[RED] Archer Skill Builds

A guildie of mine is argueing with me that marksman boost gives less overall DPS than marksmanship does. I recall you doing the number crunching somewhere Joe, but I'm not sure if my mind is making pomegranate up, or what. Which of us is correct? I'm pretty sure boost is the better choice.

Depends on the defense. I never really considered the situation.

10% DEF: Expert > Marksmanship
25% DEF: Expert (<~190ATK) > Marksmanship > Expert (>~190atk)
40% DEF: Marksmanship > Expert
etc

Marksmanship provides a large boost against high defense targets and is cost effective for the 10 points. That being said, I'd probably recommend moving Marksmanship sooner since LHC has 25% DEF monsters, correct? And Monster Park has higher than 10%? Otherwise, if you train on regular mobs, the damage increase is smaller from Marksmanship, especially when considering the weapon attack bonus.

You might have to consider if you have other sources of defense reduction as well, at least when comparing with 25% Defense vs total weapon attack limit for Expert to be useful. For 40% Defense, the increase from 0 to 10 Marksmanship is ~1.17x, about equivalent to the total increase of Expert, SE etc for only 10 points.