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[Auxilia]

Bowmans skill guide

I’ve made this guide because of the trash loads of questions everyone has about how skills look and what they do. That’s why I decided to make my own guide about everything I know about these skills with a little help of some great sites I know. I’ve combined Crossbows with Hunters because they almost have the same attacks, which makes it easier for me.

NOTE: When I’m talking about lvls, I mean skill levels not character levels.

Passive skill: You don’t have to do anything for it to activate.
Active skill: Pressing a button activates this skill.

Legal stuff
I dont want to see this guide anywhere without my permission, its for personal use only, all credits are for me.

Basic archer skills

Blessing of the Amazon

Mastered at: Lvl 16

What does it do:
Lvl 1 ~ Accuracy +1
Lvl 8 ~ Accuracy +8
Lvl 16 ~ Accuracy +16

Description:
This skill basically just adds accuracy. Most people prefer this skill over focus because its passive and doesn’t require switching on.

Requires: Nothing

Looks:
None

The eye of the Amazon

Mastered at: Lvl 8

What does it do:
Lvl 1 ~ range +15
Lvl 4 ~ range +60
Lvl 5 ~ range +120

Description:
This skill increases the range of your bow. So if you max this skill you can shoot much further, which of course is vital. It’s the most important skill of an archer in my opinion.

Requires: Lvl 3 Blessing of the Amazon.

Looks:
None

Critical shot

Mastered at: Lvl 20

What does it do:
Lvl 1 ~ 2% Success rate, Critical damage 105%
Lvl 10 ~ 20% Success rate, Critical damage 150%
Lvl 20 ~ 40% Success rate, Critical damage 200%

Description
You have a certain % chance that critical shot hits in. When it does kick in your damage turns into purple instead of yellow. Critical shot will add a certain % of damage to the damage you originally should have gave to the enemy, depending on the Lvl of your critical shot of course.

Requires: Nothing

Looks:

The purple damage is caused by critical shot.

Focus.

Mastered at: Lvl 20

What does it do:
Lvl 1 ~ Mp Cost: 8, Accuracy and Avoidability +1 for 70 seconds.
Lvl 10 ~ Mp Cost: 8, Accuracy and Avoidablity +10 for 170 seconds.
Lvl 20 ~ Mp Cost: 16, Accuracy and Avoidabilty +20 for 300 seconds.

Description:
Focus is a active skill, that is very good when its maxed. It gives +20 avoid and +20 accuracy which is quite an amount. Most archers choose to not upgrade this skill at all, because you cant max it before Lvl 30. And having some points in it isn’t really worthwhile.

Requires: Lvl 3 The blessing of the Amazon.

Looks:

A shiny eye thingy above your head when casted.

Double Shot.

Mastered at: Lvl 20

What does it do:
Lvl 1 ~ Mp Cost: 8, Damage 76% x 2 hits.
Lvl 10 ~ Mp Cost: 8, Damage 100% x 2 hits
Lvl 20 ~ Mp Cost 16, Damage 130% x 2 hits

Description:
Double shot fires two arrows instead of one. When you have double shot above lvl 10, it does more damage per shot. I’m not going to debate if this skill is good or not. Double shot in comparison with arrow blow is more stable, because you can get either 0,1 or 2 critical shots. Most of the time you get at least one, so this evens your damage out. You cant knock back monsters with this skill, because the skill doesn’t have the “umpf” to do that.

Requires: Lvl 1 Arrow blow.

Looks:

You can see there are two arrows fired instead of one. The yellow part isn’t double shot. Its just my soul arrow.

Arrow Blow

Mastered at: Lvl 20

What does it do:
Lvl 1 ~ Mp Cost: 6, Damage 141%
Lvl 10 ~ Mp Cost 9, Damage 195%
Lvl 20 ~ Mp Cost 14 Damage 260%

Description
Arrow blow is a active skill that enables you to fire a high damage shot, for some mp cost. The shot you fire has a blue colour. When you have a high Lvl arrow blow, you can do significantly more damage to an opponent. Which means that you can knock back enemy’s with ease. When you have proper equips, you should be hitting around 4000-5000 damage at Lvl 70 which is a lot. The bad thing about arrow blow is that its is either bad or good, thus making it very instable, and unreliable. You can hit 1000 damage when you hit your lowest damage without having critical, and you can hit around 5000 damage when you hit your highest damage with critical. The fight between arrow blow and double shot is a fight you have to decide for yourself.

