Few Questions About Archer

Hello kindhearted Toram forumers, got some things boggling in my mind which I hope can be enlightened quickly and more reliably here.

A. Regarding Cross Fire
Quoted from coryn.club: "The buff cast's damage reduction/increase from Combo Tags is added to the attack cast's, regardless of whether the attack cast is used in a combo or whether the attack cast's Combo Tag is negated."
Questions:

1. If I'm going to put Smite in Cross Fire, which one would be better? In Buff Cast, Attack Cast, or both? I'm kinda failed to understand what coryn.club says.
2. Can I somehow, fasten the charge time of this skill? I mean, so it becomes less than 35 secs to get fully 5/5 charged?
3. If range modifiers are not involved here, does it mean that at whatever distance you cast this skill towards enemy, you'd still get the same damage output?
4. Does it always have to be charged at 5/5 to get the highest damage? Because in my case, sometimes I got too epic to be true damage at 1/1 charge.

B. Equipments Section
Nothing to say here, so lets get straight to the point.
Questions:

1. If I'm heavily focused on critical stats, ATK, and AMPR, any workaround to improve my ASPD other than speed potions?
2. Does stability on equipped arrow affect the overall stability calculation?
3. What is current best elemental arrows I could get? My current set: Flame Arrow, Ice Arrow, Tempest Arrow, Pointed Ore Arrow, Twilight Arrow, Flash Volt, Lil Empress Arrow.

Thanks!
And sorry for making this thread looks like some highschoolers' exam sheet.

 

A
1. As far as I know, most cast the buff manually, and smite CF in a short combo for the attack cast.
2. No.
3. More charge = more damage, but you don't have to fully charge to deal high damage.

B
1. I don't know.
2. IIRC for bows, yes.
3. There was a better light ele arrow during Valentine/White Day event (can't remember). Aside from that your elemental arrows set seems good.

 

This is actually an answer for question number 4, and you've misplaced it on your answer sheet. So, minus 20 for you. Jkjk, tysm... <3

Guess it is Candy Arrow from White Day, too bad I missed it

 

Oops

3. Yes. Long and short range damage will not affect CF.

 

1. Manual charge with short Smite combo or short Smite combo with manual release because doing 2 smite combo cancels the Smite tag.
2. No
3. Yup, same damage regardless of distance
4. More charge equals higher overall damage but can still do high damage with less charge.

1. Possibly certain xtals
2. Yes it does
3. Love Arrow and Candy Arrow are better for Fire and Light imo but rest looks good

 

You can use quick aura to reach 1k aspd

 

How about Smite on charge and Save on release, or vice versa? Do I still get the damage penalty from Save?

Thanks... Forgot about this one. What level do you think is sufficient?

Oh, and one more question. What do you guys use as ATK buff?
I'm using Kairiki+Recovery.
Any thoughts on Warcry, Brave Aura, etc., etc.?
Or maybe 2-3 of those skills combined?

 

Save tag damage loss is preserved no matter when you use it. So you cannot use it unless you space it properly as you would in any other combo. I do not use war cry but you can if you choose, any atk boost is a good atk boost. I like kairiki and brave aura. Kairiki I am only using to buff the Ampr of decoy, though.

 

Most likely, I'll also get Brave Aura since it is in accordance with archers' playstyle, dodge to survive, to deal high damage. By the way, how do you counter the accuracy reduction of Brave Aura? Won't the attacks or even skills be more likely to graze?

 

yes but everything grazes anyway already so honestly why does it matter overall?