Windhawk PvM Guide I made based on my personal journey in GemstoneRO and community's advices as well. I hope this helps!

These are few of the skills that I find important. If you are interested in deeper explanation, I would like to recommend you to read more about Archer Branch Skills here.

Sharp Shooting Parameters	Required for Maximum Potential
Fixed Cast Time (FCT)	-0.5sec
After Cast Delay Reduction (ACDR)	72%
Variable Cast Time (VCT)	The closer to Instant Cast the better
Critical Rate Required	50 + Target's Crit Shield

Example Status Build for Sharp Shooting Ranger Lv.185 :

This is the first choke point of being Windhawk. The transition towards Crescive Bolt will require you to have -1.0 FCT. Cast Stone (Garment) (25067) is mandatory to get that FCT reduction.

Equipment Name	Position How to Get	Note
Paradise Ranger Crossbow (700043)	Weapon 10x Eden Coin (25223)	Really good starting bow, available at Lv100. Use it till you can afford a better one.
Advanced Paradise Luxury Cap (400139)	Head Eden Gears	The HP and SP Leech is actually quite good. A cheaper alternative of Rideword Hat [1] (5208) .
Grace Sharp Suit [1] (450090)	Armor Grace Set	Getting Grace Set should be your top priority after getting to Lv150. The combo effect is really strong.
Grace Attack Manteau [1] (480018)	Garment Grace Set	Mainly just to get the combo effect.
Grace Attack Boots [1] (470020)	Shoes Grace Set	Really affordable -0.5FCT. Definitely neeeded to spam Sharp Shooting
Grace Attack Ring [1] (490019)	Accessories (Right) Grace Set	You can use any accesory on your left.
Ranger Advanced Paradise Shadow Weapon (24708) Advanced Paradise Shadow Shield (24693) Advanced Paradise Shadow Armor (24694) Advanced Paradise Shadow Shoes (24695) Advanced Paradise Shadow Earring (24696) Advanced Paradise Shadow Pendant (24697)	Shadow Gears Eden Shadow Gears	A really strong shadow gears set that will last you for so long. Just rent it and do NOT buy.

Crescive Bolt Parameters	Required for Maximum Potential
Fixed Cast Time (FCT)	-1.0sec
After Cast Delay Reduction (ACDR)	50%
Variable Cast Time (VCT)	The closer to Instant Cast the better
Critical Rate Required	100 + Target's Crit Shield

Example Status Build for Crescive Bolt Windhawk Lv.260 by Stormus:

Traits (4th Job Status Build)

1. POW 100 > CRT 100 > CON 35
2. CON 100 > CRT 90 > POW 45

The most popular build so far is the first one, netting around 732m per Crescive Bolt meanwhile the 2nd Build is dealing 627m (-14,4% Damage) Tested by Meer.

Despite Crescive Bolt scales on CON, POW and CRT seem to be way more impactful towards its final damage than the CON.

Despite having unlocked Crescive Bolt early on, most beginner Windhawk will probably never get to play this build until later on. Mainly cause this build requires you to have -1sec FCT and 50% ACDR. Getting the -0.5sec FCT Cast Stone (Garment) (25067) is really easy now. So I suggest on buying that costume stone while slowly building the item down below.

Grace Set is way too good of a combo to break. This means if you have +11 Auto Leg A, but not having the Auto Armor / Engine Wing B, you gonna have a really terrible experience. This is caused by Grace Set giving good bonuses but only as a combo, if you break the combo, you will lose tons of damage and in the end switching to Automatic Set is actually a worse decision. I recently talked to a newbie who read this guide, and apparently as a field farmer he seemed to be fine farming with Grace Set for quite long. If you belong to this group of people who love to field farm instead of instance farming, I think you should just buy Cast Stone (Garment) (25067) and get the OSAD Bow + Ignis LT and after that try push straight to Episode 18 Quests and see if you can farm Gray Wolf Gears decently.

