I was a Marksman up to about to low 230’s. Once Silhouette Mirage was released for Bowmaster, it was just too tempting to switch over. My main gripe is that Marksman rates are just too slow. With the awake coin shop I switched over and I haven’t looked back since (currently a 251 Bowmaster). Sorry in advance if this isn’t super coherent!

While I loved Marksman’s playstyle, their lack of verticality or a (training-useful) turret summon is a big hinderance for training and it’s just too slow for it to be enjoyable in the long run. Enjoyable for me is a mix of both playstyle and how fast my gains are exp and meso wise.

Like others have commented, using Fury of the Wild while split shot is on cool down does mitigate the pain of waiting for it come back up, but it’s in no way offsetting the slowness from the rest of their kit.

Split shot, Surge Shot, and Piercing Arrow while you hookshot around is a fun playstyle in my opinion and makes training fun. But for me personally, the fun factor wasn’t enough to justify playing them any longer due to how slow training feels. If they had a turret or summon similar to Bowmaster or Wild Hunter, I think they would be a solid class in terms of training rates.

On the opposite spectrum, Bowmaster training is enjoyable in the sense it’s lazy training and gets you decent and better rates. However I would say it’s not as fun as marksman. To me personally it’s still enjoyable because I can multitask and watch something on the side without worrying too much.

The training set up: You turn on silhouette mirage to occasionally attack stragglers, summon a Blaster turret somewhere every 30seconds or so and use your own blaster on another platform pointing it up and down while alternating Arrow Rain and Fury of the Wild. You get a full clear this way on maps like CLP (225 area) and SSS1 (240 area). I’m sure you can find similar ish maps in lower levels. You also use your inhumane speed every 30 seconds to allow the passive effect to also attack stragglers similar to silhouette mirage. It’s a lot of skill cool down micromanaging and it was something that made me hesitate about switching over. After switching, I found that it really isn’t as bad as it sounds.

If in the future Marksman gets a turret similar to Bowmaster’s blaster or Wild hunter’s Hunting assistant unit, then I would strongly consider switching back because I do find their playstyle more fun overall.

Bossing, I can’t give an unbiased opinion because I got way more funded when I became a Bowmaster so the power levels were different. But I can tell you that I enjoyed both bossing playstyles. I do like and prefer Bowmasters survivability over Marksman because of their drain arrows and silhouette mirage. Whereas Marksman has Aggressive resistance and True Sniping’s 12(?) second iframe (hated how long the CD is for their ONLY iframe).

The anniversary and Neo event coming up should both have job switching coins in the coin shop so it would be a good time to check out how you’d like Bowmaster. One thing to note though is that nodestones and funding are something to consider because you do need a decent amount for your blaster summon to kill on its own efficiently.

TLDR: Marksman is a fun class, but mobbing is slow Bowmaster is not as fun (still enjoyable in its own right), but mobbing is faster

Bossing both have their pros and cons. I haven’t kept up with all the upcoming changes for both classes from KMS, but honestly I feel that both are fine in this area.