Crossbowman skill build

1. Lv. 10-17: max Arrow Blow or Double ShotBudget maxes Arrow Blow: one arrow and the fewest MP a cast. Pro takes Arrow Blow 1 and maxes Double Shot: the same 240% on one monster, split between two when two are in range.
2. Lv. 17-22: max Critical ShotMore critical hits on every arrow for the rest of the game, and Amazon's Judgement only works on critical hits.
3. Lv. 22-30: The Eye of Amazon 3, then max FocusFrom level 30 most monsters dodge some arrows from a pure-DEX Bowman, and Focus fixes that. Your Bowman SP locks at 2nd job, so spend all of it before you advance.
4. Lv. 30-37: max Crossbow Mastery, Crossbow Booster 1 at 32Mastery raises your lowest hit and Crossbow Mastery adds critical damage: about 53% more damage on average once it is maxed. One point of Crossbow Booster already gives its full attack speed.
5. Lv. 37-47: Final Attack: Crossbow 1, then max Iron ArrowYour attack for crowds: one arrow through up to 6 monsters in a line, each one taking 80% of what the one before it took.
6. Lv. 48-70: the builds splitBudget: Soul Arrow: Crossbow, so you stop buying arrows, then Amazon's Judgement, the rest of Crossbow Booster, and Final Attack: Crossbow last. Pro: Final Attack: Crossbow, Soul Arrow: Crossbow, the rest of Crossbow Booster, and Amazon's Judgement 1.

You get 1 SP per level as a Beginner, 1 SP at each job advancement, and 3 SP per level after that. Crossbowman SP can't be spent on Bowman skills, and an SP Reset Scroll from the Cash Shop resets every skill except Beginner skills.

Skill points cost nothing, so both builds follow the same route with one swap per job. What sets them apart is where your mesos go: arrows, gear, scrolls and potions. Prices are what each item sells for on HubCW, so they move with the market.

Gear, slot by slot

Where two items share a step they are the same item for men and women: buy the cheaper. Arrows have no level, so theirs is the level the build moves up to them. Bowmen get no tops or bottoms past level 40, so from 50 an overall takes both slots. Any earrings do for Pro: they all have 5 slots, and the DEX scrolls are what count.

Arrows

An arrow adds its attack to your crossbow's on every shot. Carpenters craft every kind, so the last column is what one arrow costs in materials at market prices; it stands in where nobody sells them.

Arrows	W.ATT	Per set	Price	Crafted
Arrows for Crossbows	0	1000	1 mesos	0.8 Carpenter Lv. 1
Bronze Arrows for Crossbows	+1	800	-	2.6 Carpenter Lv. 4
Iron Arrows for Crossbows	+2	800	-	4.8 Carpenter Lv. 7
Mithril Arrows for Crossbows	+3	800	-	7.1 Carpenter Lv. 10

What Soul Arrow: Crossbow saves

Soul Arrow: Crossbow maxed costs 5 MP every 300 seconds: one Blue Potion keeps it up for about 3.3 hours. Without it, every 1,000 casts use the arrows below.

Skill	Arrows a cast	Budget	Pro
Arrow Blow	1	1,000 mesos	7,076 mesos
Double Shot	2	2,000 mesos	14,152 mesos
Iron Arrow	1	1,000 mesos	7,076 mesos
Final Attack: Crossbow	1	1,000 mesos	7,076 mesos

Mesos per 1,000 casts, with Arrows for Crossbows for Budget and Mithril Arrows for Crossbows for Pro. Final Attack: Crossbow's row counts each time it fires. Soul Arrow: Crossbow only works with a crossbow: a Hunter has his own.

Pro scrolls

One tier in each family gives the most per slot on average without any risk to the item. Pro fills every slot with it, or buys gear where every slot already passed.

Scroll	Success	Slots	If all pass	Price	Per success
Crossbow Attack Scroll: Intermediate	60%	7	+14 W.ATT	-	-
Gloves Attack Scroll: Intermediate	60%	5	+10 W.ATT	688,888 mesos?	1,148,147 mesos
Overall Armor DEX Scroll: Intermediate	60%	10	+20 DEX	-	-
Cape DEX Scroll: Intermediate	60%	5	+10 DEX	-	-
Earring DEX Scroll: Intermediate	60%	5	+10 DEX	98,898 mesos	164,830 mesos

The other tiers, on a crossbow: Crossbow Attack Scroll: Lesser is 100% for +1, Crossbow Attack Scroll: Greater 10% for +4, and Crossbow Attack Scroll: Chaos 10% for +5, but 50% of its failures destroy the crossbow. Try them in the scroll simulator first.

