crossbow choice

[LunarCry]

im currently leveling up marksmanship and cant really decide which crossbow to use.
theres 2 that seem appealing to me atm:

- ziska's crossbow: 216 delay, 28 dmg, ranged acc.+8

- velocity bow+1: 210 delay, 27 dmg, Agi+2, ranged attack+16


ziska acc bonus is appealing, im missing a lot with capped archery skill on exp mobs even with good accuracy and agi gear, dunno how much difference C- (archery for thf) to C+ (marksmanship for thf) really is, might be enough to make miss rate acceptable..

velocity+1 has better delay which is important when soloing and 2Agi that dont make the loss of 3dex ditching lightning bow+1 as bad, but i dont know if i can hit stuff good enough...

whats your opinion?

[Mithrankittycat]

I used velocity to skill up since ziska's was hardly in stock. I now use ziska's and blood bolts to solo stuff. Ranged accuracy is important to thf even for "easy prey"

[LunarCry]

do you use crossbow in pt at all (with acid bolts) or is lightning bow+1 still better?

[Mithrankittycat]

When I'm not tanking. I switch between combat caster's boomerang +2 (5 accuracy when region isn't under my nation's control) and bomb core. The switch can be made without losing tp.
Tanking, I use ungur's boomerang (evasion+8) or ziska + assorted blind, blood, acid, and sleep bolts

[LunarCry]

how much is ziska's crossbow on ragnarok anyway (and other servers)?

i tried the cactuar bcnm thats dropping it today cause on odin ziska's xbow has yet to be put up on AH.
we were wiped out twice with 75pld/war, 74blm/whm, 71smn/whm, 75rdm/whm, 75rng/nin and me 74thf/nin.
the mobs are unsleepable, all 3 spam 1000needles (prolly need 3 or 4 smn not 1 lol) and the boss cactuar likes to use flee every 20 seconds, rendering melee damage useless. also, he casts cure5 in 1second, but at least you can silence him..

i didnt try or find any info on the 4wyvern bc dropping the xbow, but im not very anxious on losing another 30-60 kindred seals that take me forever to collect (thx square for this kickass concept :handsdown )

[Mithrankittycat]

800k-1.3mill
only about 3 have sold =>_>=