Requires: Nothing

Looks:

The normal brown arrow has changed into the blue bolt, which is fired.

Hunter/Crossbowman Skills

Bow/Crossbow Mastery

Mastered at: Lvl 20

What does it do:
Lvl 1 ~ +15% mastery, +1 Accuracy
Lvl 10 ~ +35% mastery, +10 Accuracy
Lvl 20 ~ +60% mastery +20 Accuracy
Note: You get a damage increase every uneven number of Lvl you up it (lvl 1,3,5 and so on). Every Lvl gives you 1 more accuracy.

Description:
Mastery is the most important second job skill there is. It’s the only skill that increases your damage, and only that fact makes it super important. You all know that archers are very unstable in the beginning. They sure hit high damage, but they are stars in hitting 10s and 15s to. Mastery ups the minimum damage while keeping the maximum damage untouched. This makes your damage more stable, and gets rid of the low damages. Most people keep this skill at lvl 19 because of the damage increase on uneven numbers, 20 is even and even Lvls don’t give a damage increase, only a accuracy increase.

Requires: Nothing

Looks:
Mastery doesn’t have a significant look, because its passive. You can notice your “blast” in front of the bow change when you reach max mastery (60% at lvl 19). The red “blast” in front of the bow is the effect that mastery gives


Final Attack

Mastered at: Lvl 30

What does it do:
Lvl 1 ~ 2% Succesrate, 105% damage
Lvl 15 ~ 30% Succesrate, 175% damage
Lvl 30 ~ 60% Succesrate, 250% damage

Description:
Final attack is a passive skill that follows after either: Arrow Blow, Double Shot, Iron Arrow or Arrow bomb. It shoots an arrow right after you fired one of those skills, you have an x% chance of shooting this arrow depending on your Final attack lvl. This skill is very good for knocking back monsters. Most double shot users prefer to have final attack because it let the monsters knock back, which gives them more time to fire their next shot. Final attack can be bad in lower lvls, because it has low damage, and surprises you when it kicks in. Which might mess up the mob you are bombing/iron arrowing.

Requires: Lvl 3 Mastery.

Looks: As said, this attack follows after a regular skill shot. Your character leans back a bit, and when Final attack hits, it gives out a red spark. Rest looks like a regular shot.


Bow/Crossbow Booster

Mastered at: Lvl 20

What does it do:
Lvl 1 ~ Mp Cost: 29, Hp Cost: 29, Increases speed for 10 seconds.
Lvl 10 ~ Mp Cost: 20, Hp Cost: 20, Increases speed for 100 seconds.
Lvl 20 ~ Mp Cost: 10, Hp Cost 10, Increases speed for 200 seconds.

Description:
This skill makes your bow/crossbows speed go higher for 1 lvl. For example when you have a fast bow, this bow attack speed will become faster. If you have a normal crossbow, the attack of the crossbow will be fast when you have booster on. Every time you up this skill, the mp/hp cost decreases by one, and time will increase by 10 seconds. In my opinion this is a vital skill for every archer alike.

Requires: lvl 5 Mastery

Looks:
Looks similar to every booster of any class. Looks like a blue swirl that surrounds your character for a second, it isn’t noticeable when you already have it on. You sense it because you fire faster but there is no change in how it looks.


Soul arrow

Mastered at: Lvl 20

What does it do:
Lvl 1 ~ Mp Cost: 15, 30 Seconds without losing arrows.
Lvl 10 ~ Mp Cost: 15, 300 Seconds without losing arrows.
Lvl 20 ~ Mp Cost: 30, 600 Seconds without losing arrows.

Description:
This skill comes in handy when you have a high character level. You will be losing a lot of pots, with the town scrolls, and other add-ons you don’t have much room for arrows. Especially when you have strafe, your arrows will be depleted in no time. Soul arrow allows you to carry 0 arrows, and it requires no arrows to actually fire. This skill isn’t magical, it isn’t holy or something. It doesn’t do more damage. Its just nice to walk around without having to worry about your arrows.

Requires: Lvl 5 Booster

Looks:
Your normal arrow will turn into a yellow coloured arrow. Switching it on looks like a big arrow that comes out of your chest (or out of your soul for the drama lovers).