Equipment Name	Position How to Get	Enchants & Card	Note
+11 Virtual Bow-OSAD [2] (700054)	Weapon OS / OSAD Weapons	ATK or ATK% Critical Damage % or Long Ranged Damage% Can even go without enchant. 2x Polluted Wander Man Card (27361)	Stormus (One of our end game Windhawk): OSAD combo is really affordable and strong set for beginners. Beginners should be able to farm this (Rudus F2) even with Eden Gears + Unlimit. DO NOT CRAFT Sharp Star Bow [2] (18185) yourself. It's not worth the price being paid and you better of using something else. Only buy from market if it's "cheap" e.g. below 25m fully enchanted +11.
+11 Illusion Hunter Bow [2] (18174)	Weapon Illusion of Luanda	ATK or ATK% Crit Damage, Ranged Physical Damage or ACDR% Any tbh Physical Damage to Normal > Boss 2x Polluted Wander Man Card (27361)	Illusion Hunter Bow is a decent bow that I personally started with, cause I didn't know Virtual Bow-OSAD existed and is that affordable.
+11 Ignis Cap-LT [1] (400266) or Rideword Hat [1] (5208) or +11 Celestial Luxurious Crown [1] (400116)	Head Equipment Crafting OS / OS-LT Headgears	Abysmal King Dramoh Card (300150)	Ignis Cap-LT combo with Virtual Bow-OSAD The HP and SP Leech is better than Advanced Paradise Luxury Cap (400139) . Celestial Lux Crown prolly only worth using if you happen to find cheap Sharp Star Bow [2] (18185) from market, and you use more Sharp Shooting than Crescive Bolt.
Sealed Chain (410093) or Sealed Chain [1] (410094)	Middle Headgear Niflheim Dungeon	King Dramoh Card (4524)	Quite affordable yet really strong combo that will last you till end game. Stormus: The +15% HP increase by using King Dramoh x Deep Sea King Dramoh card is especially useful for Windhawk as we are tend to be squishy.
Bondage Necklace (420076)	Lower Headgear Niflheim Dungeon	none
+11 Automatic Armor Type A [1] (450127) or +11 Illusion Sprint Mail [1] (450182)	Armor Automatic Equipment (17.2) or Illusion of Twins	2x Automatic Modification Module (Attack Power) (1000122) Automatic Modification Module (After Cast Delay) (1000133) Rune of Strength Lv2 (4995) Rune of Dexterity Lv2 (29004) Any combination of the enchantments above. Observation Card (4392)	not confirmed if Dex2/Dex2 gonna be better than Str2/Str2)
+11 Automatic Engine Wing Type B [1] (480021)	Garment Automatic Equipment (17.2)	2x Automatic Modification Module (Critical) (1000127) Automatic Modification Module (Fast) (1000125) Empathize Card (300270)	Mainly just to get the combo effect.
+11 Automatic Leg Type A [1] (470022) or +11 Illusion Sprint Shoes [1] (470066)	Shoes Automatic Equipment (17.2) or Illusion of Twins	Automatic Modification Module (Fixed Casting) (1000134) Automatic Module (Firing Shot) (1000146) Automatic Module (Fatal Flash) (1000148) Rune of Strength Lv2 (4995) Rune of Dexterity Lv2 (29004) Any combination of the enchantments above. Abysmal Merman Card (300144)	Mandatory -0.8sec FCT or -0.7sec FCT. not confirmed if Dex2/Dex2 gonna be better than Str2/Str2) Stormus : Instead of Automatic Module (Fatal Flash) (1000148) try using Automatic Modification Module (Robust) (1000141) or Automatic Modification Module (Mental) (1000120) for more HP/SP and utility in general. Hurt Locker : Automatic Module (Fatal Flash) (1000148) will give 50 AGI + 15% Crit Damage. This will be a better choice than Overpower's 50 STR.
Sinful Ruby Ring [1] (490044) Sinful Ruby Necklace [1] (490045)	Accessories Thanatos Tower Accessories	Resentment Lv4 (310210) or higher Inverse Scale Lv4 (310240) or higher 2x Void Mimic Card (300278) or Lowest Rgan Card (300366) Midrange Rgan Card (300368)	Mandatory -0.3sec FCT as combo, especially if you are using +11 Illusion Sprint Mail [1] (450182) and +11 Illusion Sprint Shoes [1] (470066) . Void Mimics are mostly for damage. Rgan combo is if you are lacking Crit Rate.
Brilliant Light Ruby Ring [1] (490056) Brilliant Light Ruby Necklace [1] (490057)	Accessories Thanatos Tower Accessories	Shelter Lv4 (310230) or higher Divine Evil Lv4 (310250) or higher 2x Void Mimic Card (300278) or Lowest Rgan Card (300366) Midrange Rgan Card (300368)	Only giving -0.2sec FCT as combo. Do NOT buy Brilliant accessories if you plan on using Illusion Sprint combo, as that combo only gives -0.7sec.

