Marksman or Bowmaster

I just did some math with that, actually. Turns out that that extra 10k damage per second (yeah it's that huge) balances BMs and MMs quite a bit. I'll post more details in a spoiler at the bottom of this post. I'm pretty sure this also puts MMs above Heroes. Rejoice, it's quite an upgrade.

Wow, you're so full of crap. lmao I solo Anego all the time with just strafe and sniping alone, every hit is a knockback.

Good Job doing over 1k damage all the time. You must be proud.

And only a noob would think that pinning is the only method to kill Anego alone. Keeping her on the left side is essentially the same damn thing and easier in my opinion, just hit her once, plant puppet, and hit nonstop.

While I don't disagree that it's easier, it's certainly not faster. You're wasting all that time planting puppets. You have to run away if you want to cast anything other than Booster. You have to deal with that stupid 100 attack limit, and also I'm sure it's unsafe to be within Freezer's range there. Bowmasters have none of these problems.

So, keeping Anego pinned at all doesn't count?

I can keep Anego pinned to the rightmost wall with my regular, unboosted attack. Who cares?

 My Maths

So I did that thing where I turn myself into an imaginary Marksman for the sake of comparison. This new snipe is surprisingly amazing. The fake monster I'm using has the same defense as Anego calculates at (2000). Yeah, I know it says 3000 in the data, but for some reason she acts like she has 2000. Note that both of these characters are level 166. Anyway, here's the stuff.

Bowmaster
Damage Range: 4532 ~ 5549
DPS: 76175
DPS w/26-attack Concentrate: 84600
DPS w/19-attack average*: 80383

*Half of the time is Warrior Elixer and the other half of the time is Concentrate.

Now that I have the easy part out of the way, I should do some explaining. Human error favors Bowmasters because of Snipe. What are the chances that you're going to have just finished a Strafe exactly when Snipe ends, use that Snipe as soon as physically possible, and then resume Strafe without any mistakes in button-pressing timing that would result in .5 seconds of doing nothing? Low I'd presume. Normally I don't account for human error in calculations but this is a fairly large difference in DPS. Now, is it unreasonable to estimate that a person uses Snipe every 11 seconds? I don't think so. One second is a lot, to be sure, but it's fairly possible that that's around the time you'd spend finding out that Snipe is ready, getting ready to time it all properly, and waiting until after your current Strafe is over to actually doing it. I'd say that if you were really good at it, you'd average around 11 seconds per Snipe. So for the sake of comparisons and such, I'm going to list Snipe at 10 seconds, 10.5 seconds, 11 seconds, and 12 seconds (for the slow and stupid).

Marksman
Damage Range: 4897 ~ 5999
DPS without Snipe: 56038
DPS w/10-second Snipe: 76037
DPS w/10.5-second Snipe: 75085
DPS w/11-second Snipe: 74219
DPS w/12-second Snipe: 72704

In this example both the BM and the MM were using a Warrior Elixer by default. Early in 4th job, the Bowmaster should beat the Marksman because the Marksman hasn't yet maxed Snipe and won't until around 140 at the earliest. At lower levels (I'd say around... 140~155), the Marksman should win outright. After that, the Bowmaster is (or should be) working on Concentrate. At that point the scales tip somewhat in favor of the Bowmaster, even more so if he uses Cider in between. Also, leveling favors the Bowmaster as well. While both characters damage range increases through their leveling, Snipe's constant damage does not. So as both characters level the Bowmaster will gain a lead on the Marksman. Gear is another thing of note though. In a matchup between a very badly geared Bowmaster and Marksman, the Marksman will have the upper hand. If both if their gear is excellent, the Bowmaster will have the advantage.

As far as group bossing goes though, this Snipe upgrade will make Marksmen pretty much exactly as desirable as a Bowmaster. Know that I hold no contempt for Marksmen and I'm incredibly happy this upgrade is going to happen. Now there just needs to be a boss that consists of 5 pieces lined in a row so Pierce will outdamage everything except maybe ultimates.