bow int or bow str

[instructor]

which is better bow int or str?
if i choose bow int what should i play cold and (light or fire)?
and bow skills (strong bow and anti devil ........) will be stronger ?

[Tasdik]

Str. It helps make up for bow not having glavies HP bonuses or blades shield.

Go pach/cold/light for PvE ownage and pacheon/cold/fire for pvp ownage. I'd take the second one if I were you.

Your imbue will be stronger as an int bow. Since imbues are based on your mag attack. While your bow skills will be slightly weaker since the skills are based on your str attack.

But over all you'll do better constant damage as an int. Although you miss out on a pure str's awesome crits.

[Dyegov]

Int all the way. The constant higher attack from being full int will be higher than sporadic crits from str, and with 100 cold def + snow shield you won't have problems.

I dont' see why people still say str is better because of crit and def...

[Ningyotsukai-san]

Dyegov does make a point...if you compare bow to the other weapons, you'll see it's more of a hybrid weapon, since it's in between glaive and blade in phy attk pwr and spear and sword in mag attk pwr.


Max Phy Attk Pwr:

Glave lv98, npc +0 ~ 1795

Bow lv98, npc +0 ~ 1628

Blade lv98, npc +0 ~ 1605

Max Mag Attk Pwr:

Spear lv98, npc +0 ~ 2871

Bow lv98, npc +0 ~ 2605

Sword lv98, npc +0 ~ 2569

People simply state that bow should be str because of the crit increase....the stats show that it can be str hybrid and benefit from the crits more (as from the higher mag attk pwr), or go int and benefit from the "selected" imbue the most.

As an int bow, you'll have disadvantages until, at least, you get your first knockback (only to rely on your snow and phantom, whereas the str'd only rely on their hp / phantom (if skilled) until then)....

[Nyima]

Int all the way. The constant higher attack from being full int will be higher than sporadic crits from str, and with 100 cold def + snow shield you won't have problems.

I dont' see why people still say str is better because of crit and def...

I'm a fan of INT, because I do like the over all higher dmg. I dont like to have to rely on crits. The faster lvling isnt bad either haha