Power knock-back

Mastered at: Lvl 20

What does it do:
Lvl 1 ~ Mp Cost: 8, Knock-back +2%, Damage 105%, Knock-back 2 enemies.
Lvl 10 ~ Mp Cost: 8, Knock-back +20%, Damage 150%, Knock-back 3 enemies.
Lvl 20 ~ Mp Cost 16, Knock-back +40% Damage, 200%, Knock-back 6 enemies.

Description:
Power knock-back is a skill that enables you to get out of sticky situations. When you find yourself out mobbed, its useful because you can “whack” them away, and then finish them with bomb or iron arrow. This skill also helps to form up mobs, so you can easily whipe them to their graves. When maxed its able to hit quite good damage, which makes it a good mob killer at low level creature area’s. With this skill the jumping and walking to make the mob go away are over. This skill is active and not passive, so you have to press a button to activate it.

Requires: Nothing

Looks: Looks nothing different then how you would normally hit a monster with your bow/crossbow. It gives a red blast when it hits (you can see that clearly on the screen).


Iron Arrow

Note: Crossbowman only.
Mastered at: Lvl 30

What does it do:
Lvl 1 ~ Mp Cost: 14, Damage 64%
Lvl 15 ~ Mp Cost: 14, Damage 120%
Lvl 30 ~ Mp Cost: 32, Damage 180%

Description:
Iron arrow is the mob skill of the crossbowman. It moves in a straight line and isn’t affected by walls. The damage of the shot decreases every time the arrow passes trough an enemy. The max enemy’s that can be hit is 6.

Requires: Nothing

Looks: Looks like a few beams of energy are tracked to the front of the crossbow, which is followed by a blue arrow that fires trough the enemy, sparking when it passes trough an enemy.



Arrow Bomb

Note: Bowman only.
Mastered at: Lvl 30

What does it do:
Lvl 1 ~ Mp Cost: 14, 14% chance of stun, 72% damage.
Lvl 15 ~ Mp Cost: 14, 45% chance of stun, 100% damage
Lvl 30 ~ Mp Cost: 28, 60% chance of stun, 130% damage.

Description:
Arrow Bomb is the mob skill of the bowman. It fires away a bomb, which explodes on contact with an enemy. Can hit 6 enemy’s at once. This skill is very handy because its has a chance of stunning enemy’s. When you have max bomb, people start using them against boss like monsters just to stun them. So they can attack without being attacked. Also the fast fire rate plus stun of this skill allows you to efficiently clear mobs of the map.

Requires: Nothing

Looks:
It looks like an bomb pasted on a arrow that is fired out of your bow. Explodes on contact, hitting up to six monsters around you. When it hits 6 enemy’s it looks like a slaughter fest.


Ranger/Sniper Skills

Thrust

Mastered at: Lvl 20

What does it do:
Lvl 1 ~ Speed +2
Lvl 10 ~ Speed +20
Lvl 20 ~ Speed +30

Description:
A passive skill that increases the pace your walking permanently. At this time you should be having speed equips and you should be wondering: Why is this skill worthwhile? Well, this skill allows you to exchange all your speed equips for Dex equips, or equips with greater weapon defences, or just better looks if you prefer.

Requires: Nothing

Looks: Nothing special.

Mortal Blow

Mastered at: Lvl 20

What does it do:
Lvl 1 ~ 32% success rate, 110% damage, 1% chance of one hit ko’ing a monster with 20% hp or less
Lvl 10 ~ 50% success rate, 200% damage, 5% chance of one hit ko’ing a monster with 35% hp or less
Lvl 20 ~ 70% success rate, 250% damage, 10% chance of one hit ko’ing a monster with 50% hp or less.

Description:
Mortal blow is a skill that kicks in when monsters get to close. When a monster gets to close and you start hitting with your bow instead of shooting, mortal blow kicks in at set number of %. When it kicks in you fire a close ranged shot damaging the enemy’s and if low hp, even able to kill it in one shot.

Requires: Nothing

Looks:


Puppet

Mastered at: Lvl 20

What does it do:
Lvl 1 ~ Mp Cost: 23, summon a 500 hp doll for 5 seconds.
Lvl 10 ~ Mp Cost: 26, summon a 1800 hp doll for 30 seconds.
Lvl 20 ~ Mp Cost: 32, summon a 6000 hp doll for 60 seconds.

