[1.2.322] Moar Skill Balancing

Before = they were decreassing the cooldown time on snipe from 6 to 4 seconds, they were reducing the charging time of piercing to 1.5 seconds (or just 1), they increased the damage cap from 100k to 200k so snipe could hit twice its dmg, They increased strafe's and blizzard's dmg a little and even earlier skills like Iron Arrow.

Now = they are giving them a new skill that rivals or surpasses hurricane while at the same time they double the damage of pierce, they are making Snipe hit 5 times harder than before and i forgot what other changes.

By acceptable I didn't mean the argument was right, just tolerable. But now they are making marksmen strong enough to kick bowmen out of maple. So saying Bowmaster deserve it just because marksmen were always the underdog is just ridiculous.

I never understood the argument as that BMs deserved it because MMs were always underpowered. I just thought it meant that before, back a few years ago, Snipers were stronger than Rangers, but there were a lot more Rangers than Snipers, showing that some people pick classes for looks over power. I mean, isn't that why there were more bowmasters than marksmen? (I suppose that there was a bit of a BM bandwagon a while back, so that contributed more)
In any case, I'm not really sure what the original argument was. :S
I'd prefer BMs and MMs to be almost exactly equal, if that's possible, so that MMs don't feel shafted, and the same for BMs, and that everyone who got on the BM bandwagon doesn't start complaining (not that I don't care about them, but they were always the stronger of the two)

But if class popularity doesn't matter, like somebody said somewhere up there, then it doesn't really matter if MMs suddenly become stronger than BMs or not.

It fires the same speed as regular strafe. What people mean by iy being "faster" is that it fires 6 arrows in the same time it takes to fire one strafe, as opposed to hurricane which fires I think slightly less arrows in that same amount of time. MM will not be able to KB bosses any more efficiently than before, aside from simply being able to deal more raw damage.

They kind of will be able to KB bosses better than before, because they'll be doing more damage per arrow, which will put them over the KB threshold more of the time. Of course, if the boss has a low KB, it won't matter and it'll depend on whether a monster can be kb'd multiple times from one attack.