On September 16th with the addition of patch v69 the following changes were made to the archer class in the spirit of helping rangers and snipers compete with hermits in terms of DPS
Increased Weapon Attack of Arrows
Increased Strafe damage
Increased Critical Shot probability
Soul Arrow is now changed to consume 200 arrows to activate, and will include the weapon attack of the currently equipped arrow.
Increased Speed of Final Attack
While these changes were definitely a step in the right direction, but i believe a little more is needed in order to close the damage gap that still exists.
The increased speed of Final Attack has a lot of potential - however this change has gone largely unnoticed because it does not proc from third job skills. I would like to suggest that Strafe has a chance to activate the new Final Attack so that snipers and rangers can get the full potential benefit from this skill change.
Thank you for your consideration
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