What the money buys

Each build's average damage per cast on one monster, in its own gear and with its own skills at that level: Arrow Blow for Budget, Double Shot for Pro (both arrows on the one monster). Pure DEX, with only the STR that gear needs. Pro counts every scroll slot as passed and Warrior Potion running. Monster defense is left out, so treat the numbers as a comparison.

Pick your level to see where each skill should be, what to add at that level and any breakpoint you just reached. Switch builds to compare the alternatives.

47Crossbowman

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Lv. 10Lv. 17Lv. 22Lv. 23Lv. 29Lv. 30Lv. 32Lv. 37Lv. 47Lv. 49Lv. 55Lv. 57Lv. 62Lv. 65Lv. 67Lv. 70

Bowman build Budget: Arrow Blow first Pro: Double Shot first Crossbowman build Budget: Soul Arrow: Crossbow and Amazon's Judgement Pro: Final Attack: Crossbow first

At level 47 Iron Arrow 27 → 30
Iron Arrow maxed: 180% to the first of up to 6 monsters, 664% to all 6 together, 28 MP.

Beginner9 / 9 spent

Three Snails3/3

Recovery3/3

Nimble Feet3/3

Bowman61 / 61 spent

Arrow Blow20/20

Double Shot1/20

Critical Shot15/15

The Eye of Amazon4/15

Focus20/20

Power Knockback1/15

Crossbowman52 / 52 spent

Crossbow Mastery20/20

Crossbow Booster1/20

Iron Arrow +330/30

Final Attack: Crossbow1/30

Soul Arrow: Crossbow0/20

Amazon's Judgement0/20

You advance in Henesys at level 10. From then to 30 you get 61 SP for six skills that would take 105 to max, and whatever you leave here at 30 stays that way. These are the same two plans as in the Hunter guide: nothing in them needs a bow or a crossbow.

At 2nd job you get 1 SP, then 3 per level: 121 by level 70. Maxing all six Crossbowman skills would take 140, so 19 points stay short: Budget leaves them in Final Attack: Crossbow, Pro in Amazon's Judgement. The current client has no 3rd job yet.

Level 1 and max values from the game data. Each name links to its full per-level table.

Arrow BlowMax Lv. 20

Max by 17 (Budget)

MP cost

6 → 14

Damage %

160 → 240

Range

350

One arrow per cast and the most damage per MP you have. Budget's attack until Iron Arrow, and for lone monsters after that.

Double ShotMax Lv. 20 · needs Arrow Blow 1

Max by 17 (Pro)

MP cost

8 → 16

Arrows used

2

Damage %

80 → 120

Max enemies

2

Projectiles

2

Two arrows: both hit a lone monster, or they split between two. As much damage as Arrow Blow for a little more MP, so it is Pro's attack.

Critical ShotMax Lv. 15

Max by 22

Critical Rate %

5 → 20

Critical Damage %

1 → 15

More critical hits on every arrow, for good. Amazon's Judgement only works on critical hits.

The Eye of AmazonMax Lv. 15

Stop at 4

Range

50 → 120

Only taken to 3 to unlock Focus, plus one spare point. Range is nice, but these points do more elsewhere.

FocusMax Lv. 20 · needs The Eye of Amazon 3

Max by 29 (Budget) or 30 (Pro)

MP cost

8 → 16

Accuracy

1 → 20

Avoidability

5 → 25

Duration (s)

70 → 300

Accuracy and avoid for 5 minutes a cast at max. From level 30 it decides which monsters you can hunt.

Power KnockbackMax Lv. 15

Stop at 1

MP cost

12 → 8

Damage %

105 → 180

Max enemies

2 → 4

Range

30 → 90

Chance %

100

One point to push monsters off you. Its hit is weak (see Damage math), so it stays at 1.

Crossbow MasteryMax Lv. 20

Max by 37

Mastery Lv.

1 → 10

Critical Damage %

1 → 20

The first skill to max: mastery and critical damage, with any crossbow.

Crossbow BoosterMax Lv. 20 · needs Crossbow Mastery 5

Max by 67 (Budget) or 70 (Pro)

MP cost

30 → 10

HP cost

30 → 10

Duration (s)

100 → 300

Level 1 gives the full speed boost. The rest only makes it last longer and cost less.

Iron ArrowMax Lv. 30

Max by 47

MP cost

14 → 28

Damage %

120 → 180

Max enemies

6

Your attack for crowds: one arrow through up to 6 monsters in a line, a little weaker after each. Max it right after Crossbow Mastery.

Final Attack: CrossbowMax Lv. 30 · needs Crossbow Mastery 3

Max by 57 (Pro)

MP cost

12 → 20

Damage %

270 → 360

Chance %

25

Duration (s)

60

Level 1 already gives the extra arrow; each later level adds only about 1%. Budget stops at 11, Pro maxes it.

