Marksman or Bowmaster

Oh whoops, lol. What I did (now that you mention it) was pretend Snipe didn't fire at all. Like... I had 83.33 Strafes AND 6 Snipes per minute. Marksmen can't shoot 89.333 projectiles a minute... I'm gonna fix that now.

Edit: Fix'd. I'll post it here.

Marksman
Damage Range: 4897 ~ 5999
DPS without Snipe: 56038
DPS w/10-second Snipe: 72003 (impossible according to Technolink)
DPS w/10.72-second Snipe: 70660
DPS w/11-second Snipe: 70185
DPS w/12-second Snipe: 68670

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

 Technolink

Here's the formula I put in the excel sheet for the final DPS.
=INT(INT($C$32*4*((2000/24)-6)/60)+J33)
C32 is INT(average damage per arrow)
J33 is the DPS of just Snipe

In J33 I have this formula...
=199999*(60/J32)/60
And J32 is the number of seconds it takes to fire the Snipe. That's why it's so easy for me to adjust it and come up with another DPS instantly.

Now I'm just playing devil's advocate =P. Before I say anything, we're close enough to the real damage that it doesn't even matter.
Snipe isn't 10.72 seconds, its complicated, which is why I used a 13 strafe 1 snipe combo.

You see by combining the DPSs like that, you're pretty much saying 12.88888 strafes then 1 snipe, because there will be a small gap. Also you didn't subtract average wdef (2000*.55) from snipe, but that's only like 10 damage, lol.

Either way, we can see close enough that its somewhat around 90% of a BM's damage @200k, and it still depends on the equips and the like. I mean we can strive to be perfect but a snipe is going to miss eventually, or be poorly timed.

If you wanted to go REALLY REALLY indepth, one could argue that because while using a potion both classes must stop attack, the MM would have the advantage because the snipe cooldown would still be running while they are potting, but that's just ridiculous to take it to that level.

But the point is that MM can hold their own at bosses now (with ~75% damage), and will be even closer after the patch. So unless you are like only bossing (which you do at higher levels when the MM:BM ratio becomes even larger due to snipe's contstant damage), picking a BM just because of bossing is like saying you are picking a ranger just because of bossing.

A BM/MM should be picked because of training style differences, as well as gear consideration. I don't think boss battles should weigh too heavily into it. As a general (general Kaida, I know there's exceptions =P) as soon as a BM can boss a MM can also do the same boss, abit a tad slower.