Nuker or Bower

[Goseki]

So which would be better, sword fire and ice, or bow fire and ice. Both pure int. Sword has all those debuffs, but bow now has 2 kb books and stun and with pure int can tank too. Is light still good. I remember in the old days nuker had to have the mag dmg +% books and parry inc, but now ppl seem to have dropped it.

[Puma60]

The Pure Int Bower would be pretty poor at PvP, but awesome in PvE, whereas the Nuker would be good in both PvP and PvE.

Conclusion, Nuker.

[Pan_Raider(`_´)]

yesh, nuker,
though the bow would be the fastest chinese lvler it'd fall to easily without snow or a wall

[Jekman]

I doubt that pure Int archers can "tank" now because of the 2 KB skills. You can only KB one target at a time and you can still get killed quite easily while casting Strong Bow. So yeah, Nuker.

[Pan_Raider(`_´)]

they can "half" tank with the 60% snow,
knockback only as a supplementary for healing up,
walls for an additional defence
but its true, as soon as they get stunned they fall.

only real advantage is the sick damage output

[Kori0129]

pure int bow spamming KB skills can kill people.

Think a little... pure int damage is a constantly criticaling pure str's

constantly criticaling knockback skill wins

(Not to mention the immense range of the bowers. They can take anything out before something could reach them )

[Pan_Raider(`_´)]

you need hard, continuous damage to take down a warrior or a blader.
even with full int, the arrow combo is continuous, but damage is moderate, not high.
the pots would be enough to keep the opponent at above 50% life