and bows are the same speed with booster, and crossbow eruption and strafe being slightly stronger than bow rain and strafe makes snipers level a tiny bit faster, although this difference is pretty negligible.