Description:
A skill that is often understood. It creates a puppet, that is placed about 10 centimetres in front of you. This puppet will change the aggro of the monsters. For the people that don’t know what aggro is: aggro, as you can maybe hear, the aggression of the monster. Normally when you attack a monster, the aggro is directed to you, so the monster will walk towards you, or if it has a magical attack, attack you with it. When you place a puppet, the monster will think that the puppet kills him, and aggro on the puppet instead of you. That can save you a lot of damage, and because it will ignore your own (low) hp, you can finally kill boss monsters. Keep in mind that monsters that attack with an area of effect (aoe), will still attack every thing around the puppet (like the yeti’s earthquake, or Vikings gunshot). When the monster kills the puppet, or the puppet-time is over, the aggro of the monster will disappear, and the monster will turn into a neutral stated monster (don’t attack anything, and walk around like it hasn’t been hit, only does touch damage).

Requires: Nothing

Looks.

You can see the pigs attacking the puppet instead of me.

inferno

Note: Ranger only.

Mastered at: Lvl 30

What does it do:
Lvl 1 ~ Mp Cost: 20, 50% damage, fire based attack on 6 monsters.
Lvl 15 ~ Mp Cost: 25, 112% damage, fire based attack on 6 monsters.
Lvl 30 ~ Mp Cost: 30, 150% damage, fire based attack on 6 monsters.

Description
Inferno is a fire based skill that attacks mobs. Being fire based its good against ice based monsters, and of course bad against fire based. You shoot an arrow at an enemy, the arrow doesn’t hit the monster itself, but it releases a rain of flames on contact. The rain causes the damage, which means that inferno doesn’t include a weak first shot like arrow bomb. Inferno is a very underrated skill. Most people see inferno as useless because they have bomb and rain. But the damage of inferno is much better, and the monsters that you train on when you are high levelled are weak to fire. This makes this skill an excellent mob whiper.

Requires: Nothing

Looks:


Blizzard

Note: Sniper only

Mastered at: Lvl 30

What does it do:
Lvl 1 ~ Mp Cost: 20, 100% damage, freezes for 1 second.
Lvl 15 ~ Mp Cost: 25, 128% damage, freezes for 2 seconds.
Lvl 30 ~ Mp Cost: 30, 140% damage, freezes for 3 seconds.

Description
Ice strike is the mob skill of the sniper. There is not critical involved in this attack, that’s why its not a great skill to take out mobs fast. The HUGE advantage that It gives is that it freezes the complete mob. It’s a skill that is often used on 1 vs 1 battles, just for the freeze. This skill can hit up to 6 enemy's around the monster that is initially shot.

Looks:
There will be a blue "blast" around your character. Ice shards will rain from the sky, creating a big "glacier" around the monster before "snapping" the monster out, leaving them frozen.


Arrow rain / Arrow Eruption

Mastered at: Lvl 30

What does it do:
Lvl 1 ~ Mp Cost: 18, 60% damage.
Lvl 15 ~ Mp Cost: 23, 122% damage
Lvl 30 ~ Mp Cost: 28, 160% damage

Description:
Creates an area around you where arrows erupt or rain down. Snipers get eruption, and Rangers get rain. This attack doesn’t have a great range, but its special because it’s the only attack that doesn’t need a distance between you and the monster, that makes this the perfect attack for sticky situations, and small platforms, when you have a great level of this skill, you can get out of most situations. This skill is the answer to the problems that you sometimes have with power knock-back.

Requires: 5 Mortal Blow.

Looks:

Arrows coming out of the ground, with eruption

Arrows falling out of the sky, with rain.

Silver Hawk / Golden Eagle

Mastered at: Lvl 30

What does it do:
Lvl 1 ~ Mp Cost: 32, attacks 13 times in 103 seconds, 50% chance of stunning.
Lvl 15 ~ Mp Cost: 60, attacks 50 times in 145 seconds, 88% chance of stunning.
Lvl 30 ~ Mp Cost: 80, attack 70 times in 180 seconds, 99% chance of stunning.
Costs 1 Summoning Stone to cast.