Costume Stone	Position	Note
Sniper Stone II (Mid) (1000009)	Middle	Giving 5% Ranged Physical Damage if you have Lv.10 Beastbane
Assassin Cross Stone II (Top) (1000222)	Top	Really strong combo and the best combo in terms of maximizing your damage output. Buying this will lose you the -0.5sec FCT from Cast Stone (Garment) (25067) , make sure to have a plan ready on how to get the 1sec -FCT.
Guillotine Cross Stone (Low) (1000976)	Low
Guillotine Cross Stone II (Garment) (1000221)	Garment
Critical Stone (Dual) (1000855)	Garment 2nd Slot (Dual)	+10 CRIT Rate and 10% Critical Damage. Really huge crit rate increase just from 1 Costume Stone.

Optional nice to have:

Costume Stone	Position	Note
Ranger Stone (Top) (1000860)	Top	Giving 10% ACDR if you have Lv.10 Ranger Main. An alternative if you need ACDR.
Assassin Cross Stone II (Low) (1000224)	Low	Giving 5% ACDR through the combo with GX Stone II (Garment). Another alternative if you lacks ACDR.

This part is actually kinda not recommended to make. It serves as a stepping stone before getting to the real end-game build. If you think you can skip some gears listed down below or using the lower grade version e.g. [D] instead of [C], without actually impacting your farming sessions, then feel free to skip. I personally used these gears to make my farming sessions smoother. If you don't need the extra damage, just save up for the next tier.

For those who never heard of Item Reform or Grade Enhancing, feel free to read more on that topic.

The best way, I personally got advised, to refine your item from +0 to +10 during Grade Enhancing is just to raw refine with Etherium or Etheorodecon. This is cause GemstoneRO actually have enhanced refinement rate compared to kRO even using the normal ores. In average I spent 700 ores to refine an item form +0 to +10 only using Etherium. The table on the right side shows the ores spent from +0 > +10 before the update on 27th July (+9 > +10 = 18% chance compared to now after the update 25%). You can start using the hammer from +10 to +11. I still gonna keep repeating this, only grade your item if you really need the extra damage to farm your next items. This is cause by the time I'm writing this (21st July), my excel sheet indicates that I just spent 200m (Elunium, Etel Dust and refining cost) to refine an item from +0 to +10 (1018 Etherium spent). If in average we spend 700x (140m) to do a grading cycle, and on this section if you do all the grading it will be 10+ grading cycles to be done. That amount of zeny investment for items, that you will not use anymore at end game, seems kinda wasteful in my opinion. So only grade the item if you really need the extra damage for your specific farming spot.