Soul Arrow: CrossbowMax Lv. 20 · needs Crossbow Booster 5

Max by 55 (Budget) or 65 (Pro)

MP cost

25 → 5

Chance %

100

Duration (s)

60 → 300

Level 1 already stops arrow use. The rest only makes it last longer and cost less.

Amazon's JudgementMax Lv. 20 · needs Crossbow Mastery 5

Max by 62 (Budget)

Chance %

60 → 100

Speed

15 → 35

Duration (s)

3 → 5

Slows the monsters you crit. Budget maxes it so fewer monsters reach you; Pro keeps one point.

An arrow's damage is your total weapon attack, the crossbow's and the arrow's added together, times a stat term: DEX times the weapon's multiplier, plus STR, plus Attack Power from potions. Each hit rolls between a minimum and a maximum, and mastery raises the minimum. The comparisons below use the community's damage formula with a level 50 Pro Crossbowman's stats; treat them as relative.

What Crossbow Booster is worth

Other multipliers

• Criticals: everyone starts at a 5% chance of +20%. Critical Shot and Crossbow Mastery maxed make it 25% for +55%, about 13% more damage on average.
• Power Knockback: a hit with the crossbow itself, not an arrow; up close a crossbow swings or stabs, half the time each. The community formula gives a close-range hit a much smaller stat term, so even though it always crits it does about 26% of Arrow Blow's damage to each monster. Use it to push monsters away, not to kill them.
• Weapon DEF: damage × 100 ÷ (DEF + 100). Most training monsters have 0-50 DEF; Iron Hogs have 500, a sixth of your damage.
• Level gap: monsters above your level take less, ×0.89 at 5 levels above you and ×0.71 at 9.

Iron Arrow fires one arrow through up to 6 monsters in a line: 180% to the first, and each one after takes 80% of what the one before took, down to 59% for the last. Arrow Blow hits one for 240%. Per cast Iron Arrow does more from 2 monsters in a line, but it costs 28 MP to Arrow Blow's 14, so per MP it only pulls ahead from 4. Double Shot never does more in all than Arrow Blow: it only splits the same 240% between two.

Iron Arrow by level

TipEach level of Iron Arrow adds damage, but its MP cost goes from 14 to 28 on the way, so damage per MP falls a little. Max it anyway: you buy kills, not MP. The arrow goes through every monster in its path, so the more of them stand in a row in front of you the better, and every Iron Arrow can set off Final Attack: Crossbow too.

The monsters that give the most EXP per cast at every 5 levels. Each is up to 10 levels below you, has at least 10 on one map, and takes your attacks at least 95% of the time. Casts are how many attacks a kill takes on average after the monster's Weapon DEF, for each build in its own gear and skills, with whichever of its attacks below kills it fastest.

Arrow BlowDouble Shot

Ranked by EXP per cast for the Budget build. Monsters below your level are a little easier to hit than shown, and chance-based extras like Final Attack aren't counted. Spawn speed, map layout and other players change what an hour really gives, so try the top two and keep the one that feels faster. The Training Finder ranks the monsters for any level by EXP per HP.

You get 5 AP per level. Keep STR at what your next crossbow or armor needs, whichever is more, and put everything else into DEX. DEX counts 2.5 times as much as STR in every arrow.

Crossbows need 10 less STR than the bow of their level, so a pure-DEX Crossbowman keeps about 10 more points in DEX than a Hunter. 7 of the 9 crossbows that have a bow of their level attack slower than it, and each of those has 2-3 more W.ATT to make up for it.

A crossbow adds attack like arrows do, and one with 7 scrolled slots adds up to +14 more.

• From the game data: skill numbers and prerequisites, monster levels and avoid, and item stats and requirements. They update when the game does.
• From the client's skill data: Iron Arrow's level stats and level text agree, 180% to up to 6 monsters at max; its description says the damage drops with each monster the arrow passes through, but not by how much. Crossbow Mastery's critical damage is only in its level text.
• From players: SP per level, the 2nd-job SP lock, and the damage, critical, accuracy and attack-speed formulas come from community testing (meowdb), and so does Iron Arrow's falloff: each monster after the first takes 80% of what the one before took. That both of Double Shot's arrows hit a lone monster, that Power Knockback counts as a close-range hit, and that Final Attack: Crossbow's procs add their damage on top of the attack are community findings; the game data doesn't confirm them.
• Calculated: the attack comparison, the Crossbow Mastery curve, the Crossbow Booster speed-up, the Iron Arrow tables and the accuracy counts use those formulas with example stats. Misses, crits and positioning all move real results.
• Budget and Pro builds: the gear picks are written by hand. Prices are the median HubCW sale of the last 30 days, or the median Free Market ask when nothing sold; a dash means neither. Crafted arrow costs are the recipe's materials at those prices. The damage figures assume 25 starting stat points, 5 AP a level, and STR at 4 or what the crossbow and armor need.