I don't know about you other MM but at 14x-16x I could dodo faster than any other class in the game (beating higher level bms and nls and any melees that would bother with dodo) and that's more than enough for me. Maybe while standing still and appling at zakum I won't be doing the most damage (not like BMs beat NLs on apples anyway), but when you have at least 5-6 attackers a bit of dps won't make much of a difference anyway. At worst it'll cost you a couple minutes of your time and a few more potions. Pap's easy to pin, bm/mm don't bother with bf anymore. Anego is harder to pin but I don't bother with it considering how many high levels and how much drama is there. Snipe's cooldown is slower than it should be but it still adds a nice bit of damage compared to strafe only (which would already be a bit more than 2/3rds of bm dps with equal value in equip), plus it pierces super def up while other classes just stand and wait for it to end. It also pierces damage reflect and ignores the effects of darkness. BMs only look and feel like their dps is so much better, in reality it's not much of a difference. I've played a sniper to 104 and a MM to 169 so maybe I haven't had as much experience as some other MM, but the experience I've had has been all good.
edit: A few more things I want to touch on. First, the strafe vs hurricane overkill issue. I've used hurricane, it has some overkill as well (another 2-3 arrows more than needed hit the monsters before you can go on to the next one), second unlike bms strafe isn't the only thing we use for killing. At skeles I might strafe and turn around and jump AE away, or turn the other way and strafe/snipe/pierce/whatever behind me and let frostprey finish it, or use the skele (probably frozen) as a multiplier to set up a pierce to kill some of his friends behind him. Other pinnable bosses would include Tengu, but with all those himes do archers really bother with it much? I think it's better left to the melees.
yes everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but we're also entitled to our freedom of speech and consequently the freedom to debate
. Also nobody's scared of a MM bandwagon, because the average mapler doesn't want to give up on girlicane and using the favourite generic ranged fantasy weapon. They could probably remove the cooldown on snipe altogether and there'd still be more BMs than MMs.
edit: A few more things I want to touch on. First, the strafe vs hurricane overkill issue. I've used hurricane, it has some overkill as well (another 2-3 arrows more than needed hit the monsters before you can go on to the next one), second unlike bms strafe isn't the only thing we use for killing. At skeles I might strafe and turn around and jump AE away, or turn the other way and strafe/snipe/pierce/whatever behind me and let frostprey finish it, or use the skele (probably frozen) as a multiplier to set up a pierce to kill some of his friends behind him. Other pinnable bosses would include Tengu, but with all those himes do archers really bother with it much? I think it's better left to the melees.
yes everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but we're also entitled to our freedom of speech and consequently the freedom to debate
. Also nobody's scared of a MM bandwagon, because the average mapler doesn't want to give up on girlicane and using the favourite generic ranged fantasy weapon. They could probably remove the cooldown on snipe altogether and there'd still be more BMs than MMs.