Equipment Name	Position How to Get	Enchants & Card	Note
+11 [B] Thanatos Bow-AD [2] (700029)	Weapon Thanatos AD Weapons basic version from Ghost Palace	Nullify weapon's damage size penalty or Long Ranged% Attack%, Critical%, Damage to Normal, or Damage to Boss 2x Polluted Wander Man Card (27361)	Remember to only Grade Up this weapon if you really need it to farm the next tier gears. Make sure to farm instances for Instance Coin cause you will need it to buy Modified Thana Hammer
+11 [C] Thanatos Shooter Helmet-LT [1] (400142)	Head Thanatos Helmet Reform basic version from Tomb of Remorse	Acute Lv3 (29083) Earth Magic (Sniper) Lv. 3 (311372) Abysmal King Dramoh Card (300150)	Tomb of Remorse is one of the end game instance. I suggest try farming the mobs for Minneas with alt windhawk chars and leave the instance without fighting the first MVP, if you are not geared enough to solo it. Clearing the whole instance + the quests with a 12 man party is also possible. You will need Minneas to enchant your helm. Stormus: Use Limacina Card (300363) If you plan to use Piloted Midrange Rgan Card (300380) on Shoes.
+11 Grey Wolf Suit [1] (450177)	Armor 18 Direction of Prayer	Wolf Orb (Breeze Shooting) (310547) Wolf Orb (After Cast Delay) (310515) Wolf Orb (Shooter) Lv.2 (310505) Observation Card (4392)	One of the strongest Lv.1 Armor in the game, but requires 4500x Amethyst Fragment (1000405) to do 3x determined enchantments (250m by the time I write this). Properly gauge if you need this armor piece or not. A player was selling the +9 end game armor piece Nebula Suit of Creative [1] (450172) fully enchanted for 500m (Pre-Order).
Pirate Captain's Coat [1] (480174)	Garment Equipment Crafting	Empathize Card (300270)	Really affordable to craft, while being an end game gear as well. Stormus: A way better investment than getting Convertible Wings or Fallen Warrior Manteau, cause you will get to keep this manteau till end game.
+11 [C] Hero Boots-LT [1] (470094)	Shoes Hero's-LT Boots Reform basic version from Bioresearch Laboratory	Will of Sharpshooter (310910) Sharp Lv4 (4843) Any Abysmal Merman Card (300144)	Mandatory -0.8sec FCT. Another piece of item that you will not use at end game. The sharp enchant is good, if you need CRIT rate. Stormus: Refine to +12 and use Piloted Midrange Rgan Card (300380) instead to get +20 CRIT Rate.
+12 Grey Wolf Boots [1] (470087)	Shoes 18 Direction of Prayer	Wolf Orb (Firing Shot) (310611) Wolf Orb (Fixed Casting) Lv.3 (310602) Wolf Orb (Mental Power) Lv.3 (310595) or Wolf Orb (Robust) Lv.3 (310599) Piloted Midrange Rgan Card (300380)	Mandatory -1sec FCT. Another piece of item that you will not use at end game. Requires 4500x Amethyst Fragment (1000405) to do 3x determined enchantments (250m by the time I write this). Stormus: A better alternative especially to +12 to get +20 CRIT Rate from the card. Easy to enchant, easy to refine being Lv1 Armor. I personally don't recommend refining to +12 on gears that you don't use at end game. I just wasted 200m trying to refine a Lv.1 Armor item from +10 to +12 (around 50x HD Carnium wasted). Only do it if you can afford the gamble.
Automatic Booster R [1] (490024) Automatic Booster L [1] (490025)	Accessories Automatic Equipment (17.2)	Automatic Modification Module (Fatal) (1000117) Automatic Modification Module (Expert Archer) (1000118) Automatic Modification Module (Drain Life) (1000136) or Automatic Modification Module (Drain Soul) (1000137) Automatic Modification Module (Attack Speed) (1000116) or Automatic Modification Module (All Force) (1000143)	This will be your farming accessories thanks to the HP/SP Leech. You can even use this at end-game if you need HP/SP Leech more than damage. The +10 CRIT per accessory is also really nice. Stormus: Instead of using Drain Life and Drain Soul, just use potions and Incubus Egg. The last enchant slot can be then used for increasing damage. Based on my old Guide I wrote, the All Force should be around 1% stronger than Attack Speed . Status: not confirmed in GemstoneRO
Hero's Badge [1] (490163)	Accessory (Left) Hero's Badge	Dexterity (310916) Sharp Lv4 (4843) Any 2x Void Mimic Card (300278) or Lowest Rgan Card (300366) Midrange Rgan Card (300368)	Combo with the shoes. Quite nice to have for the CRIT rate, but you will not use it at end game.

Current best in slot gears for non-MVP user based on Episode 19. Some of you might not noticed it, but GemstoneRO by design smoothens out the early gear progression. Farming these stuffs down below might be way more challenging than any part above, cause GemstoneRO tends to NOT smoothen the end game gearing part.

