Bests Bows?

[Sessurea]

They are for people who cannot, or do not want to participate in end game raiding. .

The 130 bow is a piece of crap and every bard should aim for the yoichi bow. You can't plan to get dreadwyrm. And lastly, 135 Yoichi will beat the dreadwyrm, if optimally melded.

Also I'd say most ppl getting 125 relics are doing so because t9 took a big poop on them and they were using UAT weaps right up to 2.4. So np, 135 relic in less than 2 weeks.

Also it doesn't waste as much time as you would think. I did yoichi very casually in January ( atma-zodiac ). No more than a few hrs/day, and probably only like 3-4 days/week.

Atma = few hours.
animus semi sux, but hey, theres no rng in this step
novus is simple considering the rain of soldiery now.
Nexus is a joke, receiving a whooping 50% nerf.
Zodiac was maybe the easiest step imo. for the 16 dungeon drops I aimed for 4/day.

[Tex_Mex]

The 130 bow is a piece of crap and every bard should aim for the yoichi bow.

Also it doesn't waste as much time as you would think. I did yoichi very casually in January ( atma-zodiac ). No more than a few hrs/day, and probably only like 3-4 days/week

To address these couple of comments: The 130 bow is certainly not BiS, but there is NO content in the game that cannot be easily completed with the 130 magitek bow. Sure, you will miss out on a small amount of DPS, but it is not like it matters if you beat T13 in 12 minutes or if you beat it in 12:30. Still a win.

And as far as your minimal time commitment. 3-4 hrs /day, 3-4 days per week still amounts to 12-15 hrs per week. I only have roughly 20 hrs per week to play ENTIRELY (full time job, married, one kid on the way), and the majority of that time is spent on raiding with my guild (3-4 nights/week) and on expert roulette/WoD. Any additional time I have goes towards hunts and ST/CT for carboncoat.

12-15 additional hours is not at all feasible for me, so i do not even consider it.