Exodus said: ↑
I've tried all the archer branches and leveled them all past 220+. I can tell you that Wind Archer is better than Bowmaster in terms of bossing. Mobbing, they're about the same. If you like to mob I'd probably recommend Bowmaster because of their 100% stance hyper skill and their active also has a rather low cooldown as well. Arrow Stream looks like it doesn't do much, but it hits hard for the few lines that it does hit, whereas Wind Archers pretty much have all their damage from trifling wind. Also as many others have said, I really liked the drain life from Bowmasters quivers, it helps a lot. The selling point of Wind Archers vs Bowmaster in bossing would be the catalyst object they have that could summon, it really helps in forcing a boss to aggro it instead of hitting you.
With equivalent equips I believe that Wind Archer would do better in Stormbreakers and a Bowmaster is better in Tino. The reason being is because there aren't as many mobs in Stormbreakers and neither job can hit both platforms (not counting hyper skill), and the Wind Archers skill shoots much faster than the Bowmasters. Tino's map is clustered with many mobs, this allows Bowmasters hyper skill and their arrow stream to be able to hit more mobs and I also like the up jump for bowmaster/marksman better than wind archer (but that's just me).
arrow stream+turret is def better imo and i've tested the dpm on both my bm and wa and my bm is way better + bm can move while using hurricane.