Equipment Name	Position How to Get	Enchants & Card	Note
+12 [A] Dim Glacier Bow [1] (700059)	Weapon Episode 19	Glacier Flower Spell (Physical Grade) Lv5 (311453) 2x Glacier Flower Spell (Crescive Bolt) (311309) Polluted Wander Man Card (27361)	I still didn't make the Bow yet as of writing this, but my guess is Temporal Circlet (Ranger) [1] (19484) would only be better if paired with the bow. Using the circlet with Thanatos Bow-AD [2] (700029) probably gonna reduce your damage, cause you are breaking the combo. Status: tested and confirmed by Meer.
+12 Temporal Circlet (Ranger) [1] (19484)	Head Old Glast Heim Challenge Mode	Acute Lv5 (29085) Temporal Jewel (LUK) Lv 3 (29689) LUK+4 (4753) Limacina Card (300363)
Victory Wing Ears [1] (400002)	Middle Headgear Victorious Wing Ears	6% ACDR Isaac Wigner Card (27396)	Another alternative to Sealed Chain (410093) if you really want to have 15% ACDR from mid headgear slot. Trying to get the perfect enchant of 6% ACDR might be really hard to do tho.
+12 [A] Nebula Suit of Creative [1] (450172)	Armor Constellation Tower	Star Cluster of Creative Lv.3 (310685) Nebula of Expert Archer Lv.3 (310732) or Nebula of Sharp Lv.3 (310735) DEX+4 (4723) Hearthunter AT Card (300381)	This piece of gear is NOT the best in slot anymore. Despite not having ACDR enchant, this armor piece sharply increase your damage. You might want to recalculate your ACDR. Recommended to just buy from someone who farms CT. Expert Archer Lv.3 enchant was said to deal higher damage > Sharp (based on Leaf) Status: tested and SharpLv3 is better than EA3 by a small margin (less than 1%)
+12 [A] Engraved Corruption Poison Rune Cloth [1] (450285)	Armor Varmundt's Biosphere Depth	Corruption Poison Rune Lv10 (312394) Poison Rune Lv5 (312384) Corruption Rune Lv5 (312379) Hearthunter AT Card (300381)	Stormus said that this is the current best in slot. There is chance that this dungeon gonna be really rough to farm solo, especially if you don't have Nebula Suit of Creative. I recommend to farm this as a party.
+14 [A] Pirate Captain's Coat [1] (480174)	Garment Equipment Crafting	Crux Findel Card (300426)	+12 Pirate Captain's Coat [1] (480174) is less than 1% worse than the +11 Ice Rune Manteau (POW3,DEX4) but you have 5% more ACDR with it. A good reason to make Ice Rune Manteau [1] (480232) is probably when you are farming the mob which matches your elemental specific enchant and have a way to compensate the 5% ACDR loss. Status: Tested and confirmed by (dmr Vague) Stormus: Pirate Captain's Coat [1] (480174) is better than Ice Rune Manteau [1] (480232) , because the end game boss in Constellation Tower "Betelgeuse" is Neutral, Large, Dragon. PCC is better against Large enemy.
+12 [A] Ice Rune Boots [1] (470175)	Shoes Varmundt's Biosphere	Any elements that fits your need Power of Varmundt Lv3 (310922) DEX+4 (4723) Piloted Midrange Rgan Card (300380)	Mandatory -1.0sec FCT. From my internal test I did with my guildie, Power of Varmundt Lv3 (310922) seems to be always superior. A guildie of mine even rerolled his Concentration of Varmundt Lv3 (310928) to POW. Status: Tested and confirmed by me and dmr (Vague) Only choose CON enchant if you are sure about what you are doing.
Soul Magic Ring [1] (490305)	Accessory (Left) Varmundt's Biosphere	Fragment of Varmundt (POW) Lv5 (311978) Tenacity of Varmundt Lv5 (311953) Any enchant you think fits your need Void Mimic Card (300278)	MAKE SURE YOU CHOOSE THE CORRECT "RIGHT OR LEFT" OPTION DURING REFORMING, so you don't make double rings by mistake. The 3rd slot enchant (Tenacity or Agilty of Varmundt) can be upgraded. (Thx to dmr for mentioning this) From my internal test I did with my guildie, Power of Varmundt Lv3 (310922) seems to be always superior. Status: Tested and confirmed by me and dmr (Vague) Only choose CON enchant if you are sure about what you are doing. Stormus: Agility of Varmundt Lv5 (311968) is the best option, but if you were making this and got Focus of Varmundt Lv5 (311963) during the enchantment process, don't reroll it. It's good enough.
Soul Rune Ring [1] (490302)	Accessory (Right) Varmundt's Biosphere
Creative Signet of Star [1] (490135)	Accessory (Right) Constellation Tower	Star of Sharp Lv.5 (310706) Star of Sharp Lv.5 (310706) Void Mimic Card (300278)	IT IS NOT RECOMMENDED TO MAKE THIS ANYMORE especially if you are not using the Nebula Suit. I just put this here just in case someone can get it for cheap price. Combo with Nebula Suit of Creative [1] (450172) . Giving in total +16 CRIT Rate, 42% Critical Damage, 8 P.ATK and 2 CRT. Star of Sharp Lv.5 (310706) will most likely the way to go, cause you can share this accessory with other crit classes as well. Star of Master Archer Lv5 (310701) still somehow wins over Star of Sharp Lv.5 (310706) by 1~2% damage difference, but you are losing 16 CRIT Rate by doing so. Status: tested by me. The damage gap between Creative Signet of Star [1] (490135) and Soul Rune Ring [1] (490302) is about 0.03% difference (Stellar Seal won). This is ignoring the last race/boss/normal enchant of the Varmundt Ring. The test was done this way cause it would resemble the most scenario of farming something that is not related to your enchant. But if you get really good enchant on the Varmundt Ring, it will be way better to farm with it. (Tested by me, Stormus confirmed the same idea.)