Description:
Summons an eagle that hovers above your head for a set number of seconds. It attacks monsters when they are near, having a chance to stun them. You don’t have to up this skill for the damage, I heard it was poor. The stun is useful, when your fighting high monsters, it useful to have an aide that stuns the opponent. It also is a big crowd pleaser. Everyone loves to see an eagle flying around.

Requires: 5 Puppet.

Looks:

Strafe

Mastered at: Lvl 30.

What does it do:
Lvl 1 ~ Mp Cost: 26, 52% damage per arrow.
Lvl 15 ~ Mp Cost: 26, 80% damage per arrow.
Lvl 30 ~ Mp Cost: 32, 100% damage per arrow.

Description
The feared strafe… It shoots 4 arrows to an enemy, making you able to have 4x critical for sick damage. This skill is the final price for any archer. It’s a great 1 vs 1 skills, and you should be able to take out bosses with this skill with ease. The problem of this skill is that it starts of bad, it only does 52% damage, making Double shot / Arrow blow better. After you gained a few levels (remember every level is 2% damage up, that’s 8% totalled), you are able to use it all the time. This skill also drains mp, making this the first time that you burn more mana pots then white pots. This skill speaks for itself, its just an answer to the weak DS/AB in 3rd job comparison.

Requires: Nothing

Looks:

The strafe charges up...

4 arrows shot rapidly after eachother.

Well this was my guide, I hope you all like it. Took me a lot of work , but I think that the result is nice.

Credits to:
• Differend www.Sleepywood.net guides
• www.hiddenstreet.net for the job info
• My good friend Sybren for the pic of focus
• Me myself and I lol
• Surefoot for his great crossbowman skillscreens and info (love the way you look ^^)

This post has been edited by Auxilia: Jul 6 2006, 02:18 AM

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[Gintama]

Nice guide! Someone should sticky it.

Atleast 1 small error though.

This skill basically just adds accuracy. Most people prefer this skill over blessing because its passive and doesn’t require switching on.

I think you meant "Prefer over Focus".


This post has been edited by PoserMobile: Jun 2 2006, 12:07 PM

[Bowhat]

Very well done, I'm sure a lot of people will enjoy it.

[DopeNikes]

Good Job I like it alot 9.8/10.

[Auxilia]

thanks, ive tried my best with my english, if anyone finds a mistake im happy to hear it.

[DopeNikes]

It all good grammer-wise and a regular person can understand it nicely. Very good job.

[LittleKey]

Great skill guide, Aux! I like the pics. How long did it take you to get to 3rd job, cause I can't wait! (only lvl 35, meh)

[haloruler66]

Excellent work as usual Auxilia!!!

[h3LLknIght]

Nice guide, just inspired me even more, can't wait till I'm a Ranger Good job Auxilia

[Auxilia]

Took me a total of 11 months to become a ranger. Thats long, but keep in mind that i didnt rush to get it. My advice is to have fun and to play alot with friends, and you will be lvl 70 in no-time.

[DopeNikes]

Wow 11 months that quick for me anyway.

[DeViLdUnKeR]

Nice guide for skills.

Now make one about places to train so people wont keep posting about that.

[Karnies]

Great job Auxilia.

[DopeNikes]

You should keep updating this guide it is very helpful.

[Auxilia]

i think im gonna put a training guide for all lvls and a skillbuild. And make this an universal archer guide, Busy with school and work these days, so i dont have much time. Will have loads of time after my bday (30th june yay). So...

Ive posted a pm to an admin if he can sticky it. Ill just see what happens .

[DopeNikes]

You just being Pinned you must feel proud.

[Auxilia]

i am... i am.

If you have any questions about this guide, dont be afraid to ask them.

[Surefoot]

Do you need crossbow specific skill pictures ? I can help you for that (just PM me where i must send them, i'll crop them to size like you did) - I can help for Iron Arrow, Ice Shot (very soon), but for the Golden Eagle it's not very soon for me

[Hiyochan]

I'm pretty sure Mortal Blow had something blue..? It would be great if you could get a screenshot of the blue sequence, it's so purdy lol. -Pets strafe and puppet- My pretties, 9 more lvls to 3rd job. >__>

[Auxilia]

at the time making, i didnt have mortal blow. I have it now tho, so ill try to take a good screen of it and post it here. Same for arrow rain, 97% more and i have it.

GJ on getting your archer this far, i luvvv high lvl archer chicks lol. Good luck on getting 3rd.