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Then that would mean that xbowmen are, by comparison to bowmen, statistically useless single target. Snipe seems like a gimic since it's changes to boss damage, and the cool down at best, interrupts your pierce spam. Piercing arrow seems like it's the ticket for xbowmen, other than it got its teeth ripped out for pvp (but that's every skill), not that getting 6 people to just stand and take it seemed all that viable to begin with. In bossing you'll never hit more than two-four targets with it at once.

It seems that the xBowmen isn't the only class that Wizet/Nexon made incurably obsolete; but it is my most recent disappointment.

Edit: Sorry if I seem dense, I likely am, it took me a few posts to realize there is no difference between bow final attack and xbow final attack when it comes to job 1 skills.

Not at all. U.Strafe hits more than hurricane. But hurricane with fa hits more than u.strafe with fa. Add to that a higher multiplier for the base attacks of u.strafe (which is more than the base attacks of hurricane) and ultimately you come out with very similar single target dps. Add to that snipe and pierce and you actually get a very potent MM.

As for pvp, MM's are better than BM's. Hurricane has a dreadfully bad cd that makes it practically unusable. I use straight up inferno be it against a single target or mob. MM's can use blizzard or pierce on mobs and u.strafe on single targets, they are better in pvp imo.