No more eden shadow gears? I got you covered (based on priority, make the one on top first, slowly walk down to bottom). I have really good hunch about these Master Shadow Gears. Sadly can't get my hand on those yet. I heard people talking about how crazy expensive it is to enchant.

If you plan on min maxing the enchants I guess CRT > POW > CON would be the way.

Set R:
Get all shadow gears to +10 and get +5 C.Rate and Crit Damage% enchants on each piece!

Name	Slot How To Get	Note
+9 Full Penetration Shadow Earring (24661)	Accessory (Right) Shadow Gear	Full Penetration combo should be the first priority cause having 100% DEF bypass is really important for general players without [MVP] Thanatos Card (4399) . Monsters like Grote in Nifl Dun F2 has 456 DEF. Which translates to -45% Damage for someone with 0% DEF Bypass.
+9 Full Penetration Shadow Pendant (24662)	Acessory (Left) Shadow Gear
+9 Separate Reload Shadow Shield (24746)	Shield Shadow Gear	The extra 9% ACDR is really nice to have while only occupying 1 slot.
+10 Infinity Shadow Weapon (24386)	Weapon Shadow Gear	Depending if you need ACDR more or farming Large monsters more you can put this shadow gear at higher priority than the reload.
+10 Maximum Mammoth Shadow Armor (24679)	Armor Shadow Gear	The only shadow gears I think "worth" getting to +10 due to the 12% to all elements bonus. The reason I prefer +10 Max Mammoth Shadow Armor, instead of having the Max Mammoth Set on accessory slot, is because the unupgraded version of Mammoth Shadow Armor gives HUGE CRIT. It will make things easier to get the 140 CRIT just by having the non upgraded version.
+10 Maximum Mammoth Shadow Shoes (24680)	Shoes Shadow Gear

Optional nice to have:

Name	Slot —- How To Get	Note
+9 Mega Blitz Shadow Shield (24767)	Shield —- Shadow Gear	If you don't need the extra 9% ACDR from Separate Reload Shadow Shield (24746) you can go for this shadow gears for the +10 Critical, 8% ASPD and some Crit Damage %.

There is ongoing talk going on Discord indicating that Little Isis is having wrong description and wrong script compared to Divine Pride. If this bug report is getting properly adressed, there's chance that Orc Hero might lose its throne.

Costume Stone	How to Get	Note
Orc Hero Egg (9121)	Pet System	Stormus: Current strongest pet to have to maximize damage output. Might be quite tedious task to grind it 😂 Another alternative would be Little Isis. Way easier to make, only slightly behind (-0.12%) compared to Orc Hero Egg.
Abysmal Knight Egg (9132)		Stormus: 2nd strongest pet to have to maximize damage output. Loq: Despite lacking in terms of ATK%, there might be a chance this could be the strongest Pet against Boss protocol. Status: Tested by Meer. Around +2% compared to Orc Hero Egg.
Choco Egg (9091)		Nice to have if you lacks CRIT Rate.

The OG players would understand what this section gonna be filled with 🥰