Skills for Bow+Katana

What skills can be used for bow+katana build?
Is Arrow still the best sub for bow or we can go with elemental katana subs? (Answered)

 

Bows don't get any stats from katana sub :/

 

. So only benefit of using katana sub is to use katana only skills.

 

From what I've noticed by doing a bit of experimenting is that bow+katana builds aren't very practical, mostly because they can't change their elements as easily as bow+arrow can do to do more damage, and they don't benefit from two-hands' critical damage bonus, so their dps is a bit limited. Though they are a bit weak, they do have some advantages:
-Your snipes (or other dps skills) can have high crit rates without needing excessive crit rate gears because of meikyo shisui, so you can make your equipment focus on cdmg and ATK raising stats since your accuracy will allow your other attacks to hit.
-You can move away from AoEs easily unlike traditional bow builds.
-You can block attacks with magadachi and zentei

 

Thanks for the quick replies. I'll continue using Bow+Arrow. And katana+no sub build
Maybe someone will build a bow+katana. It will be like HB+Arrow(not full potential of the classes, but good enough)

 

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I think this combo might be good.
Moeba>smoke(save)>para(cons)>warcry(cons)>meikyo(cons)>snipe(smite)>sneak(cons)

Maybe switch para with warcry.

I think a con for this combo is it will generate a LOT of aggro.

 

Another perk is since you cant miss with smoke, therefore you wont graze. But since you dont have arrows, your stability will be affected.

Str bow build maybe?

 

A bowtana build might be good. But it does have its pros and cons.

Pros: gear flexibility. You dont need a ton of crit gears to deal good damage. Atk+cdmg gears would be very good for this build.

No need to farm for all the elemental arrows. You only need 1 crappy katana and you are good.

Since this combo will use 2 support skills, proration wont be affected too much.

No need for impact.

Can go full str after dex. No need for crt stat. Str give +atk too. Can potentially compensate for lack of element and stability bonus from arrows.

Cons: you will generate a lot of aggro since you cant put impact before snipe for 1mp combo. Normally i use sneak as a save dump and then impact before snipe to eat just 200mp. Exactly as what sneak saves. But with bowtana you want meikyo to go before snipe therefore requiring the save dump to be 400mp or higher. Which in bows case would be smoke. Thats if you want a 1mp bar combo that never misses or grazes. Meikyo and warcry also isnt affected by sneak since they are support skills. Therefore giving the above combo a whopping 2000 aggro points.
100+500+300+300+200+400+200=2000
If sneak used before combo=900 aggro including the sneak before and the ender. Still a lot.

You also wont have much combo flexibility because of that reason too.

Long combo = dead archer if not timed properly.

Impact snipe wouldnt be as good as full crit gears since you need meikyo for crit. So no use getting impact.

No elemental bonus

Stability is lower since you wont have arrows. But since you are using meikyo, you can go full str(after max dex) and max para. I dunno if that is enough to compensate for the lost 20% stab arrows give bows.

But dang that +65 crit is juicy.

 

Maybe zantei as opener then 2x smite hasso and snipe?

Havent fully tested a bowtana build since my katana char lvl is too low.