[RED] Archer Skill Builds

Oh, well I guess that makes sense. I've never played a marksman, so I don't know too much about Blizzard's utility after acquiring Piercing Arrow, I just thought I'd provide an alternative to the ultimatum between Mortal Blow and Dragon Breath.

Choice is pomegranatety. If you're weak enough to let Mortal Blow play a factor, you are probably still using Dragon Breath.

I still think 16 is a minimum. Getting stragglers because Frostprey stops them from being pushed is painful enough, I would hate knowing that the one monster left in front of me could have been pushed if I spent the skill points. It's significant when using Blizzard because the monster in front tanks the entire AoE and everything pushed back doesn't get hit, and when using Pierce, it allows you to optimally use your time on six monsters. Mortal Blow is still a 4~5+HKO skill to make a difference. It can still activate if you 3HKO but you would have killed the monster even if it didn't activate. You just heal a bit of HP and MP now. It also appears to be 5% of your max HP/MP, which isn't exactly a lot for a Bowman. I would love to have both skills, but Nexon decided that Marksmen get the short end of the stick, both in maxing the skills and using them. How many HTK is Ultimate Strafe? Hurricane is ~4x that. Say you 3HKO with Ultimate Strafe. You would theoretically 12HKO. Mortal Blow would not affect Ultimate Strafe. 1 hit would bring them above 50%. Second hit would bring them within Mortal Blow range. 3rd hit would kill them. Hurricane on the other hand would have 3 or 4 hits that are within Mortal Blow range, allowing them to actually use Mortal Blow to kill something and spend the rest of the arrows on other monsters.